Stained green plywood and a wiggly salmon-pink room divider embellish our latest lookbook, which features a rainbow of colourful residential kitchens.
From Athens to Manhattan, these kitchens demonstrate the myriad ways that architects and designers have swapped more traditional, neutral hues for brighter shades when creating modern kitchen interiors.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring transparent bathrooms, moody bedrooms and self-designed homes by architects and designers.
Athens apartment, Greece, by Point Supreme Architects
Greek studio Point Supreme Architects set up a storage wall made from green-stained plywood along the entire length of this Athens apartment.
The colourful shelving was positioned to complement the open-plan kitchen, which includes details ranging from a glossy red hob to a light pink unit topped with marble.
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Relámpago House, Spain, by H3O
Three jagged walls delineate the colourful spaces inside this converted barn in Sant Just Desvern, Spain, referencing a lightning bolt that struck the building generations ago.
Barcelona studio H3O emphasised this lighting bolt motif in the bright-hued kitchen by suspending a zigzagged yellow strip light above the central island.
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Univers Uchronia, France, by Uchronia
Univers Uchronia is the self-designed Paris home of Julien Sebban, the founder of local interiors studio Uchronia, which he shares with his husband.
To decorate the dwelling, Sebban and his team used the vibrant colours and generous shapes that have become synonymous with his studio. Interior accents range from a bright orange kitchen wall adorned with shimmering disco-ball tiles to a multicoloured poured resin floor that spans the apartment.
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London house, UK, by R2 Studio
London architecture practice R2 Studio created spacious and colourful areas within this originally dark and narrow 19th-century family house in the city’s Kennington area.
The renovation included a kitchen characterised by primary colours in the form of blue and yellow cabinets and bright-red bar stools.
“The overall aim was to create a kitchen that doesn’t scream ‘kitchen’, avoiding cold and shiny surfaces and making it into a comfortable space that the family spends most of their time in,” explained the architects.
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Valencia house, Spain, by Masquespacio
Creative and life partners Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse are the co-founders of Spanish interiors firm Masquespacio. The pair renovated a 1920s villa, which was once a farmhouse on the outskirts of Valencia, to form their hybrid home and studio.
The project includes a minty green kitchen dressed with fabric-wrapped stools, triangular alcoves and a wiggly salmon-pink room divider.
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New York apartment, USA, by Ideas of Order
This 1,000-square-foot New York apartment was renovated by local architecture studio Ideas of Order in Hudson Heights, Manhattan.
The studio sought to make the existing kitchen more suitable for entertaining by creating an open-plan food preparation space with purple and lilac cabinetry. Bright hues also define the rest of the home, including a lime green bedroom that was constructed next to the colourful kitchen.
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Nagatachō Apartment, Japan, by Adam Nathaniel Furman
British designer Adam Nathaniel Furman chose bubblegum pink for the kitchen at the heart of Nagatachō Apartment in Tokyo.
The kitchen also features stripy, two-tone green flooring and slim blue tiles arranged into a herringbone-patterned splashback.
“A lot of the way I described the project as I was developing it was through taste and references to cooking and food, so that the colour scheme became a matter of choosing ingredients for a beautifully calibrated visual feast,” Furman told Dezeen.
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Apartment in Born, Spain, by Colombo and Serboli Architecture
A coral-coloured arched volume conceals the guest toilet and adjoins the light pink-and-grey open-plan kitchen of Apartment in Born, located in Barcelona’s El Born neighbourhood.
Local studio Colombo and Serboli Architecture was responsible for renovating the 65-square-metre apartment, which is set within a residential building that dates back to the 13th century.
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This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring transparent bathrooms, moody bedrooms and self-designed homes by architects and designers.
