Advice - Unhappy with paint colour on finished kitchen cupboards
This week I had my kitchen cupboards spray painted. The spraying company said they use a UPVC paint and can match any popular colour, so I chose Farrow & Ball Lichen.
Although the finish of the painted cupboards is high quality, the colour is not what I expected - it appears a bit turquoise blue, vs the warm sage green from my F&B lichen sample pot. I quite like the colour in itself, however I feel the room feels cooler because of the blue tone. I've also painted samples of the F&B colour vs the UPVC sample on the bottom of one of the doors, and you can see the difference.
The director of the company has said this matches their F&B colour swatch, and their suppliers have confirmed it's the right formulation. He has offered to spray over the outside of the cupboards again in a different colour, and they would charge for the paint (no labour).
I'm unsure what to do. I think my options are:
1 - Work with the existing colour and warm it up the room in other ways? For example, the walls still need to be painted and I was planning on Portland Stone, which is a warm neutral I'm using throughout the rest of the house - or using warm brass handles.
2 - Choose a new colour and have them paint just the fronts of the cupboards. To get some confidence about the result, I could ask if they have examples of cupboard doors already sprayed in suitable colours, and I can take them home to see how they look in the kitchen first.
Thoughts anyone?
Thanks,
Jane
Before spray painting:
Brass handles I'm considering:
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last yearSo their paint is more hardwearing, which of course is important in a kitchen. Hmmm do you really hate the sage green, or could you live with it? You could go for an off white on the walls and maybe change the patterned tiles for something a bit more neutral, although I can see you’ve done that already on one wall. Would be a lovely update do you think? I see they’ve used a soft stone colour on the walls with this IKEA kitchen and it does look lovely.
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last year@Juliet Docherty That's exactly right. They look fresher/cooler than the surrounds.
The colour scheme for the house is natural and calming, with heritage colours or traditional muted shades such as sage green and stone to provide a base. The colours are to evoke the natural world:
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last yearlast modified: last yearPics from the bathrooms I got done recently - to follow the above scheme:
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last yearI'vw already painted the toilet adjoining the kitchen in lichen, as i wanted to keep a theme running from room to room. It definitely appears a more earthy warm green:
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