The kitchen is fast becoming the new technological hub of your home, with smart home appliances learning your habits and tastes. Look for fridges that suggest recipes, ovens that automatically calibrate and dishwashers that detect the level of detergent in your pod as possible kitchen fixes.
Homeowners can also use apps to personalise controls, including customised lighting for sunrise and sunset, or precise temperature controls. Such additions could make ageing in place all the more convenient.
Smart Appliances
As far as the kitchen goes, technology permeates it: auto-preheat ovens and smart refrigerators that suggest recipes, all managed through a smartphone; pantry-management systems that automatically track food you have and don’t have to help reduce food waste while making it easier to buy groceries. They also enable owners to save energy, thanks to automatic lighting and climate control, and many are fashioned entirely or in part from recyclable or biodegradable materials that will be available at the end of the item’s life. Making storage more effective is another kitchen design trend that we’re seeing, including motorised cabinets and pull-out shelves for kitchen items tucked away in the backs of lower wall cabinets. Take something like icre-cream out without moving everything else that’s in the freezer. Arched shapes are also trending as an architectural style automatically, in place of the ubiquitous rectangles that create lots of blocks of flat cabinetry. The arches not only create a more unified aesthetic; they also allow for tucking away small appliances or storing glassware or a decorative collection.
Smart Lighting
While 2024’s most cutting-edge kitchen trends will closely resemble those of The Jetsons, homeowners are trending towards an authentically lived-in feel, soft and welcoming. Oversize islands for kids and parents to gather around? Check. Breakfast bars that partially separate kitchens from living spaces? Check, check. And it’s likely that smarter storage solutions, while resolving clutter and improving space utilisation, have also seen an increase in adoption. According to Knowles, smart pantry systems (that track inventory and even automate grocery runs) and smart benchtops (that weigh food, show nutritional information, operate appliances from afar and connect to the internet) are also likely to help improve the space utilisation of kitchens, as well as add organisation to the room overall. Sustainability is another trend which will continue to influence kitchen design, from natural materials to energy-conscious appliances; modular and multipurpose layouts which can be adapted to individual needs; and designs which are made more accessible for people with disabilities.
Eco-Friendly Materials
Most homeowners, seeking something between minimalist and luxury designs, prefer wood cabinetry of unusual color and texture for cabinets, backsplashes and islands. You’ll find this sort of trend extends to countertop material, with radically new countertop products like concrete and quartz coming up as smarter choices than, say, granite or marble, and lasting longer in the home for the same reason. In this way, they become the best bad alternative. Homeowners are also providing a decidedly earthier bent to kitchen design by including terracotta with unusual glazes in their cabinetry and island fronts. The softness extends to cabinets, too – arches, pill shapes and lozenges reveal themselves amid blocky fitted styles, free of their boxes and expanding into their own right. Subtle personality is added with tall curves, while subtle accents live in every corner.
Artificial Intelligence
Through artificial intelligence, kitchens will become the kind of multipurpose spaces that can be utilised for other chores. For instance, Samsung’s Co-bot appliance can not only follow a recipe, it also works towards cooking a dish for you. It can have a conversation with you, and if anyone comes close to it, it will reduce its operations immediately. At the other end of the scale, the AI at work in Miso Robotics’ Flippy burger and wings maker for high-volume fry stations is designed to automate the entry-level job of actually cooking the food, leaving staff who are operating the equipment to concentrate fully on customer experience, rather than the laborious task of frying up burgers and chicken wings. How about we use home use AI to decide on the best kitchen modification plans? The system will use voice commands, along with a set of smart appliances, to learn its owner’s lifestyle, needs and design preferences, and then will use AI to generate a personalised plan that incorporates those user-preferred considerations into the most efficient layout possible, and will also take care of inventory and purchases, saving you precious time.
Connectivity
There will be greater smart connectivity in future kitchens, from fridges that will auto-order groceries to ovens that will preheat via your smartphone. This is a trend, this idea of smart connectivity, and not something that will disappear any time soon. Homeowners are trying to make the kitchen greener and greener and now they are looking for ways to create a green kitchen. Renovating kitchen is one of the most popular home improvements project that many homeowners turn to in 2024. Installing more daylighting, using more green materials and using more energy saving appliances are the most appealing elements we have found recently among the home improvement projects in kitchen renovations. What you would need for this sustainable kitchen concept is customised storage system that offers more logical solutions so that all your utensils, appliances and ingredients will have their proper place in your household and there would be less clutter. Let’s not forget the remade beverage centre – for our healthier life style – coffee corners, flutter panels and more!
