The heart of every home is hands down, the kitchen! One of the biggest investments in life should go to a kick-ass kitchen. To help style your kitchen to be its most stylish and functional, here are the best budget friendly tips to great kitchen designs!

Make a kitchen table from a cable pool

Here’s a clever fix for your kitchen: a cable pool. The perfect place to have breakfast! Its design is good to go, but you can go ahead and paint it if you want to.

A kitchen island made out of crates

This ingenious use of crates is not only functional and great for storage, but it’s also unique and serves as a shelf too! Add a table top and your kitchen island is ready for those fresh fruits and chewy cookies.

Turn a palette into a small island

Don’t have anything decent to make your kitchen island out of? You just might.  Use your wooden pallett! Add castors to make it move,and you’re good!

Pallet Shelves

Seeing a spice rack up on your wall will never fail to give off that “Home, sweet, home” feel, don’t you think? And it’s fairly easy to make one too. Just make a mini palette, and hang it up the wall like so. The wooden design adds extra warmth, and warm is everything that a home should be.

You can even add pots, pans, knives, and wine glasses into the mix! Functional and stylish. A must in every kitchen.

Reclaimed wood kitchen island

Wood will always lend its rustic charm and warmth wherever you put it. Mixing it in with a modern and chic kitchen allows for some great contrast.

Embrace those brick walls! Consider yourself lucky if you have ’em. The contemporary style and classic look of brick walls will always look great inside a well furnished kitchen.

As for chalkboards? The cutest kitchen concept! Turn your kitchen into a cozy little bistro with the meal plan written in bright chalk. Nothing screams home louder than a chalkboard in the kitchen!

Lastly, to save on light fixtures, corded lamps are as cost effective as they are cute. Versatile AND functional too. we love them, and we hope you do too, along with the rest of out budget friendly kitchen design ideas. Good luck, and have fun!