My Next Kitchen

Contemporary kitchen design is about creating a modern yet not painfully cool look to your house or home and while that may sound easy it isn't quite as straightforward as you might think. Getting the right balance between a modern, sleek look and something considered 'contemporary' takes some expertise but with a fewtips like the ones below you can get the look with ease.

Wood has been an intrinsic element of kitchen design for hundreds of years. Pine, Oak, Maple and other woods have formed the basis of our kitchen cupboards ever since the kitchen idea first came into being. In recent years other materials have become popular, with stainless steel and plastics becoming an important piece of the design puzzle but as we search for ever more unique and ‘different' designs a new group of exotic woods are beginning to come to the fore.

Fisher & Paykel's innovative Izona CoolDrawer, the world's first multi-temperature fridge in a drawer, has been awarded Germany's prestigious international iF product design award, sweeping into first place in the Kitchen/Household category.

It may sound like one of the most unlikely markets to enjoy something of a surge in demand in 2010 but the small kitchen appliances world could be set for big things this year - and it's all because of our tight fistedness!

New research obtained by My Next Kitchen shows that following a modest 1% growth in 2008, the market for small kitchen appliances fell by 2% in 2009, when it was worth an estimated £546m in the UK.

Remodeling a kitchen begins with selecting kitchen cupboards to meet the needs of the homeowner. This starting point provides the framework and focus for the rest of the kitchen's new design. All homeowners have their own specific needs that are based on being a wine collector, culinary artist, love to cook, or a family of many. When selecting cupboards the first step is to select the design that works best.