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Kitchen colours help!

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Goodwordguide · 09/09/2018 17:29

Help, cannot decide on colour scheme to pull two rooms together. We're getting a new kitchen plus new floors in kitchen and breakfast room that leads onto kitchen. BR is large and dominant room - but you can see a fair bit of the kitchen through a wide archway so the two rooms need to 'flow (I think), DH doesn't agree and thinks they can be completely different.

Breakfast room is yellow walls (F&B dayroom).
Floor in breakfast room will be karndean oak herringbone. Woodwork ( there's a lot of this - big fireplace etc) is white.

Breakfast room leads on to a smaller kitchen - it will have a white marble quartz worktop, Hague blue shaker cabinets (no eye-level cupboards). We were going for ca Pietra encaustic tiles for the kitchen floor - either blue and white pattern or grey/blue terrazzo pattern. The aim was to zone the different areas (plus the kitchen is a step up so there's a physical break) but will it look too busy /disjointed? Should we put the karndean in the kitchen as well?

I was thinking white tiles for.splashback and white / neutral walls but do we need some yellow in the kitchen too? Will Hague blue be too dark? Metalware with be brass.

House is late Georgian so don't want anything too modern - the yellow really suits the breakfast room but can't work out what to coordinate it with.

Well done if you've made it to the end of this, any help gratefully received...

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BubblesBuddy · 09/09/2018 17:37

I just would not do blue and yellow in close proximity. Sorry. The flow would be best if the walls were the same for the two. I just would not use yellow for both. You could try a yellowish contrasting white for the kitchen? Would that work with the blue units though? Not sure. The right colour of white or neutral might work well.

I have a similar layout and we have gone for a neutral warm white in both rooms with the kitchen units in grey and off white. Colour is added by accessories. I think deep blue is a bit of a fad. I have different flooring though. Wood for eating area and limestone ceramic tiles for the kitchen. However these flow into another large area.

Goodwordguide · 09/09/2018 17:44

I know, I dont want it to look like an ikea store! Or Swedish flag. Hague blue is not very blue to be honest, looks very dark grey-navy in our kitchen it seems. Love the colour but thinking whether to play it safe and go for white units and neutralise the room more.

Definitely don't want yellow walls in the kitchen. But also don't want to go completely neutral with white/greige walls throughout as the rest of house is all like that and we've always loved the yellow breakfast room.

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grasspigeons · 09/09/2018 18:41

I'd possibly do the same floor and have nice white walls in the kitchen - I wouldn't try and put some yellow in the kitchen

the f&b website suggests that hardwick white is a colour that goes with both hague blue and dayroom yellow - can you work that into both rooms?

Goodwordguide · 09/09/2018 18:59

Thank you, good tip 're Hardwick white.

These are the tiles were thinking of for the kitchen floor - I love them but think they're possibly too cool-toned next to the yellow (which isn't in that room but leads on to it).

Am thinking we'll have to scrap the yellow :0(

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Goodwordguide · 09/09/2018 19:35

These tiles I meant!

www.periodpropertystore.co.uk/flooring-c6/tile-c60/ca-pietra-terrazzo-monza-pattern-tile-p4372

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