I want to repaint my kitchen and would appreciate colour ideas please

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The floor is terracotta coloured, a touch lighter maybe. The cupboards are light wood and the work tops are black/brown/cream/white speckled. The walls are currently a creamy colour.

TIA .

Cooking Apple green is the answer to everything. Looks great heading into a garden as well. The link isn't especially flattering, but it's a good green.

I think so, yes

Wev'e just done the breakfast room in Overtly Olive by Dulux, looks very nice, thinking of doing kitchen the same colour. I also have a large amount of Egyptian Cotton, must be a childminder thing .

A lot of nice greens around atm, not usually a greeney but saw the olive colour in a kitchen mag with the same units as mine and was gobsmacked at how nice it looked, it actually makes the room look bigger and warmer which is a bit wierd as it was Ivory before.

Not sure I can afford F&B paint. Is it very expensive.

Do you like bold colours Fab or more of a subtle type person, how old is your house?

Some nice greens here, the hallway is very like mine in style but DH doesnt want to change it, I would love the colours in the pic

www.dulux.co.uk/colours/ready_mixed/greens.jsp

or orange tones to go with your flooring

www.dulux.co.uk/colours/ready_mixed/oranges.jsp

I love colour.

House is about 17 years old I think.

I like the putting green colour but don't know if it will go with the flooring.

One of the prettiest and cheeriest kitchens i've ever seen is painted a butter yellow - would that be a nice complement to your floors/cupboards/work tops?

I have a similar coloured kitchen by your description (light wood and dark worktops)

I like Chinese Jade (Dulux) on the website it looks more like a duck egg blue, but it is more of a fresh green imo.

Get some tester pots?

My kitchen is teale and moccha (which is a brown colour)with original floor boards.

I'm liking a chartreuse sort of colour a friend has just used in their dining room, it's a green colour, very nice.

My kitchen is pale green, and even though it has windows all down one wall, it always feels dark to me. Of course, that could have to do with the fact that it is northern light.

It is too late to change now, but i do sometimes wish it was less chic and more cheery and warm feeling.

What about lilac?

Lilac . With terracotta tiles?

Each to their own I guess .

My last kitchen was sage-y green (an improvement on the orange/grey it was when we moved in) and it was lovely. Pale wood cupboards, blue-ish grey tiles, can't remember the worksurfaces dark I think. It was a very small kitchen though!

Thank you for all these fab ideas.

I am making a list of all the colours and will get tester pot shopping .

Right, I could only get 4 of the suggestions and they are -

Dulux - Egyptian Cotton, Overtly Olive and Putting Green.

F&B - Cooking Apple Green.

I have painted sample squares on the wall by the door and so far my favourite is Cooking apple green and overtly olive.

The other reason I like F&B is they don't have that sticking in your throat chemical stink which hangs round for days.

Fab, that's nice.

here's a link to dulux colour schemes

It is annoying that I prefer the F&B one as it is much more money than Dulux.

In the history of me decorating our house never has a colour been decided on so easily and quickly.

We are going for Overtly Olive.

Thanks for all your help.

Only 5ish rooms to do.

Yeay!!!!!

Tis loverly on, I was a bit when the first coat went up, looked greyish, and we got the kitchen paint so its a bugga to put on, bit watery, after the second coat went on it looked reeet klassy. And the kitchen paint cleans like a dream.

Happy painting, you must let us know how it goes.

I've joined this thread too late, but was going to say our kitchen sounds similar to yours and we've got pale olivey green and it looks nice - but it seems you've already come to the same conclusion.
You've great taste BTW

Fab youv'e inspired me to do the kitchen to match the breakfast room.

I will break the news to DH very carefully.

Thanks for the heads up about getting the kitchen paint.