Kitchen Taps - Traditional Versus Contemporary


Designing for your new home or giving your home one big makeover has never been more exciting in the 21st century. You can theme a design throughout the house or if you prefer make each room unique in its own way. Design styles come and go but we are in a phase where both traditional and contemporary can look magnificent and stunning and good, even when the two styles are mixed.
This is never truer than in the kitchen. Designing your kitchen can be a daunting task. It is not just a case of styles tones and colours; the kitchen is a functional arena where actions take place, so accessories fixtures and fittings such as kitchen taps have to be durable, user-friendly, and hard-wearing as well as stylish.
The kitchen needs to be designed in accordance with how it will be used and reflect those uses as well. To some, the kitchen tap is just an accessory that really goes unseen in a kitchen (this is often the fundamental design theme behind a contemporary kitchen) they are so often at the very hub of the activity; they can either put the final finish on a kitchen unit or they can absolutely destroy it. Our eyes are always drawn back to the sleek, shinning, faucets like we always return to the eyes of a soul. They are symbolic of hygiene, the core style of the kitchen, and reflect streamlined kitchen activity.
Anyone who has visited a kitchen showroom will be daunted by the plethora of designs on offer, and kitchen taps are just a small part of that choice. Kitchen designs can really be divided into two distinct areas; traditional and contemporary. But what is the difference between the two?
Traditional style kitchens still remain very popular with the consumer - especially for those who love the idea of cooking in a country-style kitchen. You will find that, rather than having steel angular effects, these kitchens typically feature lots of wood which is finished in either white or natural colours.
 Because the traditional kitchen is hyping back to the good old days, they are especially designed to have places to display crockery and other perhaps "olde world" kitchen accessories - all adding to the old-fashioned charm of this type of kitchen feel.
When thinking of the fixtures such as the taps for the new traditional style kitchen many consumers fall into the trap of thinking there is one level that symbolises the old style of kitchen and that calls for the huge old sink and old Victorian type kitchen taps. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as there as many different tone and styles in the traditional style as within contemporary.
 The main difference between contemporary and traditional is about the materials used. In traditional kitchens you will see stainless steel, polished chrome and oil rubbed bronze. (gold finishes are making a big comeback too!) Whereas contemporary is more about sculptural and minimal, with single handles and one spout for hot and cold water being popular.
Contemporary kitchens tend to have been designed with the idea in mind that it is best to keep appliances and accessories and anything that is actually to do with the utility of the kitchen (which is actually what it is there for - heaven knows it's hard enough to find something anyway; don't make it even harder!) out of sight.
 Those on show - such as our taps - should also have a crisp, sleek, clean and streamlined look. They are seen, but only as an ornament. Traditional is almost the opposite in that the beauty of the fixtures is the simplicity of the look and the amount of tasks they do.
Kitchen work-tops in contemporary kitchen design are as sleek and shiny as the rest of the room, while the sink area offers many options - you can have more than one basin if you wish, as well as a choice between a traditionally fitted sink or an under-mount one, which is installed so that the surrounding work-tops seamlessly overlap the sink's edges.
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