Just like life cycle, a style also has its own cycle. It pops up in an era, then fades away. Then it rises again in another era. And that’s precisely that happened to mid century modern kitchen.
It had its heyday in the 50s and mid-60s, the faded away. Now in the early 21 century, the style is on the rise again.
Love the vintage look of Mid century? For you vintage enthusiasts, here we have picked some of the most impressive mid century modern design for your inspiration.
1. Mid Century Modern Kitchen Cabinets
Love a spacious kitchen? Then here’s a lovely kitchen plan for you. It’s spacious, and it’s efficient as well.
And this kitchen is in a Mid century style, the modern version. If you have a long and narrow space, you should consider this kitchen setup as well.
It has big island table with vintage blue color, which also serve as cabinets. The most refreshing character in this kitchen is its olive green wall.
2. Kitchen Update in Mid Century Style
Like to remodel the kitchen? You probably feel that your kitchen is too small or too dark. It has no natural light nor the good air flow. In short, the kitchen’s too cramped and you want to remodel it.
Then you need to update the kitchen. First, you need to simplify the kitchen’s layout. Be a minimalist. Get rid of stuff you don’t need.
Add skylight and enlarge the windows. And if those updates are still not enough for the kitchen, you probably forgot to paint the wall in light colors, like the modern mid-century in this example.
3. Splashes of Colors for the Mid Century Kitchen Backsplash
We love this brightly colored backsplash. They’re colorful, and they bring strong vibes of 50s.
Not only as a protection layer for the wall (from splashes of cooking oil, fat, or other food stuff during cooking), backsplash also serves as an experiment pad for the interior designers.
And you can only witness the most colorful backsplashes from the Mid century eras, like this one. This tile backsplash, called atomic binds backsplash, includes some of Mid colors like mango, satin black, chartreuse to atomic/orange colors.
4. Minimalist Mid Century Kitchen Dining Chairs
A mid century modern kitchen won’t be complete without an iconic Mid chairs, the Eames dining chairs.
Charles Eames and Ray Eames offer the chairs to the world, and the rest is history. Up to this day, the chairs are the most pronounced in any minimalist interior designs.
The chairs, tufted, are also the staple of Mid century dining room. They get along well with any modern minimalist dining table.
5. Two Tone Flooring for Zoning in Mid-century Style
How do you divide the rooms? By giving a wall? A room divider? Now you need to consider this chic why to divide rooms in the house, by experimenting with its flooring.
You play different tile colors for different zones in the house. In this example, hexagonal tiles are used for the Mid century kitchen. The tiles are the classic theme of the style.
Moving out of the kitchen, the hexagonal tiles ‘fade’ away before let the other tiles of the other rooms overlap them. It’s a nice trick to ‘zone’ an open layout room.
6. Contemporary Mid Century Kitchen with Brass Pendant Lighting
Talk about a Mid century style, you can leave the pendants lights. The style is full of lovable pendant light. Sputnik chandelier, ball pendant, Poulsen, are only some of its cutest pendants.
And here you have another Mid century pendant light for kitchen. Hang them over the island table and you have elegant light to impress some friends.
Just like all the Mid century stuff, you have them in shiny brass for the more elegant atmosphere.
7. mid century chairs for Mid Century Dining Table
And what is a mid century modern kitchen without its dining table? It’s still good actually, but won’t be complete.
For your inspiration, here we have a simple but elegant modern Mid century table here. It has simple design, and made of solid wood with glass counter top.
Accompanying the table, are pendant lights and, again, Eames chairs. Sweet.
8. Mid Century Kitchen Decor in Sweet Atomic Themes
The 50s and 60s eras witness one of the most prosperous time in USA history. All technological advancements were on the rise those times, including the atom energy and space technologies.
And those trends influenced the Mid century styles. The result was some cute atomic or space themed Mid century decors, like the bulbous lamp fixture in the example.
It reminds us to the spacecraft or canopy of vintage air planes. In your kitchen, it adds vintage touches as well.
9. Modern Mid Century Kitchen with Island
As a modern kitchen feature, an island table began its ascend in the 60s, along with the popularity of cooking shows in TV –where the host demonstrated their cooking flairs on island tables.
Now island tables are common feature in contemporary kitchen design.
This retro mid century use contemporary style island table. It injects a fresh look to the retro styles.
