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Paint color for kitchen

7 years ago

We recently remodeled our countertops and backsplash but again I can not find the perfect paint color! When the granite was first installed I freaked out because it looked yellow. We replaced soft white lights to GE reveal LEDs and that fixed the color problem but my walls turned from beige to pink and the color I had chosen agreeable gray looked washed out. What paint color would bring everything together?







Comments (5)

  • 7 years ago

    creamy white shade of the lighter part in backsplash. Vanilla. the backsplash is a tad busy...the cabinets are a rich brown. the walls don't need anything except a good eggshell coating of the proper off white. I wouldn't do gray, taupe, khaki or anything yellowish.Just creamy off white.

  • 7 years ago

    Update: I scheduled an appointment with a Sherwin Williams color specialist. I was really impressed until her color suggestions ended up looking blue in my light. Paint chips and painted artist boards looked good but 3 coats on my wall and all I saw was blue. Definitely the worst of the 10 paint samples I have tried. Urg. Reached out to a “pro” on Houz to hire for her “services” and never heard back- obviously her “services” are the products she promotes and not her actual skills. This whole industry is one big scam! What I’ve learned from those in the industry; small samples of light colors are not large enough to even pigment the color you are sampling, sample paint is so watered down there is no way to get an accurate representation of the actual results, pictures on the internet do not even closely resemble the actual result, and the gray phase is fading out and the white on white is now in. In a couple of years beige will takeover so all the want to be decorators will be depressed they painted their custom wood cabinets for a marketing fad. The Lowe’s “Pro” literally recommended kilm beige, (the beige I was attempting to update). It’s a cycle that you don’t want to fall for! All us fools spending tons of money searching for the perfect color that only exists in the photoshopped marketing ads.

  • 7 years ago

    My cabinets are lighter and my granite darker, but all in all similar because they are in the warm tones. I'm considering SW Sea Salt. By the way, we had a good experience with a SW consultant in a different house. My kitchen: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5727923/cooler-paint-color-with-warm-granite#24233581

  • 7 years ago

    Maybe the quality of the samples depends on the store you go to. I spent tons of money on various BM and SW white samples, and tons of time trying them out on my walls in different lights, and the one I picked for both cabinets and walls was true to the sample. It was a huge hassle, but I did not sense any scamming going on.

  • 7 years ago

    I have found them to be the same color on all the samples I have tried out too. Lighting and other things in your room, can affect how those colors whether sample or the real paint look on your walls. For the OP, maybe try something entirely different. Try something with some color in it. Try sea salt, or other similar colors. It may be just what your kitchen needs.