What colour is your kitchen?

[pheasantplucker]

My wife and I just finished putting down a porcelain tile floor on our kitchen. Our counters are brown (flecked like granite, but actually formica). The best way to describe the floor, would be to say it is similar to the ceiling of the Sistine Cathedral ceiling (you know the picture where God and Adam are touching fingers)...kinda gray with some brown in it splotchy and swirly...Anyway we're fixin the place up to sell next summer, and I thought I'd get a handle on what colours folks like for their kitchens...Our current kitchen is yellow. I think just about any colour might work with our counter and floor (cabinets are white by the way). so what do you think?

[Jokarva]

I'd pick a lighter brown (coffee with lots of cream brown) that goes with the floor and counter...light brown walls against white cabinets is a nice look. Color for your tastes is one thing, but color for selling probably needs to be a neutral.

ETA - our kitchen is SW 'Celery', very pale green. I picked it cause it was the color in our last kitchen...but last kitchen was very light with high ceilings, this kitchen is like a cave. I don't think I'm liking it, but I'll see if it grows on me. So whatever color you choose I'd get some samples first...just so there are no unhappy surprises.

[oregon woodsmok]

If you are selling, go very neutral. Antique white will go with your cabinets and floor.

Everybody likes color, but everybody likes a different color. You don't want to paint celery and lose a buyer just because they hate green and don't want to repaint.

Add some cheery bright colors with your accent pieces.

[oldmanriver]

same as all the other rooms lol we used the same color sand color brown

[Honorine]

I'm in the middle of painting my kitchen, and most of the rooms in my house. I love color, as evidenced by the many colors thruout my home. I'm going completely neutral, off whites, white ceilings, light browns. It will all blend better, and match everything, as opposed to my blue ceilings and pumpkin orange accent walls. If I simply have to have some color I can get some tapestries or bright curtains.

[julieq]

Our kitchen is sort of boring. Oak cabinetry, white walls and ceiling, white tile surrounding white counter top. Floor is white linoleum.

[unregistered29228]

I've lived with "renter beige" for most of my life. It's neutral and goes with everything, and it's easy for a potential buyer to picture their own stuff in a room that isn't a vibrant color.

But I remodeled my kitchen last year and painted the walls a cheery buttery yellow and I love it.

[sisterpine]

Just finished painting the kitchen in my new to me house. Went with light and medium gray, the floors are sautillo tile with wide gray grout, the counters are grays and the cabinets are oak. We have black and red trim and accessories. Looks pretty nice and modern as well. Kitchen is very light with high ceilings too.

[jwal10]

Kitchen/dining, called Bluffdale, kind of peachy/light sandstone walls and ceiling with a barn red accent wall in the dining room. Sand colored tile kitchen floor, pine flooring with light antique oak stain in the diningroom....James

[Kmac15]

We painted our kitchen last year and I choose....wait for it....BLUE. Yes I went against the crowed and painted mine a 'dragon blue' and I love it. I know that if I want to sell it I will have to repaint, but hope to not have to deal with that in my lifetime LOL

The best advice we got was from my uncle, who has painted every room in his house at least twice... It's just paint not a commitment.

[Callieslamb]

sage green. The colors of a house never stopped me from buying it-I'll just paint it myself. We sold one that we advertised as willing to paint their colors.

[soulsurvivor]

I'm not selling but if I were I'd paint the walls a neutral color. Our kitchen is wallpaper with a buttery yellow background and a thin navy stripe with a smattering of itty bitty red cherries here and there. The countertops are a marble look with colors of gold, black and beige and extends up the wall under the cabinets. The cabinets are old maple with black pulls/knobs. The floor is a hardwood varigated oak with thick rugs with abstract pattern of colors that match the room, golds to browns. It looks a lot better than it sounds.

[Texasdirtdigger]

Mine is latte colored. Kinda like coffee with cream in it.

[HeelSpur]

Beige.

Check out these colors my buddy painted his house with.
Bathroom is a deep chocolate brown,
1 bedroom is robin egg blue and the other is RED.
LOL, I've never seen such odd colors in a house before.
He is a bachelor and I guess plans on staying one.

[aftermidnite]

I have rented this half double for going on 11 yrs .The original couple who owned it with their son would only allow white throughout ..2 yrs ago the father went to Glory after a long illness and this past June the wife (one of my dearest friends ) laid down to rest one evening and took her finial journey so the son was now in full possession .He told me that this is MY home and he didnt care what colors I wanted to paint any room ..to treat it as my own ..so over Thanksgiving I painted my living room a lite pale green ..and over Christmas I will paint my kitchen cabinets a dark red (burgundy) ..my kitchen walls are white and my accents are red an black there ..this summer they plan to put down new flooring in the kitchen and they have asked what I would like and I have said either wood looking floor tiles to match all the hardwood floors or a black and white tile to lighten up the room since it is a smallish room ..

[TenBusyBees]

Originally Posted by oregon woodsmok

If you are selling, go very neutral. Antique white will go with your cabinets and floor.

Everybody likes color, but everybody likes a different color.

Very good advice!

[Ann-NWIowa]

According to all the TV shows on renovating for sale gray is the new neutral color. We did our laundry room in a medium gray and I love it. Kitchen is a strong yellow which I like but wasn't my first choice. Dh suffers from seasonal disorder and the kitchen is a north room with lousy lighting so he asked for the bright light color.

[lll]

My kitchen is going to be light green. I'm in the middle of peeling wallpaper but I wasn't planning on doing any more projects for the year so I'm going slow with it. My husband chose Mango for the bathroom. Nothing in my house matches. We just go with what we like.

[whiterock]

brown floor, white ceiling, natural knotty pine cabinets, green countertop, the "one" wall is the color of a straw cowboy hat.
Ed

[Marianne]

Right now my main kitchen accent color is mud brown, DH just came in from the barnyard and didn't clean his- or the dog's- feet. Don't advise this color. Grrrr!