Today I’m showing you how I style a kitchen island with simple and affordable decor.
When I say affordable I’m talking about using things you already own, yet applying them in different ways.
And when I say simple, I mean they might already be right in your kitchen.
Your life is busy enough, let’s make it easier for you.
But let’s also make it pretty!
Style a Kitchen Island with Simple and Affordable Decor
How do I Style My Kitchen Island?
- Use what you have.
- Introduce functional kitchen decor.
- Embrace natural elements.
- Play with texture.
Keep these four practices in mind when styling your kitchen island.
You’ll create a lovely balanced vignette that’ll cost you very little, if anything at all.
Use What You Have
Using what you already have in your home is a budget smart way to style your kitchen island.
Even better yet, use what you have and use in your kitchen.
To create a cute vignette on the center of your kitchen island.
I took a ceramic container from a shelf in our music room, and then used vintage salt and pepper shakers that I recently found at a thrift store.
Introduce Functional Kitchen Decor
It makes sense to also use functional kitchen items as kitchen decor.
In our kitchen I have a beautiful copper kettle that I found at the amazing yearly Found Cottage Market here in Holland. You can see all the gorgeous photos of the market here.
This is a functioning kettle, it’s not just for aesthetics. We use it for tea as well as for it’s good looks.
It’s so pretty I decided to include it in how I style our kitchen island.
Turns out a copper kettle doubles perfectly as a vase.
Embrace Natural Elements
First, in kitchen decor you almost have to use a natural element. It could be edible which would be quite appropriate since this is the room where ewe prepare food.
Of course a classic decorating tool is flowers.
Who doesn’t love using flowers in the kitchen?
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Styling our kitchen island with flowers motivates me to keep our kitchen clean.
In the spirit of keeping the styling a kitchen islands simple and affordable, let me offer a suggestion.
Wild flowers from the side of the road.
I couldn’t help but stop and harvest these lovely wild flowers on a country road near our house.
Some call them weeds, I call them pretty and free!
Play with Texture
Ideally making sure you represent as much texture as possible in your kitchen island centerpiece is best.
The result is a more interesting grouping of decor with each piece standing out against the other.
For example, I used a wicker tray so instead of adding a wicker basket I used a ceramic container.
Here’s some home decor inspiration for the next time you style your kitchen island.
There are so many ways to style a kitchen island while spending zero money. Besides keeping things simple and affordable, you exercise your creative side.
Hopefully you’re inspired to create your own centerpiece to style a kitchen island.
Cheers to decorating a happy kitchen you want to cook in!
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Very pretty Maria. The yellow flowers in the copper kettle pop.
They really do Cindy, and they were free! Thanks so much!