A golden kitchen ...mmmm?

[mamazee]

Hello

We have just bought a house and are decorating it top to bottom. the kitchen is great (big and light)but has solid pine cupboard doors which i have a bit of a thing about and really don't like...so we were going to stain them darker oak stain but have just discovered that we cannot get them dipped (to do with the varnish) and hand sanding them is sooo much work so a no no.

the floor is riven dark slate tiled and the rest of the house is decorated in different tones of white with wooden floors. i have yet to buy a kitchen table so am pretty free at the moment.
we like funky bits about...mainly 60's design bits but quite a mish mash.but the back drop is plain.
we were planning on painting one wall metallic gold (the one that leads up the stairs from the living room..tested itr and loved it )and i just had a mad thought...hey why not paint the kitchen cupboards metallic gold ...googled it to see any examples and...NOT ONE. there must be some one somewhere...surely.

my other option is another colour (i am thinking greeny yellow or olive) or bloomin white which i am quite bored of but may be sensible.
or do i fork out more money (that we haven't budgeted for) and go to ikea ? quite nice dark wood ones there..

HELP

any ideas (particularly from people sitting in gold kitchens)

by the way the colour isn't bling gold more subtle but definitely metallic gold.

it is fine if it looks eclectic and doesn't 'go' perfectly...i am that kind of girl
ps i wouldn't do the wall AND the kitchen

thanks in advance

Do purple!!!!!!!!!!!!

ooh purple is my worst colour...but i do know someone who has a purple bedroom...very boudoir

The fabbest kitchen I ever saw was purple walls and cream walls, it sounds so vile but I was speechless it was amazing, mind you she did have a budget of about 80k so it had to be amazing for that. Very Silk Cut

haha silk cut...brilliant

i could go for a B & H themed house

very good!

Dear God everything about that sink is vile! Mmnn, gold cabinets...so crazy it might just work. You could just do the wall units rather than the whole kitchen, I wonder how that would look, or just the units on a particular wall. How many units have you got?

I think a gold kitchen would look foul .. sorry

But I do like the idea of a burnished gold wall in the right kind of house

but please god, not a kitchen cupboard .. eek...too too much

i have 14 cupboard doors !
if that helps
its not to everyone's taste twiglett, i know hence the bracing myself for comments from friends and family !

Don't listen mama it's your kitchen and you live there. Don't compromise Release the inner batty rider!

My friend sprayed all of her unit doors silver soem years ago.

But she changed her mind the next year!

you know the great thing about the wall tester was that it changed depending on time of day, light etc ...i love that !

i reckon the gold wal and the cabinets in teal would be nice

or the the other way round - gold cabinets sound wicked tbh! i guess you wont know till its there what it will look like, not really, but hey, you can always paint over it if its vile, whats the worst that can happen??

i reckon go for it!

just checked out teal and its not my bag chup...sorry. got a bit of a thing about blue !

PURPLE...PURPLE...PURPLE

Or yopu could do the whole B&H thing and so cream.

meg you are on a purple mission

aubergine then
i vote for aubergine.

it needs to be something rich and deep imo ( i have a pic in my head of what your house looks like, and in my pic, it needs to be rich and deep . course, it could look nothing like i imagine...)

aubergine = purple

dont tell her that megg, i nearly suckered her in there!

doh!

mmmm, megg, that is one FINE pair of shoes youve got on in yr profile !

ooooooooooooooooooooh thank you, my streetwalker shoes! I love them.

aubergine
can't pull the wool over my eyes !
if i do do the cupboards gold what the hell am i gonna do with the worktop ?
any ideas ?
not silver...please

Granite/black, what'w wrng with the natural beech?