redecorating help?

[low_delta]

We're redoing Cindy's kitchen. Stripping the wallpaper and replacing the flooring.

We can do any colors we want, but we don't know which to choose. Have you got any ideas for us?

The refrigerator is off-white. The stove is white with black trim. The woodwork is all painted. The floor will be some sort of Pergo-like wood-grain laminate.

Other than the appliances, all the colors can be changed - walls, ceiling, floor, cabinets, countertop and the door, floor and window molding. And the curtains (they're light blue now, so it would be convenient to match them, but not necessary).

And since it's going on sale in a month or two, it's gotta be bright and airy feeling
.
Suggestions anyone?

Comments

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

as for me, i like bright and splashy colours
and the kitchen is a favourite place to splash~
i like modern contemporary-
cindy may prefer something else-

the blue curtains invite thoughts of french country
and white is perfectly at home there~
our kitchen is a golden yellow
with some chili pepper touches like hot pan holders
and rugs~ i want to put a box of peppers on the window sill too~

my mother likes an kitchen with orange walls,
which works surprisingly well, actually~

anywho, i always vote for colours over whites!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me to mention that, since it's going on sale in a month or two, it's gotta be bright and airy.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

bright white walls with blue touches is nice and airy in the sunshine~ you could do one wall light blue
if it would bring the room together- make it "anchored" and infer some colour~

although the colours are atrocious at my workplace, the idea of some coloured walls
and some off-white appeals to me
and seems to work~

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

I've always liked a bright yellow in the kitchen.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Also important to mention is that since it's going on sale, it needs to be as neutral as possible. Bright and airy, and neutral

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

I've always liked white for a kitchen with bright sunny yellow, and bits of darker blue, like a delft blue

[emschin.livejournal.com]

I like a French Vanilla Ice Cream color that is almost yellow but not quite. With the Pergo floor the kitchen would

[emschin.livejournal.com]

I got that far and then began to wonder how that would show off with the white appliances. People seem to be buying those now. I thought I erased it, but I guess I posted.

So, on a different tack. I love a very pale blue, but not pastel. That would leave you able to use accents of yellow--or red--or iris/violet or whatever.

[dream-seer.livejournal.com]

Pastel yellows seem to be popular in kitchens. Not that I like it myself really.

The last kitchen I redid, it had black and creme appliances.. we painted a sort of dark smokey blue on the lower 3/4 of the wall, a lighter shade of the same smokey blue on the top 1/4, and a thin strip of black inbetween to tie it all together.

It's really hard to say without -seeing- the kitchen itself.

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

It would help to see a picture of what there is to work with. I'd go with a white, or cream (off-white) wall, and light blue trim (to match the curtains). I like the idea of a chili-pepper accent in the kitch. Is there a good window / sunlight in the kitchen?

I suppose I'm a bit of a nut... it'd be neat to have a gradient of yellowness or blueness, with the top of the walls and cieling lighter-toned. (probably wouldn't look as good as it sounds, though..)

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Everyone seems to have the same idea I had.. with the blue curtains, yellow, blue and white are a great light kitchen. It was popular way back in the early eighties in kitchens, apparently it is now too. Good luck!

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

White is boring but it always sells the best.