Feedback, thoughts on changing color scheme and best paint colors.
We are purchasing a "new-construction" free-standing townhome that comes with "builder-selected" dark cabinetry, dark floors, and a "warm-sand" color scheme featuring Sherwin Williams's "Natural Tan" (SW7567) on all of the interiors throughout the home. We would like to modify the color scheme a bit and go to a "lighter, crisper" look. We prefer white kitchen cabinetry and lighter, more natural colored flooring. Unfortunately, the builder won't let us modify any of the preselected choices. We close on this property in June and we plan to make the following changes immediately upon closing.
1.) Install a lighter, more "natural-finish" white-oak flooring.
2.) Paint the kitchen cabinets white. We are currently considering Benjamin Moore's "White Dove" or Sherwin Williams's "Pure White". Our goal is to select the best shade of white to pair with the aforementioned Sherwin Williams's "Natural Tan".
3.) Paint the kitchen island in a complimentary, contrasting color. We are considering a darker, warm gray-brown-taupe tone. I like Urbane Bronze SW 7048 but I'm wondering if we should go a shade or two lighter or consider a different shade? We have also considered keeping the kitchen island in its original dark stain to contrast with the white cabinetry?
"Thank You" for reading and for your thoughts and ideas!
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Comments (6)Please rethink a combination of yellow and dark brown, especially with white. There's only one thing I can think about when I see that color combination and it's definitely NOT something I'd want to see in a kitchen (and it's a VERY popular exterior color combination around here, ugh). Very high contrast can be tough to work with. Try getting your colors a bit closer together in value - since you're going for a white on your cabinets and a pale yellow wall (BTW, BM Rich Cream is a very popular light yellow, although it doesn't look very yellow on the chip it goes quite yellow on the wall; BM Windham Cream is a nice soft yellow that has absolutely NO business being called cream), think about lightening up the color of the trim and wainscot to a midtone at the darkest. If you drop down to a semigloss on the wainscot and trim the "bashed-up-ness" ;-) should not show as glaringly with lighter colors as they do with a high-gloss finish; with such a reflective surface the light "catches" in the dings. It doesn't need to match the other rooms, and trim in a color-color is quite period appropriate for the 1880s - the Victorians were MAD for color. It's just not seen that much nowadays because white/off-white trim is more "in". What about a just-slightly-lighter-than-midtone green that picks up the soapstone's green for the trim/wainscot (a somewhat clearer green than the muddy tealish green that's there now)? Say third or fourth down on a BM strip? Green and yellow is a lovely pairing and will be cheerful and happy with the white. We have the same orangy old pine boards in our ca.1900 "Victorian Lite" (a very plain millworker's cottage, makes your farmhouse look elaborate!), although ours are random-width and mostly nicely wide, and it goes swimmingly with almost any green. I'm having a very hard time resisting using green in every room. :-) Blue is a color to consider, too, since it also goes marvelously with yellow and white. Classic combination. There's a gorgeous upscaled-old-fashioned kitchen in the kitchens thread in the Gallery area of this forum decorated in yellow and slate blue (photo #9). #22 uses a pale, pale yellow on the walls with white trim and a pale blue on the cabinet, there's no reason why you couldn't have the cabs white and the trim blue, especially if the kitchen is bright (IME light colors work best in bright rooms, they tend to go drab in darker ones). It's impossible to tell because these pictures were taken at night! :-) #25 is a great example of the green/yellow/white combination in a traditional country kitchen setting. Just wondering - won't it be a bit crowded up by the ceiling with the plate shelf AND crown molding? I'm puzzled. Love your island, the t&g doors, the transom... beautiful....See MoreChanging your Color Scheme
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2 years ago"Thank You" to all for your thoughts and to Jennifer H for the very helpful photo editing. I had not really taken the trim into consideration. I do understand that mixing whites can be tricky. The trim will be Sherwin Williams's "Extra White". We could extend the trim color to the cabinetry but I was leaning toward a bit warmer white with some gray undertones. Also, I was thinking of using a "matte finish" to reduce the starkness. Perhaps the matte finish would tone down the "Extra White?" This photo below is "the look" that we would like to achieve except the kitchen island would be done in more of a deep, bronzy-gray tone.
Jennifer Hogan
2 years agoFirst, I am not sure how much of the cabinet color in your inspiration picture is cabinet color vs lighting . . .
See how these cabinets change color around the room going from very off white to pretty darn white.
But to get to what you want you have a few challenges, but it can be done.
First you have to decide on the wall color. The wall color has to work with your flooring, the extra white trim, the countertops and the backsplash. Then create a new color to test for for the cabinets that is 3/4 extra white and 1/4 wall color. It should act as a bridge between the extra white trim and the wall color. You may have to play with the mix to get it exactly where you want it. This usually works, but I have had times where I picked a neutral that was actually complementary to the trim and ended up with mud. . . Then I needed to just lighten with a brighter white than extra white and keep testing the mix against the wall color and trim till I got the mix right.Ted Porter thanked Jennifer HoganTed Porter
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