If you were getting a new kitchen what colour would you choose?

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For the units

Neutral. It doesn't date and can be changed simply by an update to times or tops.

We renovated our kitchen just after Christmas and went for olive green doors. I wasn't sure at first as we'd changed from white, which I'd loved, but everyone who's seen the kitchen says it looks lovely.

White. Can’t offend anyone and walls and tiles are easy to change to update. Anything currently trendy will be dated in 5 years including blue and green.

Literally just having mine done with mushroom colour units, a cream with light brown streaked quartz worktop and upstand, light oak lvt flooring and white walls. It looks marvellous, really light and airy and completely opposite to what I had before which was so dark I was worried I’d end up cutting a finger off!

I don’t think something as expensive and un reusable as a fitted kitchen shouldn’t be seen as fashionable or not.

My friend’s just gone with sage green and it’s gorgeous. I’m also green - with envy, lol

We had a dark navy kitchen put in 2019 with a karndean parquet floor and I still love it. If now I'd go for an emerald green version but I love solid colours.

Neutral (white, cream, pale grey) or natural wood or repaintable.
This year's top fashion will be "hideous" in 10-15 years and be ripped out long before it's worn out. I think its worst with worktops - slabs of granite 300 million years old are chucked on a skip after a decade.

I've lived through enough trends to see them come and go, including dark green and dark blue the first time round in the 1990s. If doing my kitchen now I'd put colour and trends into the room with wall and furnishings but make the permanent fittings future proof and durable.

We went for a ivory colour for units, oak worktops, and gorgeous cream and coffee colour tiles, a different colour cream flooring - had sleepless nights about doing cream on cream but it looks so light and fabulous! currently walls are a pretty green but just about to change them which is easy because of the neutral base we have I can go with any colour apart from cream of course! 7 years on and I still walk out there thinking this is lovely! Might go with pink and raspberry colour this time round

I have a lovely grey and white kitchen - it is well over 30 years old but very cutting edge at the time. Then it went out of fashion, years passed, the wheel turned and I was back on trend for a few years. Now grey has had its day again but not sure (actually I am sure!) I will be around for another 30 years for it to come back in style. However, in answer to OP's question I would opt for white, cream or grey units and splash the colour on the walls

Life's too short to not go for what you love. Sod what's fashionable, what's most neutral or least offensive to other people, go for what makes your heart sing ❤️

Ours is due to be done up (80s falling apart wood effect!) and I’d love white walls, white marble style work tops and pale ochre units. My husband wants a pale dove grey and white so it may take me a while to convince him!

I love forest green with natural wood counter tops. I'm planning to replace all the doors in my kitchen and get the tops done.

So far in kitchens I have installed :

gloss black ( that was in 1980 though)

dark oak

maple and sycamore with white edging round the panels

cream Matt ( it was a show kitchen which was amazingly cheap and I was skint)

light maple

cream painted oak

driftwood finish wood

the nicest were the pale maple and the cream painted oak

I moved into a white gloss kitchen here, it was new and I can’t be bothered to change it ( quite big too so £££) but I have added some open front solid oak units and shelves. If I did re do it I would probably use quite a lot of commercial units so stainless steel , supplemented with oak.

Ideally I'd love navy with coppery handles, however I also think that I've got a kitchen the size of one in a Jilly Cooper novel! We've actually not long done ours with pale grey units as whilst it's fairly big space - 12' x 9' - there's not a lot of natural light. I know you're only asking about units but we got black flooring and worktops and with hindsight would go for something much lighter as they show every single spec of dust/crumbs and need to be cleaned daily!

Pale blue. Like a vintage-style muted pale blue. (Not fuck egg)

Oh bloody hell! I'd altered my auto-correct to say fuck as when I'm trying to say 'fuck' it always changed it to 🦆

As you were 🫣

Not white or grey. Thought it would look light and bright, especially in a small dark space but I have found it cold and soulless.

I'd go for warm light wood if I had the choice again.

We’re struggling to choose between these two colours. We thought we had decided on the creamy one, but I’m now veering to green. Worried green will date quicker.

Sage green units.
Oak worktop
Brushed steel fittings
Oak effect porcelain flooring.
Cream wall tiles with mid-brown grout.
Cream wall paint.

My first ever new kitchen and I love it.

Just had ours done and went for a neutral pale bluey grey. We have a dark slate floor.

We had ours done a couple of years ago. The units are high gloss 'azure' - a cool pale blue with an almost glassy look. I still really like it!

I’d like French navy units, oak worktops and flooring, and cream walls like my DD’s new kitchen 😍

Had ours done in February, we've got very light grey gloss and a graphite island. Warm oak floor so not cold at all.

We did ours last year.

Previously we had ivory gloss with solid wood worktops and Indian slate flooring but we now have cashmere gloss units a special resin type worktop with mixed dark colouring and volcanic ash karndean flooring.

Sounds dark but we have two large picture windows and the walls are champagne matt with cashmere blinds. So pleased with it! Always looks so clean and sharp.

I'm glad there's one like me. I'm doing cream and oak. I found a secondhand oak kitchen but didn't have the tall cabinets so I'm getting them new in cream. Probably green tiles and some rustic shelving in one corner. Not decided on worktop. Found a lovely one but it's a bit pricey and needs maintenance.