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Spur of the moment paint advice

RNmomof2 zone 5
9 years ago

I am getting a new kitchen floor Wednesday and we have the island and baseboard out of the kitchen. I have toyed with the idea of painting the kitchen but didn't really give it much thought because we have a open concept type house. You know, once you start painting you can't stop for, oh like, another 5 gallons!

Anyway, the floor people call today and said they won't be here until Wednesday. Sooooo now I have tomorrow to paint. But I need to come up with a paint color.

I have Hickory Kraftmaid cabinets in sunset stain. Kitchen walls currently are SW Blonde; great room, entry, stairs, loft upstairs, etc are Restrained Gold at 150%. Master on the main floor is Mannered Gold. Dining room off of the great room is Svelte Sage.

I thought when we repainted I would go back to a tan/taupe/greyish color. The new floor is an light tile with all of those colors in it. Counter is "Pesto Mist", an olivey green with black fleck.

Any help tonight would be appreciated! You know how it is when you get the itch!

I would prefer SW colors please.

Comments (13)

  • tibbrix
    9 years ago

    SW Needlepoint Navy.

  • msrose
    9 years ago

    What about Svelte Sage since you already have it in the dining room.

  • RNmomof2 zone 5
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Tib, I don't have Needlepoint Navy in my fan deck but it looks grayed online? Would you say this to be true?

    MSrose, I have thought about putting S Sage in the kitchen. It doesn't go bad with the counters and it would allow me to put another color in the great room at another point.

    Keep those ideas coming folks!

  • amykath
    9 years ago

    SW Accessible Gray. Here is a room where it was used. It can look both tan and gray depending.

  • tibbrix
    9 years ago

    I was thinking blue/navy because of the color of your cabinets and floor, but now I'm thinking the black appliances might not work with navy.

    So I'm changing my mind and suggesting SW Spicy Hue, which would also segue nicely from all of your yellows and gold colors. I think a COLOR in there would be great. I think kitchens are great spaces to use deep color because of the small wall area, so the color becomes an accent, not a "wall color" per se.

  • RNmomof2 zone 5
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Tib, I like that! IRL on my chip it was perhaps a little more orange than I would prefer. Any suggestions for a more brick color? I have red/maroon accents in the kitchen and gr now so that would tie them all together. My thought now is that I will probably paint this weekend so not as big a rush to pick a color.

    I have been going through my fan deck. It seems to me that I see maroon (which feels dated to me) or if you go less saturated, the colors look mauve or rose-ish. Help!

    I love the grey tones that you did on Gavavemom's kitchen. I looked at Roycroft Copper Red but it appears very orange in pictures too. Thoughts on an orange-ish toned paint making my woodwork look even more orange?

    What program are you doing the paint in? I may take another picture and try it.

    Thanks for the ideas keep them coming.

  • tibbrix
    9 years ago

    rn, I chose Spicy Hue BECAUSE of the (subdued) orange in it, the spicy autumn colors (versus citrus orange, for example!) BECAUSE of the orange of your cabinetry. It will actually LESSEN the orange in the cabinets. The more you contrast something, the more it makes that something stand out.

    I absolutely LOVE that Roycroft Copper Red, as well as the Spicy Hue (and I LOATHE orange and red! They are my least favorite colors, although my least favorite color for walls is green, for the most part).

    I would pick three or four colors and buy sample cans of them and paint a GOOD SIZE swatch of each on each wall. You never know what a color looks like unit it's on the wall and interacting with the light in a room and everything else. One thing I've learned about paint is that you can't say, "OH, I don't like blue/green/orangeâ¦" because that really isn't how paint works. As I said, I do not like red and orange as colors, but what they can do for a room in terms of paint is amazing. If Annie reads this, perhaps she'll put a pic of her kitchen up. She has gorgeous orange walls in her kitchen.

    So, don't give up on the spicy hue or roycroft copper red yet. They just might be the prefect color(s).

    The program I use is colorjive.com. You don't have to take another photo, though. You can just move the pic from this thread onto your desktop, then upload it onto colorjive. I use the SW colors on Colorjive, versus the Ben Moore, because SW has the actual names while BM has the paint numbers, which is a pain. Plus, I think SW has all of its colors there.

