Produce a Tuscan-inspired vignette on a kitchen cabinet top with glowing, Old World accents and rich, organic elements. Direct a trail light or recessed light fixture on screen items to emphasize features, textures and colours.
Produce a Rustic Backdrop
Earthy or organic textures are signature elements of a Tuscan-inspired kitchen. Including a synthetic texture to the wall helps set the ideal tone for the room and produces a nice background for a cabinet top screen. The screen brings attention to the wall behind it, especially in kitchens with vaulted ceilings, where more of the wall is exposed over the closet tops. Apply a colour wash to the walls to mimic the expression of the aged plaster or stone walls of a Tuscan villa or farmhouse. Begin with a light base color of cream, pale yellow or pale orange. A darker glaze colour, like burnt umber, is implemented using a variety of techniques and tools based on how much faux texture is wanted. Damp rag or brush techniques deliver subtle texture, while a sea sponge may be used for heavier texture.
What to Include
Bountiful displays of vegetables and fruits commonly adorn Mediterranean-style kitchens. Gather a set of faux fruit like purple, red and green grape clusters, apples, pears, pomegranates and lemons. Provide extra greenery with garlands of silk ivy and organic texture using grapevine baskets. Other items to consider include earthenware vases, pitchers or urns; copper cookware; wrought iron wall art; framed pictures of wine still lifes or the Tuscan countryside; and vibrant Majolica Italian pottery. Additionally a typical Tuscan motif, a ceramic rooster would feel right at home one of the other organic elements of a cabinet top screen.
Grouped Arrangements
Produce visual depth by layering items of varying sizes from back to front. Place big baskets on their sides at the back. Choose a focal point item to show in the center, like a large serving platter, a pair of earthenware a pedestal fruit bowl. When displaying copper cookware, place items upright and on their sides to change the height and include interest. Screen fruit in bowls or baskets, allowing clusters of grapes to spill over the sides. Place silk ivy at the bottom of screen items or use it in order to fill in empty spaces, correcting it until you are satisfied with the placement. LED rope lights or strip lights installed along the back of cabinet tops produce a beautiful glow around decorative objects.
Spread Out Displays
If your kitchen has asymmetrical cabinets with shirts that vary in height, you’ll have to distribute your cabinet top display. Add depth by mounting wrought iron art to the wall over the cabinets. Place a decorative accent like an urn or a plate on a stand nearby. Use taller objects on the lower cupboards and shorter objects on the higher cabinets. Brighten a corner closet top with a glass bowl filled with synthetic lemons, a vibrant ceramic rooster or a pastoral pitcher full of sunflowers. Scatter faux greenery throughout the cabinet tops, put in vine or iron baskets or clustered around other display bits.