Kitchen

[MeadowHay]

DH and I are about to start doing up a house that we intend to live in for the foreseeable future. It's just us atm but I am 34 weeks pregnant and we are planning to move when baby is about 3 months old. Everything is very hectic and we are very clueless!

We've picked which kitchen we want. However we can't decide on the colours. It's a glossy finish, and we'll have it in white, with sort of sparkly black laminate on top, and then white tiles for the walls with maybe some red tiles to jazz it up a bit. Or we will have the bottom units in red, the top ones in white, with white sparkly laminate and white tiles for the walls. Is white kitchen benches a bad idea? The kitchen is not huge, will be around 10 units in total, and it's a dark room, it doesn't get much light. Which would you pick?

Also don't know what colour to pick for appliances, the only appliances we own so far - washer/dryer, kettle, microwave, and grill are all black, but then if we get a white kitchen would all black appliances look weird in that?

Finally, flooring. What flooring do you have in your kitchen? I was thinking of going for vinyl but no idea what colour/style etc.

Your first option is by far the best. Two different coloured units will look messy. Also, if you want red, consider a splash back instead of tiles as much easier to change if you want a different colour in future, and much easier to keep looking nice as no grouting. My mum has a red splashback in her kitchen and it looks great with a glittery black surface top and very pale grey units.

Stick with the white - much easier to live with and less likely to date. Red tiles imo look cheap.

Everything sounds lovely except the red tiles. Use accessories and a coloured kettle/ toaster to add colour.
You'd get sick of the red after a while.
And it's tying, colour wise.

Thanks everyone. We think we will go with the white kitchen, like the idea of a red splash back too. Would a very dark tile floor look ok with that do you think? We were thinking a very dark slate type colour maybe. Or would that make the room look smaller/darker?

A dark floor will make the room smaller.
I still think using red as a strong accent colour is
You'll get sick of it quickly.
Go neutral on the splash back and add red kettle/ toaster etc.