Choosing your Kitchen Paint Colors

Some simple tips to assist you with choosing paint colors for your new Kitchen

Where to start with Kitchen Paint Colors ( Remodeling )

The best place to begin is to decide which features and existing material finishes in your existing kitchen you will be leaving untouched. These elements might include the kitchen cabinets or the floor tiles for example, clearly you will need to select a color scheme that will work with these pre-existing elements.

For example if your kitchen cabinets have a red tone you will need to make sure the remainder of paint color scheme will work with that hue.

Creating Visual Focus – Drawing the Eye

We use contrasting paint colors to place emphasis on particular elements of the Kitchens architectural features where we wish to draw focus.

For example you can apply a contrasting paint color ie either lighter or darker than the wall – to elements such as crown molding or window surrounds. You could also accent one wall in a room by painting it a different color than the prevailing color or by giving it a faux finish, adding wallpaper

You can join rooms adjacent to the kitchen together by using a common color palette alternatively you can create separate spaces by altering the shade and hue within the common palette.

Color has the power to either draw focus to and emphasize certain features or to minimize others. You could make the ceiling in your Kitchen appear higher by applying a lighter color, or lower with a darker color and a long narrow kitchen will look wider if you use a slightly darker color on the shorter walls and a lighter color on the longer walls.

How Light affects Color Selection

Remember that the color you choose for your kitchen may look different at various times of the day and night. The warm tones of incandescent lights will have a different influence on the color than the natural light of day.

Color Schemes for Small Kitchens

You can help to make a smaller kitchen seem larger by painting the walls in colors that make them appear to recede, such as blue, green or violet. Don’t use dark timbers and colors in a small Kitchen as those colors will only server to make the space appear smaller – avoid dark reds, purples, dark blues and greens.

If your working with a small kitchen select crisp colors or whites with a tint of blue, green or yellow for a subtle background of color.

Color Schemes for Open Plan Kitchens

If you have an open plan area that your kitchen reside within don’t choose colors that provide a huge contrast in color to the remainder of house unless you want your kitchen to visually dominate.

Color selection for open plan living areas is generally best when you select a color that gradually flows within the single open plan space.

Assuming white or netural colored walls in the large open plan space you should consider textured neutrals, whites, grays, black and silver metallics

Kitchen Paint Color Summary

Make the most of color in your Kitchen, enjoy using it our Kitchen Design Software can be a big help in mapping out the overview of your Kitchen Color Scheme but you do need to remember that the colors that you see represented on your computer monitor are going to vary significantly from the end result. Even in the real world colors change and will look different at different times of the day and with different light sources, so expecting a computer to simulate that complexity is being naïve.

If you have concerns and don’t want to take “risks” then stay with to neutrals and layer gradually adding color until you arrive at the look you want.