Dark kitchen, crittall style doors, herringbone floor - is it too much?!

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As the title really. Is it all too much? Doors and windows are ordered so not changing them. Picking flooring now. Would love a herringbone floor, tiles or LVT not wood as it's a kitchen and I have two kids and a puppy, but I was also planning to paint the kitchen a dark green and now I'm worried that I'll walk in to the room in four years time and just think it all looks too dated.

So option is to stick with Green Smoke for the units but get a plank floor or to paint the kitchen a lighter colour. Or maybe it doesn't matter. This isn't about resale value, it's about loving the space for a long time.

The flooring leading in to the kitchen is quite a bold blue and white tile then down some steps (also tiled) in to the kitchen diner. Think a herringbone floor would make more sense to continue a patterny vibe, a plainer floor might be jarring. Def over thinking everything.

Please help.

While saving things to my house renovation Pinterest board, I came across this and thought of you OP. I think it looks very homely.

If you love it, go for it. The only thing I really don’t like is Crittall doors, I just don’t understand the love for them.

It's so difficult isn't it, blue is my favourite colour & Ive wanted a blue kitchen for a while but social media kills trends before they barely start. All my friends have pretty much the exact same kitchen but I'm not sure on the alternative

i would say herringbone is pretty classic & so are crittal doors really.

Hmm, a couple of years ago I was speaking to someone who works on an interiors magazine who said that they absolutely were sick of dark blue kitchens. The problem is that they do look great (and photograph very well) but I think, yes, they will look of their time very soon. As will Crittall internal doors (I've already seen them done a lot in new-build flats).

Green is the new blue where kitchen cabinets are concerned, but I don't care and am doing it anyway! My doors will be repaintable so it's not a lifetime commitment.

I do love the crittal look, but it's so ubiquitous now I'm going off it, so having timber sash windows and French doors instead, which is more in keeping with the age of my house (Victorian terrace) anyway. I have just done a u-turn on an internal fire door and switched from a crittal-style one to a Victorian 4-panel saving myself £1k in the process as no matter how beautiful it might be, it's a pocket door which will mostly be open, so hardly ever seen.

That said, I'm not sure the Crittal trend is going anywhere fast - one of my favourite interiors bloggers, Kate Watson-Smyth (aka Mad About the House) has just replaced her bifold kitchen doors with crittal ones which says to me it's the mainstay style of the next decade at least, as @Sparechange says above. Ultimately most people have those doors in place for 10-20 years, so they will be physically around in homes for a long time yet.

I also love herringbone parquet (we had it in my parents' house, original 20s floor and it was so beautiful) but as we have pine plank floorboards in the rest of the ground floor we're going for something completely different. The herringbone would just look weird next to the boards.

But ultimately - though I understand your anxiety 100% - as PPs have said, it's your house so you should do whatever makes your heart beat faster.

Not too much. It's lovely! Make sure to have light worktops, corian is good..

Crittall and herringbone are classical beauties don't think they'll date. Bifolds aren't dated either. Neither is open plan. Please people, don't fall into the traps of marketing and designers who are trying to sell us new things everytime.. I absolutely love blue, and it so brilliantly matches with this scheme. you can always change it later.

I think it will work. Only thing is studio green is very very dark. I wanted it but when I painted on a big bit of paper and stuck it to our current units it looked black.

May sure it works with the light you have in the kitchen. Duck green is a slightly lighter alternative.

Crittall to me is the equivalent of the brown faux leaded windows of the 80s. Sure they are a style that existed in the past. But they are going to look very much of the 2020s.

My kitchen is 4 years old and apart from not having those windows as you describe. Units are painted so we can paint them another colour in due course. We have light composite counters so they will go with anything.

you're picking all the things that are currently trendy so yes, the overall look will look dated in say, 15 years. But that's the case with most decor choices, as we're influenced by what's currently in fashion. The dark green will be the thing that dates the quickest but it's easily fixed by repainting them at some point.

I don't really get the love for Crittall doors.