Kitchen is a place in the house, flat or other building that is used for food preparation, storage, eating, snacking or even entertaining.

Luxury kitchen is an exclusive and extraordinary kitchen that is professionally designed and equipped according to special needs, wants and expectations of the high net-worth consumers.

What makes a distinction between luxury kitchens and non-luxury kitchens?

The main features of luxury kitchens are these:

  • Expensiveness – luxury kitchens are high-priced, therefore mostly only rich people can afford to have a luxury kitchen.
  • Chic – luxury kitchens are fashionable, stylish and posh, according to up to date kitchen furniture, kitchen design, etc.
  • Comfort – luxury kitchens are designed and equipped in order to provide physical and psychological conveniences and ease.
  • Brand – luxury kitchens can be identified by a brand name (trademark) that affects the personality of luxury kitchen furniture, luxury kitchen appliances, other luxury kitchen design units.
  • Innovation – luxury kitchens are equipped with smart appliances and integrated advanced technologies that facilitate everyday life.
  • Individuality – luxury kitchens are designed and equipped according to specific needs and wants of individual person or family.

The main questions that are related to luxury kitchens:

  • Luxury kitchen design and décor (style).
  • Luxury kitchen furniture.
  • Luxury kitchen appliances.
  • Luxury kitchen flooring.
  • Luxury kitchen walls.
  • Luxury kitchen lighting.

Luxury kitchen design and décor are one of the most important and concurrent parts of luxury kitchens.

In the first instance, luxury kitchen colors are very significant, as they have an impact on people’s emotional state and comfort level. Colors are an important part of a person’s identity and self-expression. Furthermore, luxury kitchens are fashion conscious and have their colors trends.

What are luxury kitchens’ colors trends for 2010-2011?

  • Yellow – yellow luxury kitchens savour of warmth, imagination, cheerfulness, excitement. Yellow luxury kitchen’s furniture or appliances are the most visible and look larger and closer. People in yellow luxury kitchens tend to over-estimate time.

  • Green – green is a color of life. Green luxury kitchens are less visible, furniture or appliances look smaller and further away. Green luxury kitchens generate calming effect, renewal, health, balance, harmony, stability, increase concentration. Time moves faster in green luxury kitchens (people in green luxury kitchens tend to under-estimate time). Forest green color is one of the most favourite colors of the wealthiest people in the world.

  • Lavender (soft purple) – lavender luxury kitchens is often associated with royalty, feminity and elegance. Lavender luxury kitchens look genteel, delicate and suggest something special. People often have feeling of romance and nostalgia in lavender luxury kitchens.

  • Gray – slate grey, pewter grey, ash grey and charcoal grey luxury kitchens are one of the most modern trends in kitchen designs. Gray color in luxury kitchen décor, kitchen furniture or appliances creates the feelings of security, reliability, modesty, dignity, maturity. Gray luxury kitchen is conservative, practical, formal, sophisticated and neutral as well.

  • Aqua (cyan, turquoise, A mix of blue and green) – aqua luxury kitchens generate calming effect. Lighter aqua shades create feminine appeal in luxury kitchens. Darker aqua shades make more sophisticated look of luxury kitchens. Aqua luxury kitchens can be associated with youth, idealism, strength, communication, confidence, emotional healing and protection. People are less angry and negative, more peaceful and emotionally and mentally balanced in an aqua luxury kitchen.

  • Red – red luxury kitchens make people feel cosy, powerful and inspiring. Red color in a luxury kitchen conveys style, elegance and challenge. Red luxury kitchen’s furniture or appliances are the most visible and look larger and closer. Red color in luxury kitchens stimulates appetite and encourage to eat quickly and leave, it also have a physical effect (raises blood pressure and increases the rate of respiration). Red luxury kitchens are liked by business people, as red is also a color of prosperity.

  • White – white luxury kitchens are popular at all times. White luxury kitchens have a sterile, clean, fresh and cool look. White color goes well with any other color. People in white luxury kitchens feel safe and happy.

  • Nature colors – sky blue, green grass, earth brown, mastic and other colors found in nature provide luxury kitchens with naturality, simplicity and relaxing atmosphere.


  • Colourful (different colors) – colorful luxury kitchens never become boring and usual. Such luxury kitchens become not only a place for making a meal but also a place of joy and games. Colourful wallpaper, flooring, lighting, furniture, appliances make luxury kitchens look fancy.

Colors schemes (combinations):

  • Monochromatic – one-colored luxury kitchens. Such luxury kitchens maintain unity, subtlety and peace as there is no color contrast. Luxury kitchens always looks visually appealing and balanced.


  • Dichromatic – two-colored luxury kitchens. Colors can be analogous or complementary.

  • Complimentary – two-opposite-colored luxury kitchens. Warm colors put against cool colors create intrinsically high-contrast and draw maximal attention in luxury kitchens.
  • Analogous – luxury kitchens that are decorated and designed using adjacent to each other colors (warm or cool). This scheme is richer than monochromatic and creates no color contrast in a luxury kitchen.
  • Triadic – luxury kitchens that are decorated and designed using three colors that are neighboring (red, yellow and blue or blue-violet, yellow-green and red-orange). Such luxury kitchens offer strong visual contrast while retaining harmony and color richness.
  • Tetradic – luxury kitchens that are decorated and designed using four colors arranged into two complementary color pairs. Such luxury kitchens are very colorful.
  • Polychromatic – more than one-colored luxury kitchens.

Main things for luxury kitchens’ color palette:

  • Personal preferences
  • Lifestyle
  • Luxury kitchen’s structure
  • Luxury kitchen’s size
  • Color meaning