10. Retro Mid Century Kitchen with Modern Faucets
Being part of modernism, a mid century modern kitchen will always welcome to the minimalist design.
In this kitchen idea, a Mid kitchen matches well with modern faucets. They even don’t need any additional stuff to make them blend in nicely with the kitchen.
So, now you don’t have look far if you want to have a change for the Mid style, just try the minimalist faucets. They’ll work.
11. Mid Century Kitchen Design in Tropical Style
A Mid Century has already offer you an open and spacious room experience. And if you still find it’s still not enough, add tropical touches on it.
This Mid style kitchen is full of the tropical vibes. This L-shaped kitchen dominated by chocolaty colors, reminds you to some tropical forest woods.
A peninsula are added for prep table and light breakfast area. It also serves as partition area between the kitchen and living room area.
12. Mid Century Kitchen in Soft Colors
You know well that a Mid century style often uses natural elements extensively, mainly woods. So, no wonder that you see many of them in natural colors.
But, Mid century can display colors as well. The styles even have their own pairs of characteristic colors, like orange and brown, gray and chartreuse, wood and white, and some more.
Here you have a Mid century kitchen with cabinets in soft blue and light green colors (below). They look vintage in combination with the plywood cabinets above.
13. Rustic Mid Century Kitchen with Industrial Lighting
Now you can have a rustic experience inside your home. You don’t have to go to the countryside anymore. All you need is finding the right rustic style for the house, and get it done.
As an example, see this kitchen design. The reclaimed woods’ structure evoke thick rustic atmosphere. The vintage red kitchen appliances bring you back to the 50s in their Mid century flairs.
14. Vibrant Curtains for Mid Century Modern Kitchen
Unlike the contemporary minimalist styles which are often devoid of window dressings, Mid century styles offer you some of the sweetest curtains.
The curtains have several iconic patterns like Geometric, Overlapping Circles, Rounded Squares, Starburst, Atomic, Moroccan, Abstract, Geometric or Circles,
This vintage curtain for Mid Century kitchen is only one of many cute vintage 50s curtains you can find for inspiration.
15. Modern Mid Century Kitchen with Yellow Vintage Backsplash
As the new social hub for modern families, a kitchen is now a place where the owner showcase her/his personality.
One of the spot to make the statement is in the choice of backsplash tiles. Here you can explore your tastes and let friends to know it.
This Mid style vintage daffodil colored backsplash is only one of several choices of Mid style backsplashes you could pick to charm the kitchens –and friends.
16. Are There Any Mid Century Kitchen Accessories?
Yes, you do have the right to ask the question, just like we do. Because, as you know, Mid Century style tends to go to the minimalist sides where accessories are scarce.
This due to its minimalist characters which, of course, tends to offer functionality first than accessories or decor.
But, when you want Mid century accessories, you can plenty with the lamp fixtures, backsplashes, or the wall lamps. You can also experiments with the color themes.
17. Modern Eclectic Mid Century Kitchen with Soft Blue Cabinets
A mid century modern kitchen is full of soft vintage colors (seen from today’ stand points). If you happen to see old ads from the 50s or 60s, you can see that they has some of basic color tones.
Soft blue is one of the Mid style color. A combination of blue, brown, white, and teal colors are often seen in classical Mid style designs.
This contemporary modern Mid century kitchen has soft blue cabinets. This time the color accents the eclectic mid century kitchen.
18. A Mid century Kitchen, Freshly Remodeled
Want to remodel or update the Mid kitchen into more contemporary Mid Style one? Here’re what you need to consider.
If the, say, the wooden floor is still in its prime conditions, don’t change the floor. You probably only need to repaint or restain it again.
Want to update the cabinets affordably? You may need to consider Ikea’s products. Reclaimed woods are also better if you want to inject warm rustic air into the kitchen.
19. A Sleek Modern Mid Century Kitchen Sink
Now you have various sink’ types available for a Mid century style kitchen.
Even though you’ve seen many modern Mid style kitchen use farmhouse style sinks, if you want to keep on the classic Mid style, you’re advised to use the bar-style sinks.
A bar-style sink is your perfect Mid century sink if you want to go classic with the Mid style.
20. Warm Midcentury Kitchen with Wood Paneling
Mid century styles usually use various materials for their structures. They use natural elements to man-made elements extensively.
