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Please help me avoid paint colour disaster

Hello everyone, I am in the process of remodeling my kitchen. Including removing walls. Ceilings are up to 18’ and I really hope to choose wall and ceiling colour wisely. The cabinets will be dark cherry, floors natural oak and quartz. Photos of current kitchen and samples below. Thank for helping choose the best neutral colour. I would like to avoid greys as possible, as my area does not have many sunny days.


Door/Cabinet sample


FLOOR



Quartz


Current Dated Kitchen




Comments (5)

  • 6 years ago

    In the photos, your doors look warm and your floors look cool. Is that the case in person? If so, I might consider a change.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    The current cabinets suit the home’s Contemporary style so much more than the traditional dark cherry. Your home is an 80’s Contemporary. Treat it as such. if you want cherry, it should be slab door natural cherry. Not 1990 overdyed too red Bombay Co fake cherry. It doesn’t go with the house or the floors. Or anything. It’s too grandma and the house so is not.

    A light natural slab door cherry would be style appropriate and work with the floor choice. Then a light grayed green would work really well. Like SW Grecian Ivory. It works great with light wood tones.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    What is the decor in the rest of the house?

    I agree that the reddish cherry cabinet stain looks dark and out of place with the other two choices. If it were my house I would avoid cabinet stain with a heavy grain and red/orange undertones.

    I would get samples of all three items and bring them to your space and your light to see how they look together.

    One of my favorite neutral colors is SW accessible beige. It is light and crisp but it doesn't have gray undertones.

  • 6 years ago

    I think you need to show the rest of the house for context. What does the exterior look like?

    I don't think the quartz and the cabinet stain you have chosen complement each other. It will look like you put a 2015 quartz on a 1995 cabinet.

  • 6 years ago

    @tryingtounderstand If you want to be safe, pick a color as close to the lightest tones in your quartz as you can find, so some version of a white. Ceilings can often be a shade lighter than walls without too much problem if you pick the standard "ceiling white" and walls are fairly close to it in hue. Be aware, however, that a pure white can turn gray on you if you have a lot of shadows in an area. You might want to put a touch of beige or hint of green back into the color to keep the white from leaning gray. You have so many other colors going on in your new kitchen that I would be hesitant to take you in much more of a color direction than that for fear of making it clash.

    It sounds like you've already selected your other finishes, but if I may suggest to not have the cherry wood stained, I think you might want to consider that option. I'm getting cherry cabinetry for my own kitchen renovation, and I can tell you it's not considered a "modern" wood right now for kitchens. Hardly anyone is really using it in substantial numbers, and I've heard that over and over again from many suppliers. However, I like the look and the properties of cherry wood and so am going that direction. Cherry is one of the higher-end woods that looks pretty with just a clear top coat. It will also darken in time. If your manufacturer is discouraging you from a clear top coat on cherry, it could be because they know they won't be color and grain matching your wood very well and thus may want to throw a dark stain on everything to disguise it. Your shadowy weather days won't be counteracted too much by putting such dark wood in your large kitchen. Compared to your old kitchen, the new one will seem darker even though you have a light counter.

    Even if you were to do cherry wood with a clear top coat, I am thinking you may be unhappy in time with the look of oak floors next to cherry wood cabinets. It might work, but then again, I'm not sure you'll be truly happy with it. Just take some extra time to be sure of these decisions and look up photos on Houzz or Pinterest to see if you can find all those finishes together in one kitchen for inspiration ideas. It sounds like you'll be putting a lot of expense into this work, so we want to make sure you're happy when it is all finished.

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