Would this blue kitchen put you off buying a house?

[Sorbustree123]

We're in the process of getting a new kitchen from Howdens and like the look of Fairford Blue. We're not planning on moving any time soon, but we don't think this is our forever home either and may consider moving at some point down the line (perhaps in five years time). Would this colour put you off buying a house? We really like it, but would also be happy going with a more neutral colour. Not sure what to do, so your thoughts (either way) would be very welcome. Thanks! Here's a link to the kitchen on YouTube:

I really like it!

I really like it.

I really like it. It would be a selling point for me. Cream is ok but a bit "meh". This is the sort of thing I would choose myself. Just make sure you think through the layout carefully so that it flows well.

I really like it in the pictures posted, the blues goes well with the wooden floor and pale worktops with the modern oven.

However with the wrong elements around it, it could look too farmhouse/country for my taste - the shaker style as much as the colour.

It's lovely. I need a new kitchen and I really fancy a blue one. I scream at the tv when I watch Homes under the hammer and they put in a gleaming white kitchen. It's so boring (and must be hard to keep clean!).

It’s really nice. It’s not a massive overbearing colour like orange for example. I much prefer this colour to something bland but I’m not the majority I know.

I love it, although I'm currently hankering after a grey kitchen, so wtf do I know?

It's lovely. It would be a big plus for me.

I don't like it b

It is much nicer than those wooden ones that look like cheap IKEA wardrobes. I couldn't live with those but so many houses have them.

Not at all, go for what you love now. They are really timeless units so could easily be painted over. I've just bought a house with a really hideous dated kitchen. I can't even paint the units as half of them have those horrible glass fronts and the laminate worktop is garish. We just plan to get a new kitchen as a priority.

I really love it, it would make me more likely to buy the house. In fact, I now want one myself (had previously been thinking of going for navy or dark grey)!

I'd be more likely to put an offer in if there were two equally good houses and one had this kitchen instead of a plain one.

@AdaThorne

I love it. But then I've just moved into a house with a kitchen with red accent walls and every time I walk in there I recoil and judge the previous owners. I guess that's the risk you take!

Haha! I would love red accent walls (my sitting room has a red one) but would recoil at powder blue cabinets!

OP I think if you're likely to sell in the next few years go neutral and maybe add the blue with paint, or even a glass splashback that's easier and less expensive to change.

My hand painted blue kitchen is 17 years old, does that make it way ahead of time, or maybe behind?!

I'm just about to have a cornflour blue kitchen installed. My fav colour is blue and I didn't want to get navy as it will date in a couple of years. I've gone for a pale more neutral colour.

I think the colour is lovely. If you like it enough to live with it yourself that's all that matters. I've also just put in some similar Howdens cabinets in dark green. I have no idea when I'll next need to move home but I'm more than happy with my choice.

New owners may just change the kitchen. It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me at any rate.

I hate the blue kitchen, but it wouldn't put me off buying a house if I wanted the house otherwise.

I think my problem would be with the Howden kitchen. They can be quite costly, for mediocre quality. Their pricing policy is deliberately obscure, which means you are unlikely to get good value for money.

There are companies which provide better quality ( DIYkitchens) which can just be painted another colour to suit fashion in the future and also provide a clear pricing policy.

If I were buying your home, I would begrudge paying the money in the house price for a “done” kitchen of that type.

It's a nice kitchen but not to my taste. Whether it would put me off would depend on whether I was buying a finished home or was prepared to do some work.
If I was buying a home priced for a finished well presented property, I probably wouldn't want to put in a new kitchen.

I wouldn't like it. I have a very pale green shaker kitchen but no wall cupboards, this I like. I think it's the blue wall cupboards that bother me not the base units. Could you get white wall units and paint the walls the same colour?

If it's wood/MDF then its repaintable and anyone who doesn't like blue can paint it.

Just live your own life, it's a home. Don't live life for some imaginary strangers in the future.

No, I think it's lovely.

I don't love it, but the colour is ok and the doors could be painted easily enough. However I loathe Shaker style - the little ledges and corners are just dust catchers and that would put me off, or make me consider a lower offer as I'd want to replace the doors. I also prefer handles to knobs so you can tuck a tea towel through them but that's probably me being slatternly