Contemporary apartments often have kitchens with very smooth clean lines and shiny surfaces in sophisticated colors such as black, white and gray. They are generally in cool colors and appliances will be snow white, black or stainless steel to match. Flooring tiles are often black or white too or in top end apartments you will find natural flooring such as slate or ivory travertine tile. These sleek modern apartments are best served by very simple clean lines in accessories including everything from the bar stools at the breakfast bar to the kitchen curtains.
You may question whether kitchen curtains are a good idea at all in an ultra contemporary kitchen in many ways. Some kitchens will definitely look better with an aluminum mini blind or a simple gray, white or black roller blind. But there are ways to include curtains to give an individual touch and set your contemporary kitchen apart from the rest.
The answer is to choose a very simple style of curtain. As an example, this could be a plain fabric panel with a tab top. Be sure to keep the curtains with no other adornment other than perhaps a plain border and hang the curtains from a decorative rod which is in a material which matches the remainder of the kitchen. This could be made of wrought iron painted silver or black for example.
As for curtain colors, black or gray would look good or a bright cool color like aqua or teal. Black or gray would fit in well with the remainder of the kitchen but would not add much impact. The brighter colors would give a “wow” factor and could be tied in with other accessories on display such as a toaster, mixer or coffee machine. A number of manufacturers are producing brighter appliances which will help in your choice of color and accessories.