French Provincial Kitchens Melbourne

French Provincial Kitchen

This kitchen style originated in the French provincial homes in the 18th centuries where countryside craftsmen began infusing city designs popular in Paris & Lyons with accents from country homes in the south of France.

This white kitchen style will bring elegant appealing, making it the beautiful element of your home.

Select Kitchens is happy to inject this classic European look and lifestyle, right into your kitchen renovation designs to suit your personal taste and style.

This style is defined by the ornate door French styles and elaborate accessories such as Corbels, Columns, turned posts, scrolls fretwork, heritage kickers, cabriole legs. wrought iron, chimney breasts and dental capping.

Quite often the kitchen cabinets doors and panels of French country kitchens have a second colour added in the groves and details, intentionally to make it look very old. It’s this unique colour palette added to the antique white cabinets that adds a touch of France to your kitchen.

Splashbacks are often white subway tiles laid in brick pattern, with a border used above the stove, inside the chimney breast. Often the sinks are made of stainless steel. 

Old fashioned looking stoves are a common feature of French country style kitchens. Benches are stone and can also be solid timber. Stone usually has ornamental edge work and a vein in the pattern.

Handles are usually old fashioned black, and/or porcelain, and pendant kitchen lighting over the kitchen island complete the look on a wood floor.

This style is defined by the ornate door styles and elaborate accessories such as Corbels, Columns, turned posts, scrolls fretwork, heritage kickers, cabriole legs. wrought iron, chimney breasts and dental capping.