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.

Thanks my DIY skills are not that good so I would likely ruin it somehow and DH not well enough to do any DIY. But thank you.

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Thanks thinking more of a neutral shade that will make the blue seem more green and warmer than colder in colour that we can use in a large open room space. This includes living room area, dining area and large kitchen area.

Have a look at Little Greene Portland Stone. They do it in a range a shades from light to dark.

If the work is still ongoing, please consider isolating the kitchen with tarps hanging from the ceiling to prevent the dust from getting everywhere. I got pneumonia from construction dust many years ago. It went everywhere - even into the innards of the piano.
Keep all doors closed and draught sealed (ypu can buy silicone sealing strips to stick to doors) until the work is completed. Open and close for entry / exit. Don't leave doors open.
You may well end up removing any carpeting that has been exposed to the dust.
Wash all bedding frequently - at least twice a week.

I'd look at cool browns (blue undertone) for your walls (avoid yellow undertones as your cabinet colour sounds as if it has a blue undertone).

Or consider a cool tone cream for walls, with accessories in brass, copper, and / or pewter, deep chocolate brown and dark red with a cool undertone.

Thanks kitchen is in and I am pleased with it. The colour seems to change with the light from a greeny/blue, bluey/green and a bluey/greeny/grey.

Question how do you know if a paint colour has a such and such undertone or over tone (if you aren’t buying extremely over priced paint with a lengthy description.

How about the shade ‘Swiss Coffee’ by Crown a sort of fresh cream colour?

According to AI, Swiss Coffee has a yellow undertone. I'd say that's accurate.

So do you think that would work or is a creamy colour wrong @mathanxiety or anyone else.

I just tend to home in on creams, greens (but we have too much green in the house elsewhere) or other neutrals. Decorator keen on Crown or they can mix up a F&B dupe or similar. Thanks

Anything with a yellow undertone will emphasis the blue in the cabinets. You need something neutral or with a red undertone.

The wall colour we paired with our blue cabinets was a cream @CharlieChaplin99. I thought it was Craig & Rose Pale Oak, but OH reminded me it was a Johnstone's dupe, colour matched at a decorator centre. The lower cabinets were Farrow & Ball Oval Room Blue eggshell. They worked well together imo...I'll try to find a pic for you.

Here you go.....

Thanks both I wanted to steer clear of reds, peaches and pinky shades.

How about Snowfall or White Feather?

Snowfall is quite grey. White Feather has violet undertones. I'd suggest Swan Feather or Antique Cream from the Crown range. Sail White looks warm and neutral as well.

Are you putting any other block colours into to room (other than the walls) - tiled splashback or curtains for example? I'd go to town on that colour with something deep and rich, and then once you have a sample of it, get paint charts and choose a very pale "neutralled" version of it for the walls.
For the deep colour, what about maroon/wine? Not red, not purple, but something in between. Going for a colour on the red side of blue (rather than yellow side) should bring out the green in your cupboards.

Dupes never come up the same colour as the original. So you’d do better to go with an actual colour from a cheaper range so you can physically try the sample.

Completely agree with this!

I was a bit disappointed with the Craig & Rose dupe, but so pleased we used the real thing (F&B Oval Room Blue eggshell) for the cabinets.

I should have learned my lesson from our windows which our joiner insisted he was using Little Greene for. When they turned up, they were a distinctly different colour to our doors - which I'd painted myself in Little Greene exterior eggshell. Turned out he'd had the colour matched - badly.

Your kitchen looks lovely to be fair, and other people won’t notice. But it’s frustrating if you want a particular colour.

Weve just painted our new kitchen in Dulux natural hessian.we have pale jade tiles and it goes well as its a warm.but neutral shade.

Thanks

No block colours

Kitchen is currently painted a very pale lilac but want to go more neutral (not too dark bit not too bright or too stark) whilst steering away from the lilac which looks strange with the cabinets. I thought snowfall or coffee might work to carry through to our dining and living room areas?

That should read snowfall or swiss coffee?