While knit throws are a good touch of texture for your living room or bedroom, it's not what you want for your kitchen.
Fortunately, there are a lot of other ways that you can actually boost the look and enrich the feel of your cooking space using textures according to Apartment Therapy.
Choosing how to infuse texture in your kitchen depends on what level you are starting.
If you're starting from scratch or remodeling:
Materials
By choosing textured materials, there are plenty of opportunities to make use of texture in enhancing your kitchen design if you are starting from scratch or remodeling. Rough beams, wood counters and cabinets, floors with distressed materials are just some of the start-up materials that you can go for. It's just all about picking rough, natural or distressed finishes to give your kitchen a sense of character that you aim without needing to add a lot of stuff to achieve that textured kitchen design.
Better your backsplash
You don't need to deal with an entire wall just to add that splash of texture in your kitchen. Just invest in a really nice kind of backsplash such as that made of natural stone, patterned tin, or small tiles. A visually stimulating backsplash that at the same time piques the sense of touch is sure to set that textured tone in your cooking space.
If you've got to work with what you got:
Add texture when you add extra storage
When planning of adding extra storage space in your kitchen, consider making use of baskets which already naturally have that strong texture. If positioned wisely, these baskets can serve not only just storage function but design function as well.
Art and framed visual textures
An easy and pretty brilliant way to add texture in your kitchen is by putting up framed close-up photos of textures such as crumbling brick walls or rusted metal. It's all about creating that illusion of having a textured element in your space.
Rough-cut accessories
When it's not possible to add a large surface textured material, a good trick is to add things such as shelves, cutting boards, trays, and other kitchen accessories that have textured finishes; rough or live-edge wood are great materials to work with if you aim to achieve that feeling of earthiness in your cooking space.
