Home Improvements
Kitchen and Bath Facelifts: Trends That Work
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Feb 6, 2007, 22:55

(ARA) – What makes a home more than just a living space are the personal touches and details that make it truly unique. With numerous design options and the ability to endlessly customize, the home is the best reflection of personal taste and style. The kitchen is the heart of the home, and despite its utilitarian function, major trends in the kitchen today revolve around thinking of it as a hub. Meanwhile, the trend in the bath is creating a spa-like haven for retreat and relaxation.

“Thanks to a media-rich society, consumers are more up to date than ever on current trends and the latest styles. Designing new products within specific style categories helps us create solutions that reflect the way design-savvy consumers shop for new products,” says Judd Lord, director of industrial design, Delta Faucet Company. While certain kitchen and bath trends are in season and out-of-style before you can say “remodel,” there are some styles that will always remain popular. With personalization high on the priority list, it’s not always about picking the most popular trend, but picking what works best for your lifestyle.

Here are some of the latest and most innovative trends that might work in your home:

Traditional
The traditional look takes it styling cues from classical periods which tend to be more decorative and ornate. A modern twist with cleaner and more defined lines helps to reduce cluttered designs, while maintaining the embellished flavor of this look. Deeply luxurious and rich tones such as mochas, oil rubbed bronzes, caramelized weathered brasses and gold take center stage, aptly defining this era.

Casual
The casual look, also known as “sophisticated country,” brings new interpretations of more traditional forms of country couture, with simpler lines and cleaner patterns. Distressed accents and whimsical touches with hints of hand-crafted details create a “shabby chic” look and feel. Teapot-inspired faucets, and other products in rubbed bronze, brushed nickel and aged pewter play well into this trend.

Urban Loft
The urban loft look captures the feel of modern, city living, often characterized by minimalist, crisp lines and geometric forms. Horizontally defined spaces and lines are intersected by products such as faucets which provide a vertical, visual break. Favored are high gloss surfaces, often contrasted against splashes of unexpected color. The urban loft look is characterized by popular choices like blonde woods, polished chrome, stainless steel and high-gloss blacks.

Metro
The metro look blends casual and traditional looks, by pairing decorative, distressed pieces such as cabinets or black and white checkered floor tiles with modern faucets and bathtubs. This style evokes a refreshing change by combining design elements from two or more contrasting trends, and pulling it off by tying them together with the perfect combination of color, texture and form.

As people continue to define their perfect “spaces” by using components from varying trends, today’s savvy manufacturers are designing products that fit into several style categories, such as Delta’s Allora pull-down kitchen faucet. Designed for a broad aesthetic, it features hints of traditional influences with a modern interpretation, with the convenience of a wand that intuitively connects with the spout though an exclusive magnetic closure. With a myriad of choices in style and design, form and function, homeowners can choose a look that is not only a personal reflection of their sense of style, but an extension of their lifestyle.

For more tips and information on trend-setting kitchen and bath products visit www.deltafaucet.com or call Delta Faucet Company at (800) 345-DELTA.

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