And if you often see plywood or wood paneling, that’s from the above reasons. In this example, woods dominates the kitchen design.
In combination with big windows which let in abundant light and white countertop, the woods evoke the warmest vintage air to the owners and their friends.
21. Flooring Mid Century Modern Kitchen
You’re not only have geometric or hexagonal tiles with Mid century styles. This styles are also adept at adapting other flooring styles as well.
In this kitchen Mid kitchen idea, a classic chequered tiles are used. The genuine Mid century style kitchen accepts the classic Victorian style tiles readily.
22. Mid Century Sputnik Pendant over Mid Century Modern Island Table
Sputnik is the first man-made satellite launched by Russian in the end of 1950s. It helps to launch the Space Age which influences almost any facets of living –including the interior designs.
The Italian designer Gino Sarfatti then designed a lamp fixture which later become a hit, the sputnik lamp.
It consists of sticks and balls, just like the sputnik lamps above this dining table.
23. Sleek and Elegant Mid Century Kitchen chairs
When it comes to the mid century chairs, it probably reminds you with simple structures but superbly designed chairs.
It probably reminds you to some prominent names like Eames, Bertoia, Eilen Gray, or Saarinen.
This modern bar chairs for the island table also remind you to some of the finest Mid century style era: they’re simple, fluid, and slender.
24. Gorgeous Modern Mid Century Decor
For this list, we present you a medium mid century kitchen. The layout, L-shaped, hints an effective working space, where you can switch from one activities to others easily.
This kitchen also has an island table with countertop big enough as a prep table and breakfast table. To inject freshness to this wood-dominated kitchen, olive green chairs are added.
Three globe Mid style pendant lamps complete the setup.
25. Small Open Mid Century Kitchen with Full of Light
How to make kitchen clutter-free and impressive at the same time? You need to have a minimalist kitchen in a Mid century style.
Minimalism lets you know how to set a kitchen with less decor but effective stuff. It also offers you some of the most efficient kitchen designs.
Mid century style gives the kitchen its soul. If you feel minimalism cold, Mid century evokes a pleasant and warm atmosphere.
26. A Spacious Open Mid Century Modern Kitchen Idea
One of the prominent features of Mid style is the open layout of its interior. So, there’s no wall (in the conventional senses) between rooms.
With this feature, you have an advantage: having the more spacious kitchen.
This Mid kitchen design shows you how an open layout interior offers opportunity to have a large kitchen. For point of interests, add ball pendant lamps and Bertoia chairs.
27. Nostalgic Mid Century Kitchen Design in Mint Green Theme
Sometimes colors and patterns evoke old warm memories. Talk about nostalgic feelings, you can always count on Mid century style when it comes about nostalgic vibes.
For example, consider this picture. Almost of all the features in this example could easily trigger your old memories.
The polka dot red appliances and curtains, its grey industrial lamps, the mint green cabinets, are only a fraction of stuff that pull you back to some good memories.
28. Mid Century Kitchen with Wooden Flooring
The classic flooring of a mid century rooms include natural stones like terrazzo, travertine, slate, and bluestone.
But that’s forbid you from using other materials like wood flooring like the example below.
Compared to the natural stone flooring, wood floor offers unmatched warm feeling to the room –and you as the owner.
29. A Small Mid Century Kitchen Futuristic Lighting
Being small doesn’t mean that you should not have a chic mid century modern kitchen.
This Mid kitchen design promises you that your limited spaces can an elegant and spacious kitchen as well.
The keys is its setup and cabinets designs. For the more impressive touches, bring in these futuristic Mid century brass pendant lamps.
30. Atomic Curtains Theme for a Mid Century Kitchen
The 50s witnessed a great era known as Atomic Age. The atomic craze swept across the globe and influenced almost all facets of life.
One of Its impact on Mid century styles is its on the curtain colors and patterns of that era. And then you can see many curtains in atomic age patterns, like this one.
Pick one of the curtains for your Mid kitchen, and see your friends impressed by it.
Read More: 30 Awesome Mid Century modern bathroom Ideas
That’s it. We have listed 30 mid century modern kitchen for you. We include some of the most classic designs up to the most contemporary one. Some in subdued colors, the others have vibrant and living colors.
