would red be too overpowering in a kitchen?

[lucysmam]

It's just the tops of the walls that want painting, the rest are covered by appliances/cupboards.

The units are beech effect & surfaces are pretty standard I think, beigey kind of speckley patterned bu a bit of a state because I can't get the adhesive the workmen used to tile it off them. The tiles are bright white & my appliances are all silver apart from micro which is being replaced asap to match the rest.

I was thinking a bright-ish red & a few red accessories like pots for my growing herbs.

I want some opinions please, before I go and buy something which I later regret getting

Thanks ladies

oh, forgot to say, the floor is of the cheap laminate variety but looks ok apart from a few scuff marks where the door into the back hall scrapes along it. It's also a kind of beechy colour

Like a pillarbox red? Quite an aggressive colour - but it has to be seen to be commented on ..

maybe not quite that bright but something along those lines

If red's too aggressive, how about cream with red accessories?

& a red Kitchen Aid (if I can talk my oh into buying me one )

I have post box red huge brick effect tiles and they look great.Kitchen is white with oak tops and ceranic grey floor Red is lovely in a kitchen

see, my kitchen's not quite that lovely sounding, I have dreams of a beautiful, stylish kitchen but no way my landlady (although very lovely) could pay for even a new floor atm so wanted to do something to it. I wonder maybe about painting the tiles red & doing the rest cream so it's not so "in your face"

Any thoughts?

Our kitchen was painted red when we bought the house - it's a very big room, pine units, similar sounding worktop to yours, mostly stainless steel appliances.

I found it too much (and it wasn't the brightest red) - a kitchen is cluttered enough without bright walls and I spend lots of time in it - so painted it pale beige/cream and think it looks much better.

Just my opinion

I think I'll go cream with red accessories then, it's fairly big in there but not huge & I don't want to regret doing it & have to paint over it after paying out for red & finding it too much.

Best get searching for some red accessories to go in there . . . .

Thanks ladies

You don't need to paint the whole room.How much light does it get?

We have 3 cream walls, and 1 deep red wall. Cream tiles. It looks really nice - we think!

Don't do it.

We once pained our kitchen red - thought it would look warm and cosy.

With our (then) black and white floor tiles it looked like the Nuremberg Rally.

Ooo yes, one red wall would work

I like the one wall idea, the only trouble is, the tiles that would normally just be a splashback behind the sink & cooker, extend around the room in a kind of band so not sure hhow it would look. Although, I do have half a tub of deep-ish red paint & some cream lurking around. I could just see what the one wall looks like & if it's bloody awful nick the white my BIL has to paint over it a few timesI guess.

I have a cream walled/beech united kitchen with red accessories..and a fabulous cream and red big flowered blind which is the focal point in the room (from next), it looks lovely! my vote is cream with red accessories.

I like the sound of your blind a lot! I was just going to get a plain bamboo one but I guess if I do cream wit red accessories then I could have a look for something more adventurous. Is it on the Next website to have a nosey at?

Mine is kind of cream with read accessories.....but i have a few mid blue bits and bobs aswell.....worried now that it looks abit patriotic lol!!!! But i have invested in the accessories so feel i have to 'go' with it now!!! Like the idea of the blind