Where to Start Choosing Colors & Styles for Kitchen Remodeling

Your Kitchen

• Take a look around your kitchen and see if there are existing color schemes, styles or other elements you can bring to the forefront and play off of rather than remodeling your entire kitchen. Even just one decor item you currently have in your kitchen can spark an idea for how you envision your dream kitchen to look.

Your Home

• Other rooms may your house may have colors or decor styles you want to introduce into your kitchen. Take a stroll through your home and take note of patterns, styles and colors of the walls and furniture you like, and then consider how they might look in your kitchen. By bringing in colors and designs already present in your home into your newly remodeled kitchen, you'll tie the rooms of your home together to create a streamline living space.

Your Closet

• The clothes, costumes and spare linens found in your closet can be an excellent source for inspiration if you're remodeling your kitchen, as these items already reflect your tastes in colors and styles. Patterns and colors on the clothes you wear can give you some ideas for how you want your kitchen to look.

Your Favorite Magazines

• There are many magazines dedicated to helping homeowners remodel their kitchen, such as Better Homes & Gardens and This Old House but some of your favorite fashion or entertainment magazines can also be great resources to find design inspiration. Snapshots of celebrity homes or famous buildings as well as the hottest fashion trends of the season could give way to the perfect design, style and color scheme of the kitchen you are remodeling.