Advice on a Pop of Colour in my kitchen.

I love before and after photos especially those that have done it themselves as a project, good on you

Making me now want to re vamp my kitchen....

Oh I think giving the curtains a shake now and again is fine. And dry cleaning every year.
We have a lovely colourful bowl on a kitchen worktop. It often contains sugarfree sweets, pokemon cards (or similar) magnifying glass. A small table at side of settee has a coaster, remote, sometimes paper and pen for Countdown. I see nothing wrong with that.
My MiL had her life on the coffee table - cigarettes, crossword book, playing cards (for patience) newspaper. I too used to say Put me down when I reach that stage, but why not keep them all to hand? She wasn't very mobile so it made sense.
I think some colours are horrible but generally its a personal thing. What one finds bland someone else might find calming.
Coolgran the floor is lovely.

should be hime

hime home

....I hate clutter ie: bowls for lipstick, glasses, keys etc dinky pots for a few broken stems, knick knacks...sorry.
Same in sitting room, in fact any room. IMO it's an 'old people's' habit, like having a table by your chair with glasses, tissues, remote, meds etc.
If I ever do that, I want to be put down.
Same as matchy matchy tie backs, cushions and curtains and worst of all...pelmets...yikes!! Anyway, curtains harbour dust unless they're vaccumed or washed weekly.
Sorry to say that wishy-washy colours do nothing to make a hime look interesting and inviting.
Cream, duck egg blue, pale green, almond or any mix of those colours, is bland. And eye-watering yellow is harsh esp in a galley kitchen and esp married with black and white.
Reminds me of the school kitchens of yesteryear.

Coolgran65
I just put my twopenn'orth about avoiding red in case others came to this thread looking for ideas. Glad you found a blue that works beautifully in your kitchen

Painted wall is lovely. The kitchen is very nice Coolgran. I love cream doors.

AllotmentLil thank you so much.

EVERYONE please note my kitchen has already had its treatment. I was just giving a final update.

PLEASE ..... No more advice needed as the job is done.
Even if some would like to change it further .

I love your colour choice Coolgran! And the window “treatment” - love that you can ring the changes with it - girl after my own heart! We have a darkish blue end wall but the radiator is white - do you mind if I steal your idea and paint it the same as the wall? Looks soooo much better!!
I hope you love your kitchen for years to come, and if you don’t we’ll just change it! Not aubergine though!! ?

I think the dark floor sucks a lot of light out of the room so I'd change it. The theory that plain light colours make a room look larger just doesn't work, though. With no interest or contrast, we just end up focusing on the size of walls and ceilings.

I'd suggest raspberry pink or maybe lavender on the end wall, with narrow picture ledges above the radiator for interesting prints or posters. I'd tile the side of the tall unit with reflective mirror tiles and add cheerful blinds. Ideally, I'd change the back door for a fully-glazed one for more light.

Hey folks.
The kitchen wall has been painted in the dark blue. No more cream.

I went for a dark colour as suggested in earlier posts. It looks great and a bit 'different' .

Painting has been COMPLETED and I'm just showing the finished wall with clock

Coolgran, your floor tiles are exactly like mine. My kitchen cupboard doors are a light colour wood (not solid), forget what you call them. The walls are painted magnolia. Because of the dark floor, I think you should for light walls. Lots of good ideas here .

Red can attract blowflies (because it's the colour of raw meat) so I'd avoid it in a kitchen.

Hi Everyone, I thought I'd come back and show you the finished back wall with it's new clock.

It was quite a shock when I looked at the original post and saw how 'cream' it all was.

Last month our oven died and was replaced which doesn't make any difference to the style of the kitchen. Next month we are having new cupboard doors and drawer fronts fitted. When looking about it became clear that with the walnut worktop and cream carcass we were limited to replacing again with cream, however they are of course a different style, quite plain.

Anyways, I'm rambling, Just wanted to show the clock and thank everyone.

I definitely got a GN 'push' with regard to colours.

*Coolgran*, I love the teal blue wall. I think that wall would look good with a large old style clock. Your kitchen window is very pretty. You have all the little bits that make you happy while washing up.
A lovely, cozy kitchen.

The teal looks lovely! The color combo reminiscent of breezy, coastal kitchens back east that although dark create a tranquil, low light environment especially on rainy, overcast days when color is vibrant- Wicker and rattan accents would blend well with the salty, sea blue walls and natural colored counters- Also love the leaded glass, frosted pane on the door and selection breaking up the window space-

I worked with professional painters and designers years ago in both new construction and old- Depending on the type of structure, lighting and design some colors worked better than others in each differently-

The color that Gabriella shared wouldn't work in the OPs kitchen, not even as an accent- It suggests "novelty" not "pop" in a traditional kitchen environment- It would work in a natural type design, with others shades of clay colors and earth tones as well as herbs and spices that blend together-

Here you can go to the paint store and leave a deposit on a paint swatch sampler that contains every paint color offered- Your deposit is reimbursed when returned-

Callgirls kitchen is "the tits"! Love it! Along with all the personal touches and choices- Totally lovely-

It takes more thought than physical effort and even money to pull it off- Sometimes even repainting what's just been painted- I had to do it in my kitchen when I painted it on impulse instead of instinct- Loved the color, but not that much of it .. ;)

GrannyLiv, that happened to us, but with wallpaper. We only needed one more strip, bought the right pattern and colour, but when we unwrapped it, it was embossed, not smooth. Hubby wouldn`t go back again, so we just hoped nobody would notice that corner!

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!!

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

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

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.

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.

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.