55 Modern Kitchen Cabinet Ideas and Designs
Kitchen cabinets are the most prominent feature of the room. Spanning most of the kitchen walls, the cabinets often serve as the style and design canvas of the room, it dictates the look of the kitchen. Dated kitchen cabinets equates to a dated kitchen, while the lack of storage spaces would translate to cluttered and disorganised room. Keep your kitchens beautiful and updated by building a modern and spacious kitchen cabinetry to fit your needs and style. Here are some beautiful and awesome modern kitchen cabinets ideas and designs to steal!
1. Blonde Wood Minimalist
The neutral tones of minimalism is prominent in this modern kitchen. The clean white ceiling and counters and dramatic grey splashback is accentuated by the light wood shade of the cabinets, island, and floor. Clean, efficient, and stylish.
2. Two-Tone Theme
Your kitchen cabinets don’t have to be in one colour! This elegant and stylish kitchen features stark white cabinets above the counters, while the lower ones are in a cool shade of olive green. The marble countertops and splashback keeps the room looking bright and clean, while the gold cabinet handles underscore the posh vibe.
3. Strategic Lighting
Ample lighting is a must for kitchens. Spotlights and overhead lights are required for cooking, washing, and preparing food. But to create drama and to highlight key features of your kitchen, strategic placement of mood lighting is key. Strip lights inside glass-paned cabinets add drama, give muted lights, and outline the kitchen.
4. Pull-Out Organiser
This small vertical drawer is huge in organisation and accessibility. Custom-built to accommodate the odd space of the kitchen, the pull-out organiser provides an accessible storage for smaller and often-used utensils, making cooking a breeze while eliminating the clutter in the kitchen.
5. Vertical Vision
This ingenious kitchen cabinet design includes three shelves and eight sliding cabinet doors. The doors left a portion of the shelves uncovers, which also provide the sliding room. Thus, you have an ample storage section and a display area in one. The slatted bare wood doors add a touch of rustic to the modern interiors.
6. A Kitchen Window Seat
A romantic addition to any kitchen. This classic feature brings in charm and functionality to the kitchen. Built next to a window and in between kitchen cabinets, this window seat offers a comfortable and accessible spot to rest.
7. Glassed in Pantry
This glassed-in pantry adds a twist to the modern genre that would dictate wall cabinets and hidden storage. Show off your fine glassware and dinnerware in a pantry that will protect and display them at once. Just replace a couple of cabinet doors with glass and install inside lighting.
8. White Minimalist
Very modern, very efficient, very white. This all-white minimalist kitchen flat cabinet doors, thin accent lines, and chrome features. The no-nonsense cabinetry provides ample storage space without crowding the room and aligns with the minimalist theme of the interiors.
9. Wall Cabinetry
Turn your kitchen’s empty walls into usable storage space. This kitchen features a wall that also doubles as the oven ang cabinet hub. The flat doors keeps the wall clean and uncluttered, adhering to the minimalist theme of the design. The end of the wall features display shelves complete with glass doors and inside lighting.
10. Rustic Farmhouse
This farmhouse kitchen managed to beautifully combine the charms of rustic themes and the sleek efficiency of modern designs. Warm wood tones shine through to provide deep colour and rustic ambience, the white walls and ceiling keep the room bright and clean, while the minimalist subway tile splashback give the room a stylish modern look.
11. Dressed up Shelves
Dress up open kitchen shelves with eye-catching prints and designs. Add bright and striking wallpaper to the inside back panels of the cabinets or shelves. Or you can paint it with your favourite colours that will personalise the design and add pops of colours to your kitchen.
12. A Pet Feeding Station
Installing a pet station in your kitchen is a practical and efficient idea! Preparing food and feeding your pets also happens in the kitchen and having a dedicated space for it makes a lot of sense. This pet station is added to one end of the kitchen island and includes storage space for food and feeding implements.
