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what colour should we paint kitchen to sell house?

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katechristie · 29/05/2010 21:10

This is long and rambling, sorry, please read, I'd be very grateful for your opinion - yellow kitchen with white cupboards or white kitchen with blue cupboards?

We're hoping to put the house on the market this year, we've been in nearly 4 years and have had to renovate throughout but have run out of money at the kitchen. We're going to tidy it up (paint and new lino down) and I'd always fancied the shabby chic french country style look, (esp as we don't have a lot of money to do it, so this would be genuine shabby chic!) white walls, pale blue (bright-ish pale IYKWIM)woodworks/cupboards, cath kidston style accessories. - this would work well with painting over the cupboards that are there. However, would it be more sell-able if we did it in a more neutral colour scheme?

  • e.g. our living room is a warm pale yellow, sort of a cross between cream and banana I suppose. Would we be better off painting kitchen same colour, with white cupboards and woodwork instead do you think? that way, the downstairs would be all the same, which with my Sarah Beeney hat on, means buyers would hopefully see it as a blank canvas and it would give the illusion of space etc. Plus, it's a kitchen diner, with the kitchen in the back of the house, DR in the front, and although the sun sets at the back, it doesn't really come in the kitchen, so it can be a cold room (we've currently got it in apple white, which is a lovely colour, but doesn't really warm it up).
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paulaplumpbottom · 29/05/2010 21:15

White or cream. Its like a blank canvas.

wukter · 29/05/2010 21:18

Go for the cream tones.
The blue shabby chic sounds lovely but that'd be for yourself, not for potential buyers.

Romilly70 · 29/05/2010 21:22

Buttermilk is a nice colour for walls, I used it in my kitchen; looks sunny and not too garishly yellow.
Cream units would be nicer; white is a little stark

chegggersplayspop · 29/05/2010 21:23

Off white.

katechristie · 29/05/2010 21:26

brill, thanks so much. we've got buttermilk in the hall, so that colour scheme would flow better through. any thoughts on what colour floor would go well with this?

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Romilly70 · 29/05/2010 21:30

I've got a laminated (fake) wood floor, can't remember the colour but it's quite pale. (trying to bring as much light in as possible!!)

Just bear in mind that when you start painting one room, the others could look a little tired in comparison, so you may have to be prepared to "refresh" those walls as well.

Pootles2010 · 29/05/2010 21:32

we did our kitchen on a budget - magnolia type colour, with new worktops from b&q (they came to about 150 i think), and a laminate floor (again from b&Q) that looks like slate tiles, pretty easy to fit. then we just put up a nice canvas above table to add a bit of colour.

as much as i love cath kidston, a lot of people really hate it - i would only do that for myself, not to sell a house iyswim. save that for your new house!

katechristie · 29/05/2010 21:34

thanks. we're off to B&Q tomorrow, so just doing our list now!

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chegggersplayspop · 29/05/2010 21:36

Laminate comes in lots of colours, unless there are some nice old boards underneath you could spruce up?

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