Sensational Soffits: Kitchen Decorating Tips for Creating Unusual Displays of Kitchen Art, Pictures, and Crafts

Kitchen décor plays an important part of the overall attractiveness of your home. If you would like to create an inviting and unique room using kitchen art, pictures, or crafts, look upward! Home decorating of kitchen soffits, or the space about the cabinets, can provide the look and feel you are after.

Why Soffits?
Kitchen soffit space offers a good amount of potential decorating area. Often kitchen soffits are left plain or simply painted to match the walls. Wallpaper borders look nice on soffits and are commonly used. But by decorating soffits with kitchen art, print pictures or crafts, however, you can create a unique, one-of-a-kind room.

Original Artwork on Kitchen Soffits
Original artwork displayed on kitchen soffits looks impressive. If you paint or draw, you’ll probably want to decorate the kitchen space with your own art. Original oil paintings, watercolors, or drawings all work well.

Choose artwork of close-up subjects, as small scenic pictures need more distant viewing than most kitchens provide. Canvases made for specifically for painting on the edges work well for kitchen soffit decorating. It is particularly attractive, from a standing viewpoint, to see the artwork spill over the bottom edge of a painting displayed on a soffit.

You can choose to frame your drawings and paintings used for kitchen décor or leave them unframed if painted on the edges. Watercolors and drawings should be protected by a framing product specified for that purpose. Check craft supply stores for different options.

If you would like to decorate your soffits with artwork, but are not an artist yourself, collect original paintings or drawings done by others. Leave them as found, or reframe them as desired.

Kitchen Art Prints on Soffits
Inexpensive prints also work well to decorate kitchen soffits. You can buy kitchen art prints online, or at local print supply or department stores. It’s also fun to collect old and new prints that you like at garage sales, thrift stores, and antique shops to be used for kitchen decorating.

Kitchen Craft
Some crafts work well for creating attractive soffit displays. Flat pictures using decoupage, collage, calligraphy, mosaic, or pressed flower techniques are all possibilities. If you are a craftsperson, you will probably enjoy creating your own soffit artwork. If not, buy original pictures at craft shows, garage sales, thrift stores, and antique shops.

Subject Matter, Color, and Theme
Whether you want to decorate your soffits with art, prints, or craft pictures, you will first need to choose a theme. Would you like a mixed assortment of all types of pictures? Or a kitchen display featuring one or two subjects? A relative of mine, who paints, created a colorful and striking soffit display of original oils featuring antique pitchers and flowers. She used the antiques in her own collect with flowers as models for the still-life paintings that decorate her kitchen soffits.

Themes can be carried out using art prints or craft pictures as well. For instance – kitchen prints of baking utensils and ingredients, or seed packet collages of floral craft pictures. The possible themes you can choose for your soffit kitchen decorating are endless!

You may also choose to use a color scheme in your soffit displays that coordinates with your overall home decorating or kitchen décor. Or choose a more eclectic approach, using a bouquet of mixed colors among the collection of soffit pictures. The choice is yours.

To display the artwork chosen, group the soffit sized artwork chosen in small numbers of three or four related, or cover the entire kitchen soffit area in side-by-side original art, prints, or craft pictures. Follow your own preferences in this home decorating project, and then enjoy the unique, sensational soffits that result!