Do you have Borrowed light, Parma Grey or Skylight kitchen units?

[neepsandtatties]

I've narrowed my choices down to these three (which I think is quite an achievement!) but am torn as to which one to plump for. It's a fairly small south and east facing kitchen with skylights (so very bright). We have the original red quarry tile floor tiles and are planning on this worktop www.silestone.co.uk/quartz-colours/colour/montblanc/ as the red flecks will pick out the floor colour. But I am worried the worktop might be a bit 'harsh' with the dark floor, and maybe a creamier, or greyer quartz will be better...Thoughts welcome!

I think I am most concerned about the units looking okay against the red floor tiles. I don't know whether a more grey colour, or a more blue colour looks best with quarry tiles?

Any feedback on how these colours look when actually in a kitchen would be great - there's only so much you can glean from google images!

neeps
have you chosen my kitchen?? It's going in soon after 6 months of indecision.
I've gone for Compaq Carrera and either LG Gauze Deep or F&B Light blue.
There's so much choice isn't there?

Just to add, Crom Fog by Fired Earth is lovely too.

Aaarrgh! Don't throw more colours into the mix! I originally discounted Light Blue as it looked as though it has green tints (and my DH hates green with a passion) but google images show some lovely kitchens with it and it's not greeny at all. Hmmm.

If you haven't seen this already, this blog post will be of interest to you

moderncountrystyle.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/case-study-farrow-and-ball-light-blue.html

Those other two colours are lovely too.

I think I will buy the three or four F&B testers this afternoon and will report back!

We have Borrowed Light in our NE facing bedroom. I love it as it changes with the light.

Would be quite seaside-y with a south facing room maybe?

I'm laughing here..I've been you.
I have testers for
Crom Fog (a bit baby blue for me)
Borowed light (lovely but I'm worried about it being too light)
Gauze, mid & dark (I'm considering both)
Light Blue (looking grey rather than blue/green)
Dimpse (a really lovely grey)
My DH refuses to have a grey kitchen so I'm looking for blue/grey.

Perhaps I could use all the testers I have enough to paint several kitchens

What colour will you put on the walls?
I'm wondering about Blackened.

I would say go for a greyer colour rather than a bluer colour as otherwise it could end up being a bit red, white and blue? Unless you go that y deliberately and make it a sort of nautical/New England style room. A blueish grey would be nice though.

I think either a creamier or a whiter worktop works fine. Whiter is cleaner and more modern, creamier is more comforting and country house ish. I'd probably go for the whiter one as I'd worry the cream one could just look grubby/aged.

I agree with looking at other paint companies - especially French Grey by little Greene (it's a blueish grey) and Crom Fog by Fired earth - both lovely. By the way, for your units, I have been told that it's best to use oil based eggshell, not water based (it wears better) and I believe Farrow and ball are water based these days (little Greene are oil based, they can also colour match any f and b colour in oil based).

Good post by mini regarding colours but all the oil based paints are being phased out, so bear in mind you cannot repaint using water based over oil, so looking ahead perhaps better to use water based paint.

neeps, just wondering if you've made a decision? I'm wobbling with mine.

Yes! Bought the testers and have been living with painted A4 sheets in the kitchen since then. I am 99% sure I am going with Skylight. Going on the 'squint your eyes intensity test', I found Parma Grey too intense/dark. Borrowed light and Skylight are both the same intensity (i.e. you squint your eyes and they look exactly the same) but I found Borrowed light to be too bluey (it's like a vey pale baby blue). Skylight to me seems just right.

Just waiting for my silestone sample to check it looks okay with that. Have no idea about wall colour yet, but am currently looking into tongue and groove splashbacks, so will need to paint those too.

Argh is that true cheerful? Not sure what we're going to do about repainting our oil based painted kitchen in that case...

neeps it sounds really lovely. Have you seen this?
www.houzz.com/photos/1022570/P--Rogers-Designs-contemporary-kitchen-vancouver
Its a much more contemporary kitchen than I'm going for but the colour with the pale worktops works really well.

ooh, no I hadn't seen that! That's thrown me into a quandry as it looks very grey'y in that kitchen (a bit more grey'y than I want).

I think my problem is that my (1980's) kitchen is white cupboards with grey worktop and grey wall tiles, so the Skylight tester looks quite blue in comparison!

If anyone actually has a kitchen in Skylight and can tell me if they have a blue kitchen or a grey kitchen, that would be great!

Well it definitely has a pale blue tinge to the grey on my tester. South facing kitchen.

I also found this pic, have you looked on Pinterest?
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