Oak kitchen and black worktops..... what tiles????

[RiojaLover75]

Am having a wobble about what tiles to put in our new kitchen. Have no idea WHAT colour to go for!

Help me people please!

Wall tiles BTW.

These looked nice in our previous home - see my profile pic of ds as Vader - you can just about see them on the wall! We had dark marbled worktops (not completely black, but very close) an birch units. IMHO larger sized tiles give a 'posher' look.

Hmm, Oak kitchen and BLACK worktops? Are you sure? I can't imagine that. Is it modern ?

We have this scheme - came with house the walls are white (easy to touch up) the tile on wall and floor are both cream (but different types obviously)

So your main pallett would be:

Black
Oak
Cream

Which you can put any accersoried with in 'accent' colours - easy to change when you board.

My accent colours are bright pinky red dining chairs tea towels etc.

slate - looks v dramatic with black granite worktops and wooden units

ahhhh - not slate for the walls!!!

Mine had stainless steel splashbacks, but they were a bugger to keep clean, wouldnt do it again

I hav oak kithcen adn black worktops with CREAM tiles - I then have hot pink walls

these

We have the mini mosiac ones (over the cooker in that pic) as a splash back in our bathroom (which is pink walls and a black tiled floor).....

We have an oak kitchen and black worktops, with black tiles and cream walls.

the pic doesn't show it well, but the mosiac is made up of black (slatey colour), cream and pinky colours.....

I have just had oak kitchen & black worktops installed too. I have black tiles, kind of rectangular ones which are put up like a brick design if you know what I mean (ie like brickwork, not directly above one another) I like it lots!

we don't have tiles, just an upstand all round the worktop and dark cream painted walls. Over the hob we have a stainless steel splashback thingy

Yeah we have a splash back thingy from stainless steel and its terrible to keep looking as if its clean.

Remeber you can change the colour of your walls and acessories far cheaper and easier than you can you tiles

Lots of people say that but I only wipe it about once a month just because, not because it's dirty. Use a damp e'cloth and comes up a dream. i don't do any frying or that sort of thing and only cook on the front 2 burners (as the rear ones are huge) so it doesn't get messy.

We had black and white, laid cafe style.

I miss that kitchen (not the house, this is a much nicer house, but the ktichen was cool)

Dp fits kitchens. We are just planning the kitchen for our new house too.
He is making me do what he advises his customers to do, but most of them ignore him...

Get the cupboards and worktops installed then try lots of sample tiles up and see what you like when its all in situ.

What looks good when you are picking it from showrooms and catalogues might look crap when in place in your own house.

The tiles go on last anyway so its not like it causes any major delay.

Hi thanks for all the messages and thoughts. DH wanted to go for a mixture of black, grey and white glass tiles.

My latest thoughts are raspberry coloured tiles and then a sort of duck egg bluey green for the bits of wall that only need painting.

I kind of thought rather than going for a matching colour we could use the raspberry as a contrasting, accent colour. DH is not so sure!

Flibberty, we're having Magnet to install kitchen so it'll all have to be done in our allocated week. Eeek, don't want to cock this up! We'll be living with it for years .

has to be white

MrsMaid it's this kitchen www.magnet.co.uk/ but with black work tops. Looked OK together in the showroom!

Too late to change it now, it's being delivered next week!

Gah! It's one of those links that takes you only to the homepage. It's the Vicenza kitchen.

That's a nice kitchen, RiojaLover, and I can see why you're thinking of duck egg blue paint on the walls, as the kitchen in the pic is shown with pale turquoise walls. However, try as I might, I just can't picture raspberry tiles with it. As others have said, accent colours could be on your kitchen accessories, keeping the background more neutral/matching. You can easily change the painted bits to something more dramatic if you get bored with neutral. HTH

Ahhhh!!!! FFS!!!!!

Why is it soooooooo difficult to choose tiles! I have two kids under three and cannot be dragging them round tile shops all the time. They'd go nuts!

DH doesn't like my sugestion of raspberry red and we cannot agree on any neutral tiles. We do want something neutral we've decided incase we want to sell at some point soon.

We both like glass tiles but they come in limited colours.

Anyone know if you can change worktop colours this close to delivery with Magnet? They deliver on Wednesday .

Don't change the worktop, we have oak cupboards and we were going to have a black worktop and I chickened out at the last moment and did a white one instead - so regret it, I have since seen Habitats new oak and black kitchen and I so wish I had stuck with the black.
Could you look at grey tones for the tiles? we have grey floor tiles and they work really well, or what about glass splashback panels? you can get some really fantastic colours.
You can get some amazing colours in glass mosaic tiles, but they are very expensive, and of course you have to like the small format.

neural = white or cream, no?

neerly
yes yes yes!!
Those are gorgeous!!!