How to Elevate Your Kitchen Wall Decor

Kitchen wall decor should reflect who your family is and what they like. Either food art, still lifes or framed recipe books are great options for hanging on the wall.

Show the householders family members a family photo wall hanging. From a close family member to distant relatives far away, this warms up any home.

There’s also the décor and utility of chalkboard walls; you can get one and write out your daily menus or grocery list on it.

Wall Art
Ideas for wall decor that work in bedrooms and living rooms are great for the kitchen as long as they are water-resistant, like hanging microbial-resistant artwork that you can simply wipe up once sauce drips or water spills.

Choose artworks based on your client’s kitchen color scheme. If there are copper details and soothing blues, select artwork or prints with those colors.

Family photos gallery wall since families spend so much time in the kitchen can make for a pretty interesting display. — Other kitchen wall art ideas are chalkboard walls on which customers can place daily menus or shopping list; or just a plain chalkboard, where you can stick a motivational quote or joke.

Family Photos
Photo family photos add a cozy, familiar feel to a room, and remind us of special occasions, holidays and the lives of our loved ones – but researchers now think that taking pictures of your family can have surprising mental health advantages too.

Kitchens are where the family is usually together, and that is why they are the right space for a photo wall. Your client might want to remember distant family members, or even just celebrate the close family in portraits lined up on a shelf – it looks like everyone’s at the dinner table!

An easy, kitchen-friendly way to hang clients’ family-heirloom plates is on a tilted chalkboard that sits against the wall. It’s a novel method that makes smudges easier to wipe off.

Artwork on Range Hoods
Hang a framed piece as art over a range hood mounted to a wall in this white and gray kitchen to make it the centre of your kitchen. In this white and gray kitchen, an ordinary range hood wall-mounted has been lifted by an unusual piece that’s painted to match the backsplash; likewise a curved hood is perfect for contemporary or classic rooms – in this case its curved shape is made extra appealing by having its walls painted Benjamin Moore’s Hodley Red.

The kitchen art can also be practical as an aesthetic feature of the display space for plated plates and cutlery. A cost-effective alternative is to have a collection of cutting boards all on the same wall for a stylish, useful arrangement, or hang a cheap canvas above your sink for a feature.

Mirrors
It is a very practical and stylish method of visualizing the cook area using the well-chosen mirrors in kitchen design. And it’s not only a pretty accent but also reflective enough to help bounce light around the room and give the room even more brightness and depth.

Buy a framed mirror that matches the other art pieces in your kitchen or get a one with a statement frame to catch the eye and surprise you. Mirrors are good for any kitchen style from fancy Old World to modern, and you can put them either on the walls or ceiling.

For a really artistic effect, consider framing walls with cut-to-size mirrored panels like here. This trick especially looks great over sinks where you don’t have window space but still want the feeling of room.

Accessories
Kitchens are spaces to cook and entertain but it’s accessories that can transform it and add charm. Matching plate designs, for example, make a splash of interest without taking up too much counter space; or blue jars in shades of sky to deep cerulean (in this Brooklyn apartment by Ciaran McGuigan) make a powerful wall accent.

Even though the stuff that people use in the first place is utilitarian in nature, utilitarian wall art can be decorative when put correctly up on the walls. Wooden cutting boards hung up on a wall free up cabinets and are beautiful when framed in an orderly collage. Mugs with silly handle look great hanging from a peg rack and food prints, posters or paintings make wonderful kitchen wall decor.