13. Storage and Organiser
An organiser’s dream kitchen cabinet! It is easy to clutter a kitchen with its collection of small utensils, cooking articles, food preparation tools, and serving implements. It is best to have a specific space for all your kitchen stuff. And this multi-layered storage and organiser will accommodate most, if not all, of your kitchen items without taking up much space.
14. Cool Grey
Minimalism and neutral colours are the basics of modern interior design. This cool grey minimalist kitchen features sleek lines, uncluttered surfaces, and neutral colours – grey and white. Glass cabinet walls are sleek, while the dark wood flooring add texture, warmth, and character to the room.
15. Larder Organiser
Manage space and keep your larder organised with these larder organisers. The metal shelves are installed on the cabinet doors an inside panel, which can be pulled-out to reveal another panel behind it. No more cluttered larders, forgotten and spoiled food items, and wasted time spent on searching for a needed food item.
16. Brushed Brass Elegance
Easily upgrade your kitchen by replacing dated and tarnished cabinet hardware for bright new ones. These minimalist brushed brass cabinet handles are elegant and timeless enough to match the classy flush cabinetry. The sheen of brass complements the cool marble and the light grey of the cabinets.
17. A Glass Cabinet
This delicate and elegant glass cabinet is perfect for light use, like in this beautiful home bar. The thin black frames outline the cabinets and gives a chic accent to the all-white design. The open design allow easy access, while its glass shelves creates the airy and barely-there look.
18. Pull-Out Pot Rack
Organise your pots and manage storage space with pull-out racks. These easy-to-install racks can be added to any one or two of your cabinets. Pots properly stored will last longer. These small implements will help you organise kitchen items, protect them from unnecessary damage, and will also save you storage space.
19. Chic Black
Black is striking, imposing, and unexpected in a kitchen cabinetry. This stunning and stylish kitchen features black kitchen cabinets, white counters, and a chic black and white splashback. Leather handles and wood accents give the look a hint of rustic. Chic, beautiful, and modern.
20. Timeless Amish
The classic look of efficiency, charm, and stylish design. The Amish cabinets represent an era of personalised woodworking, delicate craftsmanship, and beautiful functionality. This classic Amish kitchen gets a modern upgrade from the muted tones of the scrubbed wood, minimal accents, and clean surfaces.
21. A Drawer Cabinet
Instead of shelves, install drawers inside your kitchen cabinets. This cabinet design instantly improves accessibility, letting you store more items without compromising accessibility and order. No more hard-to-reach areas, hidden items, and clutter.
22. Pretty Pink
The styling of this chic apartment kitchen more than make up for its lack in space. The lovely room features stylish subway tile walls, granite splashback, and pretty pink cabinets. The uptown posh styling is accentuated by the black and brass accents.
23. Leather Novelty
Alleviate the conventional minimalist design with something unique and surprising. This stunning dark blue kitchen cabinetry features a surprising and odd accent – leather handles. The contrasting shades of dark blue tone and warm leather is striking and beautiful.
24. Vertical Slots
Adding vertical slots to one or two of your kitchen cabinets will provide an ideal storage space for low and wide kitchen implements like baking pans, muffin tins, serving dishes, and pot covers. This will also improve accessibility and organisation of the items.
25. Green Grandeur
Go for something grand, impressive, and stunning! This kitchen cabinet design in dark forest green is eye-catching, refreshing, and stylish. The white interiors complements the arresting colour, while the golden accents give the room an elegant and luxurious look.
26. Modern Rustic
Add rustic charms to the ascetic efficiency of modern minimalism. This very modern kitchen features clean lines, uncluttered surfaces, and rustic wood cabinets. The warm tones of the wood counters the cool minimalist design. Modern and beautiful combination.
27. Produce Drawer
Modern designs, same storage needs. The produce drawer is designed to store produce that you cannot put in the fridge. It has to be secure enough to protect the produce and keep it away from plain sight and should be aerated to let the produce breath. This produce drawer even includes sections to separate the items efficiently.
