colour and paint for kitchen cabinet? help me get rid of the awful light blue...

[Startingagainandagain]

The previous owner decided to do a bizarre paint job on the kitchen cabinets during lockdowns and painted them two shades of rather ugly blue (some baby blue and some a much darker blue with some navy cabinet knobs).

I want to cover that up with one colour.

The walls are white and I am thinking that I don't want boring light grey or white for the cupboards. I also think it will also make painting over the existing horror with a darker or brighter shade.

Any suggestions for colour and best type of paint to use?

The seller also covered the wall tiles with some ugly dark blue paint and I am not sure if I can just paint over that?

This is a 1930 house and I am decorating it with a boho/arty feel. I was thinking maybe a nice shade of sage green for the cabinets might be nice as I have lots of plants.

Use little greene intelligent undercoat then main coat.

Colours depend on kitchen style and size, and your preference tbh.

We have upper cabinet white and lower oak, so two tone does work nice and makes room bigger. Maybe just not the colours they chose. Maybe white upper and green lower?
what are the worktops like?

I'd start with paint stripper (or maybe a heat gun now the realy powerful stuff has been removed from paint stripper) and get the tiles back to original first.
Then decide if you want to compliment them, or repaint them before deciding on cabinet colour.

@Caspianberg

Worktops are black.

Yes, it might be a good idea to have upper white and lower green. I had not thought about that :)

@FallingAutumnLeaf thank you! I will get some paint stripper and see how I get on with that first.

Rustoleum do kitchen cabinet paint and have some nice sage colours.

I just moved into a house with badly painted (as in, vendor had painted AROUND the microwave and fridge rather than behind them) white wooden cabinets.

I’ve done them a shade I call Fuck It Pink.

I'm probably not the right person to answer this as I painted our kitchen cabinets blue (F&B Oval Room Blue) and I love them!

I also went for two different colours - the Oval Room Blue on the lower cabinets/island and Craig & Rose Pale Oak on the wall cupboards. We only have two actual wall cupboards, the rest are 1 x display shelving, 1 x plate rack and a timber/mdf cooker hood - but all these are the Pale Oak (a deep cream) and I painted the walls in the same colour which creates an illusion of more space imho.

As you're trying to get away from blue, I'd also suggest a lovely warm olive or sage green...although some sages can be a bit too cool for my taste. We have a bedroom painted in Little Greene Sage Green which is a warm sage...in our house anyway, but it might be too dark for your kitchen.

Thanks everyone for the advice! my kitchen cabinets are now a lovely and bright pale sage green. I made sure I sanded and primed everything properly before painting.

I have done the walls white and everything looks so much brighter now. I still have the dark blue tiles so that will be the next bit to go...I think I will keep the tiles on the darker side though so that not everything is pale/too boring in the kitchen and kitchen extension!