Paint colours to go with exposed red brick in kitchen ?

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We have some exposed red brick in our kitchen. We don't much like it but are stuck with it for now. Has anyone found a paint colour that works well with it? Current colour is dirtyish cream which is doing nothing to help. I'm leaning towards a greeny grey but would love thoughts...

Avoid anything with yellow notes like the plague (this will be why your cream looks truly terrible).

I think greeny grey would work - kind of a sage colour. Got to be the earthy, mossy end of greens rather than brighter, yellower ones. Or if the lighting in the room can take dark paint, a French navy.

Hey, thanks for the reply :) an earthy sage was pretty much the colour I had in mind so thanks for that. Would you have any specific recommendations?

French navy would be cool but not right for this space.

I love exposed brick how come you don't like it?

Can't you paint the brick?

This sort of thing?

I like brick too but ours is quite twee and old fashioned - actually it isn't 'exposed' at all but rather built on as a pointless feature - there's too much of it. We will get rid of most if not all when we renovate in the future, but for now the walls just need a good paint to improve the whole look.

I wouldn't paint the brick because whenever I've seen that done IRL I have to say it's not looked great.