what is a good colour for a kitchen - I need inspiration

[bosscat]

What is a good colour for a kitchen? I have cream shaker cupboards and dark Iroko wooden tops. The kitchen area is cream and I am looking to do the dining area (in same room) a different colour.

What colour is yours?

[Kidstrack2]

Magnolia peachy type colour!

[jambo1707]

i LOVE MY KITCHN BLUE AND YELLOW

[bosscat]

ooh Satine thanks for that, I love Laura Ashley home furnishings and could live in most of the rooms in their brochure!

[noddyholder]

ours is duck egg blue cabinets with cream stone tops and a black tiled floor the walls are stone and the tiles are matt black grey and stone really calm and relaxing you could paint walls a stone colour and do one in red your kitchen sounds fab I love kitchens!!

[Satine]

Laura Ashley Apple is a lovely pale green which isn't cold but they don't do it in kitchen bathroom finish - just matt emulsion, which means I need to repaint after three years! But gorgeous colour. Very 1950s.

[bosscat]

thanks everyone, lots of tips here. Isn't it funny how some colours just don't work? I painted it last Friday night and it was called "buff" which was a kind of coffee colour on the tin. I put a little on the wall and it looked okay. Painted the whole thing and it looked dog poo brown the next morning! Your kitchens sound fab by the way.

[katylou25]

My kitchen is my fave room in the house - it's got (fake!!) slate tiles, beech units, (fake!!) granite work surfaces and the walls are to shades of purple - I loves it!

[NomDePlume]

On all the sell your house type progs they use a pale green

[binkie]

ours is an intense forest green, with dark walnut floor & cupboards & dark grey shiny granite worktops

we copied it off some arty friends of my parents, and it's beautiful - specially good as background to some rather vibrant prints

some inspiration here ?

[miranda2]

I've just painted my naff dark wood 80s units very pale blue - duck egg blue. The walls are pale yellow, and the dining room which leads off it is lilac - it all looks quite beach hut-y.

[crunchie]

Marthamoo LOL Thats brillinat

I was going to say what about Wedgewood blue - a kind of soft powdery blue, not pastel, but not bright.

My room is cream shaker, black granite, stainless steel range/fridge and moroccan blue (really really bright and vibrant) it leads out onto the patio and we have loads of big blue planters there. I LOVE strong bright colours but not everyone does.

[bonym]

We've got beech units and floor with drak-grey granite-style worktops. The walls are yellow which is makes the room really bright and cheerful - I actually wanted pale green but was out-voted by dh & dd1!

[beachyhead]

Foyer Green from the Dulux Heritage colours is pale and nice....... I love green - whole house is either green, aqua or bluey green - builder started to take the piss towards the end..... Front door is Farrow and Ball 'Smokey green' I think and that's nice too.

[purpleturtle]

We painted our yellow kitchen out with a lovely sage green colour last weekend. It does frame the window on to the garden beautifully. (The yellow was a complete disaster, because we forgot to look at the paint chart under the flourescent lighting in the kitchen. Once on the wall, it looked vile. We made it better by sponging cream paint over the top, which had the added bonus of disguising the extremely uneven plasterwork, but I do like my sage green.

[Gobbledigook]

bosscat - could you not go for red on one wall and cream on the others?

[Bagpuss30]

Ours leads on to the garden, maybe that's why it looks so nice - I'd never really thought about that!

[marthamoo]

Spaghetti bolognese colour.

[golds]

I like red or aubergine.

Mine however is Orange, yes orange, beech colour units, cream floor, three walls coffee. Smacks you as soon as you walk in, on another wall I have 2 beech shelves with orange bits on them. Looks good.

[CountessDracula]

White cupboards, black granite worktop, walls are F&B stone white which is much greener looking when on the walls.

[bosscat]

deep red does sound nice but I think might make the room look too dark. Because its just for the dining area there are no units to break it up so it would be a big block of red. I was thinking of green though, as it has french windows out to the garden so would continue the green theme (if that doesn't sound to nobby) oh god screaming baby with a cold better go back later ...

[Gobbledigook]

I'm with Swiperfox on the deep red.

We've got off-white cupboards with beech worktops, white tiles and deep red walls above that. I love it.

[Bagpuss30]

We have beech units, beech floor and dark green tiles. The walls are pale green which I like. The room is south facing and so to tone down the effects of the sunlight we went for a cool shade which works really well.

[swiperfox]

aubergine and cream