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Paint colours for kitchen

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susytish Fri 13-Aug-21 16:33:13

New kitchen with aquamarine tiles splash back, porcelain (v pale cream) cupboards, wooden worktop, stainless steel fridge freezer, built in ovens. Having a real job choosing a colour for rest of walls. Love the tiles. Better to contrast or choose contrasting colour? You were all so helpful with tile colour, but now need more help!

Mapleleaf Wed 18-Aug-21 11:59:02

Buy some sample pots in the shades you are thinking of and paint these in different places on the walls you wish to paint to show them in different lights. This way, you might find the one that suits best. Good luck. Your kitchen looks lovely, by the way. ?

Dee1012 Wed 18-Aug-21 11:59:08

Chewbacca - now I'm busy looking at the colours you mentioned!

Elegran Wed 18-Aug-21 12:01:06

You can't judge from those tiddly squares on the colour charts. Get some sample pots, paint each of them onto a separate piece of thin cardboard (from a cereal packet?) and let them dry, then hold each in turn up against the wall and the tiles.

Whatever others suggest, you are the only one who can choose what appeals to you .

Elegran Wed 18-Aug-21 12:03:21

Crossed posts, *Mapleleaf. I prefer the cardboard way, because you can move them around to places where the light falls differently - and you don't have to paint over them. If the cardboard isn't white to start with, you really need two coats on it.

May7 Wed 18-Aug-21 12:15:17

I'd like to suggest Farrow and Ball Cabbage white You can get a sample to try. It looks a similar colour to your tiles but maybe ever so slightly darker. I always go with light colours for walls and then put darker/striking pictures on.

susytish Wed 18-Aug-21 12:32:00

Here is a better pic of cupboards and wall.

Soozikinzi Wed 18-Aug-21 12:39:34

Sage green would look nice if you like sage green!

susytish Wed 18-Aug-21 15:21:55

Won’t sage green clash with the tiles though?

NotSpaghetti Wed 18-Aug-21 15:52:05

Oh, nice. What about a vaguely pale plaster colour? Little Green do a clay range
www.littlegreene.com/clay-pale
www.littlegreene.com/clay-mid

Mushroomy shades would work too I think.

Amberone Wed 18-Aug-21 16:03:13

Elegran that's the way I do it - I paint three of four bits of card with the primer and sample pot and tape them up around the room. It's surprising the difference that lighting, sunshine and shade can make.

Make sure you stir sample pots as well as you would full size ones - I failed to do that once and the colour on my card was very different to the end result on the wall. Fortunately I liked the wall even better than the card grin

Lisagran Wed 18-Aug-21 18:15:06

You can download an app from Dulux to help you see what your walls would look like painted different colours - www.dulux.co.uk/en/articles/dulux-visualizer-app

(Other paint brands are available grin)

NotSpaghetti Fri 20-Aug-21 00:10:53

Sago

Look at rolling fog from little green paint co.
It’s a kind of soft brown that comes in 3 shades.

This is the sort of mushroomy colour I wondered about Sago

Soozikinzi Sun 22-Aug-21 11:47:01

What t colour did you go for in the end ? Your kitchen is lovely by the way !

Grammaretto Sun 22-Aug-21 11:56:57

I think I would choose a golden colour.

tattygran14 Sun 22-Aug-21 14:35:00

How about Dulux marine splash tester, just to try, its a hot aquamarine!!!

janipans Sun 22-Aug-21 14:45:41

I'd have the walls as close to the colour of the tiles as possible, then accessorise with a brighter contrasting colours for blinds, tea towels, kettle etc. You can then change the whole look of your kitchen just by changing the accessories.

Gabrielle56 Mon 23-Aug-21 10:31:48

I'd err on the side of neutral to enlarge your spacial perception. Either exactly same shade as tiles or cupboards. I wouldn't chop the effect up with yet another shade. Ultimately it's your preference though. Get loads of shade samples ,/pots paint onto A4 paper and blue tack on walls, the best shade for you should scream at you!!! Good luck!

eazybee Mon 23-Aug-21 13:58:11

I would match either the colour of the tiles or the cupboards, possibly a darker shade, for the walls and live with it for a while. Kitchens are busy places with many 'accessories' around and I would hesitate to introduce another colour until I was really sure it would go.

susytish Mon 25-Oct-21 18:08:17

Hello everyone. You were kind enough to give me paint ideas for my new kitchen. At long last it has been painted today!
I chose the colour Cromarty from Farrow and Ball and I am delighted with this colour. It matches tiles well and has a lovely calming effect on the walls.
Now need ideas for how to use all the testers I have as I was trying to choose a colour!