Advice on a Pop of Colour in my kitchen.

I have turquoise in my kitchen, which has white units and black granite effect worktops. It looks pretty

Coolgran, your floor is dark, it would look great in a lighter colour, then I would use lavender pop of colour which will go nicely with your worktops. Also would modernise the overall appearance which is, as you say too plain at the moment. On the white walls, put some small framed pics picking up the lavender and other colours in your kitchen to bring it all together. You could buy some small bright green foliage plants for the window cill for further contrast.

My kitchen is similar. I bought some expensive wall tiles that are a greyish blue and cream randomly. I bought a teal blind and it looks really nice.

Yes, the floor is dark. We all use the back door, anyone who knows us. A knock at the front door is a stranger. The floor is really practical, also being quite recent and expensive it needs to stay.

My hope is to do a little painting and a few tweaks, nothing major.

yellow ,as it will look like sunshine every morning........brightens things up.

It seems folks either like or really dislike my kitchen window and its busyness which is its very purpose. I should have dressed it nicely for the pic. Over the seasons it changes. Today the jugs are full of nasturtiums from the garden, A piece of Winston Churchill fuschia that got broken off a plant, various different hosta leaves, and some greenery off the bay tree.

I painted one wall in kitchen lime green and it was super .... BUT got fed up with it after a year or so and now all the walls are Elephant breath....(fancy name for pinky grey)

I do love your kitchen units ,the colour & the style is timeless. I like one of the posters ideas about a nice aubergine. If you need some new tea coffee jars you could brighten things up too .Bit of a shame about the white dishwasher, but heyho,it's not the end of the world .

Yes, the right tones of aubergine could be nice. Just wondering about it being too dark what with the dark floor and dark worktops.

Fushia Pink ? Nice and bright and always goes well with green. Or I’m another fan for Teal. Hope you find something you like

My kitchen is light grey and I have added a splash of red with the accessories, this was I can change the theme without redecorating.

Yes coolgran, aubergine would be nice in your kitchen

Instead of painting the wall why don’t you use pictures and a big bold clock for the wall? You could have abstract pictures or pictures of stylised hens, cockerels, pigs, sheep or cattle. That could be your ‘pop’ of colour especially if you use all the colours you like. Good luck with what ever you decide.

I'm with the pictures/posters/clock. The changing them would be easier when you get fed up!

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 .

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!

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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.

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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.

Coolgran you sound like a girl after my own heart. When the children were small, and I used to make a lot of their clothes, my friend once said, “if you had half a yard if spare fabric, you’d cover the three piece suite”
Well done for going with a dramatic Teal, and have fun accessorising .
Did you see George Clarke, last night?. He visited a paint manufacturer, and had the most gorgeous deep blue colour mixed to order. Called it George’s Brixton Blue.

Auntieflo never throw out a drop of paint or a piece of fabric
Wouldn't be the first time I wrapped a piece of fabric, or a scarf, around a vase to make it go with the decor.

That is lovely CoolGran it looks very smart. I have a similar colour in the hall (only slightly darker than yours) and I love it.

If you have a 'Range' near you, they have lovely artificial yellow tulips in a glass jar. And also a yellow peony arrangement.

GrannyLiv we do have a Range within a half hour drive. I do love tulips and I especially love peonys (Peonies ??). I will definitely take a look in the next day or so. I had been thinking of Dunelm and forgot about the Range.

I do love the colour and am thinking of painting the porch wall with this. The porch is mostly glass.

As an aside, the porch was only painted inside about 2 months ago and I don't like it. Suffice to say, dh went to get a tin of the sage paint same as is in our living room. He had to go to Asda first and saw that they had green paint on offer and decided to go for it..... it was mint green and high shine.
Well, I guess I've seen a lot worse than the mint green (it might be the high shine that I don't like), I've stopped cringing every time I see it, but this dark blue will look great. If I ask dh to paint it blue he'll roll his eyes and just do it. But he thought he was doing a nice thing getting the mint green so I want to time it nicely and not undermine his mint green choice

I know how you feel CoolGran I have had to live with some questionable decorating decisions because I didn't want to upset my other half.

The best (worst) was when we were painting the living room a lovely subtle green. Hubby had to go and get more paint because we'd run out. He got the right colour, but we had been using matte and he brought back softsheen. I only realised after I'd used up half the can and was wondering why the paint didn't seem to be drying to the same finish! Had to live with half the living room 'shiny' for about two years!!