We do hope that some of them (or even all of them) may inspire you and spark ideas to remodel your kitchen. Finally, have a good day.
Just why a style from a half century ago gets the contemporary people so excited is not so understandable –for some.
Though only lasted for a few decades (from 1930s up to early 70s), Mid Century styles still has their influences in contemporary interior designs, mainly for these last years.
Again, if you still in searching of suitable Mid Century lighting, we have other alternatives for you.
You can say, in general, that Mid Century styles are offshoot of the German Bauhaus style which were brought to the USA after the WWII.
Along with the skinny legged furniture, the other important feature in a mid century design is the tiles.
A lovable character of a Mid style interior design is that it’s always clutter-free.
Mid century bathrooms are full of vintage modern colors. You’ll have, for example, fascinating colors like coralline, T’ang blue, Persian Brown, or Claire de Lune Blue.
So far you have the cutest bathroom vanities with their Mid pointy legs. Now you have the other type of vanities, this floating vanity.
Need a small stuff that can get you back in time quickly? As you can see in the example, you can pinpoint the stuff quickly.
When it comes to the accessories, if you’re talking about Mid bathroom, you need to dig hard. Just like other Mid Century designs, the bathroom also almost devoid of accessories.
Why Mid Century modern bathrooms often has round mirrors? The most probable answers is to offset sharp lines that are dominating the Mid styles.
Along with matte black, brass color also are ubiquitous in Mid Century style. The colors are common for the fixture colors, frames, trimming colors, or for the faucets.
Just like any other timeless styles, you can blend a mid century character with other style features.
Mid Century blends well with modern styles in part because they share common character, minimalism.
You can always cool lighting designs from the Mid Century era, from the iconic sputnik chandelier to the charming Herman Miller lamps. For the wall, you won’t lack of inspiration either.
So far, you almost always meet Mid bathrooms dominated by wood, white, black, and tiles. In short, bathrooms with natural tones.
We have Mid Century modern bathroom tiles inspiration before. If previously we talked about vibrant wall tiles, now it’s time for the floor tiles.
If you like to see old bathroom ads, you may often see this bathroom setup and colors.
Need light but cool Mid-Century bathroom? You need to consider this one.
After WW II, the US people witnessed economic boom (probably) not known before by any other civilizations. As a result, all are designed so that they can the people to enjoy their days in comfort.
If you want something original for your mid century bathroom inspiration, this 1960s bathroom will be a better start.
Mid century designers love to experiment with materials and colors. For the reason, you often see various combination of materials.
As you can see along this list, mid century style always emphasis on functions. While the forms follow the functions.
This time you meet a combination of large square mirror and Mid century style. Previously, you have met (mostly) round mirrors with strong frames.
You just cannot leave the floor tiles when you want to redo the existing bathroom into a retro Mid Century bathroom. Tiles are essential in making the bathroom a Mid century bathroom.
We have shown you several Mid Century bathroom accessories, from the lamp fixtures to the stripped rug.
Some said these colors of the bathroom Ming green and coralline. Other would say the colors are soft pink and mint green. Whatever the color names, you sure that the bathroom has pink and green color on it.
You identify an interior style by their structures, furniture, materials, and even by their colors. Mid century styles are often characterized by the colors.
For your convenience, this mid century bathroom has a minimalist wooden bench. You can sit here, you can use the bench as stairs when you’re too lazy to step into the bathtub directly.
For the last string of this Mid Century modern bathroom list, we offer you one with a rustic style. It comes with warmest vanities. They’re all wood with clear finish.
Blue is a color of many people, and you probably one of them. The color has calming effects. As about the look, blue color inspire a traditional and stable life. The neat or orderly people love this color as well.
When you want a modern, retro, and classic kitchen in a time, then this eclectic slate kitchen will be your nice pick.
Love to have warm tropical vibes in the kitchen? Try to have this French’s Provincial kitchen.
Want a light blue kitchen cabinets for the new cooking place? With this kitchen plan, you have an excellent example.
Why rustic? The answers depend on you. As for us, we love the cottage atmosphere it brings to the room.
Previously, you have navy blue cabinets. Now we offer you another strong blue color, this dark blue color in the kitchen cabinet.
Still looking to find a better blue kitchen cabinet? You should consider this wall kitchen.
