Color of your kitchen? Trying to decide.

[CountryWolf07]

So, what color is your kitchen? Mike and I are trying to decide on what it should be. The thing is, our living room/eating area will be side by side by the kitchen, so the colors would have to 100% look/feel right. This is the current color of our living room: http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/paint_colors/ideas/color/SW7038/ - Tony Taupe. It's a warm brown/beige neutral color. Suggestions?

[Karen]

How about a sunny pale yellow?

[pomtzu]

Are you meaning the walls, or cabinets, or counters or appliances?

[CountryWolf07]

I wanted to try to avoid yellow as the color.. it's for the wall colors - appliances will be black. The countertop is marbled gray/black. The cabinets are a light colored tan. One light/fan, one big window. So there'll be a lot of light during the day.

[Asiel]

What about seafoam? Slight tinge of green but very light and airy looking.

[pomtzu]

In my kitchen I have black/brushed stainless appliances, oak cabinets, the countertops are speckled light blue/gray and the ceramic tile splash all around is a light blue/gray. Right now the walls are papered with a washable type of wallcovering with an off white background, and a small flower print in pale mauve and blue. Would probably go with medium to light mauve or blue if we decided to paint.

[cassiesmom]

The wallpaper in my kitchen (fortunately, it's only on 2 of the 4 walls) is this bright blue with white pin stripes. The cabinets are white laminate with a light wood trim, and the floor is white vinyl. I want to take this eye popping blue down and paint it just a flat white or eggshell, and replace the white tile with Pergo flooring. The kitchen is only 10' x 10' so I'm thinking a light color might make it feel bigger.

http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/paint_colors/ideas/color/SW6796_blue_plate/

[Karen]

Maybe you should bring home some swatches of pale greys and creams, and lay them on the countertops to see what would complement them. As you already have black and tan and the colors of the countertops, you probably should keep from adding another color per se ... what are the floors?

[Pinot's Mom]

I have a very open design house, so all the colors have to get along. Don't concentrate on getting necessarily the same color, but the same tone to the colors. You can see all rooms on my first floor, as well as the upstairs hall, from just about any spot.

My kitchen is the only one that breaks the same tone rule, it's brighter, which I don't consider a problem since the rest are the same tone, but different colors. The living room is called 'Nurture', and extremely light jade green; the dining room is a light rose, and the front hall, upstairs hall, and family room are all 'magnificent mocha', a light taupy color. All these rooms read the same tone and you don't really register the difference in color unless you're actually looking at them. The kitchen, which has a large opening to the family room, is sponge painted a kind of light, bright granny smith apple green. My cabinets are maple, the floor is a natural stone/slate colored ceramic tile, and the countertops are gray. Don't ask what color the first floor powder room is; it makes no sense with the rest of the house, it's closed off and I had fun with that one!

Experiment, buy samples and paint them together on a practice paint board (I used a discarded piece of drywall), and have fun!

[Freedom]

Pale pink, a blush, will look awesome with those colors in the living room and the counters, appliances etc!!!

. The countertop is marbled gray/black. The cabinets are a light colored tan. One light/fan, one big window. So there'll be a lot of light during the day. and tony taupe in the living room.

The wall will be light in the daytime, when there is plenty of light in that room; and have a shade / tone to it which compliments the darker countertop, in the nighttime.

http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/paint_colors/ideas/color/SW6308_possibly_pink/

[Taz_Zoee]

Our kitchen is in need to some fresh paint. It is just white right now.
Shortly after I moved in we painted the entry and hall ways, the living room and dining room. They are: hall is like a puddy color, living room is a dark burnt red and the dining room is a light sage green. We used colors from the reupholstered dining room chairs. It sounds hideous, but it works.
The studio, which is conected to the kitchen is faux painted in purple-grey colors. Dark for base and light sponge paint over it. People always ask if it's wall paper.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Ours is a brown color, kind of a neutral tan very similar to the color of your living room, and our living room is the same color. They're interconnected, so we didn't want to do two different colors.

I like Freedom's idea of pink. Tan and pink always look really awesome together and that'd be something unique too!

[Randi]

I know you don't want any yellow, but I played around with colors for a bedroom and quite like "Delicious Melon" for that, depending on which other colors you have there. Oh, there are so many to choose from!

Good luck finding the right one! :)

[happylabs]

Can you take some pics to show us?

I redid my kitchen last Spring and it was so fun!

[CountryWolf07]

We decided to go with yellow. I was against it but now, I love it. Go figure! :) Here's a picture of before and after.

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[Scooter's Mom]

I really like the shade of yellow that you chose!

[Desert Arabian]

Very pretty color! What is it called? I put Behr Cracked Wheat in my kitchen and I *love* it. It is very similar to your color, just a little lighter, when the sun shines brightly but on cloudier days it is more subtle and has an ivory hue to it.

[Karen]

Looks great, and that's about what I had in mind! :)

[CountryWolf07]

I went with Sherwin Williams' "Jersey Cream".. it looks very light in the daytime, but at night, you can easily see the color. :) I like it. It goes VERY well with the dining room/living room color.