31 country kitchen ideas to fall in love with

Refresh and revive your country kitchen with uplifting hues of green. This kitchen from Neptune combines timber ceiling panels with soft sage green walls and cabinets. And it's the most beautiful space. We love the little arched window above the sink to peer out of when washing the dishes.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen at Neptune

Nothing beats flowers for putting the ‘country’ into kitchens. An abundance of dainty florals has a lovely enveloping effect, creating the signature cosiness of a country kitchen and softening an otherwise functional space.

Pictured: Wallpaper: Daisy Willow Wallpaper at Morris & Co, Tiles: Country Living Artisan Antique White Tiles at Homebase

This rustic countryside kitchen combines warm, off-white walls and woodwork with rough and raw wood and classic flagstones. Using natural materials is one of the best ways to bring the outside in — especially if your wood still retains its knots and grains. One of our favourites.

Pictured: Kitchen painted in Lime White at Farrow & Ball

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The 'bootility' room is a hybrid utility-boot room full of handsome cabinetry and clever storage solutions. A bootility serves to bridge the gap between indoors and out, preventing outdoor dirt from entering the kitchen, as well as holding bulky white goods, utility products, and everyday family clutter.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen by Burbidge Kitchen Makers

A country kitchen is the heart of the home, where family can gather to eat, entertain and spend time together. A spacious island is perhaps one of the best ways to bring everyone together. It's the focal point of any kitchen and enables meals to be tested, children to do homework, and conversations to be had — all in one lovely central space.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen by Olive & Barr

Store away fresh produce, cans and kitchen utensils with an incredibly handy corner larder, like our very own Country Living Whitstable Larder at Homebase. How brilliant to hide away extra items and free up counter space for cooking – no country kitchen is complete without one.

Pictured: Country Living Whitstable Larder at Homebase

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Quintessential country styles often feature raw materials, here in the form of exposed brick. Creating a feature wall – painted in a fresh cream or left as a classic red brick – is a great way to soften more contemporary kitchens.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen from Benchmarx

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A cornerstone of the country kitchen. AGAs come in many sizes and colours to suit most tastes – we love this sweet four door version that sits so happily in a natural recess.

Pictured: Bancha No.298 at Farrow & Ball

In a country kitchen, the devil is in the details. A farmhouse sink is a wonderfully spacious addition, and breaks up a great swathe of cabinetry.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen by Burbidge Kitchen Makers

High ceilings and expansive walls are a gift when creating a country kitchen, and the addition here of interesting wooden beams gives the feeling of a converted barn. With clean lines and a minimal colour palette, this is proof that country kitchens don't always have to err on the side of traditional.

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A country kitchen doesn't have to be expansive with high ceilings and wooden beams. A quaint galley kitchen can have all the hallmarks of a country home, if you embrace shaker cabinets, touches of greenery – in the form of dried herbs or small plotted plants – and, importantly, a display of pots, pans, enamelware and table linen.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen by Neptune

Warm up bitterly cold days with a wood-burning stove that's perfect for a large country kitchen. This style from Morso would be brilliant for the winter months and even better for toasting marshmallows when guests come to visit. We love the idea of keeping a pile of freshly cut logs nearby.

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Whilst grey might be considered a contemporary kitchen colour, a soft slate grey makes a great base palette for a country kitchen. Keep your cabinetry traditional, and display white enamelware and rustic wood accessories to get the most out of classic grey tones.

Pictured: Chichester kitchen at Neptune

Pink kitchens require a keen eye to avoid an overly saccharine outcome. Rich or chalky shades of pink can be a sophisticated choice, especially when used on shaker cabinets.

Pictured: Country Living Whitstable Kitchen at Homebase

This smart country kitchen by Tom Howley embraces traditional cabinetry, but also has a more modern feel. The under-sink storage provides a practical place to tidy away extra plates, cups and utensils. "Finishing touches underline the design of a classically country kitchen," says Tom Howley, Creative Design Director at Tom Howley. "Cornices, skirting boards and columns or pillars are the final elements of the design. They bring the kitchen together, and are carefully designed to distinguish country kitchens from their more modern counterparts."

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen by Tom Howley

A classic country kitchen feature, stone flooring is a super practical choice for high traffic family kitchens. This dark and dramatic cellar kitchen by Plain English uses handsome cream-coloured slabs to offset the traditional burgundy kitchen island. If you use real stone flooring, rather than a replica vinyl for instance, add a hardy jute rug for a bit of warmth underfoot.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen by Plain English

A good quality vinyl should be one of your go-to choices of flooring in a high-traffic kitchen. For a country kitchen, have a bit of fun by offsetting more traditional architectural details and shaker cabinets with some interesting pattern and colour.

Pictured: Carpetright Mardi Gras 576 Estrella Vinyl

No other kitchen colour can evoke countryside scenes quite as well as green. Tom Howley, Design Director at the eponymous kitchen company, says: ‘Green kitchens are having something of a moment right now. As a colour we associate primarily with nature, this grounding shade has an incredible way of reconnecting us with our surroundings, creating moments of calm and positivity.'

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen by Tom Howley

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In a country kitchen, accessories and trinkets are usually displayed – sometimes neatly, and sometimes in a charming disarray. Open or glass-fronted display units can store pans, crockery, and linens, rustic apple crates or willow baskets, and and saves valuable drawer space.

Pictured: Henley kitchen at Neptune

The large white beams and all-over wood panelling gives this country kitchen a bright and refreshing feel. Pepped up with soft tones of grey, a classic country staple - the Aga - and small plants and hanging vegetables on the kitchen counters.

Pictured: Bespoke kitchen at Neptune