kitchen colour scheme advice needed
Hello, I need to paint the walls & doors of my kitchen & desk space. I like greys but have cream cabinets, tan coloured work surfaces & cream with terracotta floor tiles. I think I should also replace the flooring as the tiles look dated & the wooden section is pretty knackered. I just don’t know where to start! I got some paint samples & they all looked awful..
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Need more colour advice to tie living room and kitchen.
Comments (2)The protruding wall around the fireplace needs to be wallpapered or painted with dense motifs or tiled with stone/brick textured tiles or ply. Re-doing your fireplace will drastically change the look of your living room. See photos below. Consider painting the frames of your doors and sliding doors in the living room and kitchen a dark brown to match the floating shelf over the fireplace. Do not decide what you want to do in poor lighting as you have provided in the photos. Wine is a good color to consider. Also think of darker colors like plum and have different shades on each wall (from the same color family). So maybe think of wine- plum- magenta or wine - oxblood-blood red, etc. whichever suits your taste....See MoreAdvice on re-design of Kitchen/Diner/Living Room?
Comments (4)Hi minnie101, Thanks so much for your detailed reply. Great to know what colour that grey is. It may be a little dark with our floor. We will definitely update the handles - I hate the current ones. We'll probably go with wood to keep within budget. Your non-tiles pic is lovely. We'll probably keep some tiles and try to keep the kitchen a little more modern than country kitchen, which might be a challenge with wood. The room faces south. I like your idea of dividing it with paint. We probably will go with white in the kitchen and then 1/2 slightly darker tones in the tv-couch area. The 'other' entrance into the dining area is narrowed by a non-structural wall, so we should remove this to open it properly or like you say, close it off. Maybe not close it off entirely as we'd lose a lot of light, but maybe put in a counter or breakfast bar if space allowed. I love your pendant light suggestions over the dining table. Details like this and a rug in the couch area will really help divide the room as at the moment it is one big cavernous space. I really can't decide yet what way the couches should face - into a tv in the corner, or out into the room like you suggest. We'll have to draw out some chalk outlines on the floor and see how much space there actually is. Colour-wise we like the idea of keeping walls and cabinets quite stark, the wood counter will add a bit of warmth, and then adding colour with couches, rugs and possibly dining chairs. I've attached a couple of pieces of furniture I like. Some may not work, but we'll figure it out....See MoreNeed help choosing colour scheme for kitchen floor and work tops
Comments (0)Newly built kitchen with natural light and velux window at dinning area . Kitchen area has a peninsula and no natural light...See MoreDark Kitchen - Light Floor - Advice Needed :)
Comments (0)Hi All, We are buying a new house which comes with a generic kitchen. We plan to upgrade and change colours, get a quartz countertop etc. We had our heart set on a light grey wood style floor. but my question is around what type of floor. We originally thought laminate throughout the whole downstairs, but then were put off as people were saying it was a bad idea for kitchens. Then we started thinking of wood effect tiling, but the idea of dirty grout kinda sways me away from that. Here's a rough photoshop of what we're thinking - disregard the wonky floor :) Any advice?...See More
Daisy England
4 years ago
Carolina
4 years agoHi, what a lovely space!
To be honest, I think your tiles look really good with the kitchen cabinets. So I wouldn't change those. The wooden floor can probably be refinished. For the walls you could try something like Drop Cloth (F&B) (see below), Shaded White or Stony Ground. It's a bit difficult to see here on my screen what would work best with your floor and kitchen cabinets, but I think that something along those lines would be nice. I've lowered the world map on the wall.
Bow Sward
4 years agoCarolina
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Sonia
4 years agoLovely space. I think the right paint job will do wonders. If it were mine I’d paint all the woodwork white, or off white - that’s all the doors, architrave and skirting. I like the natural wood window though! I like the floor, it suits the age of the property. Now I think going for a bright but warm shade on the walls which tones in with the floor and units would be an improvement. I rather like F&B Pointing. My friend has White Tie I her dining room and it is such a lovely warm, but bright, off white. I know you fancy grey but I’m not sure it would work with the floor?
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4 years agoFunnily enough, I've tried out a couple blue grays for the walls yesterday evening, and just read that Skylight was suggested here. So... here you go, Skylight. I'm in the Netherlands and Farrow & Ball is readily available here. Just expensive. There are similar colours available from other manufacturers.
I was thinking more industrial or country style furniture. Let me find some examples...
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4 years agoHave to say that I also like Sonia's idea to go lighter and brighter. So... another idea would be to go light for the walls and a couple of shades darker, or really dark) for the doors...
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