Have you had enough of the ubiquitous standard, white, lifeless kitchens? Do you want to go big in your own home but steering clear of making it look like an abandoned cottage somewhere? Well, Striving for a touch of plain in these modern structures is now possible with these ideas for a rustic kitchen like no other. 

A little bit of contemporary decorations beneath brick walls and robust wooden cabinets is the new trend. A 21st century look ornate by intricate yet somehow unrefined elements, to give to your city center kitchen that natural, imperfect country setting.

In this article, we are going to show you the best tricks you can use, to achieve a successful modern kitchen with a rustic touch, all while using simple, easily found objects that are available for everyone.

A rustic kitchen naturally uses the white color, other than maximizing natural light, white allows you to enhance the beauty of the other materials used in your kitchen, especially wood and marble.

This snowy touch will give your kitchen a Scandinavian look.

For a successful matching, you need to look for adequate, antique looking pieces of wood, rusty maybe even, to use as shelves for your kitchen accessories.

Transparent glass made boxes filled with sugar, salt and any other seasonings will be the best decoration for your wooden shelf, make sure to have transparent boxes because they will help add a rustic touch to your Scandinavian looking kitchen.

You basically need to match it to a grandmother’s shelf !

Countertops, marble made countertops are essential to the rustic aspect of your kitchen; Original, authentic, they are usually made of one single piece, whether it’s polished or not, marble always offers us an elegant aspect.  Rustic Kitchens have always used marble essentially for one of its characteristics; eternal! marble never dies, it’s very difficult to break it, and even once it has faded, a few maneuvers can bring its shining back.

Marble, used since the era of pharaohs, always gives a classy touch to your kitchen decoration, whether used in big tiles or in micro mosaics,  marble always gets to you.

For a modern rustic kitchen, the combination of wood and marble is essential to achieve the decoration you are looking for.

The structure of the rustic kitchen; from ceilings to floors and walls can be best described as having a classic, old look. You’re already halfway through the decorations if you have stone-made, vaulted ceilings, to create a volume to the kitchen and add a touch of gothic to the rustic.

Mosaic or pottery made tiles for the floors, a trend that has not gone away and is creeping back to nurture and adds a cozy decorative touch to the space. What seals the modern rustic kitchen deal however, is the amalgamation between the stone and wood that we find in the walls.

The rustic kitchen decorations rely heavily on those few assorted second-hand pieces of furniture. Those vintage items that don’t belong anywhere anymore, picked up at antique stores or passed out to you as a family inheritance. Indeed, they can find a new home among the walls of your rustic kitchen, giving the modern a sense of going to the past.

We all deserve a second chance, don’t we? Yes, the whole purpose of this recycling process is giving an old piece of furniture another opportunity to be useful, that’s what being rustic is all about!

The trick is to know how to fit them into your rustic decoration adequately; we are relying on your creativity and innovation to give yourself the best rustic kitchen decoration.

In conclusion, we want to say that it’s not a very hard task to achieve a rustic aspect for your kitchen. With the correct state of mind, some curiosity and a little bit of scouring for old useful furniture, you can have the most beautiful Scandinavian, rustic, wooden and authentic kitchen. Be creative, don’t fear ruining the decoration, because a rustic kitchen can only be improvised!