Kohi HouseContemporary Kitchen, Los Angeles

Put Resale Fears in PerspectiveWe are bombarded with TV shows and magazines that promote the idea that we should consider the next buyer of our home when making design decisions. Unless you plan on staying in your home for less than five years, throw that thought out the window fast. Anything you paint, install or refurbish today will most likely be out of style within five years. Consider the things you decided would have to change when you bought your current home. You can be certain that the people you bought it from thought it was fantastic and that you would not change a thing. The same will be true of the next owners. We all can remember the aunt that covered her couch in plastic, or a grandmother that left the plastic film on the lampshade in the fancy living room with the white carpeting. All they did was miss out on the opportunity of enjoying something they truly loved.

This kitchen definitely packs a pink punch with its high-gloss cabinets. Notice the great function of the round peninsula.

cabinets and using a bright color

1. The pink plastic laminate used in this kitchen is really nice. It brings the eye upward and creates very clean straight lines through out the space.

love the glossyness of the pink!

Our kitchen shape, modernised, bit bright

Wouldn’t want these high cupboards in pink, but how about using navy? This would then be picked up in the dresser unit and would lift the other grey cupboards.