Choosing Kitchen Colors

When choosing a color for your kitchen walls, cabinets, countertops and flooring, the seemingly endless color combinations can make it feel like you’re in a Technicolor nightmare. But choosing color combinations for your kitchen doesn’t have to be a problem if you use these simple tips for choosing color combinations for your kitchen. Use these basic techniques for choosing colors and you can be sure you’re going to get the right color for your kitchen design.

Moods

Your kitchen colors are going to inspire moods and emotions. A kitchen with a deep shade of blue, dark marble and stainless steel appliances is going to set the tone for the kitchen space by creating a less energetic feel than if you were to use a yellow hue. Colors inspire emotions and set moods, so before choosing a color scheme for your kitchen space, it’s a good idea to decide what type off feel or mood you’d like to employ in your kitchen space.

Narrowing Down the Choices

With literally thousands of shades for just one color, it can be a time consuming and painful process of looking though color cards and trying to determine if you like the eggshell white better than the creamy white. When choosing color schemes for the kitchen and you’re having a tough time choosing a color, choose them all. By picking out the ones you like best, you’ve already eliminated quite a few already. Narrow down the field more by choosing your top five color choices. Once you’ve got your favorite colors all picked out, get some samples and bring them to your kitchen for evaluation.

Test Samples

More often than not, you’ll need to test a few samples on your wall to determine if the color you choose is the right color for your kitchen. This will allow the colors you pick to be compared to appliances, countertops and different light patterns throughout the day and night. Many people choose to paint the sample right on their wall for testing. Opt out instead for a few plain white poster boards. Paint these cardboard cutouts with your paint sample and you can easier maneuver them around your appliances, cabinets and in and out of direct sunlight.

Color Combinations

Getting the most out of your kitchen color choice is easy when you use the color wheel to determine color matches for you. A color wheel can help you find an exact opposite or perfect match for your favorite color scheme. For like color choices, choose a color that is next to your color on the color wheel. For matching opposite colors, choose a color that is directly across from your color choice on the color wheel and you can be sure you’ll get the perfect matching color combination every time.

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