Customer FeedbackColour Design Rules for Your Kitchen
Colour design rules for home decorating seem to be changing all the time, but when it comes to smaller and more central parts of your home such as your kitchen, the hard and fast rules have long remained the same. You will likely have heard some of this old-school advice before, so make sure you heed these words of colour wisdom, so that your kitchen can look as awesome as possible.
Use bright or bold colours as accents
While it might seem like a fun idea to paint your entire kitchen a bright colour, painting big areas a bright colour will often create an effect that is a little too intense. Instead, go with colour a bit less vibrant for the main parts of the kitchen, and use your bright, bold colours for accents. This will still provide a vibrant and lively effect without being too overwhelming, and often the smaller the patch of bright colour, the brighter it will appear to be on the wall.
Repetition
It is a good idea to use colour more than once throughout your kitchen, as colour repetition is an effective way to help tie the look and feel of a space together. Consider the art you have that might look good in the kitchen as well, because this may affect the perfect overall colour palate.
Work with your appliances
Unless you can afford to buy new appliances to match your new kitchen look, you are going to have to work around the look of what you have. So while your stainless steel fridge will allow you a lot of options, your bright pink marble wash cooktop may restrict you a little more.
Go a little lighter
Unless you have chosen colours for a paint job many times before, always go with a colour a shade or two lighter than you think, because the colour will always look darker on the wall.
Greying
Mixing in a little grey with those happy colours you have chosen can help calm them down a bit, and settle them into the room better. Even just a touch of grey may be enough to take that edge off, and help create a more sophisticated and mature look.
Connect it
Don’t leave your kitchen hanging out there — instead, make sure that you are using your choice of colour to help connect your kitchen with the rest of your living areas. This will make the kitchen look and feel bigger and make those stuck in there feel far less isolated.
The best thing about redoing the look of your kitchen is that you can always redo it if absolutely necessary. The kitchen also offers the added bonus of having countless ways to add to your colour scheme by way of art, appliances and accessories, so don’t continue living in a boring kitchen for a single day longer. The right colour in your kitchen can completely change the way it feels to be in there.