Kitchen's Kitchen

Found a radiator, was only £1,900 so I thought that a bargain.

I am kidding... local shop have sorted one out, it's available in time and was only £800 inc VAT, etc and yet fits the very awkward space which took out a lot of stock options, and also was available in a special finish (metallic gun metal grey) which goes well with the tiling and worktop.

So stuck with choosing paint colours.

Dulux Heritage Sage Green for the cabinets.

Some kind of off-white for most of the walls.

But... near the entrance there are two walls that are fairly vast and get a lot of light... off-white would be washed out and characterless.

Wondering whether to do the skirting boards and trims in a non-white, perhaps a deep green, to lessen the impact of the white walls.

Also considering doing just those two walls in different colour from the remaining walls... green, pink, grey... who knows.

Would actually pay an interior designer / colour specialist at this point to make solid recommendations. Is this why people get Farrow & Ball over for a consultation?

Generally yes, but you can just go in to a store and chat through stuff. It's their job to find you a colour scheme.

You could go for School house white and setting plaster, although I actually prefer the Craig and Rose dried plaster - that colour mix would go well with the green. Slipper Satin is an off white but which looks almost pearlescent in the light which could be another option.

Do you just happen to know F&B colours off the top of your head like that?

Dulux Grey Steel 4. This is the white of choice for all my friends who have interior decorating taste.

Oh my, that is good.

Grey Steel 4 is like someone's just put a decent ND filter on a pure white to achieve a non-biased light grey that can be perceived as clay.

That is nice... that may be my fallback if I run out of time and need to panic blurt a paint colour out.

DH Sage Green: rgb(158, 173, 158)
Grey Steel 4: rgb(232, 232, 229)

Also just discovered that if you put rgb(158,173,158) into Google it gives you a colour preview via https://www.google.com/search?q=color+picker

I don't really understand all that stuff you said but my friends told me to use that one and it made my house look nice so there you go.

I can even send you shots of it in situ in my new #5kitchen

No but I've decorated an entire house in the last 4m

ND filters are a light filter used a lot in photography and video shooting, they are neutral density... this means they reduce all light waves evenly. This is important as otherwise the image ends up more red or orange (typically), so if you want to darken something in a way that doesn't introduce colour then you need something neutral.

I already have a green, but green is difficult... we perceive more greens than anything, and if I added anything with any sense of colour near it then it would show up and need to complement the green. Green is hard to complement well... the best colours don't make great white tints.

So... if I need an off-white that is darker than the off-white I've chosen... it needs to be more neutral.

The Grey Steel 4 is really nice because it's about the perfect darkness I may consider... and yet it's perfectly neutral... so I can just do it and not worry about whether it matches or complements the green.

Basically... thank you, great suggestion.

Did you paint the ceiling in the same colour?

Yeah. Is that good or bad?

No idea, but tomorrow we were going to start painting our kitchen and thought we would take your advice! You don't happen to have white units?

I'd like to see some photos either way if possible?

grey steel 4 looks similar to f&b ammonite, which I've used and liked in my upstairs

I think unless you want to paint everything one colour and depending on the light then a specific ceiling paint can help to reflect the light better - a good wash with sugar soap as always is a good idea

if you have 'smaller' ceiling heights (e.g. in a terrace built after the 1930s or a new build) then having the ceiling the same colour as the walls can make the room feel taller. we did this because we moved from a tenement (with very tall ceilings) to a 1930s mid-terrace

Did you decide against pink in the end @Velocio ? We're considering some pink paint in the kitchen but undecided on what to go for.

Here you go, few of the kitchen with lights off and and an another room or two.

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Did you decide against pink in the end @Velocio ? We're considering some pink paint in the kitchen but undecided on what to go for.

Yes. But I think it would've been perfect as sage green and a light potters pink work exceptionally well together.

However... this isn't just a small bit of space around some units, there's a dining area joined onto the kitchen that results in a few large wall spaces. I didn't want to segregate the kitchen from the dining space by colour scheme, and yet pink on those large walls would mean it's more a pink kitchen than a sage green and walnut kitchen.

I'm now leaning towards clay colours, the grey mentioned upthread, or a creamy white that works with the green. I'd rather the walls were less opinionated than a pink, and that they let materials provide the character (the walnut dining table and chairs, and the walnut slim shelves I'm having made).

is that really a 5k kitchen? looks amazing

Thanks! all I did was buy some shit online with my wife, took delivery and then a nice man put it all in. it's all metod, somethink like 3.5 for units (inclu integrated dishwasher) and 1.5 to fit. Oven and fridge I guess are 1.5k on top so ALL in 6 and a bit.

New table and chairs have arrived... thought I'd get these before Christmas so that they can be used over Christmas.

It's Matthew Hilton for Case Furniture, a Dulwich Extending table (the small one) and Profile stacking chairs.

The walnut looks out of place on the white and blue floor, but on the planned dark stone porcelain tiles and with a grey wall it should look nice.

Also added 3 long (1.7M length) walnut floating shelves for behind the table on a large wall to hold cookbooks, condiments, some objects, and wine.

So far everything I'm buying is coming in a quarter to a third less than the anticipated price on my spreadsheet. Some of this is me not knowing the price (i.e. how much does a good tap cost) but a lot is me shopping around and watching prices (chairs purchased in Black Friday discount for example).

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Oh, and the lighting has arrived.

Most of it Philips Hue, except for this thing to go over the dining table:
https://www.heals.com/multi-lite-pendant-brass-base.html?colour=brass

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