Would this kitchen be too dark?

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Thoughts please. We're planning to get the 1909 slab kitchen from units online. My husband is keen on graphite - the darkest grey one in the pics here: www.1909kitchens.co.uk/kitchens/slab

I'm worried it will look too dark. We're not planning to have any wall cabinets. Oak worktop and floor. Wall colour will be light (not sure what yet - probably F&B Wevet or Cornforth White). Windows painted in F&B Manor House Grey (which I'm worried might clash with graphite?)

It is quite a light room, with two east facing windows and there will be new south-facing bi-folds.

What do you think?

I think it will be fine, especially without wall units. The photo you linked to shows a light room with that colour cabinets and they've used glazed wall cabinets to keep it light.

Agree you need a spacious and very light room to carry off that colour which it seems you have. No wall cupboards will help. It's a lovely kitchen.

Thanks for responding. Still not sure if I'm brave enough!

I think that looks great!

We're currently considering a darker colour for the island and white for the wall units. We've been sent this charcoal sample to go with the white units. I really like the grey Matt, concrete worktops...

We think we might go a bit lighter. I love the blue black range from DIY kitchens.

I think you’d need to be careful. I know grey is everywhere at the moment but grey kitchens put us off a few houses (a few years ago now) as they seemed a bit oppressive and we thought it would be too expensive to change it. That said, If you’ve got a big enough room you can probably make it work especially if you’re not doing wall units.

Also be careful about oak floors and surfaces. They look lovely but are a pain for maintance. I despise my wooden floor in the kitchen as it isn’t very practical at all and some stains/water marks are basically permanent. I would never have wood in the kitchen again despite loving how it looks.

I love the dark colour but personally I'd go for white worktops rather than oak, which personally I think could be an oppressive combo (also hard to care for)

I have that graphite kitchen but with a dark granite worktop. Walls and floor are grey too. It looks amazing if your room has enough natural light to carry it off. Yours would be even lighter with white walls.

Have you thought about choosing a combo of colours? It doesn’t all have to be graphite - in the link you posted the pink was used as a contrasting colour, but when I got my kitchen it also came in light grey, blue, green, yellow and orange. Or if you’re really worried about the graphite you could go for the light grey instead, with a white worktop?

Definitely don’t go for wooden worktops though. They will get wrecked pretty quickly and look crap. Stone is the way to go imo.

My friend has this colour grey kitchen with a white marble worktop and a white floor. It's a small kitchen and looks great.
I think it would look good from what you've described.

Love the kitchen and the graphite colour. Will look ace. Wood tops will kill it though. I'd consider a light and cool colour for floor and work tops. Cornforth or Wevet are perfect wall colours with it. Not sure about your window colour. Paint a small piece of wood and get a sample of the cupboard and compare in the light of your kitchen at different times of day. F and B can change a lot in morning ad evening light.

We have a very similar colour with light marble worktops, no wall units and a light room. It's lovely though slightly regretting not going a bit darker.

Thanks all for your responses! I should have said that there will be a larder cupboard and chest height oven on the other side of the room, but was thinking of having those in a very light grey colour, similar to cornforth white. Then a saffron island (orange/yellow colour). Will attach the colour scheme.

The window colour of Manor House grey is already set as we've down our adjoining room windows in it and we're knocking down the wall to make it one room. Will post a pic of the layout. Due to this we also want the same flooring throughout the downstairs, hence the wooden floors.

Interesting what many of you say about wooden worktops. My DH loves them and we had them in our old house but I'm not convinced they go with the 1909 units. Hhmm...

Helpful people of mumsnet! I reckon you've persuaded me to get stone (quartz) instead of wood. But do you reckon it'll look odd to have wood on the worktop at one end (by the bay window in the picture) and the rest quartz? It's a 6m run of units and I worry that all of it in quartz will be a) really expensive b) involve multiple joins and c) might look a bit 'much'. Also thought that having wood in the the bay (where the washing machine and tumble dryer within units) will mark out the space as the utility area. What do you think?

We have very dark grey units. Everything else is bright white with the odd colour here and there. It's bright. I once read that a room needs a dark but of colour in it to ground it. All pale needs a frame and dark units can give that.

Our kitchen (came with the house) has 3 different worktops - grey granite on island, black granite and wood. It doesn’t look odd but the granite is at right angles to the wood rather than in a straight run. The wood works must better in a low use area as it gets less marked.

That's interesting Magstermay. Reassuring that the different worktops don't look odd.

For those with quartz - where did you source it from?