Please please help me bring my kitchen colour scheme together. I have messed up...

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So, after a month of dithering and so many matchpots I chose my kitchen colour scheme.

The kitchen started to go in last week. The cooker arrived today. I love both colours but they don't go!!! They need a tile and a work surface to bring them together.

I have mostly Shaded White units, with a larder cupboard and sink unit in Hague Blue.

My cooker (And all small appliaces) is cream.

I phoned Farrow and Ball and they suggested maybe a very dark tile. I was originally going to have a pale cream.

I am having granite or quartzstone work surfaces. Again, was going to have a off white.

I spent so much time and effort getting it right, but in real life it doesn't quite go. Aaaah!!!!

I think the units and cooker could be brought together but I need help.

Thanks so much.

I'd possibly avoid another pale colour on the work surface, it might add more into the mix.

I'd be tempted by a granite with more of the pinky feldspar tones in. That should bring it together.

Something like this

Just seen you've got blue in there too....

What's the flooring?

The floor is engineered oak.

I love that granite! What is it called? Thanks.

No idea. Google pink granite worktop, that's what I did!!

Don’t tile. Use a granite upstand. If you need something behind the cooker just have a granite slab. No grout to get mucky!

I would try a patchwork tile to lift it. There are some lovely tiles about that do provide a focal point.

I would consider oak worktops instead of introducing another shade of white/cream. Will you be having open shelving or cabinets?

No more than 3 colours - you already have 4- white, cream, hague blue and oak floor. You need to tie the white and cream somehow. Oak worktop?

I love iroko wood - gorgeous golden highlights - i think it woukd look good with all the cream.

I would also say oak worktops to match the floor. How about a tile with white and cream in it like this your4walls.co.uk/products/moroccan-croatian-style-tile-effect-wallpaper-grey-beige-cream-white
You need to see samples though!

Don’t try and have wood to match the floor! It won’t. I think the granite or stone is way better. Tiles are a bit old fashioned and you will be cleaning the grout.

I think that's Ivory fantasy granite pictured above

I would say, ignore the colour of cooker and go with good scheme for rest of the elements in kitchen. You can have toaster, kettle etc in similar colour to cooker so it gets integrated in overall scheme.

Your units look quite white against your cream cooker. I'm sorry but I don't think there is any way of bringing those two colours together. It will always look like you tried to match them up and failed.

Not helpful but true. Sadly, an expensive mistake but you clearly know this from your post.

Generally if you don't match colours then you need to have contrasting colours.

Could you return the cooker? Units are gorgeous!

I think the issue is the Hague blue - can it be changed/repainted?
The shaded white units with a cream cooker go well together but not so much with the other coloured cabinets. The image below gives your current colour combination but with more subtle coloured larder cabinets which makes it gel together.

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You could also tie things together with a different colour, eg the tiles. I would avoid a wood countertop as it may be too much with the floor.

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Also, avoid upstands - they make your kitchen resemble a school chemistry lab from the 1990s - I still have nightmares about attaching the hose from a bunsen burner to the gas supply fitted into an upstand (albeit it wasn't a granite one).

I agree that while white and blue can go together easily, and white and cream with a bit more work, white and cream and blue might be difficult.

It's not unusual for Aga style ranges to "not match" the rest of the kitchen

How many base units have you got could you have them repainted Hague blue.

We have white painted units, cream Range cooker and solid oak floors so similar. We have solid oak worktop which matches floor perfectly and goes well and pale blue walls. Tiles are white and mid blue. It works very well but solid oak seems to be going out of fashion though I love it and would have again.

Would try and match colours have and not add colours.

My mil has this colour combo, might even be the same cooker. We found a lovely granite which had every shade of cream plus some blacks through it which pulled it all together. We couldn't tell easily from little samples though, we drove out to a granite yard to choose her exact slab which helped.

My first choice would be to swap the cooker for one that's a more obviously contrasting colour - probably blue.

If that's not possible I would go for a granite work surface that incorporates flecks of white and cream to tie the two together.

Go for the creamy white speckled granite described above and match the tiles to the Hague blue units.

I assume your unit colours can't be repainted (I saw your post elsewhere where people were suggesting painting the units different colours, which was unhelpful if so!) so it's a case of tying in everything. Firstly, unless you actually want tiles as part of your efforts to tie things in, you know you don't need them with your cooker. Use worktop upstands instead (either finishing at the cooker, or behind it too). Your painted wall colour seems to work with both the units and the cooker, so you've at least got that right!

The ultimate look tie-in wise would be for an oak worktop but as you have oak floors, you have potentially another matching conundrum, and after this one, you might not want to go there! Don't discount oak for maintenance reasons though - with the introduction of Osmo oil, the idea that wood worktops are hard to maintain is a thing of the past.

Personally I would be wary of trying to match a light grantite worktop - those little samples in your picture all look a bit meh and you'd end up with kitchen blandness.

So that leaves a strong brown or even a black granite worktop.

Investigate whether you'd have any recourse to return the cooker under distant selling and get a different colour on order - I expect you'd have to pay the return delivery which would be considerable, but it might be an option.

Final advice (having been in similar situations myself many times) is that however much of a disaster you think things are, unless you can hand on heart say that someone walking into the room would be struck by how awful it looks (rather than just presume that's the look you were going for) it actually looks fine, and you will cease noticing the issue in a very short amount of time.

I googled images of 'white units cream aga' and got loads of results.
If people are happy to post pictures online, it most probably means that they are pleased with the result.

I'm currently planning a white kitchen with a blue central island. I intend to paint all the walls white apart from a small section on shortest wall between base and wall units. This will be in the same blue as the island

This is hague blue