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[hellison]

Had a very pleasant evening last night (horrors on facebook aside), went to ride Ziggy then came home and had popcorn and fizzy wine. Happy Birthday to meee!

Gardener George also called and says he can come skim/paint the kitchen walls this week. Hurrah!

BUT. Now i have to pick a colour. HELP ME LJ! I was originally thinking creamish, but... the floor is cream and the tiles are cream and brown and would cream walls be all Too Much?

As a reminder, kitchen now looks like




with... about one and a half blank walls needing painted.

What colour would YOU pick, oh LJ?

Comments

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Neon pink.

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd go with fleshy pink. With a hint of rouge.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

That is because you don't have good taste!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

BOTH DEAD TO ME

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

INTESTINAL GREEN

actually a naice shade of green wouldn't be half bad.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Bogey green.

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Baby poo green

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I thought of that, butthe living room is green already... and apparently green is not good for Dining Areas anyway ;p

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Is it not? Why not?

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

With those brown tiles, your obvious choices are probably a white (which is fine with everything) or a pale, sunny yellow.

Possibly something like this:

http://www.housetohome.co.uk/imageBank/c/CH0507-65.jpg - maybe a bit too egg-yolk-y?

or possibly this:
http://www.housetohome.co.uk/imageBank/b/BH0601-34a1.jpg - a bit more cream furniture than yours, but has similar blacks, browns and creams, just in different combinations.


Or, going by the ideas of the other contributors, this:

http://www.tchochkes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/purple-kitchen.jpg

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Ooo... don't tempt me with the purple. I think that might actually work in ours. But I'm afraid that if I start going with purple, the whole house will end up purple. I want to start with other colours.

I like the second yellow a lot.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

*tempts you with purple*

[hellison.livejournal.com]

That is one VERY purple kitchen!

I also like the 2nd yellow a lot too tho, that could work very well

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Honestly, say if I were a clean person, I'd go with cream.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

*grins* if, eh? I may try a few samples out this evenign then run back to b&q before it shuts ;p

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

It would be a big if.

I think if I owned a kitchen it would be BLACK.

[fragglechick.livejournal.com]

I'd go for brown actually. A solid mid chocolate brown, not too dark. But obviously it depends on if your kitchen is big enough to carry it off, but yeah, brown - maybe with blocks of cream in places, where you could hang pictures, for the contrast. Likes.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of brown, but the kitchen doesn't get a lot of light, so it might make it too dark. Currently edging towards cream around/above the cupboards and A Colour on the back wall, to contrast a bit...

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

A pale coffee on the contrast wall?

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Cream would look nice. I can't currently think of a more colourful colour. I'm a fan of burgundy, but it might make the kitchen too dark.

We've the same issue in ours - grey tiles, pale wood cabinets, almost black counters. I'm thinking a shade of green with grey in it, like sage. Had originally been thinking of colour in tiles, maybe terracotta or blue, but it's easier to change colour by re-painting than re-tiling :-)

Maybe a pale yellow? Or even pink could work. Though I'm going to disagree with on the neonness. I have a pink in my head, but can't think of words to describe it.

*searchy searchy* Ok, don't know how much difference monitors will make, but look at buff on this page: http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-b.htm Maybe 29 or 31 or something in between. Something with less rather than more colour in it, if you know what I mean.

Though, after all that, I think I'd got for pale yellow or cream.

But really, you need to get paint cards & look at them in the kitchen. Get samples of the best ones.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I had originally planned on a nice yellow cream, so may still go with that, tho am quite taken now with that v. pale pink for the back wall, with cream round the rest... hmm.

I think what i will do is nip into b&q on the way home, grab some samples, then go back later on once i've picked.

obviously i should have done this aaaages ago, not the night before it's due to be done...

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Rose?

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

If it's a kitchen/diner, it gets more complicated.

Kitchens work best with blue or green shades as they repel flies. Dining rooms work best with deep red shades as they make the room seem smaller and focus on the centre.

I think that something in the range of pale yellow to pale pink would work best (and yes, that does include cream. Sorry).

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Kitchens work best with blue or green shades as they repel flies.

Seriously? Cool!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

yup, kitchen diner ;p Cream round the cupboards etc is fine, I'm mostly worried about the back wall (where all the coats are), because that will run right down to the cream tiles, and it might be Too Much Cream, so i might make that one wall... soemthing else, pale pink maybe