You’re content with the size and existing layout of your kitchen, but you’re not happy with how out-dated and worn this hub of your home looks and feels. You may not need a complete kitchen remodel to give it a modern and inviting appearance. With just a few cosmetic enhancements to your kitchen, a transformation can be made without the duration and expense associated with a complete kitchen remodel.

We provide many ideas and suggestions to spruce up the look of a kitchen rather than a full remodel. These are the a few improvements we recommend that will substantially update and rejuvenate your kitchen:

1. Revitalize Cabinets

New doors on existing cabinets achieve an instant update. Re-staining, painting, or adding trim to flat panel doors are other options to revive the appearance of timeworn cabinets. New hardware will immediately enhance and distinctively update the look.

Reader Question: Can Formica cabinets be painted?

2. Replace Countertops

After cabinets, countertops are the most prominent focal point of the kitchen. Significant advances have been made in countertop materials. Choices are vast, including engineered and recycled alternatives to traditional granite, tile, and laminate.

Reader Question: Can we paint our white countertop to freshen it up?

3. Install New Faucets

New sink hardware instantly enriches the most functional and essential element of your kitchen. Faucet component style, operation, and task options are limitless.

4. Add Trim & Molding

One of the most effective methods of enhancing the quality of a kitchen is with the addition of trim and molding. Adorning the ceiling with crown molding, wainscoting crested with a chair rail, or the augmentation of existing trim around doors and windows are some of the artful options that add style, elegance and polish to a kitchen.

Reader Question: How do you install base trim over a stucco wall?

5. Refresh the Paint

The most fundamental and cost-effective facelift you can give your kitchen is a new paint color. Paint is the foremost procedure to freshen a kitchen’s appearance. Palette, style and personality options are limitless. Professional design and expertise culminated with skilled prep work and precision application will enhance and rejuvenate a kitchen.

6. Flooring

The floor is usually the largest surface in your kitchen, so changing this surface will make a big impact. Options include refinishing an existing wood floor and applying a new stain color, laying down new ceramic or stone tiles, or simply updating vinyl or laminate flooring by choosing from thousands of new designs available.

7. Lighting

Lighting is an important element of your kitchen that deserves special attention. Consider task lighting for your work areas, overhead light for illuminating the room and ambient lighting to create mood and atmosphere. Lighting also gives you the chance to express your style (some fixtures look like works of art) or harmonize the design elements of your kitchen.

We enjoy working with homeowners on transforming the look of their kitchen, because it’s a fun adventure with relatively quick results. Mosby designers shop with you and help coordinate your new palette of colors, textures and surfaces. Installation tends to be smooth because Mosby carpenters are replacing pieces rather than building new from scratch.

Here is an example of a kitchen update we did within the existing floor plan.

For ideas and help with your kitchen facelift, call Mosby Building Arts at 314.909.1800 or contact us here.