European kitchens are a growing design trend in countries all over the world for the way this unique style embodies and represents everything that makes European culture so desirable to those who experience it. European design is centered around a tasteful combination of efficiency and immaculate elegance, while still maintaining an organic feel throughout.
We’ve put together some of the most fundamental design elements of achieving a European kitchen in your own home – along with our favorite noblessa features that can help you turn this traditional-yet-contemporary vision into a reality.
Everything Has It’s Place
Given the unique history of European kitchens, when compared to those in American homes, this type of design has roots that stem all the way back to the midcentury. Traditionally, European countries like Norway and Germany were more concerned with efficiency than comfort – resulting in kitchens that are generally smaller than their American counterparts.
With less space to work with, European cabinet design is centered around organization, cleverly making more room, and ensuring that every appliance, pot, pan or glass is perfectly housed. Maximizing counter space is also essential, as well as making sure that every inch of the kitchen is properly utilized with smart kitchen solutions.
Open Shelving
Probably the easiest and most effective combination of effortless style and spatial practicality, open shelves are the perfect way to display some of your favorite kitchen pieces and most loved items, while simultaneously creating interesting and eye-catching levels within your space.
Our collections do this beautifully, with open shelving incorporated from just below the ceiling all the way down to the floor. Surrounded by exposed cabinetry to display all of your most precious items, including your entire book collection, this kitchen embraces the very European trend of truly living within your kitchen – not just cooking.
Incorporate Natural Materials
One of our favorite aspects of noblessa’s premium German kitchens is the way that they seamlessly juxtapose German manufacturing with organic and natural-looking materials – another celebrated element of European kitchen cabinet design. There’s something so visually inviting and authentic about combining minimalist lines and flat colors with the imperfect look of raw materials.
Integrated Kitchen Spaces
Going back to European kitchen spaces traditionally being smaller than American kitchens, the European design trend of creating a kitchen space that encourages eating, gathering and even working all in one area is one that has certainly maintained and evolved into beautifully integrated “eat-in” kitchen and living spaces.
While Americans tend to go for a more conservative kitchen bar or center island, European kitchens embrace eating and work tables instead. They encourage gathering and spending time in the kitchen over-and-above just cooking, while offering the convenience of center islands without the full commitment.
noblessa’s numerous collections does just this in a minimal-yet-functional way to encourage integrated kitchen living, while simultaneously opening the space up – the expansive, open floor plan offers enough room for gatherings big and small.