I'd love to have advice and opinions on what colour to use for a 'Pop of Colour' in my very small kitchen.
The kitchen is a small galley shape, it is 12 years old and is still in fair condition, certainly not ready to replace it. When the dishwasher died we had guests arriving the next day, dh quickly went out and bought a slide in replacement thus getting rid of the kitchen door that had previously hidden the dishwasher.
The worktops are walnut woodblock pattern in laminate and are in perfect condition. Well dare anyone not use a chopping board !!
The floors are a greyish/brownish 'slate looking' tile.
The cupboard doors are an almond cream colour and the emulsioned walls match perfectly. All very matchy matchy. Last year I painted the end wall (not the door wall) a soft pale sage green, which was actually the sage green from the living room with a dollop of white thrown in. It is fresh but unexciting.
Last week I took a notion to paint the two end walls a bright colour and lime green came to mind. We have used lime green to accessorise in the bathroom i.e. roller blind, towels, etc. I have photographed a hand towel from the bathroom to show the colour.
Thing is, when I said to my dh he said, that's fine. Which is code for, whatever makes you happy (just don't trail me around shops or go on about shade and tone). He wants me to just reach him the paint and tell him where I want painted.
What do you think of this colour on each end wall?
Or please suggest another colour, I am open to ideas just not great with yellow.
As there is a lot of the Teal paint left I'm thinking of using it on one wall of our porch. I'm on a roll. We used to say of my grandmother, don't stand still or you'll get painted. 
Well, talk about an about a U-turn. I went out last Saturday afternoon fully intending to get lime green paint, while dh was at his bowls match. Well didn't he get a bit of a shock when he arrived home to find the wall half covered with paint from a tester pot that was far removed from lime green. Happily he liked it.
As I had looked at the greens it got more and more difficult to pick a good lime green and I started to sway towards my favourite sage greens again albeit in strong deep tones.
I kept thinking about the aubergine as suggested by a pp, then remembered another poster had painted dark and hated it in the winter. Didn't have dh or a friend with me to give an opinion and started to dither. Eventually, went for this one, a very dark Teal. DS described it as the colour of a stormy sea.
Not quite finished yet as the original clock is in place. I need a bigger clock to break up the space. There is a garland of daisies with a lovely yellow centre that is gorgeous against the wall. Unfortnately it's not a great picture and the daisies aren't showing up as well as they do in reality.
On the worktop there is a blue-ish glass mason jar with some yellow wild flowers (weeds) from the beach today, yesterday there were buttercups but they don't last long. I plan on seeing what TKMaxx or Dunelm have in the way of (yellow) artificial wild flowers.
Because it's dark dh is going to fit a (spot) light in that corner.
We also painted the opposite wall at the back door and popped a couple of large, 12", yellow paper flowers on top of the larder, stole them from the bathroom. The kick-boards running along the bottom of the cupboards are also painted Teal and unite the two walls.
I'll still play about with the accessories a bit over the next week or so.
So many of you will think it is miles too dark but honestly, it looks great. As I said, still need something like the buttercups for the glass jar.
Lilac can look lovely against sage green. Accessorise with aubergine coloured kettle/toaster/teatowels etc
When you do make your decision,please come back and show us!
I really regretted painting a kitchen wall in a dark-ish colour when winter came. So I would vote for warm, bright colours all the way. I'd go for the lime green. It will go well with the rest of your palette .
callgirl1 I really like that yellow. It works well with the black and white.
Ours is brown and cream.... Don't want to start into painting cupboard doors though my friend has done it with great success.
However.... I had a look on line at paint colours, with my sis in law looking over my shoulder and..... this Crown duck egg blue caught my eye, and her eye, and my dh's eye
www.crownpaints.co.uk/products/standard-emulsion/matt/duck-egg/154
As mentioned my living room which can be seen from the kitchen and through the dining room is sage green and a very airy 'seaspray' . My cushions and curtain tie backs are a tartan that has a bit of blue.
I think this duck egg blue would look well in the kitchen and would allow the colour continuity flow through the dining room (also painted 'seaspray') and into the living room.
I feel a tester pot coming on.
My eyes have been opened in a good way to what some people are using as colour in their kitchen.
Thank you so much, love you all 
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