Kitchen design has undergone enormous changes in recent years. Alongside familiar forms and colors, stronger hues and bolder shapes have begun to emerge.
Here I present nine kitchens that caught my eye in 2026.
Blue & Red Kitchen
This kitchen is from France, designed by @julielacourstudio.
Already at first glance this is an exciting kitchen, but if we look closer, we can see those small, very intentional decisions that make it coherent. It uses the 60:30:10 ratio in its color combination. Wood 60, blue 30, red 10 as contrast.
And the placement of these is also well-thought-out. As the blue tiles on the wall are echoed by the “lower” dining table and the blue arched element of the lamp above it. The red likewise appears on the floor and up on the lamp.
Also the designers used the shapes as intentional as the colors. The curved forms are blue, while the more angular forms are red.
A well-rounded and thoughtfully designed kitchen. Bold use of colors, yet an absolutely harmonious space.
Kitchen from Berlin
My other favorite colorful kitchen is this tiny but practical one, owned by a Berlin based photographer, @juliettemainx.
Here again, the 60:30:10 rule is observable, yet the 10, orange, appears exclusively as a decorative element.
The orange vase and the orange Snoopy table lamp are a perfect choice to create a pleasant harmony with the kitchen’s bolder green quartz stone countertop and the yellowish green upper shelf.
Butter Yellow Kitchen
Danilo & Paolo (@homeinheidelberg) created this lovely kitchen in their Milan apartment.
We chose this kitchen because here, finally that cabinetry doesn’t settle for the most obvious choice like wood. Instead embrace a butter yellow tone.
Although at first glance it appears to be a monochromatic color scheme. What makes it deep are the black accessories. Even though the black appears minimally, such as the rope of the Louis Poulsen pendant, it makes the perfect choice for this high-ceilinged kitchen, for creating depth in this yellow drenching.
Deep Green & Wood
This is one of my favorite kitchens right now. It’s locating in Rio de Janeiro, and designed by @joaopanaggio.
Although an open-plan kitchen-living room can be practical in many cases, since I cook a lot, it’s important to me that the cooking and relaxing area spaces can be separated. While not completely isolating the two areas from each other.
I love large openings between spaces, whether kitchen-living room or living-room bedroom. Standard openings very much separate spaces, but these large double or multi-panel doors provide the perfect solution to let the space breath.
The other thing I appreciate a lot are the color choices here. This gorgeus green of the opening and the floor paired with this deep wood cabinetry is an incredible combination.
And it’s very important to highlight that the defining colors don’t appeear on just one “plane”. If only the floor were green and the door frame white or even wood, it would upset the balance. It would still be very beautiful. By having all three colors present in the kitchen appears on the floor, at eye level and above eye level too, a perfect harmony is created.
Neutral Kitchen with Curves
I love this kitchen for its small nuances. Designed by @charlotte_fequet and locates in the heart of Paris. The perfect use of arches, which reappear as the opening, as the shape of the kitchen island and as the beautiful detailed finishing of the countertop.
These are the small gestures that makes a space harmonious. The designers were also thinking in every “plane”, floor, walls, even ceiling.
In terms of color palette it is restrained, but the dark wood tone is an excellent choice alongside the light countertop and upper elements. The opening in the back, extending above the counter height, complements the composition perfectly.
Powder Pink & Steel Kitchen
Here comes a bolder kitchen, by @caialeifsdotter a Scandinavian Design House. It differs from conventional kitchens both in color and design.
Let’s start with the layout. I think it was a perfect decision not to conform to the existing wall angles. Instead to place it on the wall like a half-freestanding cabinetry, with the work surface opposite it as a kitchen island.
In terms of color it’s extra. I would never choose (as I am not that brave for it) such a dominant color in my own kitchen. It is still a very aesthetic kitchen for me and I really love it.
This very delicate powder pink provides a perfect contrast with the steel island, which on its own has a cold & industrial feel. But this subtle pink softens that industrial effect perfectly. Beutiful design.
Kitchen from Poland
I love this kitchen most for its exciting upper cabinet. Locating in Gdańsk, Poland and designed by @pracowniamagma. It is completely different from the upper cabinets we are used to. It works well both in color and form and functionally too. The cooktop extractor fan is perfectly concealed withn it.
In term of shading, the dark countertop creates contrast with the light greige shade of the wall. The lower cabinet handles echoes the color of the terracotta upper cabinet.
Another favorite of mine, where the extractor fan, so often referred to as a “necessary evil” that we as designers have to hide somehow, receives a deep green glazed ceramic cladding. It works perfectly with the reddish marble color of the countertop (as they are complementary colors).
Also love the small separated ceramics outlets. Beautiful choice.