Which kitchen style do you prefer? Scandi vs traditional

[cunningplan101]

Which of these two kitchen styles do you prefer?

Option 1: A simple, minimalist, natural wood, scandi style:

www.remodelista.com/posts/notary-ceramics-sarah-van-raden-portland-house/

Or

Option B: the more traditional, in-frame one below - more colourful though still fairly rustic/plain:

tinyurl.com/y3rljbs3

www.devolkitchens.co.uk/kitchens/shaker-kitchen/edwardian-villa-cardiff

Or, if you hate both, please tell me why and which other style is your favourite!

Thank you. Just asking out of interest really. I like both styles and am currently designing a kitchen.

I love my in frame kitchen. If I were to redo it, I’d go for an in-frame flat fronted one. It looks sleeker and less dust.

If you’re going to sell quite soon, I’d keep the cabinets and worktop neutral. You can always add colour and personality with some decorations or soft furnishings etc.

@Polkasquare haha very true. I think I chose the wrong description. for me scandi = clean, simple, light, wood, neutral colours, 'hygge'. But the examples I've linked might not really be that.

Op why not get the kitchen you want and repaint the hallway ?? Obvs I know there’ll be a good reason . . . But seems a false economy

Not keen on the traditional ones, they seem a bit boring and frumpy iykwim and the style / colours will date I think.

I'm planning a kitchen at the moment and thinking of something a bit scandi from plykea or superfront. Not sure exactly what yet though.

Traditional

If you think you will move in 3 years you can’t go wrong with a nice painted shaker from DIY kitchens. It will look great, there is a wide range of colours, and it won’t break the bank. The DeVol kitchens are beautiful but £££ and you won’t recover the cost in a sale.

@singingstones have you seen Reform? they do architect-design fronts for ikea:

www.reformcph.com/en/
www.instagram.com/reformcph/?hl=en

Also Custom Fronts:
customfronts.co.uk/
www.instagram.com/custom_fronts/?hl=en

And Husk:
madebyhusk.com/

@HeronLanyon I like the hall! I chose the colour. And it works with the layout & the light across the different rooms. I am quite flexible on kitchen styles/colours so I think I'll find one that goes.

@Flamingolingo Thanks I am researching HKD and DIY; probably DIY as cheaper.

Agreed re DIY Kitchens. Don't spend too much money, but do have lots of drawers, and look after it. How about white with a white / grey quartz worktop? Light and simple.

The scandi style is the type of kitchen I expect to be found in hipster flats, in the east end of London... For people who rarely/can't cook (preferring to dine out on a diet of vodka and cocaine), and just like to show off the aesthetic.

Neutral plain kitchens are cheap and inoffensive if you might want to eventually sell. The DeVol kitchens are stunning but so much more expensive. I prefer the DeVol but my own kitchen is a plain Scandi style one simply because it was a quarter of the price.

I like both. In a traditional period type property I'd be far more inclined to use a shaker kitchen, but for a bit century or more modern house I think scandi is a much better fit on the style front.

@cunningplan101 we installed a DIY Linwood painted kitchen into our large Edwardian villa a few months ago. The quality was excellent (the builder loved it), and everyone comments on how great it looks. Part of me really wanted a beautiful hand built thing but it was 3x the price for the cabinetry (and then some) and we had so much other stuff to do. I’m really pleased with our DIY one

I suppose you need to have the house for it as well. My house is 1980s and the DeVol kitchen would look out of place.

Oh smallgoon that did make me laugh. Agreed with the ‘flat’ and slightly with the ‘can’t cook’ and was initially shocked by the ‘vodka and cocaine’ but actually there’s Some truth in that too !

@Flamingolingo That's great that your kitchen has been such a success. I was thinking I could then get fancy handles from somewhere posh like Armac Martin. Do you know if it is at all possible to have the little 'legs' at the front of the cabinets in front of the plinths, like on the DeVol units?

@Smallgoon - we're SE london - a little hipster around the edges but not all that keen on avocados and definitely no cocaine

Thanks @cunningplan101

The traditional looks a little frumpy. And reminds me of when kitchens were rarely immaculately clean (and smelt a bit like cooked chicken and stewed vegetables).

So Scandi gets my vote!

Ooh Devol shared this on their instagram today - I am easily swayed by a nice photo!

www.instagram.com/p/CDUOawgln43/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

@BobFleming

I can't see anything nice about the scandi style - it looks cheap and depressing to me.

Totally agree

I'm not a fan of either style if I'm honest but I prefer to go against the norm and like a lot of colour and something more contemporary.

The traditional one in your example is badly done. An elegant, spacious room with a chunky farmhouse table for no good reason (a polished dark wood oval table would be much more in keeping) lost in the middle with a completely non-kitchen-y carpet underneath. Then leading off it a fairly 'meh' version of a trad kitchen - needs more vibrancy and colour, looks too crammed-in, and has too many open shelves and a serious lack of storage.

And that's the one I preferred!

The Scandi one was just horrible, like a 1970s fitted bedroom done by an enthusiastic DIY-er.

Sorry OP, but if you are planning to sell before the kitchen reaches its natural replacement time, something bland like Shaker in cream is probably the way to go.

Of those two, the traditional. The scandi in the link you provided screams of constant dust and rewashing.

[quote cunningplan101]Some more kitchens with what I'd call a scandi style (but maybe I'm mis-naming it) in case people like these more:

www.remodelista.com/posts/chan-eayrs-london-weavers-house-huguenot/

www.devolkitchens.co.uk/kitchens/sebastian-cox-kitchen-by-devol/ingredients-ldn-kitchen[/quote]
I hate both of these.

The house owner in the remodekista article looks like she does, too :o

@FindingNeverland1

The traditional looks a little frumpy. And reminds me of when kitchens were rarely immaculately clean (and smelt a bit like cooked chicken and stewed vegetables).

So Scandi gets my vote!

Are kitchens not supposed to smell of food, then? Or are they just for show?