6. Pull the wall hue into the room. Lime green on the kitchen island echoes the paler shade of the walls for a graduated two-tone effect. The same technique also works well when you want to repeat a dominant or background color in tile or wallpaper.
A natural green. “This farmhouse kitchen was envisioned to be a highly efficient working-living space featuring natural materials that express their own beauty," says Douglas Dick of LDa Architecture & Interiors. "The monochromatic green color palette of the walls and island cabinetry was selected to be visually calming and to enhance the theme of expressing the beauty of the room’s natural materials.”These include wall and base cabinets constructed of a natural-finish clear maple; the rear countertop, which is a honed light-cream granite; and an island with a maple butcher block countertop that came from a mature tree on the property that was felled during a previous construction project.
Like cabinet style and the natural wood/mable color. Like the idea of pulling color into the island. I am thinking blue or the darker red. Simple, clean, light, modern. Like.