Once designed merely to cook a meal and the family to sit around a metal table for six, today’s kitchens are designed for function plus beauty. Beauty has become paramount, along with containing efficient products that are designed to look spectacular, when you enter the kitchen. Thus there are many focal points as you look around the room and even hidden areas like the refrigerator or garbage disposal behind beautiful wood doors. A kitchen is now a place used for our comfort zone but with style and a nurturing effect for our spirit. Without a doubt today our kitchen is the real family room, the heart and soul of the home. What ever your taste sophisticated to simple or the new European “unfitted” look in traditional woods or the super high-tech look there are several styles and finishes to make everyone happy. There is high-gloss lacquer cabinets, faux painted cabinets or expensive cherry cabinets and more choices then one can imagine. That is why it is good to use a professional interior designer to help with the schematics or layout. The emphasis on quality and luxury finishes remains foremost in the clients mind, whatever the size of the room. Do you as a family snuggle deeper into your home or nest, as a homeowner the family is beginning to do more at home bringing back the feeling that we had with our grandparents. But, the one change is the evolution of luxurious products.

BY DEBORAH OF DEH INTERIORS