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This color with oak ?

16 years ago

I am trying to pick a paint color for my kitchen, in which I have oak cabinets and butter-rum laminate. From reading these forums, I discovered I need to decide what look I am trying to achieve with my wood. Here is a picture.



The look I need is for the wood to show as a light oak, not too orange and defininitly not pink. I want the paint color to be dark enough to make the cabinets pop (but pop in a good way.) I like the pictures of green paint with the oak, but my foyer-living-room-dining room are going to be a green (BM Timothy Straw), and I'm thinking that might be too much green? I am wondering what a color like BM glazed pear would do.

(link to glazed pear)

Here is a link that might be useful: BM Glazed pear

Comments (18)

  • 16 years ago

    I'm not very good with paint colors but I really love that olive color you have to the left of your cabinets. I think it really enhances your cabinets, and is my favorite of all those I've seen on this forum with oak cabinets, the second favorite being the kitchen I saw with chocolate walls.
    Dee

  • 16 years ago

    Ooo I like that dark color you have on the left too:) Very pretty

  • 16 years ago

    I'd do a step or 2 darker with the olive. You'd have the best of both worlds ;)

  • 16 years ago

    I don't have photoshop, but I tried experimenting with the "paint" program. I used bm glazed pear from my monitor, but it dosen't look like the glazed pear chip I have. :( Humm..

  • 16 years ago

    I like the brown! It kind of "modernizes" the oak imo. It looks nice with the trim and floor also. Good luck!

  • 16 years ago

    I think dark clay color would be the best option for you. I would like to suggest you to go for it. It will enhance the beauty of your kitchen. I hope you will consider my suggestion.

    Here is a link that might be useful: EPDM Coatings

  • 16 years ago

    Timothy Straw is more gold than green, at least in the swatches I found on line.

    I think a deeper olive would be great in the kitchen, and would be warm to work with your laminate and the oak. I think I also spy a deeper rusty red on the other side of the closet door, and that would work, too.

    The chocolate brown is pretty, but seems rather dead in this application, and what I think will pop in contrast is the white appliances and doors.

  • 16 years ago

    I love it. I would use the rusty red in some pretty accessories.

  • 16 years ago

    I'm not really good with picking colors, but the thing I noticed with the brown was that the counter seemed to get lost.

    Totally Confused

  • 16 years ago

    I do like that olive-y brown color... what color is it?

  • 16 years ago

    I like the green that is on the backsplash. It seems like a happy color with those cabinets and doesn't wash out your counter top.

  • 16 years ago

    sonaliagrawal: The large green color next to the door and the green in the back-splash is the same color! It is Ben Moore 0515 Baby Turtle. A friend of mine had just painted her bedroom with Baby Turtle and lent me her can. I don't think I mixed it up well enough, because what I painted on the wall I liked, but on the back-splash I didn't. I then painted some in my dining room, and it looked awful (husband called it baby poo poo green)! I could stand in the dining room and see the color beside the pantry at the same time. If I hadn't painted it myself, I wouldn't have believed it was the same color! It is a very popular color, as I have found many pictures of it online. Hope this helps!

  • 16 years ago

    @teresatree: I am actually talking about the giant swatch of brown color above the baby turtle on the small wall to the left of the cabinets. Can you pls share what that color is?

  • 16 years ago

    I vote for the brown too. :-)

  • 16 years ago

    Baby Turtle!

  • 16 years ago

    Did you try Northampton Putty? It's a definite brownish olive...However, I do like the brown with oak. I don't have a picture, but I used a SW color called Toasty as an accent wall. It's a rich, yummy brown. Another one to look at is Tyler taupe, a BM color. These colors are dark, so you need a lot of light to pull them off. Try googling them!
    Those room viewers never worked for me, so I would also grab a swatch of the glazed pear to see what it looks like. It will probably look different than the room mockup--hopefully closer to what you want.

  • 16 years ago

    sonaliagrawal: The brown is a Benjamin Moore historical color, I think Plymouth Brown HC-73. (There is a slight possibility that it is Davenport Tan HC-76) I can't find the chip, and it is one I took to Lowes to get larger matched sample.

  • 16 years ago

    I too am drawn to that little sample of brick red over to the left. The green works, but you've said you're already using green. Your cabs, floor, and counters are all neutral--you definitely need a color to add some oomph!

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