28. Glass Fronted
Glass-fronted kitchen cabinets are a classic kitchen feature. This elegant kitchen cabinet design gets a modern upgrade from its cool cement counter and splashback. The blue-grey tone of the cement gives the kitchen design an edgy and modern look, while keeping the cabinets classy and stylish.
29. Amazing Aegean
Bring in the refreshing and vibrant vibe of the ocean to your kitchen. This ultra-modern and chic kitchen includes wood parquet flooring, white ceiling, marble splashback, and cabinets in an awesome and beautiful shade of blue green. The Aegean theme is underscored by the delicate veins of the marble that resembles the waves and foam of the ocean.
30. Go Metallic
Sleek and shiny, stunning, and modern. This kitchen is designed to impress! The metallic and ultra-modern theme of the kitchen features brushed chrome plated kitchen cabinets and counters, granite countertops, glass splashback, and stone flooring.
31. Swinging Shelves
A clever design to maximise storage space and manage clutter in the kitchen! This ingenious kitchen cabinet includes swinging shelves within the cabinet. The swinging shelves make it easier to access items at the back and provides more spaces to store and organise items.
32. A Home Bar
Complete your kitchen cabinetry with a home bar section. This mini bar comes with display shelves, storage cabinets, and a counter for preparations. The stylish nook features black lower cabinets, open shelves, and glass-fronted display racks with brushed metallic frames.
33. Bright and Elegant
A beautiful and bright kitchen can also be modern and full of personality. This bright and charming modern kitchen features white walls and counters, warm wood flooring, and chic grey cabinetry. Metallic accents like the chrome faucet and brass handles give the room an edgy and posh look.
34. Spice Drawer
If you love cooking and often cook at home, make sure to include a spice drawer to your kitchen cabinetry and storage system. The drawer will keep your assortment of spice bottles in one place, safe, accessible, and organised. Smart and efficient.
35. Copper Pulls
Eye-catching, unique, trendy. These copper pulls add an elegant yet modern look to your kitchen cabinets and drawers. It will complement most kitchen cabinet styles and colours. An easy upgrade to replace tarnished handles and inject a fresh and modern look to your kitchen.
36. Pull-Out Pantry
A beautiful solution to awkward spaces in the kitchen. Tall and deep wall spaces like those beside the refrigerator often go wasted. Make of that prime space by building this ingenious pull-out pantry. The deep drawers provide ample storage space, while the pull-out design makes everything accessible.
37. Stunning Walnut
This modern kitchen is white spaces and beautiful walnut cabinetry. The beautiful patterns and dark wood grains of walnut take the spotlight in this kitchen design. A pair of extraordinary golden globe lights add a hint of drama to the room.
38. Corner Shelves
Don’t let that prime kitchen space go to waste. The corner above your kitchen counters also happen to be the centre of the kitchen activity. Install a couple of floating shelves to take advantage of the space. This can hold your often-used items, a great display hub, or a safe holding space for your recipe books, mobile phones, and other office items you might need in the kitchen.
39. Scandi Minimalist
The cool efficiency and uncluttered beauty of Scandinavian minimalism is the basis of today’s modern minimalist designs. This Scandi kitchen features flat wall cabinets, recessed shelves, uncluttered surfaces, and clean lines. All the pieces are both functional and decorative – amber glass drop lights, black steel bar stools, and kitchen bowls are all statement pieces.
40. Purple Elegance
You can always put in your personality stamp while modernising your kitchen. This elegant and modern kitchen includes a quirky feature – purple cabinets. The fun colour is not the most popular but looks beautiful in this design. Complemented with golden handles, marble countertops, and matching window frames, the look is charming, unique, and gorgeous.
41. The Efficient Cutting Board
Add this clever cutting board table to your kitchen cabinetry and you can lose all your other cutting boards. The design provides a spacious tabletop for your cutting needs. It comes with a hole that will allow you to drop cuttings directly to the garbage bins under it. Stow away when not in use.
