Kitchen/ diner revamp advice

[Eltonjohnsflorist]

We had a through sitting/ dining room but have just had a wall put up to separate the sitting room and have taken one down in the kitchen to create a kitchen diner

We won't be getting a new kitchen for a couple of years so I want to re- vamp this room.

Dining room can be painted/ carpeted any colour. Initial thoughts are F&B Pav grey. Ditto any blinds in the kitchen windows.
The kitchen is old horrible oak but not terribly offensive. It would be best off re painted in chalk paint I believe.
Flooring and work surfaces dark grey
Tiling is red, blue and yellow alternating squares. Not sure what to do about these!

What would you do? Any ideas much appriciated

I'm not a chalk paint fan as the kitchens I've seen where the units have been painted with it just look grubby to me. Are the units wood or laminate/foil covered? If wood, I'd paint with satinwood paint.

Tiles - you could cover splashbacks with stainless steel or coloured glass providing the tiles don't show through or just re-tile. Friends painted their naff brown 70s kitchen tiles using white Hammerite spray paint - it looked so much better when they'd done that and the tiles didn't look obviously painted either.

Thanks wow fudge. Unfortunately I suspect if we removed the tiles half the wall would come also! But I will check out hammerite.

Only personal experience, but having painted kitchen cupboards, I wouldn't use chalk paint unless you want like the shabby chic or just shabby look. It is not hard wearing at all. Even using F&B, it wasn't particularly hard wearing so I wouldn't recommend that (various threads on here have recommended an oil based eggshell rather than F&B's water based eggshell but the satinwood might be even better). But the overall effect was good, much better than the orangey oak that we had previously.

Similarly for the walls - we used F&B and I found it to mark very easily and was difficult to clean / touch up. I would definitely get the coloured matched (but Pavillion Grey is lovely!).

As for the tiling, we have previously tiled over tiling (if the original tiling was secure) and got a good result.

I've painted kitchen cupboards with satinwood paint and tiles with hammerite, as suggested above, to give a kitchen a makeover before. We also changed the handles on the kitchen cupboards to these glass cupboard knobs.

Thanks all, now you mention it a colleague painted her kitchen in F&B oil based eggshell recently and was pleased, and it opens up a whole colour selection also.

You're right about F&B marking easily, our upstairs is skimming stone and so far I've given it the benefit of the doubt but it does mark v easily

I think the F&B formula changed a couple of years ago - it used to be oil based but has been for at least the last couple of years water based. Might your colleague have had the F&B colour colour matched to an oil based paint because I don't think the F&B oil based version is available any more? I might be wrong, but check.