What colour island?

[LazySusan11]

New kitchen is ivory gloss/natural wood worktops. Want a kitchen island that isn’t to whacky but isn’t the same as the rest of the kitchen.

Can’t get a feel for colours..I don’t enjoy this sort of thing at all! Please help!

Navy/dark grey? I’m going for aubergine as I love purple. Really anything would work that you like

Navy, hadn’t thought of that! Thank you

dark moss green - not gloss tho - a dull flat tone....? Or dull burnt orange? love aubergine / navy as well. Think it needs to be dark?

what colours and materials are the floor and walls?

Walls will be white (for now until house has ‘settled’) flooring we haven’t yet decided..think we’re going for Karndean vinyl tiles but don’t know if we should go for a large limestone tile effect or a wood effect. I’m not sure with natural wood worktops if a wood floor would be overkill.

In my head this sort of thing is SO much fun, in reality it’s a massive ball ache. I am not good with lots of choice!

I’d like something that’s pretty timeless.

I think Navy would look stunning

Olive green is fab just to confuse you further!

I’m between green and navy so at least I now only have 2 to choose from!

I dont think that I would do wood floors with a wood top - as they are all on the horizontal plane IYSWIM? unless they were a real contrast? Limestone effect I think would be unobtrusive, merging with the cabinets so showing off the wood work tops and coloured island. I think that I would be careful using a really bright white - if you go into F&B and take samples of your kitchen materials they are very good at advising the best hue (I cant see the difference from a chart myself). Even tho the paint maybe a bit more expensive you wont be doing it twice or spending loads on tester pots - so could break even.

We have our new kitchen installed in a few weeks and have opted for dark blue and a very pale grey combo. We've had silestone work tops for the dark blue cupboards and wood for the very pale grey island/prep table.