Paint colour suggestions please

[MoonlightandRoses]

for these kitchen units/colour. The room is south facing with windows on two sides, sink will be an off white and appliances are brushed steel or nickel. The floor will be a dark oak.

P.S. - Not afraid of strong colours and the house is Edwardian, so should be able to cope (I hope!)

Thank you

Greys are very on trend at the moment. How about a mid grey with a pop of bright colour like a yellow. Grey can be grown up with add fun by what every bright you put with it!

Pinterest gives you loads of ideas, I can scroll on there for hours a day looking at all kinds of home decor. Take care :)

Hadn't thought of that, will pull some colour charts on those lines together - thank you!

Am obviously not very good at this lark - I have now tried a few yellows (on the gold end of the spectrum), but while they should work, they don't. It doesn't make sense while it's essentially a 'greige' (so neutral) kitchen, it doesn't seem to like decent colour. The only thing that looks as though it would go very nicely is birchwood and DH has vetoed me getting that as a wall covering (apart from practicality we do need to have something ready for Christmas, so timing is slightly an issue) - help!

How about a lovely blue?
This Breton Blue is gorgeous! Might be nice with your light kitchen units.

It might - I may have to acquire a tester of that one tomorrow - thank you! You don't think it would be too much in a narrow room though? Kitchen is 21 feet long, but only 10' wide.

It is dark.
But lovely. :)

I have it on one wall of my lounge and a small section (above some tiles) in the kitchen. The rest of the walls though are quite light.

How many walls need covering? Could you have a combo of one blue feature evened up with other lighter walls?
I'm not necessarily an expert at interior decor but I love this partic shade!

CITRINE
EAU DE NIL
LEMON TREE
by the little greene paint co.
Such beautiful colours and finishes. Worth looking into their whole range.

I Love Salix by Little Greene - I used French Grey and wish I'd stuck with Salix. A dark grey or blue can also be v stylish

I shall be looking all of those up forthwith.

Tobermory - essentially all four walls - we went with an L-shape kitchen, bottom run of units only (except for the extra high unit with oven in and free-standing fridge/freezer on the 'window' wall) and will then do floating shelves rather than wall units. That said, I am rather 'old school' on the whole paint lark and have always gone for same colour all round - I really should consider not doing that, shouldn't I?

paper - not sure for the kitchen, but I think you may have just found our bathroom colour! (Probably either Lemon Tree or another one on there called Olive Oli) - needs to go with these wall tiles and these floor tiles

Silver - I love grey in the abstract, but not in reality as while it does look as though Salix would make the units 'pop', don't know I'd use it other than in a warm climate (or house - ours isn't entirely so I may be biased... )

Or Oil even

Moonlight....hmmm maybe?!

I'm still experimenting really with colours and how to create the look I want (tricky when I don't have a really clear idea). Sometimes it's a bit hit and miss.
We tried grey as the feature wall colour before the blue but it was horrid. Grey can be lovely I know but it didn't go at all nicely with the other colours in the room and my DH wasn't going to go 'new curtains' in addition to new paint!!?

Well, I'm now sulking - saw the blue 'in the flesh' as it were and ditto the Lemon Tree and Olive Oil - all would have worked very nicely with the kitchen/bathroom and DH has vetoed blue as 'too dark' (did try the whole 'feature' tack) and the other two as 'too wibbly' [sigh] .

I keep banging on about little green's starlings nest, it's a delicate pale duck egg blue

Will add that to tomorrow's search list, thank you - I think for the amount of testers being purchased I may go for patchwork!

You know if you find a good local stockist of heritage paint (usually an independent, rather than a big out of town chain) they will have each colour painted onto a sample wooden board...?
That way, you can go to the shop with a tile/photo of units, rather than buying loads of expensive sample pots. Also, if you google a local indy stockist of one 'naice' paint co, they will often carry several others...
I'd also say dont rule in or out via internet pages of colours; these beautiful paints need to be seen in the flesh
(someone at fired earth should gis a job!)
Anyway, let us know what you choose!

paper - I know - the actual paints are the reasons I buy the testers - even when I bring things with me it still doesn't seem to be right - never had this problem in any other place, but this one's meant to the the 'we're never moving again' one so maybe that's what's causing it?

Will definitely post a photo or two of the finished products, once finished.

I would recommend you avoid anything citrus as although grey and those colours work well, they are very definite and something you may tire of. Blue would look cold and horrible.

I think you need a kitchen to look neutral and airy as there's so much going on in there. They grey is lovely but If I were you I would stick to an off-white. Farrow and Ball's Pointing is a lovely soft jasmine-y white and it would work really well with those cupboards.