What colour kitchen to go with this worktop?

[Busymum909]

We are thinking about revamping our current kitchen rather than ripping it all out and starting fresh! We have a good quality quartz worktop which I’d rather not take out, except I dislike the colour! We are thinking of a classic/shaker style for the cupboards, but can anyone suggest a colour which would look nice with the worktop? We are also thinking of new white metro tiles.

You could pick any of the colours which are in the worktop. Its hard to see from the pic, but a cream, wooden finish, dark statement colour or maybe a light green? Hopefully someone with better colour ideas can help.

Where would the metro tiles go? As a spash back? We've just finished a 2yr renovation. I'm sure metro tiles with become the avocado suite in a year or 2! Bare in mind that they are small, and the additional grout can make the area look even smaller and overly busy. Also- with all that grout- they can get dirtier quicker than larger tiles with less grout or a one-piece splash back. I'd also avoid anything grey. It too has had its day IMO!

Thank you. I do think cream would go best, like you say! But wasn’t sure whether cream itself is dated? If I was to choose a new worktop it definitely wouldn’t be that colour but I don’t want to replace something in good working order just for the sake of colour.

Sorry the image isn’t amazing! The picture is of the hob U island but the metro tiles would go around the kitchen. Do you think metro tiles are dated now too? Are splashbacks cheaper?

Dark wood veneer and black would go well. Handleless. More on trend than a cream shaker style kitchen and unlikely to become an avocado bathroom style disaster, but not everyone's taste. Do they still make the worktop where you bought it? Instead of tiles, I'd go for a matching quartz splashbacks.

Something like this, though you can get the veneer darker or lighter to closely pick up the browns and beige in the worktop.

That’s really old-fashioned, unless you are hugely strapped for cash I think you’d massively regret spending on a new kitchen and having a beige worktop. Can you sell it instead maybe?

Pricewise, quartzsplashbacks are similar to tiles if you price in the cost of a tiler. They get simply glued to the wall, so it takes literally 5 minutes. We paid about 250 pounds for a 1.50m x 1.20m quartz splashback.

I am in the exact same position with very similar worktop and cabinet combo. It's just so beige and bland but the worktop cost the previous owners a fortune and it's so well fitted and good condition. We had a door transformation company round with their swatches and the best colours for new doors with the current worktops were sage or dark blue. We still have a few other jobs to do yet before getting around to doing the kitchen.

Have you considered having your kitchen cabinets professionally spray painted and perhaps using the money you save to change the worktops?
We did that and our kitchen looms brand new. We had the cabinets colour matched to a farrow and ball colour with new worktops, sink etc and we did tongue and groove panelling as a back splash painted the same as the cabinets. Before and after here. Cost us £900 for the painting and it's a decent sized kitchen

Meant to say we rejigged some of the cabinets and added two new ones from b&q as I hated the curved ones but all the rest are the original kitchen ones