Mixing metals in kitchen

Mixing metals in kitchen can feel strange or outside the norm when you first think about it. Most of us grew up in homes where all the metals were the same. Once you committed to a metal that was the metal that lived throughout your space, and often times throughout the entire home. As designs and trends change I am guessing you’ve seen the shift; more and more people are incorporating multiple metals into one space. Yet you might be finding yourself still lost as to how you are going to incorporate this look into your own home.

We’ve covered how to mix metals in your bathroom, but have yet to touch on kitchens. Seeing how we just did our kitchen, what time is better than now. So let’s get into it. Today we are going to take you through the steps on how to mix metals in kitchen.

Choose A Dominating Metal

You need to pick one metal to be your dominant metal. For our kitchen brass is the dominating metal. You will find brass on all of our perimeter hardware, island lighting, pot filler, air press button, range, dishwasher and refrigerator.

Pick A Supporting Metal

The next step is to pick your supporting metal to act as the complementing metal that you see in the space. In our kitchen, matte black is our supporting metal. I love how the soft hues of brass contrast against the bold matte black. In our space you will find matte black in both faucets, island hardware and our dining nook light fixture.

Pick One Accent Metal

Use one metal to accent the others. We used chrome for our supporting metal, which you will see in our backsplash, espresso machine and inside our sink. I have also scattered chrome throughout the cabinets.

How To Know It Is Going To Work.

Create a mood board. Mood boards help show all of your thoughts and choices together. I love to begin my mood boards with Pinterest. From there, I collect all my inspiration images to make a working mood board where I’ll build my design choices. In my full mood board I add all my image choices together to see how they work with each other. I wrote a full post on how I go about creating a mood board.

A lot of this process is trial and error. I truly believe it’s ok to make mistakes in life, that’s how we all learn. But if you aren’t will to take a risk you’re never going to see the results of what could have been!

Here’s a few more designs we’ve mixed metals in!

Much love –