6 Kitchenettes Designs for Nevada Homes

6 Kitchenettes Designs for Nevada Homes

A kitchenette is a great addition to any home design. The kitchenette is a special structure that provides a few essential kitchen elements without any of the bulk or appliances. The kitchenettes in hotels and in-law suites are built-in, but you can put together a great kitchenette with just one or two pieces of furniture, a microwave, and a cleverly efficient selection of kitchen supplies.

Here in Nevada, the kitchenette serves a few important purposes if you decide to build one. A kitchenette provides snacks and beverages to a busy family outside the kitchen. A kitchenette can transform a room into a suite, a loft into an apartment, and an upstairs landing into a place to snag sodas and chat. How will you build your Nevada home kitchenette? We have some great design ideas to help you get started.

Kitchenette Designs for Nevada Homes

Before you get started, you need to address these factors:

• The Space You’re Working With — How much room do you have to build your kitchenette? What’s the footprint you’d like to create? How much space for movement will there be? Will it interfere with the dining room furniture or some other established decor?
• The Purpose of the Kitchenette — A kitchenette for the upstairs teenagers is very different from a kitchenette for Airbnb guests. This will also shape how you design the kitchenette concerning durability, storage, appliances, and size.
• The Personality of the Room — Let’s not forget that the kitchenette becomes an emplaced part of the house wherever you add it. So, choose a room with enough activity and personality to support the traffic of a kitchenette, and style your kitchenette to match the personality of the room.

The Desert Sunrise Kitchenette

The desert sunrise and sunset are breathtaking in Nevada and give us a unique color palette. Dusty blues and grays mix with vivid terra cotta oranges, reds, and yellows. This can create an excellent splash of color in your home when deciding how to design a Nevada kitchenette. You can choose or paint a simple sideboard and bring the entire space to life.

Floating shelves above your sideboard give you the opportunity to display both beautiful and useful kitchenette supplies. Keep snacks in painted clay jars alongside stacks of vivid, desert-palette dishes. This beautiful theme can bring any room with a sunrise kitchenette to life — and make that sideboard breakfast even more satisfying.

The Airbnb Suite Solution

Are you renting or planning to rent a suite in your home for private travel guests? Airbnb and other vacation rental platforms make it easy for Nevada homeowners and those across the nation to open their homes for a little extra cash. But first, you need a hotel-quality suite, loft, or guest house to welcome your guests to.

No kitchen? No problem. You can provide your vacation rental guests with a beautiful and well-put-together kitchenette. Start with a classic prep-ready sideboard like the Maisie along with floating shelves or a little cabinetry overhead. This sideboard is elegant and professional-looking. With a microwave or hotplate and a few essential dishes, you could be getting glowing reviews from Nevada Airbnb guests for your thoughtful suite design.

The Family Hydration Station

Nevada is dry. It’s one thing you realize as soon as you move here, or know from living here your entire life. In order to avoid dehydration in any season, you need constant access to water, juice, and lemonade. For a kitchenette design in a high-traffic household space like the upstairs landing or near the back door — turn it into a hydration station.

Add a mini-fridge to your kitchenette and place it at easy reach on a table or counter to keep cool drinks that you can grab along the way. Use the countertop space to hold pitchers of lemonade or even install beverage dispensers similar to the soda fountain or slushie machine. On shelves above, keep a colorful selection of durable cups and glasses. You may also want a place to put them when finished if your kitchenette lacks sink capacities.

That Handcarved Nevada Style

Most non-locals don’t realize just how many homes in the Nevada stretches have hand-carved and built-in cabinetry throughout the house. Carved molding, beautiful craftsmanship, and usually in a deep red-type stain. These usually take the form of old curio shelves, but they also provide great inspiration for your sideboard when designing a Nevada kitchenette.

Choose a richly stained and beautifully carved solid piece like the amusingly named Bixby Sideboard in Expresso. This sideboard will beautifully match the handmade carved wood shelving throughout your house or where the built-in shelving is found.

Entertainment Center to Full-Service Kitchenette

Did you know that you can use a tall entertainment center as a really nice kitchenette design? If you need a full-service kitchenette in the guest suite, consider something large yet elegantly unified like the Catalina. This amazing 6-piece entertainment center comes with a delightful curvature of bookshelves surrounding the central area — which is perfect for holding a microwave and an electric kettle.

This will create an elegant, seemingly custom-built kitchenette for any suite or guest property you may be designing. There’s no understating the visual power of a kitchenette with wings of shelving. For a smaller space, you can even just repurpose the TV stand, like this perfect sideboard/TV stand Aurora.

The Strange Nook Kitchenette

If you have a strange small nook in your house, it can be tough to decide what to do with it. Should you hang some artwork or fit a mini-desk in there? Should you light it or leave it shadowy? A kitchenette could be the perfect solution to your strange nook concern. Fit a narrow shelf or table into the space and stock it with a coffee station or snack bar to make that weird nook in your home suddenly appealing and useful.

The Classic Bookcase Kitchenette for the Guest Suite

Looking for a good use of a bookcase or a narrow space, the bookcase kitchenette is an excellent way to achieve both. A bookcase kitchenette can provide everything your friends, in-laws, and visitors will appreciate at a very small footprint profile. Turn one beautiful bookcase into a vertical kitchenette just by determining where the supports and shelves can do. From there, you can use the rest of the bookcase for kitchen supplies and sanitize the whole space.

A bookcase is a great, tidy way to provide those kitchenette essentials in a small space like a guest or in-law suite.

If you are about to design or redesign a kitchenette in your Nevada home, contact us today.