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Help with kitchen wall color!

8 years ago
I’d like to warm up my new kitchen and select a wall color and backsplash. Granite is Fantasy Brown and Island has a work level and sitting level, Island color is SW 6523 (denim) and cabinets and trim are Dover White. Excuse the stuff as we are living here now. ALSO.. considering making the wall around fireplace an accent wall, SUGGESTIONS??? Thank you!!!

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  • 8 years ago

    I would look to the colors in the stones in the fireplace surround and the countertop stone for your cues -- perhaps the top center stone and the large one to the left of it or the vertical one to the right. Those are easier to see in the photos than isolating bands in the countertop, but it looks like you have similar tones in there.

    I have some blue in my kitchen and FR and used SW Agreeable Grey at 150% in those rooms. That darkened it down slightly but kept the undertones that worked with my wood and red brick FP. I have BM Wish in my bedroom with dark wood and leather, natural linen and blues. My sister just did a house in Accessible Beige and used a lot of beige and grey together -- blues would work well with that too, but I wouldn't go any further into the creamy beige side. You need that softer grey/beige to warm grey range.


    Maria thanked lascatx
  • 8 years ago

    I would first try to change the type of bulbs in the kitchen, they seem a little dark. Perhaps that is my monitor?

  • 8 years ago
    Thank you all. The lights are incorrectly portrayed in the photo where they send a horrible yellow tone! They’re quite white. We will be hanging a light over the bar height part of the island after painting finishes. Our cabinet guy is already in love with the island and another client of his is doing it now too. The room is a little more spacious than portrayed in pic too. Painting crew starts today and I will get a handful of sample colors from your suggestions!
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    8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Go a bit darker but still off white on the walls. S.W. Neutral Ground.

    For your accent wall….I like S.W. Honed Soapstone, because on my monitor it looks like the grout color in the fireplace; I wouldn’t want a color that was totally opposed to the fireplace.

  • 8 years ago
    Help! I did a sample wall and chose SW Sedate Grey and SW Popular Grey(on the right) The trim and kitchen cabinets are Dover white and has a yellow undertone. The paint on the left has a green coming thru and on the right the pink is! Any other neutral wall suggestions? HELP
  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    love the island color! (BTW, not sure if you know that your Fantasy Brown countertop is a quartzite, not a granite)

    maybe look at White Sand

    Pale Oak

    you could also try Gray Owl at 50%,,,I've seen it on other rooms and it worked well.

    not sure if these are too yellow for you.

  • 8 years ago

    I'm copying this over from my reply to your other thread, which I can only find on the new version of the boards, and not the old version (which is what still shows up on my home computer). I am completely baffled by the recent Houzz changes.

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    I think your perceptions of the two test colors is being influenced by (1) The gold next to them and (2) Both colors being in view means your eye is picking out the differences between the two. In other words, I think they look more different than they really are, and once the whole room is painted, you wouldn't see "pink" or "green" anymore. If you take the picture and edit out the gold and the other gray (I just held up my hands to the monitor to narrow my field of view), both seem more neutral. I think the one on the right looks a bit better with the stone, but both seem fine, at least base on the pics and my monitor.

    If you want something more neutral, you could look at SW On the Rocks. I also looked at Turning Point, which is more neutral than Sedate Gray but still pulls a bit green. I'm not sure either will be an improvement on what you have up there, though.

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