Kitchen colour scheme

[bitzermaloney]

I saw a colour scheme in a kitchen brochure that I really liked - wooden floor, cream units, black granite worktop and milk-chocolate colour walls. They had put green glass vases on the windowsill which worked really well, and I was thinking about copying the colour scheme but having a green glass splashback...

Am planning granite upstands as well as worktop (no tiles)... should I just use granite for the hob splashback as well or do you think green glass would look good?

Am hopeless when it comes to interior design (hence copying colour schemes from brochures!).

[LankyLegs]

Hi Bitzer we are doing something similar but have silestone as the worksurface and upstands too. Our splasback is going to be a frosted glass. I think you should get the splashback in glass - easiler to clean etc (and won't look as clunky) and would be a great way to introduce colour into the kitchen as well.

It's quite hard deciding all of this esp when you have to live with it for 10 years +!

[bitzermaloney]

Thanks lankylegs. Is the coloured glass opaque? Just thinking if the choc brown walls show through it will obv affect the colour of the green.

[LankyLegs]

Hi there - yep it is opaque and I think thats so you dont see straight through to the wall behind like you mentioned.

We are onto deciding what colour to paint the kitchen diner - I think we should have done what you did and take a scheme out of the book rather than deciding of everything individually!

[bitzermaloney]

Thanks. I am going to get a quote. Am just wondering if it matters that the upstands will be 20mm thick but most glass splashbacks are much thinner, unless you pay extra, so there wouldn't be a smooth transition between the two.