Views On Hues Color For Your Home Live In Full Color Color Pro Kate Smith Sensational Color

Color for Your Home



For a sensational home--add color!

Archives

open all | close all

A Sensational Color blog

Image of Blogger

Tips for designing a Tuscan kitchen

21st Apr. '08 • Kitchens • Tags: , , , , ,

Authored by Denise Turner

The Tuscan style with its warm sun-kissed palette is a one of the most colors popular kitchen trend today. Here are some tips to bring that Old World charm into your home.

Floors:

  • Tumbled stone, weathered tile, accented with painted tiles reminiscent of an Italian farm house

Cabinets:

  • Cozy aged woods
  • Storage nitches for an unstructured look
  • Hand-hammered hardware

Counters:

  • Granite or quartz surface
  • Tumbled stone or tile backsplash

Walls:

  • Faux finish in Terracotta’s and oranges
  • Artisan details, painted grape vines or flowers

Windows:

  • Roman shade
  • Gossamer fabric on an iron rod

With these simple tips your Tuscan kitchen is not that far away.   SensationalColor.com

4 Responses to “Tips for designing a Tuscan kitchen”

  1. Kitchen Crutoo Says:

    [...] Denise Turner wrote an interesting post today and here’s a quick excerpt…The Tuscan style with its warm sun-kissed palette is a one of the most colors popular kitchen trend today. Here are some tips to bring that Old World charm into your home. Floors:. Tumbled stone, weathered tile, accented with painted [...]

  2. Terrance Cullen Says:

    Denise,
    I enjoy your posts a lot. I’m a contractor by trade but love working with color and theme. Your guidelines for Tuscan Kitchen look like the Tuscan kitchen i did for my rental house.
    I think I hit about 90% of your suggestions. I’m doing another rental unit now for young (20 something) urban professionals. Theme is based on Gotham City (yes Batman’s home town) with steel beams, narrow maple strip flooring, deco/industrial lighting, black appliances, decorative glass. I’m wondering if you have suggestions for wall colors and countertop material. You can see pix (Tuscan kitchen) at my web site if you wish. Thanks so much.

  3. Kate Smith Says:

    Thanks for adding your comment to the conversation Terrance. I’m glad you found Denises post helpful. ~Kate

  4. sharon daigle Says:

    I need a little guidence, I am renovating a Katrina damaged home,. It is taking a long time and I want everything perfect, or as much as it can be.
    I have a townehome,, living room, and kitchen run together,, maple cabinets with a mocha stain, so the cabinets are basically almond with a little color, I am using teak, hand scraped floors throughout, not much light, just a large set of french doors leading to patio, and a small garden window in kitchen, I was thinking black galaxy granite, little spec of bronze, its beautiful, and oil rubbed chandliers and faucets. Soooo,,, what color do I paint,,, or should I change something> please help

Leave a Reply

Subscribe via Email

Email:
Name:
We will never share your private information with anyone (privacy policy) and you can easily unsubscribe with just one click...so why not?

Grab the RSS Feed

Connect on Twitter

Follow Kate on Twitter