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Kitchen cabinet colour dilema

last year

After years of planning, and saving, we finally have builders booked to totally renovate our downstairs. I have thought for years I would have an Inchyra blue kitchen with white worktop. We visited DIY kitchens for the last time at the weekend and the kitchen we're going for which is the Helmsley, was on display in a colour that's just thrown us! So I come for help wise Houzzers!
Inchyra blue units, pale walls, white worktop, or Ammonite units, inchyra or Stiffkey walls, or the new idea of Pelt units and pale walls.
We have had white high gloss units and black floor and worktop in a North facing room for 18 years, so was more inclined to have coloured units......but I'm doubting every decision at the minute!
We are south facing, large window, flooring is the little wooden sample by the Pelt cupboard, plan has no wall cupboards.
Worktop will definitely be plain white or very simply speckled white, Dekton, Hi-mac type product.

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Cocoona Designs

last year

Hi Em,

Its an exciting design dilemma to have and i was immediately drawn to the pelt units in the photos as ive recently been looking at the virtues of violet hues in my latest instagram posts - @cocoonadesigns.

However (and this might be another curve ball sorry), how about Stiffkey blue units? With a bit of Borrowed Light in the walls? Whatever colour you choose has to sit well with you and lets face it a kitchen is a big investment that you’ll live with for at last ten years. But to help you choose, take a quick look at the clothes in your wardrobe. If strong reds, purples oranges and statement colours are your thing then take the plunge and go for it, but if your style is classic then maybe the blues will sit with you for longer.

love the pine flooring that will work well with whatever hue you choose, and to connect and create cohesion add some wooden chopping boards as accessoris to your work surface.

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Juliet Docherty
last year
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It's beautiful and down to personal choice. I would just say though, Pelt is very dark and if the walls and worktops are very light it will create a very dramatic effect, this is what lots of people like at the moment and has a contemporary feel which is very contrasting in look. It will bring drama into a space but the question is will you love it long term? Maybe ask people to post their favourite picture of a kitchen and ask why, would be interesting to see. This would be mine...I love the unit colour but I particularly love it with the warm stone floor tiles, the sand coloured walls and the worktop. The contrast is softened by pairing the dark units with mid value warm flooring and walls.

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The kitchen showroom is usually very brightly lit and colours will generally be a darker shade in your own kitchen. If you are a fan of purple, go with it if it makes you smile. If you have no purple in yourhouse or wardrobe, its maybe just "attractive" and you will tire of it.
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After much deliberation my sister chose a charcoal grey kitchen with the palest of grey walls, almost white. Warm worktop. Her room is pretty big with floor to ceiling sliding doors along one whole wall. It’s south facing. Floor is chestnut wood effect porcelain with under floor heating. First pic.

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I’m currently drawn to pale units and work tops around the perimeter of the kitchen and statement coloured island and tall cabinets. Makes the room feel bigger and uncluttered and is easy to repaint if you fancy a change…
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Jikoni Interiors
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Hi,

Please see our links below for some inspiration on colours for kitchens.

Top 5 Kitchen Designs for 2022 - (jikoniinteriors.com)

Kitchen Trends for the New Year (jikoniinteriors.com)

Choosing colour for your kitchen | Jikoni Interiors

www.jikoniinteriors.com

Kind regards,

Jikoni Interiors
ali270
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I’ve been looking for a pale green for my kitchen and love the ‘ rain washed ‘ colour in Sonia’s second picture . Who makes that shade please ?
smac232
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Judging by your plan, if you’re kitchen is south facing, it’s going to be flooded with light. I tend to prefer darker colours in poorly lit places but lighter colours for sunny rooms.

I’m not a big fan of grey but Ammonite is a very subtle shade and I think it would look good on the perimeter units. I fear that a darker colour people suck the life out of your bright sunny room. The island can then be any colour you like as a contrast. I feel that a whole kitchen in Pelt might be a bit too much, but the island in Pelt would look amazing. It’s a beautiful colour and would be a real talking point.

Without wishing to be controversial, I think the days of the dark blue kitchen may be coming to an end. It might look dated very quickly. If Pelt is the colour that’s captured your imagination, then go for it
smac232
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Sorry my autocorrect has changed perhaps would to people. I can’t find a way to edit it.
Sonia
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ali270 Rainwashed if by Sherwin Williams. I think it’s a US brand so not sure if available in the U.K.
K G
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Love the pelt. But, like some of the other comments, think I would limit it to the island and then have stone (not white) coloured units elsewhere. I think the pelt against the white would be too stark in a bright room. Not sure what coloured worktops I would go for, but if stone coloured units, you might find a white top doesn’t work.
ali270
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Thankyou Sonia….will do some research .

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