Along with retro styles, you also witness the increasing popularity of industrial styles. After a slow start in 70s, now this style seems to gain its momentum.
We often see cobalt blue color on a chinaware. In its long history, chinaware makers used cobalt blue to make their products looked awesome.
Now it’s time to love the nature, do some recycling. You can start with this kitchen cabinet design.
Here we have kitchen cabinets for a small kitchen. These kitchen cabinets is suitable for an L-shaped kitchen, like the example.
If you should pinpoint a word that now often pops up in an interior furniture site that would be ‘Distressed.’
You won’t leave Ikea if you want to have a chic room with a more affordable way. The budget aside, Ikea also often gives you rooms for improvisations.
Why antique furniture are still cherished by some of us? The answers may varies. But, you can be sure that one of the answers is about memories.
One of the most efficient setup for a kitchen is by lay outing it in U-shaped. With the setup, you prepare, cook, and store the food easily.
You have a long but narrow room, and you want to use the room for a kitchen. Got no idea on what style you should use for the room? Consider this Scandinavian kitchen style.
Elegance and classic touches –that’s probably what you’ll recall when you think about France.
Your contemporary minimalist kitchen is here. It Large, white, and has charming light blue kitchen cabinets.
Vintage, retro, shabby chic, are several names you often see when you surf the net for some home interior designs. And the three are often interchangeable.
Here, again, we offer you a simple kitchen for small spaces. Now we pick something from the North, the Nordic style.
Contemporary interior designers love gray. The color is neutral and blends well with almost any colors.
Cozy and warm tropical South always lures us to slow down our paces and enjoy the life. And it’s reflected in this sweet old style kitchen.
Barn styles, along with country styles, also help to shape the modern interior designs into what we see today.
Now you’re not only cook in the kitchen. In a contemporary house, a kitchen has become a kind of social hub, aside of living room.
A small and efficient organizer box for the makeup tools is cool, mainly for limited spaces. But, sometimes, the problem is finding the right box. Some of us not just want those the traits.
For all your favorite of makeup tools and accessories, here we offer a makeup vanity large enough your collection.
Need a small makeup storage again? And why we don’t we use a stuff around us as the storage system? Like this idea, for example.
Itchy for a DIY project? You should consider this makeup holder. It’s wort a try. And, most of all, it will be an easy project –even if you’re a beginner.
If a makeup cabinet is out of reach, then find something else for the substitute. Something other with the same capacity, but with a more friendly to budget.
Let your favorite beauty makeup be the accents to your wall. And here’s how you do it.
Mason jars, the jars for preserving foods, are also very versatile stuff. Depends on your creativity, mason jars can be anything you want –including as makeup holders like the picture.
A large collection of beauty products or makeup tools need an ample makeup storage. Not just an ordinary makeshift storage system, but a more permanent one.
The recycling enthusiasts will love this makeup organizer. The core materials are made off repurposed materials. It’s made of toilet paper rolls.
One of the more affordable way to have a chic makeup holder is by hacking an Ikea product. You even can turn an Ikea plant pot product into the holder.
For most of us, the hardest job is keeping the dressing table clean. If you don’t want to always get this annoying problem, try to put a makeup organizer on it.
For practical reasons, a bathroom are often equipped with a bathroom vanity or even a bathroom dressing table. For the reason, you need a reliable makeup organizer for bathroom.
Nothing compares to the warm vibes offered by woods, real woods. And this wood container for makeup is also presenting the same kicks: warmness and pleasant air.
Easy to build and also cheap storage for makeup is possible. Mainly if you have fertile imagination and deft hands.
For the awesome you with all the talent of a makeup artist with all her tools and accessories, this acrylic makeup table is yours.
Small rooms need certain treatment for them to look larger and neat. And if you feel the makeup regular makeup tables are too big for the room, you can try this shelve wall makeup storage system.
Still need another best idea for small room? This old and new makeup storage system suits well for your need.
Sometimes you’ll not need large makeup tools organizer box. And if just want to store several makeup items, this make up holder idea should be on your to-try-list.
Almost nobody can resist beautiful look. It’s in our nature that we always love lovely stuff. And if the lovely stuff are accompanied with luxurious look as well, that will be even better.
If you still remember the list number ten, about an Ikea plant pots which are also awesome for a makeup holder, here you have the other version.
