What do you think of coloured radiators?

[Peteryourhorseisheree]

Just throwing ideas about as we are having building work done and need to buy a couple of vertical radiators.

It’s for a kitchen/dining/family room. We’ll need two, you won’t see them together as one will be around a corner. Have to have vertical ones as they will fit the spaces better.

One will be the first thing you see as you walk into the space, it’s a 3ft column of wall opposite to the door, about 15 ft away.

Kitchen units will be dark sage green, marble effect worktops, walls will be F&B school house white, oak floors. Family room sofa is dark green.

I was looking at the usual grey or white ones and came across a world of colourful options that I’ve never thought about before!

We have an oak table with one bench and are looking ti get two dining chairs for the other side - could get the colour to match the radiator to tie it all in.

I like them when they match the wall colour.

I've never seen them in a colour before, but I think they could be quite fun in a modern house setting.

Would you consider underfloor heating instead?

No. I’ve had it before and hated it. It would be over our renovation budget too to put it in.

It’s a 1930s house but will look quite modern when done. Every floor, wall and ceiling down stairs is currently ripped out, so everything will be new (upstairs was done last year).

I don’t mean modern as in too modern. I just mean all fresh and clean!

We’ve torn out the ultra modern fireplaces the previous owners put in, they looked like something out of the house in Beetlejuice 🤣

I usually paint ours the same colour as the walls, except where it’s a particularly nice looking radiator.
If you go for a colour I think there needs to be some logic to the colour you choose.

We also tend to have our radiators the same colour as the walls (and no white/neutral walls for us!), unless they are the really ornate traditional type which often look better black.

No personal experience of modern vertical ones, but agree they can look good in a contemporary styled space and the colours are quite interesting. Not sure what colour walls you're planning @Peteryourhorseisheree, but guess a funky colour against white walls could look good.

That big area will all be F&B school house white. It a really nice, soft white.

I like the metal finishes more than colours - I had a beautiful dull gold vertical cast iron radiator in the sitting room of my last house (Victorian cottage). The walls were a dark sort of orange, together they were stunning.
In the kitchen extension I had two tall bare metal ones which looked fantastic too (F& B Wimborne White walls.)
Overall @Peteryourhorseisheree metals give you more options to change the colour scheme over the years but colour would be great too - and it’s wonderful to take the risk and enjoy something beautiful and decorative.

I have yellow ones! Of that exact type you linked I think. I love them and we’ve had loads of compliments.

We have black radiators against pale green walls and then have a black metal lamp, black shelves and some black picture frames to tie it together and it’s really effective

I can’t see us ever paining the walls anything other than soft white.

The kitchen units will be a darkish green as in the photo and the floors oak. We want to keep the walls light.

I think the white vertical radiators look a bit stark, and I’m worried the grey might look a bit prison like, especially as your eye will go straight to it when you walk in the room.

dh thinks thar orange or yellow will add a pop of colour

Id we do go for it, we would go for the yellow or orange.

I have an anthracite one in my white/navy kitchen, a copper one in my living room and a white one in my grey hallway.
Love them all and continually get compliments on them from visitors.

Treat it like a sculpture and choose the colour accordingly. We’ve just put a purple one in the (very large) WC.

Copper would look beautiful with the green. Or a dark gold. Similar in tone to orange/yellow and still making a statement but slightly less "in your face". The green is quite muted (as is the F&B paint) and I'm not sure it would tone well with bright colours.

Have a look at "sage and copper" or "green and copper" colour schemes on Google images - I reckon they pair nicely.

Friends have green hand painted kitchen units, creamish walls and a black vertical radiator on one wall. Looks good. I've seen rose gold radiators which I did like. There's some interesting designs these days.

My green living room and copper radiator.
Not the best pic but gives you a real life idea of what it looks like.

I’ll have a look! The light fittings are copper.

I’m dithering becuase one of the radiators will be the focal point as you walk in. We will have a lovely, huge exposed brick fireplace in the dining area (lucky find when the builders took off the plaster, we weren’t expecting that!), but you won’t see that as you walk in, it will be the radiator! Not ideal, but it is the only bit of wall it can go on really.

That’s beautiful!

Yeah the radiator itself was expensive but I think it was worth every penny as it really makes a feature of it and they are great for heat circulation. No regrets at all even though I’m sure it’ll be passe in a few years!

Love that @Punkkatkitty!

We’ve just bought this for our Edwardian dining room. I have a pastel vision! It’ll either be awful or look utterly fabulous! 😂

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