TIPS FOR CHOOSING YOUR KITCHEN COLOURS
kitchen colours
Kitchen paint colours play an important role in affecting moods.
Colours can promote a sense of relaxation and cosiness, peacefulness or stimulation.
Paint colours can be considered trendy or shocking, dramatic or timeless.
Paint colours can help to produce the WOW factor!
Colour can influence how large or intimate your kitchen feels.
A simplified colour palette in your chosen colour scheme will give the room a more definitive, clean and open look.
Kitchen colours, maybe white, green or blue,
So much choice, what should we do!
Read this page and clear your head,
Maybe the answer is green, cream and red!
Don’t panic! We will guide you on your colour choosing journey.
METHOD 1 for Choosing Kitchen Colours
- Gather an assortment of colour charts and choose all the colours that appeal to you.
- Narrow your choice down and put your favourite colours together in groups of three.
- Use three colours in a room with a 60-30-10 split between them. 60% of base colour, probably on the walls or cabinets, 30% the secondary colour, used in the flooring, rugs, curtains or blinds and the 10% as general colour of the articles on show around the room.
METHOD 2 for Choosing Kitchen Paints
- Choose your favourite colours and buy some sample pots of paint.
- Instead of painting your sample paints onto walls, paint your chosen colours on canvas boards or white cardboard. This method allows you to move the paint colour samples around the kitchen easily,
- Consider the colour of the walls, cabinets, work tops, blinds and the appliance finishes and remember too, to include the colour of the floor covering
- Take your time to think about how all colours will work together.
Hints,Tips and Suggestions to give you Ideas
Photographer Michelle Meiklejohn
- The most popular kitchen paint colors include shades of brown, yellow, red, green and blue.
- Play safe with white. The colour white is said to convey a feeling of tastefulness, modernity and minimalism! (Why not add bursts of colour using accessories).
- Yellow is one of the most popular colours when decorating a kitchen. It brightens the room, wakes you up in the morning up and attracts attention!
- For dark colour kitchen cabinets use medium green or grey-blue as one of your colours!
- For white cabinets use grass green.
- For a country style use primary colours.
- For a Bistro style use white, reds and a bit of black.
- Black granite worktops go with white cabinets.
- Stainless steel goes with deep red! (A red splash-back maybe?)
- Pale pink (or pale blue) goes with cream. Red will look ultra modern.
- Paint your walls a neutral colour and add colour with accessories.
- Paint your kitchen cabinets.
- New cabinet handles add another splash of colour.
- Rose pink or snug blue goes with cream and black.
- Van Gogh said "Where you paint blue, paint yellow also. There is no blue without yellow".
- Soft green coloured walls go with cream units and grey floor tiles.
- Our Kitchen is North and West facing and walls are painted a very pale cream.
- Half the room is in a warm custard yellow then the short end wall is a warm terrecotta.
- A sophisticated palette of bamboo green and cream.
- We've just changed our kitchen walls from "Bay Tree" to "Tuscan Terracotta". It looks lovely and sunny now, even on a dull day.
- The colour, buttermilk, is a lovely fresh, bright colour that will lighten your kitchen.
- The gold stove hood is updated with silver paint for a more contemporary look.
- Look at your chosen colours in both artificial light and natural daylight.
- Provide focal points and pockets of color, using the color in accessories, flowers, storage jars, vases, light shades, stools, and pictures.
Now kitchen colours have been chosen,
Consider and rest awhile.
Take time to plan and have some fun,
Then paint and arrange with a smile!
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