CONJURES UP AN INVITING ATMOSPHERE – ANAHITA’S INSPIRATIONAL OAK KITCHEN
Modern oak kitchen
A modern oak kitchen combines beauty and a bright and friendly ambiance with the high-quality feel of real natural wood. The effect of oak is always homely, inviting and upscale. Its golden-brown colour infuses the kitchen with a breath of luxury beautifully accentuated by the striped grain typical of oak. This is most evident in a suitably designed ambiance like that of Anahita’s charismatic oak kitchen furnished with the latest NEFF kitchen appliances.Achieving a customised look in oak
Oak – whether solid wood or veneer – has all the ingredients to make a pleasantly attractive kitchen. The warm colouring of golden-yellow oak alone conjures up a bright basic tone in your dream kitchen. The three most important design elements are the wall colour, the colour and type of flooring and a suitable set of accessories.
What flooring goes best in the modern oak kitchen?
Play with different floor colours to establish your kitchen’s individual style. If you combine oak kitchen fronts with an oak floor, you emphasise the cosy atmosphere that this wood evokes. The fishbone parquet in Anahita’s oak kitchen adds a dynamic flavour to the overall picture.
If you prefer a super-modern ambiance with just a hint of avant-garde, then consider a darker granite floor that serves as the perfect counterpart to oak kitchen cabinets. This dark-coloured flooring harmonises well with kitchen appliances furnished with light-coloured stainless-steel strips. The result is a unified whole within the overall picture that blends perfectly with the wooden fronts. These two versions of stylish floor design allow you to enhance the character and uniqueness of your modern wood kitchen.
Which wall colour? Ideas for perfect shades
For the warm and cosy look chosen by Anahita, natural colours and earth tones are the ideal wall colours for the kitchen unit, including the kitchen furniture, and contribute to the warm, inviting and homely kitchen design in light-coloured oak. Anahita’s beige wall colour could also be replaced by a darker terracotta in order to accommodate the backsplash. Venturing into coffee brown produces a more profound elegance with a trace of masculinity. But when an anthracite grey floor is chosen as a stark contrast to the oak fronts, wall colours in light grey tones or shades of taupe give the ensemble a modern flair.
Accessories for lively effects
The right accessories, such as large vases, baskets or carpets in the open dining area as well as a selection of plants – for example, from Mediterranean countries – can greatly enliven your wall and kitchen design.
Sophisticated details make all the difference!
Anahita chose the single-unit, built-in kitchen with a cooking island for her open kitchen. In her direct field of vision, she achieves a feeling of spaciousness thanks to open shelves and a niche with a sophisticated backsplash that has a shiny brick look. The open room concept of this stylish dream kitchen with oak wood grain supports the exclusive atmosphere that permeates the cosy environment. Small kitchens, L-shaped kitchens or large U-shaped kitchens can be attractively furnished with kitchen cabinets made of this type of wood.
If you’re looking for even more functional elegance, kitchen cabinets with a handle-free design are your best alternative. Furnishing the smooth cabinet fronts with a push-to-open function makes opening and closing the doors an elegant operation.
Which kitchen appliances go with your oak kitchen?
In all types of kitchen, the progressive elements of the solid oak kitchen are amplified by the innovative details of NEFF appliances – such as the colourfully illuminated, retractable glass pane of the kitchen extractor behind the hob on Anahita’s kitchen island. This stylish highlight aligns itself with the open look of the kitchen design and is as inviting as Anahita’s home itself.
In addition to an elevated built-in oven, her oak kitchen unit combines a steam oven and a fully automatic coffee machine at the ideal working height, thus perfecting the kitchen’s functionality. The new NEFF Collection has a customised and flexible design to satisfy every desire. The light-coloured stainless-steel strips on the built-in appliances are key to creating the ambiance because they form a contrast to the golden-yellow colours of their surroundings. They also harmonise with the light-grey, artificial stone countertop.
Your kitchen, your choice!
The right countertop rounds out the look of your oak kitchen.
With its warm, inviting nuances and fine contrasts, Anahita’s built-in kitchen benefits from a chic, light-coloured artificial stone countertop, which serves to emphasize the golden-yellow material of the kitchen fronts rather than establishing a hard contrast.
If, for example, you choose an anthracite grey stone floor, we recommend a granite countertop to reinforce the sophisticated character of the oak kitchen.
A sink with gold-coloured faucets was also installed in Anahita’s kitchen island to add to the Mediterranean warmth of the overall concept. In combination with granite or natural stone, however, a silver or silver-grey sink would be best.
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