Changing kitchen from warm to cool tones

7 years ago

We are planning to change our kitchen to cooler tones by swapping our current cabinets to white/off white, changing countertops and island to lighter quartz and changing the backsplash, along with swapping out the decor, lights and pendants. The dilemma is that we cannot change the floors which have mainly beige and cream tones with some grey. Could we do a Calacatta style quartz on the island and white/off white perimeter cabinets with a greige/grey island?

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aprilneverends

7 years ago

you'll need to keep to the warmest shades of colors you'd prefer, in order for them to still work with your flooring.

Gray-warmest greige bordering taupe might work

Off white-warmest off white might work

You'll need for both colors to go together too.

As for countertops-no I wouldn't go for marble look quartz, too cool (temperature-wise) with your floors, and pattern is distinct and bold..too much with your flooring. Stones are bossy and picky and it's often hard to have several in one space.

You can pick more uniform surface though for a "cleaner" look. Plain Quartz? A natural stone that has more uniformity to it?

You can make it less busy..you can't completely drift away into cool color pallette as long as your floors stay. They'll always dictate your colors, to a degree. Or rather, shades of colors.

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User
7 years ago
Cold is over. The new is vibrant jewel tones and warm metals and woods. Forget the dead gray bandwagon.
threelittlelights13ny7a
7 years ago
I wouldn’t go as far as the previous poster... The trend is headed more toward a balanced overall color temp that has both warm and cool elements... but that being said, we all like what we like and good design is timeless so if something bright, clean, and cool is what you want then go for it!

Please post some pictures so we can see the space and your flooring. Grays vary greatly in undertone and can work with almost any color as long as you get the choose the right one.
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anu_and_vijay
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7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

Posting a picture as it didn't upload the first time
Virginia Vidoni
7 years ago
We just did this very same switch. I will send pictures. Actually, some of our friends were against our doing it because they loved our warm, cozy, dark wood, yellow walled kitchen. We are all thrilled with the change. Tonight when i get home, I will try to figure out how to post pictures.
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threelittlelights13ny7a
7 years ago
I agree with aprilneverends, the warmer greys will work and it will really brighten up the look without being too stark.

Some of the calacatta quartz patterns have some warmer backgrounds that would work well with the flooring. I don’t think it’s the grey you have to worry about as much as staying away from super bright whites.

Good luck!!!
Virginia Vidoni
7 years ago
Hi, I just posted our pictures of the before and after kitchen - I hope you can find them.
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User
7 years ago
Straight from the IBS and KBIS shows last month. Grey has gone and color is THE hot thing being done on the coasts.