Kitchen colour help please

[empiricallyyours]

We're trying to decide on a colour for new painted kitchen cabinets and really struggling to choose. We're probably going to get it from this place, in the Malton Painted range (you can click through the colours available) :

www.diy-kitchens.com/kitchens/shaker/

We like a white marble top (mainly because we've had a dark worktop for last 10 years), but stuck on cabinet door colour.

What would you choose for a kitchen that won't date too quickly? We have a medium oak floor and it's a small galley kitchen in an Edwardian terrace with a large window, so plenty of light.

Quite like the Carbon, Heron Grey, Cobham Blue, Cornflower Blue and Alabaster, but are blues/greys too fashiony, or is Alabaster too boring? Any help would be much appreciated.

[7to25]

Cornflower Blue
Alabaster needs careful handling with a white worktop.
Dark colours too much in a galley kitchen
Greys on the way out.
CB looks fresh and appropriately Edwardian

[GinAndTonicOnIt]

I agree that dark colours may be a bit much for a smaller galley kitchen. Cornflour blue is lovely.

I went for a colour similar to cobham blue and I'm pleased with it but my kitchen is bigger than your usual galley. The worktop does lighten it though so if you have your heart set on a darker colour go for it!

[empiricallyyours]

@7to25 thanks for your insight. I think you're prob right about the Alabaster with the white worktop and about greys having had their day. I do really like the cornflower blue and that would tie in with some of our other decor.

[empiricallyyours]

@GinAndTonicOnIt thanks, yes it's a fear about the darker colours being too strong for a small galley. I think I might have to order some sample doors (showroom too far away from us) and go from there. Cornflower might be in the lead now!

[IamnotwhouthinkIam]

I have a medium oak floor and white quartz worktop (but with grey speckles rather than marble effect). Couldn't decide between the Cornflower Blue and the White in DIY Kitchens (discounted the other colours as too trendy or too dark for me - liked the Alabaster but felt it was too yellow toned with whitish work top).

What swung me towards the White was that they don't do carcasses to match the Cornflower Blue and I was concerned the Oak effect carcass might not tone with with my oak floor and the White carcass look too odd with the Blue (in the showroom they pair the Cornflower Blue with the Oak carcass) . I decided that with classic white units, I can always get paint matched and paint the kitchen walls the Cornflower Blue colour instead in future (if I can be bothered!).

[empiricallyyours]

Thanks for the info on the carcasses @IamnotwhouthinkIam, I hadn't considered that.