Paint colours to warm up blue kitchen colour / accessories / clean up

[CharlieChaplin99]

Mid way through kitchen installation. Long story we have chosen a blue/green colour (similar to photos), chrome handles (different to those shown but similar colour) and grey/silver coloured large fridge freezer that isn’t integrated on a back wall. The colour of the units is a pale blue possibly blue/green which can look like it has tinges of green or grey depending on light. What colour paint would you use on walls and other accessories to make the colour appear more green and warmer than blue and less cold looking. Its a long story I liked the colour but really preferred a more neutral creamy/beige/greige colour and would never have chosen chrome handles but DH liked the blue colour and I really couldn’t decide so fed up of my indecision he jumped in and ordered a chrome Quooker tap so wanted things to match. The work surface is a silestone can’t remember the colour but its white with slight grey and slight bronze veins in. The room is a large kitchen diner has patio doors, velux roof windows and a kitchen window so a fairly light space. Currently walls painted a pale lilac in colour.

Second part of problem all the dust. Once finished best approach to getting rid of all dust top tips it feels like its all over the whole house. Shall I start upstairs or downstairs feels like its everywhere.

What aspect does the room have? I’d go with a brownish pink on the walls, probably (I have a colour in mind, but the paint range isn’t available in the UK). Something like F and B Dead Salmon? Plus some warm wood in evidence — say in kitchen stools if you are having them. Tiles if you’re having a tiled splash back anywhere would be another good place to add warmth.

I’m interested in anyone’s dust remedies. We’re about 3/4 of the way through a kitchen extension, and there are inches of dust all over the house, it seems.

F&B Dimity is a pale pink/beige that has warmed up and transformed my cold dark north/south facing house.

Pink will look lovely but date very quickly its at its peak now. I’d go for a contrasting off white, that tones with the units and is suitable for the orientation of the room.

Thanks not really a pink fan lilac or purple is about as pink as I like. In terms of facing I am not sure we get a lot of sun on the patio kitchen early morning until mid afternoon then the sun disappears into a tiny square at the top of the garden later on. Its not south facing or definitely not full south facing.

Yes thats what I was thinking @TMMC1 but it’s a nightmare finding and picking one of those colours.

I would have loved beige/greige or any shade of green kitchen cupboards but now I have these its not a bad colour but I would have preferred green or beige cupboards. I just don’t want the room to feel cold and icy whilst avoiding pinky colours.

I doesn’t need to look cold. Buy the swatch cards from the paint brands and stick them in different places and photograph in different light conditions. That will narrow it down. Mylands, Zoffany & paper & paint library are all good on these tones.

also, think a big green plant, a bright picture, and so on to add warmth and homeliness.

if you are this worried about it, could you change the units now before they arrive?

But lilac or purple are cool colours, and you are trying to warm up a room with ‘cool’ coloured kitchen cabinets that you find too cool. Aspect also matters, as a north-facing room will make any colour feel cooler, because the north light will accentuate the green undertones in any colour. I remember this from when I painted something French Grey in a north-facing room in an old flat in London, and was shocked when someone came in and said ‘I like your green cupboards’.

My other suggestion would be a strong, warm neutral with a red undertone like F and B’s Stony Ground. Or Oxford Stone.

Yellows, this can also include golds or brass colours, it’s the warming sunshine colour so easily brings a warm feel to a room.

Sadly not they have been painted to order.

I wonder if those pink/beige colours might just look really bland and wishy washy with the blue/grey.

How about painting the walls a warm white and then adding colour with art and a huge vase of flowers, vibrant kitchen ware.

As for dust - you just have to vacuum, dust, vacuum, dust, wash, wipe, vacuum dust until it's gone.

@DancingPuca sorry I was just trying to show my dislike for pink of any shade. It will
have to be a neutral I think. Would a pale green work or would it emphasie the blue doors.

Pale green will just make the doors look bluer. I think you need a creamy colour. Something like this:

https://coatpaints.com/products/safe-play-flat-matt

or this, which is similar but a bit darker: https://coatpaints.com/products/duvet-day-flat-matt

Stirabout is a nice warming neutral but nothing scary. More oatmeal. Pink will date. Or something classic like School House White.

Pale green will make the cabinets look even cooler! Look at some of the ‘warm’ F and B neutrals I suggested up the thread.

The kitchen we chose for our last house was F&B Oval Room Blue (so a bit more blue than yours @CharlieChaplin99). We painted the walls - and upper units of which there were just three plus an MDF 'hood' - in Craig & Rose Pale Oak which we'd used successfully at previous houses. It was a very bright room though, south-facing with three windows, so the colour appeared as a very warm cream.

We also had a bright red Bertazzoni Pro range cooker which certainly warmed up the blue. However, it was a bad choice, both colour-wise - too limiting - and from a functional point of view, so we included it when we sold the house 😉

We tied the whole scheme together with a splash back in turquoise, red and cream (wallpaper under tempered glass).

Don’t overthink the dust. Just keep repeating it, and you might also get cleaners in to get the worst of it up. It’s awful!

I think you need to think beyond 'colours I like or dislike' and think functionally in terms of what colours will do what you need them to and warm up a too-cool space.

I loathe pink personally, and would be as likely to buy myself a pink garment as I would to get a facial tattoo of a goat, but, having said that, I have used pinkish-browns/brownish-pinks/taupes to good effect in the house. They don't code as pink, more as warm neutrals. But it sounds to me as if what you need is a warm neutral -- look up F and B Oxford Stone or Stony Ground and look at their 'inspiration' images, which show the paints used in real spaces. (There's a useful Home and Garden article about room aspect and colour which might help, but I think it would be useful for you to figure out which aspect it has.)

(I'm about to have a new west-facing kitchen fitted in a room with lots of light). The cabinets are greyish blue and the wall colour will be a warm brown. I like a moody, darker vibe, so very different to yours, but still warm. I'm injecting a bit of extra warmth by using some moss green tiles left over from a bathroom, and there will also be some exposed wood.)

My cupboards are painted farrow and ball light blue (looks more green than blue though), the walls are Joa’s white. Work surface black granite. It was done 10+ years ago but I like it enough that I am planning to refresh paint it in the same colours. I love the colour of the cabinets and I think there is enough colour in those and the blinds/art/accessories in the room without needing anything other than neutral walls.

Thanks@CulzeanMoncreiff that is a lovely colour cupboards and a colour I wanted mine to look like rather than such a cool definite blue.

Look at F&B Pointing it’s a rich warm cream. Also Clunch.

I’d go for something yellowy on walls: www.farrow-ball.com/paint/hay

We have similar cupboard. We have Dulux Jasmine White on the walls. It's lovely and bright and then we have colourful artwork dotted about.

Dear Op,
I once painted kitchen cupboards a verdigris which came out bluer than planned. I was able to warm it up with a coat or two of brown paste hard wax. It was very easy to do and worked quite well, even on satin paint . If you add too muchorr don'tt like it you canremove it easily with transparent wax.

Do try this before selecting your new wall paint.

Thanks I think DH would kill me if I tried that on brand new kitchen cupboards.

Some plastering has been done, the base and wall units in, first fix electrics and plumbing done. Just waiting for silestone work surface, cupboards and draws-will chase today. Think the blue delayed.

Well it is only a suggestion of a reversible solution that could get you the tint you desire. Your paint could also have a yellow glaze added for similar results but this would be more permanent.