42. Modern Grey
This ultra-modern kitchen features all shades of grey. The flat grey cabinets are modern and custom-built around the kitchen appliances and implements. Its dramatic splashback is in a grey and white patterned tile, while flooring is grey wood-themed tiles. Chrome accents complement the colour theme and help keep the room bright.
43. Lazy Susan Corner
That corner space under the kitchen counter is hard to reach. One would dump rarely used items there or the space simply just go unused. Maximise the use of the space by installing a lazy susan in the corner. The turning shelves will provide easy access to all items in the cabinet. Problem solved!
44. A Kitchen Charging Station
A clever idea to accommodate the needs of today. This kitchen charging station added to an end of the kitchen island provides a safe and accessible space to store and charge mobile phones, laptops, and other electronic gadgets. The cabinets includes shelves for the gadgets and enough power outlets for charging needs.
45. White and Chrome
Beautiful, elegant, and timeless. This breathtaking kitchen design features white cabinets, marble tile splashback, and chrome accents. The overall look is bright, classy, and luxurious kitchen. The light grey island, marble splashback, and wood floors add texture and tone down the stark brightness of white.
46. Hidden Handles
Flat kitchen cabinets are on trend. Aligned with the minimalist styling, flat kitchen cabinets feature doors that are plain except for the handles. These modern flat cabinets do not have visible handles, making its surface sleek and simple, complementing the styling of the rest of the room.
47. Updated Farmhouse
Farmhouse kitchen designs are popular because of its charming and quaint looks. This beautiful kitchen retains the charms of farmhouse styling while managing to adopt to the modern trends. The glass-paned overhead lighting, huge kitchen island, and vintage accents give the room its farmhouse charms, while the clean lines, unfussy cabinetry, and neutral colours add in the modern look.
48. Charming Charcoal
Stunning as it is stylish, luxurious as it is modern. The charcoal black theme of this modern kitchen is breathtakingly beautiful. The hexagon terracotta tile flooring gives the room a rustic touch, while the matte charcoal walls and cabinets give the kitchen a countryside vibe. Very unique and charming.
49. Kitchen Ladder
Adding a kitchen ladder to the room is a sensible idea, especially if you have tall cabinets. Storing and retrieving items from top cabinets is not easy and can be dangerous to some extent. A secured ladder will make everything easier and safer. This kitchen ladder is attached at the top and includes wheels for easy movement.
50. Shelves and Sliding Doors
There are no opening of doors in these kitchen cabinets! Instead of the typical hinge doors, this gorgeous wood kitchen cabinets come with sliding panels that move over storage shelves. The ingenious design allows for easy access and an open spot for display.
51. Modern Industrial
Minimalism with rustic influences, efficiency with edgy charms. Modern industrial designs include steel, concrete, bricks, and wood. This trendy and gorgeous kitchen features steel shelving, concrete island, beautiful wood flooring, and black flat cabinetry.
52. Appliance Garage
Adding an appliance garage to your kitchen cabinetry will provide a secure space to store your small kitchen appliances. Having a specific space for it, you will be able to clear your kitchen counters with the clutter of small appliances like mixers, toasters, blenders, and other kitchen implements.
53. Classic Blue Shaker
A bright, colourful, and attractive kitchen! This beautiful kitchen design includes a cool grey and blue combination with the classic shaker cabinets in deep denim blue accented with chrome handlebars. Light wood tones of its floor and wood shelving complete the charming and classic design.
54. Rustic Luxury
This spacious and imposing kitchen is very rustic as it is luxurious. The kitchen cabinetry and island are all in warm antique cherry wood, giving the room its characteristic charms. Its white walls and marble countertops keep the room bright, while the antique glass pendant lights add a old-world posh vibe.
55. Pull-out Table
Ideal for apartment and smaller home kitchens, this pull-out table add-on will help manage floor space. Pull-out whenever you need a table for dining or office works and stow away when not in use. This folding table is design to fit right into a kitchen cabinet.
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