What colour to paint kitchen units?

[BigBoysDontCry]

Need an interim measure to tart up my kitchen. It's 22 years old and really needs replaced but I'm in the middle of seperating and just don't have the funds. I just want it to look nicer as part of my fresh start.

So, currently it's cream, shaker style but the plastic wrapping is coming off/cracked open on some doors. It looks like I can remove that and it's like board type wood underneath. Hopefully I can get away with sanding that and painting on the doors/drawers and will have to paint the coated surfaces on the sides and kickboards and trim/shelves.

I can change the colour of the walls, currently soft green, but I'm going to be stuck with the burgundy tiles and orangy oak floor (that is throughout the ground floor).

The room faces west so is darkish in the morning but bright the rest of the day, it has an joining family/dining room with French doors and has one normal sized window. The kitchen is L shaped.

I don't want cream again, don't fancy grey, if I was starting from scratch I'd probably be looking at sage green type colours maybe?

Anyone any suggestions?

Oh and worktop is pale creamy wood effect.

I'd kerp it classic and go for a neutral colour like white or cream to be honest as you can then change your colour scheme on your walls easily. I think coloured kitchen units will date very quickly and soon will be the avocado bathrooms of kitchens.

Sage green sounds lovely OP and is one of my favourite kitchen unit colours.
I know it's recommended to get units professionally painted though, if you want a good finish it might be worth it. I think they take them off and spray them which makes the finish perfect.

Thanks both. I guess I just feel the need for change once I have the house back to myself. Everything has been a bit neglected since we've not been getting on. Keeping them a similar colour makes sense but doesn't feel like a new start. 😊 I have looked at getting a company in to paint them but that doesn't seem that cheap either for what is hopefully temporary. I may have to sell and I'd be upfront that it needs a new kitchen but at least if it looked nicer that would help. Hoping to stay for 2-3 years though.

I have a few units in the utility room that I could maybe do as a trial run finish wise but there is no tiling in there and different flooring.

If you trialled it on a utility door, can’t you take the door off and then just prop it up in the kitchen to see it against the floor and tiles?

You can buy those transfer stickers to go over your tiles? My mum has done hers and they look brilliant. Thinking if doing mine as they're cream coloured lol 😆

Thank you, good thinking batman!

I suppose I could but they go behind the hob too, are they heat/fire safe? To be fair, I actually do t mind the colour of the tiles, it just makes it more awkward to match.

I'm now thinking I could do a sort of stone type colour to just get away from the cream but without adding in something to fight with the tiles.

Something like this?

Tiles are similar to this:

Skimming stone would definitely go with tiles and nice colour for units

That tile colour is getting fashionable again. You could go for a baby/millenium pink and the flooring could be stripped and stained a different colour, with burgundy tiles, pink unit doors a dark floor might be nice. What is your counter top?

Agree sage green would be nice as well.

Have a look at Little Green paints. They have some lovely neutral as well as green shades.

Avoid flat, matte grey at all costs.

The counter top is pale wood effect.

The floor is engineered wood so can be sanded and refinished but it's the same floor throughout most of the ground floor, hall, living room, kitchen/family/dining room and study. So it would really need to have the same finish throughout. We have a separate famy room that's carpeted and the utility and downstairs loo are vinyl.

Just laughing that if you wait long enough everything comes back into fashion. 😂

Thinking I could do the walls in the kitchen the same as the units as there isn't actually very much wall and then I could do something a bit more dramatic in the joining room.

Other half hasn't even found anything to move to yet but I'm enjoying myself planning what I'm going to do when he's gone.

I'm not a fan of grey. I tend to have things pretty colourful. Living room is the most recently decorated and has a base of neutral and navy but I have multicoloured accessories in jewel/sunsetty type colours. So that's more my vibe.