Please share pictures of your grey kitchens to help me decide...

[NeedATan]

I have fallen in love with an IKEA grey kitchen. Our kitchen is currently cream with terracotta floor and black granite worktops (this is what we found when we bought the house). Our kitchen isn't very bright I must say. After nearly 20 years in this house we'd like a change while keeping the worktops (there isn't anything else we like as much as black granite). Would grey units make the kitchen far too dark? Could anyone with grey kitchen units please share pictures? Thank you!

[NeedATan]

Anyone?

[crumpet]

Mine’s cream - but there are loads of images of grey kitchens/black worktops on google

[PanamaPattie]

I wouldn't chose a grey kitchen as it will date very quickly. Grey is a colour that is rapidly becoming unfashionable. Chose kitchen units that you can paint as you may need to live with it for a very long time.

[NeedATan]

I didn't even realise grey kitchens had been a thing. I'm bored of the cream one we have currently...

[Lalliebelle]

Double check you can find a kitchen fitter that will do Ikea before falling in love with it!

[katienana]

This was my parents old house. The units were a greenish grey with black granite worktops and the floor was white Karndean. It was lovely. If you've lived with an inherited kitchen 20 years then fashion is not important get what you like

[Luckingfovely]

The best place to look for ideas is Pinterest - you'll find 1000s of images.

Also ignore all the total bollocks above about what's in fashion or not - you're decorating your kitchen for you, not sheep who keep repeating things they've read on here about interior design

Grey is a classic choice for a kitchen and always will be. It's not tangerine or aubergine, for goodness sake!

[BarbaraofSeville]

We have Ikea mid grey gloss units and black 'granite effect' laminate worktops.

It's not dark and quite bright but we have mostly white walls, 2 roof veluxes and half of one wall is windows/glass door.

Agree about ignoring comments about fashion and whether or not it will look dated. Do you like it is the important question.

I don't understand why people always say the fitters don't like Ikea units either. They're a piece of piss to fit, we did ours ourselves and the joiner just did the worktops and flooring. If a fitter pisses and moans about Ikea units, I wouldn't use them, because they can't be much good a fitter. It's basic flatpack FFS, designed so the average homeowner can build themselves with relative ease.

[NeedATan]

Thank you. I don't think I'll get bored of it or it will look dated - yes, avocado bathroom suits became dated but that's a much bolder look than grey and that's the issue I think. I'll check out Pinterest too. Thank you!

[Hen2018]

It’ll look dated v quickly. I don’t know why grey was the fashionable colour a couple of years back.

[Fifthtimelucky]

Oh dear. I misread the title as referring to grey kittens.

Very disappointed!

[Peridot1]

We put a grey kitchen in our old house ten years ago. I never went off it. We had black granite which I hated.

We are now in a house that was built two years ago with a very similar colour kitchen except the island unit is Hague Blue and our worktops are white with grey marbling.

Neighbours have just done a house up and gone for grey as well.

I’m not sure it will date all that much.

I found the black granite sucked all the light out of the room. And it was much harder to keep clean than the white. It had sparkly bits in which always looked like dust.

[Foxyloxy1plus1]

I disagree that grey kitchens will date quickly. Ours was put in when the house was new 7 years ago. We have matt grey base cupboards and gloss dark blue top cupboards. I like it still. I’m happy to live with it for the foreseeable future. If I could, I’d change bits of the layout, but it doesn’t bother me. The only thing we changed was the worktop, which was laminate and a kind of grey bleached wood effect. We put in white quartz with a (very) few sparkly flecks.

[NeedATan]

Out black granite doesn't have any flecks - it's solid black. Yes it does suck light out but there is nothing else I like better unfortunately...

[NannyGythaOgg]

This is mine.
I love it.

[NeedATan]

@NannyGythaOgg Nice. Are those light tunnels? If so, are they OK or do they create water ingress issues eventually?

[EdgeOfACoin]

@Fifthtimelucky

Oh dear. I misread the title as referring to grey kittens.

Very disappointed!

So did I!!

Unfortunately I have do not have a grey kitchen so cannot impart any wisdom to OP.

[userxx]

@NannyGythaOgg Love the blind.

[NannyGythaOgg]

[quote NeedATan]@NannyGythaOgg Nice. Are those light tunnels? If so, are they OK or do they create water ingress issues eventually?[/quote]
No, they are not light tunnels - but I had one in a previous house and it was great and didn't leak in the 7 years I was still there - no reason that it should if fitted properly.

@userxx The blind was from Dunelm and it was an impulse buy. I was very unsure - until it was up and I totally love it. To the extent that, when they discontinued the range, I bought a huge one, that I haven't found a use for yet. (It doesn't fit any window so will have to cut it up)

[Donitta]

I have a dark grey Scandi Noir kitchen. Black floor and black worktop on almost-black kitchen and almost-black walls. It is quite dark but it’s a very large light room. It might not work in a smaller space.

[NiceGerbil]

Grey has been v fashionable for a few years and it's probably on its way out.

However- if you love it then do your thing!

I must admit I'm thinking that grey and terracotta might not go very well.

And grey with black worktops could be quite cold.

Do you have a link to the units?

We got cream years ago when it had been done to death. But, because we liked it and it went with our other choices. 15 years still looks like new!

Is there such a thing as warm grey? With the warmth coming from colours that work with the terracotta?

[userxx]

@Donitta What a beautiful kitchen, it's a shame the view out of the window is a bit rubbish 😉

[Donitta]

Not my kitchen sadly. The photo is from the brochure, mine is just the same colour!

[NeedATan]

@NiceGerbil Here are the units in the colour I like www.ikea.com/gb/en/rooms/kitchen/bodbyn-grey-pub7e535ac7

I hadn't thought about grey not going with our terracotta floor. It may not be an obvious choice but I don't think I'd mind it. I'm going out of my mind because my kitchen is fairly dark as it is but short of relocating it to the other side of the house there's nothing I can do about that, really. And I'm bored of the cream we have had for nearly 20 years...

[redbuttons]

My kitchen is a grey IKEA boden, mottled grey granite tops and off white floor, love it.