Painted kitchen for 2017

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I’m so terrible at making decisions so hoping that some Mumsnet wisdom can help me.

I should finally be getting my new kitchen this year after about 3 years of planning. I’m planning on a country kitchen look rather than a modern look. It will probably end up looking a bit homemade and eclectic due to our budget and style but I do want it to look nice and like it all works together.

We will have an l-shaped row of base cabinets and a straight line on one wall of wall cabinets probably with shaker style doors. I’m definitely going with engineered oak floors and a wooden worktop and painted cupboards. I had my heart set on green but after one little comment on a blog about green being passé I’m now all undecided. I’m not really worried about being on-trend/ahead of the curve but don’t want to look dated before I’ve even put it in.

So now I’m undecided on colour. I defintely want a colour rather than white or anything too whiteish (cream, pale beige) and everyone I know has a grey Howdens kitchen so would like to avoid grey. DP mentioned going for blue and I like the idea but can’t seem to find any pictures of a blue painted kitchen that don’t look a bit childish – sort of too ‘baby boys bedroom’ if that makes sense. We prefer the blue/green/grey spectrum rather than orange/yellow/red and, while I know the new trend seems to be very dark painted cabinets, I’d rather avoid anything too dark.

Can anyone suggest any colours or colour combinations that would look good? Any pictures would be also be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

That's interesting daffodil as I'd just been thinking of Skylight for the top cupboards. Its a lovely colour.

dynevoran think I'm probably not quite bold enough for the dark green. The light green is lovely. Good luck with your kitchen.

jelly thats how we are planning on doing it. We are starting from scratch but with a v low budget so planning on buying Ikea doors, adding a shaker frame, using ESP and then eggshell. That's good to know that F&B hasn't chipped. Is it water-based eggshell? I was just thinking oil-based may be more hardwearing but if yours is water-based then it sounds OK. Do you have to be very careful or is it pretty robust.

I do love the F&B Light blue (thanks becky and daffodil).

I think I'm leaning towards a v light blue for top cupboards and a darker (but not too dark colour for base units). Maybe Skylight on the top and Little Greene oil-based on the bottom units which will get more bashed around. Thinking possibly Bone China Blue. Would those 2 go together? I love LG James too but think it wouldn't go with Skylight. I'm trying to avoid buying hundreds of tester pots as we ended up with about 20 for the wall colours in the sitting room and it just made more more confused.

The problem is all the colours are so nice its hard to eliminate any of them.

Mine is green/grey (although DH reckons it's blue) it's the Tewkesbury range from Howdens and they call the colour "skye". I hmm'd and harr'd about getting a coloured kitchen afraid in a couple of years time it would be the avocado bathroom suite of installations but I'm so glad I went for it. Totally love it.

We are going with diy kitchens cornflower blue- in Linwood which is a shaker painted kitchen- actually a greenish blue ( less blue than the pictures on the website) with a mixture of wood work tops and white quartz around sink on island, and wood floors- hope it will be ok!

static.diy-kitchens.com/ranges/Linwood_Cornflower_blue_900px.jpg

You can order the doors to see, and not nearly as blue as the picture. They also will spray in any F&B colour- this was too £££ for us and in real life the cornflower colour is quite close to the F&B light blue.

The quotes were cheaper than howdens wicked etc etc by quite a bit, and solid wood. It is being fitted in a month - so can let you know how it goes.

SorrellForbes can you tell me what size the lay on frame is on the Fitzroy Shaker door please? I had been considering DIY Norton units but I'm not sure if the extra wide 105mm frame is a bit too chunky for what I want. Thanks so much.

This is the company that specialise in blue painted kitchens so the pictures on this website should give you a good idea.

Not at all childish and very grown up.

Ive seen it done in the flesh and you would be surprised that the dark blue doesnt darken the room too much so long as you are using light worktops and tiles.

www.devolkitchens.co.uk/

Everything is still boxed (building delay!) but will ask DH to check.

Thank you Sorrell :)

So sorry, DH is away with work but back soon so will remind him. Can I just check what you want him to measure? The actual thickness of the frame that the door attaches to?

Thank so much. It is the width of the door rail on front of the doors, where I've put the red lines.

@HomeExtender

I'm so sorry, it's taken ages to do this and you've probably made a decision by now but just in case the measurement is 10.5cm

@SorrelForbes thank you so much that's really kind of you !