Anyone any good with colours?

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We are having our kitchen done at the moment.
It is a big room about 3m by 6.5m, but has no direct sun in to it.
We have cream high gloss slab cabinets and dark wood work tops.
I am not sure what colour to paint the walls.
We are not having cabinets on the walls so there is a lot of wall space.

I want the room to feel warm and welcoming, and don't want white as 1) it won't go with cream units and 2) it's boring.

At the moment I am toying with a really light green. Something that has creamy tones to it.

Is there anyone out there who is great with colours who can tell me what will look great?
Thanks.

I have a colour wheel and Purple/lilac is supposed to go well with green.

"Good with colours" is a euphemism for being gay

Sorry, as you were.

Is it??? I never knew that.
I've just asked my brother who is gay and honestly he was next to useless - so I am fine to try out the heterosexuals...

A sort of gumleaf green would be nice.

Have a look at Dulux 'Arena'. Its like a grey/green (but quite warm) and it would look lovely with your scheme. I wouldnt look on the website as it doesnt give you a true picture, my friend did his living room in it though and its gorgeous

We have the same units and a dark brown worktop and have chosen pale duck egg. Can't remember which brand but bought it in Homebase and it is a wipeable matt. Looks great (IMO!) and the wipe ablematt is much harder wearing than I thought it would be.

HTH

Screaming out for a nice Farrow & Ball/Fired Earth slubby grey/green, I reckon.

I have just had my kitchen done and the units are cream/vanilla colour. The tiles I used are pale grey and cream mosaic style.

I am a colour expert - had approx 30 samples of various shades of pale sage green, blues and greys.

I have now chosen a colour called Celestial Grey from the Sanderson range in John Lewis. It is a very pale grey blue but not a cold colour.

sage green

thank you all. The trouble I am having is that everything that we like the colour of (sage green etc) is really dark and I am worried that it will suck the light out of an already quite dark room.
It may have to be cream after all. Shame.

String by Farrow and Ball

If you have cream cabinets it will add depth using a stronger colour, my breakfast room looks bigger, not a lot of light in there, we used Dulux Overtly Olive

we have a combination of green ground and cooking apple green by farrow and ball. Not too dark and goes really well with cream/wood combination (we're selling at the moment and lots of viewers have commented on the lovely colour so isn't just me that likes it!)