DIY kitchens - please help to choose a colour

[Puffthemagicdragongoestobed]

Keen to get a DIY kitchen, already have a design and filled our basket with Linwood units. But cannot decide on the colour!! I initially wanted bespoke painted in Farrow & Ball oval room blue but unfortunately our budget does not stretch to bespoke! So we have to go for the DIY kitchens colours. Ideally I would love to visit the DIY showroom but it's a trek from here, so I have to rely on online research and will possibly order some samples.
DH is keen on colour and would be happy with cobham blue. I am not 100% into it but cannot really see anything else that I would love. Initially we considered cornflour blue but I find it looks too turquoise in some pictures. Ideally we would like a colour that we can combine with Farrow & Ball colours in the room. I am not a fan of the grey trend but I liked the DIY kitchens grey as it seemed to have a tad of green in it.
Anyway, it would be great if you could tell me about the colour you chose from DIY kitchens, pictures would be a bonus!! Thank you!

I can't help but interested in what difference the bespoke colours makes to the coat for when we do ours??

I can relate, @Puffthemagicdragongoestobed. Not sure why DIY Kitchens (and Howdens) don't introduce a couple of more interesting colours to their standard range.

How much more was your quote for the DIY Kitchens bespoke colour?

We have a cornflower blue kitchen from DIY. I love the colour and I'm aiming to get the same in our next kitchen! Ours doesn't look turquoise to me.

we went for petrol blue in gloss and love it , as ours is a south facing kitchen with big windows in some light it looks very blue and in other lights it has a tinge of grey

@TaleOfTheContinents the quote for bespoke painted was nearly £5600 vs £4500 in DIY kitchen colours, so over £1000 difference!

We are trying to keep the cost as low as possible. Our overall kitchen budget is £30000, but this includes knocking down a load bearing wall, bricking up a window, and half bricking up a door to replace with a window. We need new flooring, new boiler, some new appliances etc. The building quotes are really high so it does not give us too much wriggle room with the actual kitchen. At the moment the overall costs actually come closer to £40000 and we are trying to bring it down.

But yes, agreed, the DIY kitchen colours certainly do not set me on fire!

@UnconsideredTrifles oh this is great to hear! Apparently it is the same as Farror & Ball Skylight so this would help with colour matching.

@allisseywith4vampirecats this looks nice. Somehow I don't think I saw petrol blue on the DIY kitchens website! Do you think they may have changed the name as it looks close to cornflour blue?
Unless petrol blue is not available for shaker..

@Puffthemagicdragongoestobed, how funny - we'll be doing almost exactly the same, bar the bricking up of a doorway! We're currently waiting for our builder's quote but I'm sure it will eat up much more of our budget than our actual kitchen units will.

Just as an aside, was talking to my MIL recently and she said she just used a kitchen company whose fitters were able to do some light additional work (widening her window) in addition to the units. We might speak to a couple to see whether that's possible and works out cheaper than a builder.

@Puffthemagicdragongoestobed ours is from the Altino range and i dont know how big your kitchen is but ours isnt massive and nine units, sink top, and laminate worktops came to £3000, and when we took the old units out most of the plaster came with them with new electrics, plastering, decorating tiles and flooring when ours is finished the total cost will be nearer £5000

@isseywith4vampirecats our space is a bit bigger (though not huge). Think the kitchen we have chosen is one of the more expensive ranges but we definitely want real timber (don't know about Altino to be fair). We also want quartz or granite worktops after years and years of sub optimal worktops so this will be a few more thousand..

@TaleOfTheContinents that's an interesting idea, I had not thought of that. Though I think we definitely need a builder due to taking the wall down.. it just feels very expensive what they are asking for so might try and negotiate or get a few more quotes.

For any building work you should always get three quotes. I try to get a recommendation too. I do this with car repairs too.