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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?

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[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Neon pink.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

INTESTINAL GREEN

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

[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

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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).