Help me choose paint color for my new kitchen
We are deep into the process of a DIY remodel of our kitchen, and now I seek advice and ideas about wall color. I have read other threads seeking paint color advice and I'm always astonished at the very fine suggestions that I would not have thought of myself. Thanks to the generous people who contribute their expertise and creativity. Our dominant colors are grey floor, natural cherry cabinets, and grey or black counters (details below).
The attached image shows the layout and a very rough approximation of floor, cabinet, and counter color - limited by what the IKEA planner lets me control.
Relevant information:
Floor: Marmoleum Click, Eternity color, a medium gray.
Cabinets: Natural Cherry Shaker-style (from Semihandmade).
Counter: Medium gray to black, Quartz, leaning toward black but undecided. Backsplash will be 4" tall strip of the same material as the counters.
Appliances: Stainless.
Layout: 9.5x11.5 foot enclosed u-shape layout.
Windows: Large windows above counters on south and west walls provide good light.
Door and Window Trim: Considering cherry to match the cabinets, open to suggestions.
House style: 1948 post-war slab-on-grade 1000 sq ft suburban Bay Area tract home, the rest of the house is decorated in a simple, modern, unadorned style. Everything in the house was yellow (carpets, tile, interior and exterior paint, curtains, countertops) when we bought it years ago, and we have gradually replaced everything so that we no longer have anything remotely resembling yellow. The kitchen is the final step in our yellow-elimination program and we will not consider anything that resembles yellow!
Thanks in advance for opinions and advice. Amy (and DH James)
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8 years agoHere are photos of the rest of the house. I'm not proud of the quality of the images, but they get the point across, I hope.
The front patio and front door:
The Living Room, panorama showing all four walls:
The Dining Room, panorama showing 3 walls.
Detail of the Dining Room paint. The lower walls is Zolotone with pink, two shades of grey, and off white. The trim is painted pink and off-white. The blind on the right is the fourth wall of the dining room, not visible in prior image - a built-in bookcase full of photography books, hidden behind a blind to protect them from the UV rays. (Yikes, nothing like a closeup image to show how dirty and worn things are.) The Dining Room is connected to the Kitchen through a single door, with very little visual connection.
Bathroom, 5x7 feet:
Office #1, 10x10 feet, aka Library, aka Green Room. Panorama showing all four walls makes it very distorted, but gives a sense of what the room is like.
Office #2, also 10x10 feet.
The only hall:
The old Kitchen, looking along the north wall to the west wall. (I can't wait until this kitchen is GONE!)
The old kitchen south wall, photo taken from the doorway to the dining room. We have removed the window to the left of the fridge, as the little table at that window was dead space that we never used.
Amy
8 years agoContinuing with photos, here is the new glass block window:
As seen from the exterior, the old window is now unpainted stucco.
Annie Deighnaugh