Help with colour scheme for new kitchen pls

[milge]

I am hopeless with colour - I need paint for the walls and new handmade kitchen units and tiles to go behind the aga with:

Kashmir Granite worktops and upstands here

Claret Aga

Oak flooring

TIA

is your oak flooring teh normal yellow colour? i mean, not stained or lime washed?

Dulux Natural Saffron paint is nice (that's what I've painted my kitchen today!)

As for units...roungly whatis your budget? Ikea / MFI / posher?

Oooh tiles! Look at fired earth (for yummy tiles) and Johnson's (for a good range)

Oak flooring is normal oak colour, ie darkish brown, natural hardwood, with darker knots in it.
Units are being made as we speak,starting to go in on Monday

Wedgewood blue units are very cool looking

Indigo blue is much warmer looking on units

Sage green is nice & classic

Cream would also look classic on the cupboards

When you pick a colour for them it is much easier to pick the tiles & walls (IMO)

ok just checking as we have oak flooring and its quite yellow, not brownish.

the granite you have chosen is quite distinctive and i think you need a unit colour that complements it.personally i would avoid yellow as I'm not sure if it goes with the granite and the aga

is your kitchen quite light? Or do you have to have light colours to brighten it up? The claret aga is so rich, i woudl be tempted to go for soemthing darker, as least for teh floor units

or do you want teh same colour for them all?

we did up our kitchen earlier thsi year and i stressed out for weeks over colours for walls, painted units and tiles. Our Aga is cream and floor is mahogany, so totally different.

ok I've looked at your granite colour and i woudl go for a non yellow neutral colour, whichever one looks best with your granite. well actually, if it were my kitchen i would stain teh floor units dark brown, the same warm colour as the brown flecks in the granite . And paint the wall units in a beige colour like Farrow and Ball matchstick or Off white. But then i am probably mad...

and i woudl also paint all the woodwork in teh room and teh ceiling and the first coat on the walls BEFORE the units go it....

BTW I like all teh colours that the other posters have mentioned , esp the blues and greens, but not with your worktops

I think cream and duck-egg blue look lovely. Go well with wood too.

Just come back to this, thanks everyone. Greens and blues are out, I think, as would clash with the granite. I am going to follow KristinaM's advice, and paint walls first, once old units off befor new ones go on, have gone with Paper White from Laura Ashley. Will wait then until granite in and floor down before choosing paint colours for units or tiles. Aargh, indecision!

hi milge - have checked out laura ashley website and cant see paper white paint... i am looking on the wrong page?

here

Surely you should decide the colour of your units first? Or is that just the way I would do it?

for avoidance of doubt, I meant that would choose all my colours first then paint the walls with the first coat before the units go it.Its much easier than cutting in around them for two or three coats

what if you decide to go for pale colour on your units and then you have to change the walls?

Johnson's tiles v good - Fired Earth fab but expensive
Our kitchen is painted in Willow Tree by Dulux- lovely and understated

Kris I had my walls painted after my units went in.

Not ideal but copious covering and taping did the trick.

But then I havent got any wall units so it wasn't that bad.

you are obviously better painter than me

do you have open shelves instead of units or just cool nothingness?

Cool nothingness. I love it. I modelled it on a Plain English kitchen, without the £30k price tag!

photo please maidamess

milge - do you have a link or photo of teh look you want?

based on this, without wall units

I am Soooo in love with it.

lush

do you have the pale duck eggs units with teh timber worktops????

I have 'bone' colour in -frame units, a solid oak thick worktop, a tiny oak upstand, flat stainless steel sheeting for splashback behind hob and sink.

Solid oak flooring.
No draining board, no tiles.

'Ostrich Plume' flat emulsion on walls.

Kitchen porn, I love it!!

oh sounds very plain english

i love oak flooring - we have it in most of teh downstairs except the kitchen, which is mahogany

oak is supposed to be a "neutral" coloured wood because it goes with everything . must be fab with bone coloured units

you will need to watch splashes on wall though as flat emulsion is not very washable

Yes, I've spotted that already!

oooh how did it look?