- Combining different fineses such as polished nickel with brass brings character and avoids a flat look.
- Hold on to two to three metal tons to keep the design intentionally and avoid overcoming space.
- Popular combinations include polished nickel with antique brass or matte black with Chrome.
If you are hesitating to accept mixed metals in your kitchen, don’t be designers to coat that this look has the main moment of late and is definitely here to stay.
“Mixed metals are a design approach that we often consider client introduction, and more often than not, it is shown that it is just a look,” Maggie Goodrich, interior designer with third street architecture, says.
Here the designers speak with everything you need to know to become a metal mixing expert in your home. They touch the advantages of mixing metals, they offer tips of metal-like mix, share some of their favorite metal combinations, and also provide insight into what does not work when it comes to mixing metal in your kitchen.
Meet the expert
- Maggie Goodrich is the interior designer with the third architecture of the street.
- Melissa Sakell Is the kitchen and bathroom designer on the design / construction of Anthony Wilder.
Benefits of mixing metals
Goodrich Price to decide for mixed metals makes the kitchen more complex.
“Combining different finishing machining during the node and hardware brings depth and character in space, making me feel intentional and calm,” she says.
On the other hand, the kitchen that exclusively contain one type of processing can be read as a flat or overly sterile, the designer adds.
The second benefit of metal mixing is that it allows you to subtle more trend experimentation, regardless of use to use them all throughout the space, Goodrich Notes. Explains that this approach will help once create a space that feels fresh and classic.
How to mix metals correctly
Design by Anthony Wilder Design Construction / Photo John Cole
To start mixing metals in your kitchen, Melissa Sakell, Kitchen and Bathing Designer at Anthony Wilder Design / Build, suggests to assign one processing of each category of hardware. This could mean that it is eliminated for a brass wardrobe, along with polished taps of nickel.
“Restricting your palette on two or three metal tons retains the intent of appearance, not overwhelming – more than that, and the effect can quickly switch from couriring to chaotic,” Sakell says.
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Designed favorite metal couples
Design by Third street Architecture / Photo Christo Kosnic
Since there are so many possible metal couples to choose, we asked the download with whom we talked to point out some of their favorites.
Goodrich enjoys working with polished nickel with antique brass, polished chrome with antique brass, bronze oil with antique brass and unkind brass, and antique brass, ladies several.
It also enjoys equipment for layered combinations; Examples include matte black, chrome and antique brass or polished nickel with oil oil bronze.
“These thought-out mixtures not only raise the overall look, but leave space for your personal style to develop,” Goodrich says. “Once you accept the idea that mixing metal works – and looks amazing – opens the door to endless creativity.”
Sakell shares that polished nickel and brass are her top favorite metal pairing.
“There is a timeless heat in both finishes that feel elevated and quiet luxurious when used together,” she says. “It’s all about alight tones and ends.”
That said, it’s really all about personal preference, she explains and explains how to work properly, almost every mixture can work.
What do I don’t do about mixed metals
Although it is clear that there are many choices for selection of selections when it comes to mixed metals, and you need to be free to get creatively in your couples, there are several design rules that you will still keep the top in this process.
For one Goodrich advises that people do not mix metals or colors when choosing their devices.
“The appliance ends – although more varied than they used to be – they are still quite limited,” she says. “Unless you encounter a white or matte black finish finish, absolutely love, we recommend that you treat your devices as neutral.”
This is said, the designer adds, do not worry about directly matching the hardware you choose in your device color.
“They are not part of the design conversation in the same way and should not dictate your choice of choice,” says Goodrich.