Panicking about kitchen colour - DIY kitchens

[northernshite]

I've ordered my kitchen in Heron Grey and have until tomorrow to make any amendments. I am worried I will regret the grey. I wanted a nice blue really but worried about it dating. I don't love the only standard blue that DIY kitchens do (Cobham blue) but I'm now thinking it's better than grey - it's a decent sized rectangular room and i'm having white marble effect quartz worktops and probably borrowed light (v pale blue walls). I don't want to wait for a bespoke colour so need to pick between the two - help!!

My DIY kitchen is Cobham blue and dove grey! Let me take a photo so you can see what it looks like out the showroom

Yaaas op! You go with your heart I wish I had.

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Picking the kitchen colours has been by far the most stressful part of having an extension.

I wanted a blue kitchen but starting dithering. Thankfully I went back to the blue and love it!

We went for a DIY kitchen and gave a bespoke navy to match our quartz and cornflower blue island. I love it; our kitchen fitter said it's his favourite kitchen.

The blue is very bold, and as we had a lot of units, I decided to do all the lower units grey and the tall and wall units blue as I was worried it could make the kitchen look too dark. That's mirrored at the other side too with blue units next to the extractor fan.

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I think grey kitchens are already looking very dated and miserable. I do like the Cobham Blue at DIY Kitchens. I'd go blue over grey.

We've got Heron Grey and love it.

Luckily I don't care what people on here think about grey going out of fashion, and I can't imagine anything other than blue and green kitchens being perfectly pinpointed to 2020-2023 in the same way propel painted walls with masking tape during lockdown in 2020.

To change the colour, once you've got everything in your basket on the website, you can change it all in one go on the basket listing. We had a last minute change from the lighter grey. All very easy

I have had both grey and a painted dark blue kitchen (always moving!) tbh both can be lovely and styled up to be how you want. Personally I right now prefer blue but previous posters are right. Both have been super popular and people will have them for the next 20 years before they change them so you will be in good company.

it’s like if your mum was going in 1983 HELP WHICH ONE THE ANTIQUE PINE OR SMOKED OAK - both perfectly nice and around for 25 years but inevitably of their era!

I'd go for the blue, but I'm biased as I also have blue cabinets 😉

Definitely go with what you love!

Ours are HMKOC not DIY and are a mix of F&B oval room blue and a cream (can't recall which - think it was a Craig & Rose colour). Our island is also oval room blue. I've never regretted choosing blue for one moment. Initially I painted the cabinets in Little Greene Knightsbridge (a really dark taupe) but it was way too dark 🙄

I've attached a pic of one area of ours.

Issey I had the same kitchen as you!

It's .4 years old & I still love it!

Navy blue, white granite, and very pale primrose yellow walls.

Grey's everywhere looks on trend but for something as major as kitchen i'd go blue .

I think tbh both are already 'dated' if you're talking serious interior design stuff - but mid Grey can be styled in different ways and was always considered a genuinely neutral colour before the last decade of boho dark interiors happened. I think any dark blue will be more in your face dated more quickly if you loved cobham blue I'd say fuck it, go with your heart. But you don't love it so I think grey.

Ours is eight years old and came with the new build house. It’s a German kitchen and we have dark blue cupboards and grey base units. It’s not dated at all, nor is it dark.

I like the blue.
We initially ordered grey but then another kitchen became available as it was refused by another customer and we got it much cheaper.
I’m so glad we didn’t have grey units now.

Grey is already dated. Blue is the new grey and will also date. I went with white and the walls can be painted instead. Much easier.

I've had my navy blue kitchen three years now and still love it. No wall cupboards in blue, though. Tall integrated fridge/freezer/oven etc in blue on one wall, other tall storage and book shelves in off white on another wall.

Don't mind if it dates, it's a north facing kitchen and it adds colour to the room. Next door have a white kitchen for the same aspect - plus much paler floor - and it looks equally good, just different.

Personally I really don't like grey. Of all the colours - grey is the most uninspiring. I would definitely go for the colour you feel connected too most.

If you go with what you love, trends become irrelevant.

Cobham Blue is definitely the new grey! @northernshite if you're not 100% happy with either the blue or the grey, then bespoke is the way to go.

Blue is a great colour, go with it :-)

We did our kitchen recently but Howdens.

I agonised over colour for the same reason- worried it would date. Went for blue in the end but got wooden paintable cupboards. In my mind we can get the cupboards repainted if they begin to look dated. Might be worth looking into.

Also agree grey is most likely to date over blue.