It's here, that rich metallics seem to really shine. Like luxurious baubles amid a sea of utilitarian tile, countertops and refrigerators, warm-hued metals emit a glow that's wholly unlike their silvery counterparts. In kitchens light or dark, black or white, these luminous metallics hold their own, adding comfort and light to spaces that are, by necessity, filled with cold, hard surfaces.
What do you think of this trend? Would you use brass, copper or gold in your own kitchen? Which do you prefer?
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Yes to this. I particularly like when the metals are mixed in one room--it lends a depth and richness that is not usually achieved by matching metals in the kitchen.
I would use copper, but. It brass or gold. I've never really been a fan of those two finishes
Grrr I meant to type "not brass or gold" :)
I love copper, and have had copper in my kitchen for a long time. It's classic.
Yet more:
http://www.desiretoinspire.net/blog/2012/3/30/reader-request-brass-and-gold.html
at least in these kitchens there is something tying finishes and colors together. when it is a stark white kitchen with black&stainless appliances, and some very lonely gold pulls thrown in it looks very scattered... these rooms actually look finished :)
I like the idea of a mirror over the stove.
1 e) that wood pallet kitchen panelling is just about my dream kitchen
We did our kitchen in white thermafoil cabinets with polished brass hardware that looks like it came off a boat. Brass faucet to boot. It's gorgeous and we get loads of compliments on it!
Brass is beautiful when it's the real deal and gains some patina. That lacquered brass (thin brass veneer covered in a poly shellac) from the 70s/80s that never patinas, that stuff is what most people think of when they say they hate brass.
I love brass! I think it's so much beautiful and noble than the inox/silver trend.
Here, here to moving away from all the bland stainless, chrome and satin nickel! And totally agree Parnassus, it's that horrible stuff from a few decades ago that turned people off to brass.
Ditto on still having PTSD from the lacquered brass of the '80s. At the ReStore, I just saw a hunter green whirlpool tub with brass fittings and I became very sad.
I wish there were an alternate-universe version of AT that would show only photos of rooms that haven't just been redone -- rooms that have mellowed for years. Photo #4, with the copper so new that it's pink, can't have been taken more than a week after the pipes were installed. (And elsewhere, that carport thing made of water bottles -- I really want to see that in a year.) I worry that people's tastes and expectations get harmfully shifted by the constant flow of professionally staged recent renovations, untouched by human hands. Instead of "Article #117 on why you should install this month's trend," wouldn't it be great to see a series called "Decor that is still viable despite not being fiddled with for 20 years"? I love new ideas, but not if it means that people learn to automatically hate everything that is "outdated," and not if it means we lose our connection to what it feels like to live happily in the same space for a long time.
It should be noted that black is a companion color in every one of these photos, be it counter top, appliance etc... Black helps keep these metallic tones grounded and fresh at the same time.