Help - North facing kitchen - colour advice please

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Shaker! Thank you in advance

We had the same issue - I quite liked greys but most changed colour when in our kitchen (house also Edwardian). We chose a shaker door in second nature’s Partridge Grey (painted wooden door) which changes colour in different lights. It ranges from a pearl grey through blue grey to green grey depending on time of day and light. However I love each of the shades - it’s a kitchen that keeps on giving. It is the perfect colour and everyone comments on it. We chose a white marble-look quartz worktop which works fabulously with it. I waited 40 years for this kitchen so a lot was riding on it but I live love live it.

We painted the walls in our north facing kitchen a pale greeny grey and cupboard doors are chalky white. An iroko wood island and mottled marble worktops. Never looks cold but then we do have the advantage of huge windows on one wall.

Are you wanting all your cupboards to be the same shade, or could you have two shades? Like you, I like the lighter blue and the heritage grey. The darker colour might "close in" the room a bit? Good luck.

I think kitchen cupboards should be fairly neutral so the grey or light blue. My new kitchen (the first one chosen solely by me) is cream with seagreen painted walls and accessories. The paint can be easily changed. If you get strong blue cupboards you have to get paint and accessories to match and could get bored with the colour.

I have often been surprised how sunny very pale baby blue looks in a room. Pale duck egg too but not quite as sunny as very pale baby blue.

I once painted a room sunny yellow and hated it.

We painted a north facing bedroom baby blue and it isn't at all cold, as you say alexa.

Generally the advice for a north facing room would be to use light colours and warm colours, eg white or off-white with accents of red, orange, pink or yellow. Natural materials such as wood or rattan are generally warm in tone.

What matters is that you use colours you like, especially for a room where you will spend a lot of time. Try painting some largish sheets of paper with sample paint colour and look at it for a few days. Remember that large areas will appear darker than small patches of the same colour.

All three colours look lovely. My advice (having once worked professionally in trade) is to play safe with the big investment and mix it up on the walls which are cheaper to refresh if you fancy a change in a few years.

Whether you go for the lighter blue or the safe beige will depend on the rest of your house. Is it a beige sort of house or will that look too neutral against the backdrop of the building, garden views, your bits and pieces on display?

I think DH's preference would look super on the walls. Hope this helps. Kitchen looks fabulous btw.

Our last kitchen was north facing and was painted an ivory/cream colour. The tiles were delft blue. The shaker cupboard doors were a slightly darker cream.

I painted the ceiling beams to match the walls to keep everything light and added as many natural wood features as I could.

I remember watching an old episode of Midsomer Murders with the original Barnaby and his wife Joyce and spotted the same hand painted tiles in their kitchen.

I prefer the stronger blue myself .

Thanks all. I'm off to B & Q to get lining paper to paint large sheets plus a paint match