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  • Budget: > £5,000 < £10,000
  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Dark tones, Colourful tones]
  • Layout: U-Shaped Kitchen
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  • Budget: < £5,000
  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Colourful tones, Dark tones, Natural tones]
  • Layout: L-Shaped Kitchen
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  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Colourful tones, Dark tones, Natural tones]
  • Layout: Island Kitchen
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Overview
  • Budget: > £5,000 < £10,000
  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Dark tones, Colourful tones]
  • Layout: One Wall Kitchen
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Overview
  • Budget: < £5,000
  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Dark tones, Natural tones]
  • Layout: L-Shaped Kitchen
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  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Dark tones, Natural tones]
  • Layout: L-Shaped Kitchen
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Overview
  • Budget: > £5,000 < £10,000
  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Dark tones, Natural tones]
  • Layout: U-Shaped Kitchen
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  • Budget: < £5,000
  • Style: Contemporary
  • Colour Palette: [Colourful tones, Dark tones, Natural tones]
  • Layout: Island Kitchen
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Modern style kitchen ideas

Discover modern kitchen ideas with LIV:K, elevating your home and crafting an environment where you'll enjoy cooking, entertaining friends, and cherishing moments with family.

Modern kitchens showcase stylish designs and incorporate cutting-edge solutions in furniture, fixtures, and appliances. They feature durable, low-maintenance surfaces, often introducing colour palettes new to the kitchen sector. State-of-the-art fittings enhance the longevity of these kitchens, while smart storage solutions optimise the use of space.

While traditional kitchens, typically equipped with shaker doors, create a homely ambiance reminiscent of the Victorian era, modern kitchen ideas showcase functional innovations and sophisticated, minimalist designs.

The difference in the types and number of appliances also helps distinguish between these styles. Traditional kitchens tend to incorporate fewer electronic devices, while modern kitchens usually feature smart appliances, impactful lighting, and state-of-the-art refrigerators or coffee machines.

To modernise kitchen aesthetics, many recent designs opt for handle-free configurations, creating seamless surfaces. Alternatively, J-Pull handles are utilised to add a stylish flair to slab doors, offering a unique twist.

Some of the latest kitchen designs prioritise natural colours to infuse the soothing essence of nature into your living space, fostering both functionality and well-being. Whether it's the serene blue of the sea, the tranquil green of the woods, or the purity of organic cotton white, your ideal kitchen design awaits, offering a refreshing blend of aesthetics and comfort.

It's crucial to recognise that feeling good and being happy at home has a deep connection with sustainable living. Modern kitchen cabinets are crafted with sustainability in mind, ensuring longevity and efficient resource utilisation.

Finally, the latest kitchen designs can enhance your well-being by incorporating various smart functionallities to simplify your daily routines. Modern kitchen units include useful and convenient solutions such as pantry organisation accessories, and waste collection systems designed for efficient waste separation.

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Help & Advice for your modern kitchen

Modern fitted kitchens come in a diverse range of practical components, colors, and designs. However, not every style or type of cabinet suits everyone's needs equally. To discover which modern kitchen units will complement your ideal kitchen, our LIV:K kitchen experts are here to provide personalised advice. LIV:K retailers offer an extensive selection of modern kitchen designs, featuring the latest cabinets, lighting solutions, and appliances. Their competent advisors will guide you through the entire process to make sure you’ll enjoy your dream kitchen for years to come.

How to style your modern kitchen

If you are looking for a contemporary design rather than a traditionally looking kitchen, there are many styling options you can choose from. Modern kitchen design ideas include slab doors, handleless kitchens as well as high gloss and matt kitchens – just to mention a few. Contrasting with modern designs, traditional kitchens often feature shaker doors and include fewer appliances. While modern kitchens typically exhibit minimalist or industrial styles, traditional ones evoke a cottage style or even reflect the Victorian era's opulence. In terms of layout, modern kitchen design ideas favor open spaces, merging the kitchen and living room into one large area. This arrangement encourages family time and creates a perception of greater space. Conversely, traditional kitchens are usually distinct and separate, forming a cohesive unit that places greater emphasis on the cooking area.

Slab doors allow for an uncomplicated design and easy maintenance since a continuous surface is much easier to clean than a shaker door consisting of a frame and recessed panel. Designing a kitchen without handles creates a streamlined appearance, while J-Pull handles combine sleek surfaces with an appealing detail. If you are planning to opt for a matt kitchen, makes sure the surface has one of the latest anti-fingerprint coatings, which will significantly ease maintenance efforts!

Lighting plays a crucial role in modern kitchen design ideas. It's the finishing touch that elevates a functional fitted kitchen to one with heightened standards in design and style. Moreover, it offers practical advantages by enabling you to organise your workspaces independently from the windows position.

Are you living in the city center and longing for the serenity of a garden? LIV:K retailers offer indoor gardening shelves equipped with optimised lighting, enabling you to cultivate herbs right in your kitchen. This not only adds a natural ambiance but also infuses your dishes with extra freshness and flavour. It's a “green” design concept perfect for the urban modern kitchens.

Colours for modern kitchen designs

Modern kitchen ideas feature a diverse range of colours. The timeless white emerges in a refreshed high-gloss finish, while various shades of grey are showcased on matte surfaces, catering to those who favour a more subdued aesthetic in their kitchen design.

In response to the growing consciousness surrounding sustainability and our commitment to support this cause, natural colours are emerging as prominent elements in modern kitchen designs. Shades reminiscent of sand, elegant reed-like greens, or blues evoking Norwegian fjords seamlessly integrate nature into your home environment.

Many modern kitchens also feature darker tones such as grey, anthracite, or even black. A matte black kitchen exudes sophistication, making it an ideal choice for spacious loft areas flooded with natural light. Grey kitchens offer a less contrasting backdrop, enabling you to incorporate vibrant accessories without overwhelming the overall aesthetic.

Materials and textures for modern kitchens

Whether you prefer the sleek look of concrete-effect or the warmth of natural textures, there are modern kitchen materials and textures to suit every taste and home decor.

For instance, laminate kitchens offer not only durability and moisture resistance but also a wide range of colours, including wood patterns and other natural hues.

Concrete-effect textures lend a modern, slightly industrial aesthetic to your home, particularly complemented by handleless doors and solid-colored worktops.

In comparison, matte surfaces exude elegance and subtlety, being less prone to fingerprints and stains compared to glossy finishes. While gloss surfaces are easier to clean and can brighten up smaller, darker spaces, matte kitchen doors are especially suitable for larger, well-lit rooms.

When it comes to countertops, modern kitchens can feature budget-friendly laminate options in trendy colors or durable, highly resistant granite surfaces.

Regardless of the surface aesthetics, it's essential that today's kitchens are constructed from sustainable materials. LIV:K's kitchen retailers ensure collaboration with sustainably focused manufacturers, ensuring you can enjoy your new dream kitchen comfortably and guilt-free.

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