Kitchen design - colours, please save me from myself!

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I think I need the wisdom of mumsnet please before I drive myself and every other family member mad! I posted this in Property/DIY but got no replies so trying again!

Currently planning a much awaited new kitchen but can't decide on colour. I know it's a first world problem but we won't be able to afford to do it again any time soon and I don't want to get it wrong!

Choices are (all handleless):

• Light grey gloss (is really a very light grey)
• Cashmere gloss
• New to the list (as I looked at Pinterest for too long) Light grey matt

Kitchen is 6 meters by 5 metres and has 2 windows but never gets extremely bright but is fine with spot lights on.

What does everyone think and for your preferred option what colour worktop would you have? If anyone has any 'done' pictures they can share that would be wonderful but if not just an opinion please!

Also I make it more complicated as I try to work out what colour walls I was thinking with Cashmere unit's the walls might have to be all white but if we went grey units I would quite like one wall an interesting blue and others white. I have zero artistic flare or ability to imagine it done though and am going backwards and forwards driving us all crazy.

So mumsnetters with more imagination and artistic flare than me, please help!

What colour is cashmere? Is it cream?

We have very pale grey gloss, with white quartz worktop, and teal tiles. It's lovely! I probably would have gone for matt, but DH preferred gloss.

So cream or grey?

We went for cream units, black quartz worktop and red splashback. Timeless.

And we opted for very plain colours for the units and worktop so that it would go with any colour if we ever decide to change the tiles. We also add colour with things on the walls, table cloth etc.

Cashmere is a sort of beige, less yellow than ivory which the kitchen shop person told me was being 'phased out'.

It's only on the list as it's quite neutral and my first inclination was grey which I'm told is 'very in'. But worried the grey will look dated in 5 years (and we will be stuck with it for 15!). But I've no idea what goes with cashmere!

With grey we were going to do white worktops with a sort of grey marbling effect and a wood floor, one light blue wall.

With Cashmere I've no idea.

Can't believe I'm so bad at picking but just so worried about paying a fortune for something I regret!

Here incase it helps to see the colours. I was also worried about grey dating, but it's is so light Im hoping it will be fine in the longer term.

If cashmere is indeed cream, then that.
I am not a fan of a quartz worktop, prefer wood.
I am a big fan of green at the moment, but if the room is on the dingy side maybe plain cream walls and then choose accessory colours in one group and some great pictures on the walls.

Oh wow thanks everyone and @Imicola thanks for the picture!

It is helping.

Keep them coming everyone!!

My husband is ready to pick anything to stop me changing my mind!

Grey was very in and to an extent still is, but it is very done now. There are realistically few generic colours most people would choose for a kitchen and as it is such a big expenditure, you need to choose what you love rather than what is supposedly 'in'. If you are staying in the house for the foreseeable, anything will date, but some elements are cheaper to change for a new look.

We went for white handleless units with a very light grey corian top. Went for corian because the island is massive and we couldn’t have had granite or quartz without a join. It’s quite safe (boring) as a choice but very easy to update the rest of the kitchen with paint and accessories etc so hopefully will last the distance

Ooh white!

I did ponder white initially too.... I do like the idea that with a paint of the walls the whole room can change whilst the units still match.

Oh dear!

Anyone got a white pic they could share? I know there are hundreds on Pinterest but they all look like they are straight out of a magazine (because they are!) and it's hard to translate it to my kitchen!

We have cashmere and cream handless gloss. Cashmere for the fridge/freezer/oven area, and cream for the others. Cashmere show finger marks much worse than cream, so have to clean them every day (as children can't use the stainless steel spacers between to open them!)

As I mentioned on a different thread, I had a light grey kitchen installed 30 years ago in my previous house. No one ever commented that it looked dated even when I came to sell it a few years ago. To me light grey is a fairly classic kitchen colour. And anyway if you’re going to have it for 15 years the most important thing is that you like it.
My new kitchen is light grey and dark grey - matt, because I didn’t fancy polishing off fingerprints all the time.

Something very neutral such as cream. Noticed recently our old house for sale with the kitchen we put in 17 years ago still there, just with new tiles and worktop and these bits were only replaced in the last 3 years as saw pictures when it sold then. Personally I absolutely wouldn’t pick grey at the moment.

Current kitchen needs a refresh but some paint and resanding and finishing the floor will do the job and cost a couple of hundred pounds , current kitchen is 13 years old. I’m going into a cream and green phase this time I think.

Ignore the nay sayers about grey. It’s very classic. We have grey matt base cupboards, a white quartz worktop with silver flecks and grey Amtico flooring.

I’ve had wooden worktops and unless you want to keep oiling them, I wouldn’t bother. I love the quartz.

Thanks everyone.

I wish I now knew which way to go.

It's bizarre as years ago we did a kitchen in what was our then new house and I had seen an ivory gloss that I loved and it was almost a non decision. It still looked great 5 years later when we moved.

Not sure why I'm finding it so hard this time!

I think grey is over.
My preference is white, nothing glossy. Currently living with cream but it is dingy and I will change it to white if I get around to it.
However, I love blue.

We were in this exact position a few weeks ago.

Opted for matte alabaster (with handles though, because I thought handleless would be more likely to get grubby), with tiles that include the same alabaster and cream with beech worktop. The cooker hood is glass with a black stack, black range cooker. Then one wall and accessories/blind etc will be a deep red/burgundy. My feeling is that it’ll be easy to change the red to give it a new feel without necessarily having to change the kitchen.

I just hope it looks ok, it’s being delivered in a couple of weeks!

That's our new one.
We live in an old house, so grey didn't seem like an appropriate option.

@shouldntBeButIAm Iv sent you a pm

I wouldn't go grey. It's quite dated.

Either white matt or cashmere matt or gloss. Then some beautiful tiles in a bold colour and plain walls. OR matching up stands to your worktops and a bold colour (mid-dark green) on the walls. Emulsion is much cheaper to change every few years than cupboards.

I'll be no help here as I want a dark blue kitchen. I'm sure it'll change by the time I'm actually ready to buy it.

Thanks everyone.

@Fuzzyspringroll that is lovely

@paw1977 I'll pm you

Wow I'm now thinking white maybe. But the light grey and cashmere are still floating about! I think cashmere might be out purely as I struggle to work out that colours to go with it though.

Will speak to DH re white later and he prepared for the eye rolling at my introducing something else to the mix!

Anyone got white gloss?

All the kitchens my husband has fitted recently have had dark colours included eg blue or black or dark green.

They all look lovely but I do wonder how they will date.

This is his latest

I'd personally pick a white kitchen, pale worktops, white walls, then use accessories, blinds and pictures to add some colour. It's easy then to make changes in colour schemes without a whole new kitchen.