    Once you paint the room, then to change the color, just click on the fan deck on the circle of the paint color you just painted it, then click on another color you want to see. You don't have to repaint the room.

    If you DO take another pic, take the decor and counter stuff off. It makes painting a room on a program a LOT easier!

  • tibbrix
    9 years ago

    Do check out Copper Mountain. Very pretty color.

  • RNmomof2 zone 5
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Here is a better picture of the cabinets. I don't think they truly look that orange toned in person. The kitchen looks funny without the island in the middle. I looked at paint colors and fabric today and feel a little overwhelmed.

    I like played around with Colorjive and got more confused. The colors give you an idea but they seem off. My picture with Blonde from the app looks totally different that real life.

    I'm concerned about the copper colors playing nicely with the great room. There is a 10 foot opening joining these two rooms. Also afraid that the brick tones will look "Christmasy" with my olive toned counters. There also is a guest bath and laundry room that would be painted the same color and wonder abut this intense of a color in those smaller spaces.

    Help! I'm confused and don't want to make a poor choice.

  • Sheeisback_GW
    9 years ago

    So you have to paint right now? It's a large area and it might be better to wait so can see the floors with everything. Do you have some other angles you can post of the area? I wouldn't use red because of your counters being green. Rust you could do. Your cabinets do have a slight orange undertone. I agree with Tibb about subduing or contrasting with paint - just depends on what you want to do. It would really help to see other photos of the surrounding area since you said it's open concept.

    As for the color programs, don't pay much attention to the names because they can be pretty off. It is helpful to play around with colors and then when you find one you like, try and find a swatch that's similar. Creams and whites are really off on those programs.

  • tibbrix
    9 years ago

    The color programs are meant to give you a lead for the direction in which you want to go, but you're right, the colors are not dead on. And Sheesharee is right also when she says that the very light colors are impossible. I don't even bother with them on Colorjive.

    Of course, paint color is different on the chip than it is on the wall! It all depends on the light in a room, the other elements, like cabinets, etc.

    You say the room looks funny w/o the island. I didn't think the room looked funny at all, and that's because I didn't know it had an island. So that tells me that what you're probably struggling with is change, going very different.

    Yes, it's hard to make suggestions w/o seeing what is beyond the kitchen, i.e.: what segues to the kitchen.

  • RNmomof2 zone 5
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    The room just looks odd to us because the island is sitting in the great room. I send some color jive pictures to one of the college kids and she was like ''wow, what's up with that?!"

    I have attached more pictures. The counter top color is pretty accurate in the pic I posted at 23:06 yesterday. It doesn't scream green but just a soft darker color. I still worry about a red and that's a little more because it brings me back to the navy/maroon/hunter era!

    I am open to painting the rest of the area, it just won't be today. So if a color that lived with the Blonde could transition to the great room, that would be great. We have Latte in our walkout basement and like it. So a gold base tan or taupe I would be open to.

    Sorry things are a mess in these pictures but that's what life looks like when the kitchen and laundry room are sitting in the great room! I included the last picture to see the red tones of brick on the fireplace.


    Standing where island goes looking past kitchen table area, into great room. Dining room to left of great room.


    In great room looking to kitchen area. Master br behind you. DR thru door on right.

    The kitchen floor is being removed as we speak and installation will be finished by tomorrow night (they say).

    Thanks for everyone's thoughts on this. I don't have a good color/decorator friend around anymore to bounce these things off of.

  • tibbrix
    9 years ago

    So much yellow.

    I still say do the kitchen in a pumpkin/spice color. It actually will look great with the counters and your cabinets and make it a warm, wonderful room in which to cook while guzzling a glass of wine.

    If you are planning in painting the family room in the future, then don't pick a paint color for the kitchen based on the yellow that is in there now. Paint the kitchen in the color you WANT for the kitchen only, because that is going to stay and you don't want to have to repaint that later or pick a color around that.

    When you DO get around to painting the family room, I'd go for an earthy neutral, a warm to go with the pumpkin kitchen (lol) griege or tan. Gorgeous.

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