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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

[thipe.livejournal.com]

WE SUFFER FOR OUR ART

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Yes, a glass of wine will make all decisions much easier.

Arr num num num.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

A pale coffee on the contrast wall?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

That is one VERY purple kitchen!

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

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

It'll make your wee smell.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

We've been building our house for three years, and we still manage to do that :-)

[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).

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Yellow is good for kitchens - it's what we painted my parents place with a while back :)

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

I don't know! The more I look at colour, the more confused I get about names!

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

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

Seriously? Cool!

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

I won't eat the paint. Promise.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

a very cunning plan!

would certainly make for a more Interesting colour choice I'd imagine ;)

[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

[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

[hellison.livejournal.com]

hehe i'm glad it's not just me!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I was just looking at the Dulux website, and they have one called 'timeless'

which is actually magnolia ;p

[hellison.livejournal.com]

something to do with not working well with eating? I'm not sure ;p If the living room wasn't already green, i'd be quite tempted by a nice pale shade for the kitchen

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

It would be a big if.

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

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

I believe so - this is what I was Taught at School in Home Economic (don't laugh). That said, I've never seen a green or blue kitchen.

I quite like your idea of sage green to go with a black and grey kitchen.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

If magnolia paint was based on this variety, I'd buy it LOTS. As it is, even the standard cream magnolia flowers are more vivid than any paint.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

That'll show up all the white dirt. We're going for grey floor: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollydot/3294901897/in/set-72157594264680860/

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

White dirt?!

Very nice kitchen!

[tiny-eri.livejournal.com]

In our house, Magnolia has been renamed 'Indecision'.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

alas, no, it's your basic cream (http://www.dulux.co.uk/servlet/ColourSchemeHandler?name=timeless)

but... could look well with a very pale pink/rose shade on the back wall maybe?

[tiny-eri.livejournal.com]

our kitchen is navy blue!