- Mixing different finish such as polish nickel with brass brings character and avoids a flat look.
- To keep the design deliberately, stick to two to three metal tones and avoid heavy space.
- The popular combos contains polish nickel with antique brass or matte black with chrome.
If you are hesitant to embrace the metals mixed in your kitchen, it’s not the case – Pro designers say that this look is a major moment late and of course to live here.
“Mixed metals are a design approach that we often familiar with customers, and not more often, it comes out in the same way what they are seeing.”
Here, designers speak everything you need to know in a mixture of metals in your home. They touch the benefits of mixing metals, suggest to mix metals like a supporter, share some of their favorite metal combinations, and also provide information about what not to do to mix metals in your kitchen.
Meet experts
- Maggi Gudich Third Street is an interior designer with architecture.
- Melissa sakel Anthony Wilder Design/Build has a kitchen and bath designer.
Benefits of mixture of metals
Goodric appreciation how to choose for mixed metals makes a kitchen more complicated.
“Mixing different finish Fitten and hardware A space brings depth and character to space, which makes it feel more intentional and curate, “she says.
On the other hand, the kitchen that perfectly facilitates a type of finish can read as a flat or highly sterile, the designer says.
Another advantage of mixing metals is that it allows you to use subtle with more trend-forward finish without committing all of them throughout the space, the goodwill note. She explains that this approach will help create a place that feels both fresh and classic.
How to mix metals properly
design by Anthony Wilder Design-Book / photo by John coal
To start mixing metals in your kitchen, Anthony Wilder Design/Bath designer Melissa Sakel in the build suggested assigning a finish in each category of hardware. supposed to mean Brass draws cabinet With a polish nickel tap.
“Limiting your palette to two or three metal tones, maintains a deliberate look instead of too much – even more and more effects can quickly move from curate to chaotic,” Sakal says.
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Favorite metal pair of designers
design by Third street architecture / photo by Christie Kosanic
Given that there are a lot of potential metal pair to choose, we asked professionals with whom we talked to highlight some of his favorite.
Gudich likes to work with polish Out With antique brass, polished chrome with antique brass, oil-rubbed bronze with antique brass, and antique brass unlack, to do some names.
She also enjoys the option for layered combinations; Examples of these include polish nickel with matte black, chrome and antique brass, or oil-rubbed bronze.
“These thoughtful mixtures not only enhance the overall look, but also leave space to develop for your personal style,” says Gudrik. “Once you embrace the idea that the mixture of metals works – and seems surprising – it opens the door to endless creativity.”
Sakell shares states that polish nickel and brass are its top favorite metal pair.
She says, “Both finishes have a timeless heat that looks elevated and quietly fantastic when used together.” “It is all about the harmony of tones and finish.”
She said, it is actually about personal choice, she explains, and explains how with the right balance, almost any mixture can work.
What to do in relation to mixed metals
Although it is clear that it comes to mixed metals, there are many options to choose from then, and you must feel free to be creative in your pairing, there are some design rules that you will still keep on top in this process.
For one, Gudrich recommends that people do not mix metals or colors when choosing their equipment.
,Equipment finish– Although they are even more diverse – they are still quite limited, “she says.” As long as you do not fall into a white or mat black finish, we recommend considering your equipment as neutral. ,
He said, adds designers, do not worry about the matching of hardware choosing directly for your tool color.
“They are not part of the design conversation in the same way and your finish options should not determine,” says Gudich.
