Choosing Colours For Your Kitchen
The kitchen is often the heart of the family home. A place you can utilise colour to create a vibrant, inspiring space to reflect your interior style.
Be bold with dark shades or produce a simple, neutral scheme with a highlight of colour to reflect your personal style. To add texture and pattern, use wallpaper to create a welcoming space for dining and entertaining.
Our range of finishes provide a durable, beautiful effect for walls and woodwork, including kitchen cabinets. Our paints have been specially formulated to withstand busy family life, little hands and even pets.
HOW SHOULD I CHOOSE A KITCHEN PAINT COLOUR?
CONSIDER EXISTING COLOURS
When choosing colours for your kitchen, try to decide what sort of style you are looking to achieve, taking into consideration colours that already exist within the space. Surfaces, tiles, flooring and artwork are all elements that should be included as colours within your palette.
If there are any architectural features or areas of interest within the kitchen that you would like to draw attention to, consider using colour to highlight these.
SAMPLE COLOURS IN SITU
When beginning your decorating project, take time to research schemes that you would like to recreate and browse images on Pinterest or magazines for inspiration. Consider how the space, orientation and light in the room will affect the colour.
Order sample pots of your selected shades and paint out large swatches onto A4 pieces of paper. Place them on different walls around the kitchen throughout the day to see the impact of varying natural light on the colour.
When choosing colours for your kitchen, try to decide what sort of style you are looking to achieve, taking into consideration colours that already exist within the space. Furniture, flooring and artwork are all elements that should be included as colours within your palette.
If there are any architectural features or areas of interest that you would like to draw attention to, consider using colour to highlight these.
WHICH PAINT FINISH IS RIGHT FOR MY KITCHEN PROJECT?
When selecting paint for your kitchen, you can choose from both water-based and oil-based paints.
Kitchen Walls
Our Intelligent Paints are completely washable.Perfect for busy family kitchens.
Kitchen Units & Woodwork
Eggshell paint is designed to resist moisture and staining.Perfect for protecting your woodwork whilst maintaining complete scrubbability.
Kitchen Floors
Floor paint is exceptionally durable, with an attractive mid-sheen finish.An easy yet dramatic way to change the feel of a room.
When selecting paint for your kitchen, you can choose from both water-based and oil-based paints.
Our Intelligent Paints are breakthrough water-based paints which are quick and easy to apply. They are completely washable and can be used with utmost confidence on most surfaces including plaster, woodwork and radiators.
Our Intelligent Paints are also certified as ‘Child Safe’ so are completely safe to use in all areas of the family home
WATER-BASED PAINTS
Our Intelligent Paints are breakthrough water-based paints which are quick and easy to apply. They are completely washable and can be used with utmost confidence on most surfaces including plaster, woodwork and radiators.
Our Intelligent Paints are also certified as ‘Child Safe’ so are completely safe to use in all areas of the family home.
Intelligent Eggshell is our most highly recommended kitchen paint finish. Formulated to resist moisture, staining and general wear and tear, Intelligent Eggshell paint has a tough yet subtle finish. This makes it the perfect water-based finish for woodwork and both kitchen and bathroom walls.
Use this quick drying, low sheen finish for walls in the splash zone and any woodwork, including kitchen cupboards. It has a low-sheen level of 15% and is available in the full Little Greene colour palette.
For a high shine gloss finish, Intelligent Gloss is a quick drying alternative to Oil Gloss. It is ideal for use on interior woodwork in rooms that require frequent cleaning.
Choose this paint finish, instead of Intelligent Eggshell, if you prefer the extra contrast of a glossier finish. This 85% high gloss paint is available in all Little Greene shades.
A totally matt, yet completely washable, alternative to a traditional emulsion paint. Intelligent Matt Emulsion is perfect for busy kitchens or high traffic areas, particularly on walls and ceilings.
The finish has an extremely low gloss level of 5%, providing a beautifully flat finish for a sophisticated kitchen scheme.
OIL-BASED PAINTS
With a nine hundred year pedigree, oil-based paints have long been recognised as the classic finish for woodwork. By forming a deeper bond with the surface than a quick-drying paint, traditional oil-based recipes are renowned for their increased longevity, excellent flow and smooth finish.
All our oil-based paints have been reformulated using naturally occurring vegetable oils to replace solvent ingredients.
Flat Oil Eggshell is a low-odour, modern oil-based paint which resists staining and general wear and tear. As such, it is perfect for painting woodwork and primed metals. It has a sheen level of 15-20%, between matt and eggshell, and is surface dry in just 4 hours.
Designed specifically for interior use, the formula has been developed to give superior, glide-on application characteristics. With extended workability and open time, making brushing out a real pleasure, even for the least confident of painters.
The formulation provides a smooth, low-sheen finish, suitable for woodwork including kitchen cabinets. The finish is extremely durable, making it the perfect choice for a busy kitchen space.
For wooden or concrete floors, our Floor Paint (also oil-based) is one of the hardest wearing paints available for domestic use. Like all our finishes, Floor Paint is available in the full spectrum of Little Greene colours.
QUATRE IDÉES DE CUISINES
1. Combine complementary green shades for a vibrant, contemporary finish.
Pair Harley Green and Tea with Florence for a subtle contrast that is perfect alongside light wooden furniture and gold finishings.
2. Choisissez l'une des familles Colour Scales pour créer un ensemble équilibré et harmonieux.
Nous avons produit quatre nuances différentes en variant les concentrations d'un même pigment. Elles peuvent être combinées pour obtenir pour une finition entièrement coordonnée.
The Aquamarine family are a classic blend of blue green which bring a gentle coolness and tranquillity to a room.
Here, the use of Livid on the door frame adds balance and grounds the scheme.
3. Ajoutez de la couleur et de la texture dans votre cuisine en combinant peinture et papier-peint.
Brook House – Cinder is accompanied by Ceviche, an almost white and Grey Moss, a sophisticated grey without too much umber undertone.
Little Greene wallpapers sont épongeables, pour maintenir une cuisine propre sans endommager l'impression.
4. Light Peachblossom est un vieux rose plutôt exclusif, utilisé autrefois pour le Royal Pavilion de Brighton.
Here, it is complemented with handmade patchwork tiles and Grey Teal units which is a confident base for light pink and peach hues.
For more inspiration,browse our image gallery. If you’re struggling with selecting shades or concerned about colour combinations, Little Greene Colour Consultancy will help you decorate your home with confidence. Our professionally trained consultants will guide you through choosing the best colours, finishes and wallpapers to bring beauty and personality to your home décor.