If you love you beauty tools, why not hang them like a work of art? This DIY picture frame makeup holder shows you how.
Always in the move and don’t have time to have a fixed makeup storage? Then you need this portable makeup container box.
Don’t let a corner area lays unused. Make use of it by setting a makeup container system on it.
Feel familiar with this makeup storage inspiration? You bet. If you can do the DIY makeup organizer project with PVC pipes, you can build this organizer in a breeze.
You don’t need large and intricate makeup holder to impress your friend.
This unique makeup organizer is probably the easiest idea in this list.
When all you have in the bedroom is a small dressing table, then you need this makeup holder, a makeup holder out of a file holder.
This desk makeup tools organizer should you have, if you love something glittering on your makeup desk.
For this last list, we offer you makeup tool organizer for bathroom. Unlike the previous version (which is on the table), here you have the enclosed one.
If you feel the living room feels empty and lack of greenery, you need to consider this DIY plant stand plan. As a DIY project, you can do it in a breeze.
The Nordic/Scandinavian style brought by IKEA often gives you enough room for modification –to suit your tastes even better.
An ideal outdoor plant doesn’t make you sweat. Because you move it around easily, even with the pot (and its plants) on it.
Small room also needs greenery. Whether potted cacti or other evergreen indoor plants, it helps to refresh your energy, by giving positive vibes and sucks any negative ions in the air.
Only with ropes, you can make an ordinary plant stand looks elegant. These Amazon-found retro hairpin plant stands gets a little hack with a can of copper spray paint and simple rope works on their tops.
This table plant stand used to have white shelves. The owner wants to redo it for a more natural look.
As the contemporary people love to have the 50s styles back, here’s a DIY plant stand that fits with a retro 50s style.
A combination of wood dowels and acrylic will satisfy your hunger for an awesome Scandinavian plant stand. Like to have one?
Don’t want to have a fixed plant stand? Easy. You need a portable and foldable. This Ana White collection is a good start.
Meet a simple Ikea hack again. This time you want to makeover an Ikea product, the Marius Stool, into a piece of charming retro plant stand.
Not only a building has multi story floors, this plant stand also offers you a multi-story plant stand. Seeing the design, we sure you can build it yourselves.
All materials around you are sources of inspiration when it comes to making a plant stand. And so you make this plant stand from wire wastebasket.
A rustic beauty promises warmness to an urban living space. Here’s how you add a splash of rustic-ness into your room: gives it this plant stand.
Need a calm serenity of Eastern atmosphere in your house? Bring in this bamboo plant stand. You can also build this stand as well.
If you still in need of natural touches in the living room, then have the unused wood log in the barn works for you. Let it be your new barn style plant stand.
White is neutral. It also warms the heart, mainly if you have a better room lighting. The room looks larger and fresher as well.
As retro 50s-70s styles combine well with almost of contemporary styles, these retro wood plant stands are no exception.
Don’t let the corner empty. Fill it in with this double deck plant stand. It’s slim and having two shelves for plant/flower pots.
Now that metal hairpin structures in vogue, you should use them for the plant stand as well. Still remember the wood slab hack on the Ikea stool previously? The project will be similar.
Potted cacti or snake plants should have their proper stand to maximize their presence in the room. These plants stand should enough for them.
Just for an inspiration, this plant stand is adjustable. You adjust the height by turning its top. It will moves up or down, depends on the way you rotate it.
Pallet woods always present in almost any interior or outdoor projects. And now you meet them again in this DIY plant stand plan.
Yes, we know that copper materials gives a certain idylic and classical vibes to the room. But we also know that sometimes copper are unreachable for some of us.
This elegant minimalist DIY plant stand should sits next to your bed, on top of your reading table. It’s just cute.
Still in need an elegant plant stand for a room corner? Here we have one with classic country style vibes for you.
Now if you want to inject a warm air into the room, add stuff from pine woods. Just e small part of the woods can make your room cozy and warm.
Rural style, country style, or urban style are almost synonymous. They often offer basic and raw beauties.
This DIY plant stand project is similar with the PVC plant stand project (see no.23). Only now you use the real copper pipes.
You won’t only have this plant stand for shake of a plant stand. This plant stand also works as an open room partition.
We cannot leave this list without adding an industrial style plant stand into it. And here it is. We offer you here a simple industrial plant stand with multiple racks.