Rustic Kitchen Carts

Rustic Kitchen Carts - Country Living, Modern Convenience

Rustic kitchen carts are widely available today, ironically. 'Rustic' means suitable for country living, but even though most Americans now live in urban or suburban areas, their hearts seem to yearn for the more simple and relaxed life of country living.

Modern kitchens very often combine rustic design with modern convenience, and a rustic kitchen cart complements such design ideas perfectly.

Kitchen carts are tremendously versatile, providing extra work space and storage area in the cooking area but, because of their lockable casters or wheels that make rolling over carpets and rough outdoor surfaces safer and easier, they can be moved into other rooms when entertaining, outside on the deck or patio for the family barbecue, or even into the garden for teas and summer luncheons.

A Style All Their Own

Kitchen carts are made of many materials.

Some are wooden and are constructed of Red Oak, Northern Maple, Birch, Poplar, Basswood, and Beech, or more exotic woods like Liptus, a plantation-grown South American wood, or Nyatoh, a plantation-grown wood from Malaysia sometimes called Asian Cherry.

Other base and frame materials include stainless or zinc-plated steel, and wrought or hammered iron. Rustic carts are often wooden with natural, stained, hand-rubbed or distressed painted finishes, or are wrought iron with a choice of painted colors.

Though Rustic Carts have a style all their own, carts are available in Contemporary, Hip or Avant Garde, Utilitarian, and other styles - there are variations in the Country Style.

Many are strong, spare designs with Butcher Block tops that are reminiscent of busy family kitchens in American farm life, but others are inspired by French or Latin Country living and portray an aged European tradition.

See the Farmhouse Serving Cart by Bago Luma for a good example.