Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Jan 06, 2009 11:33 am Hello!
Porter davis is building my house and I'm at the stage where I need to choose colours for my kitchen. For my cupboards/pot drawers I have picked Laminex Liquorice Linea (Vertically laid) Benchtop is Quantum Quartz Ice Floors are sort of a sandstone coloured porcelain tile. Glass splashback: mocha magic Wall colours: Dulux Hog Bristle Half Handles are the long horizontal bar type. Appliances are stainless steel Blanco...semi commercial oven and rangehood (not the glass one). My question is my overhead cupboards on either side of the rangehood. I can choose to have them in a different laminex and personally I think that Liquorice Linea will just be too dark. What other colour can I pick to do on overhead cupboards? While I love Liquorice Linea and my cupboard handles. I am not 100% on my QQ, glass splashback or overhead cupboard colours. Any advice would be appreciated. Funnily enough...I'm quite a creative person and am into scrapbooking and love bold colours. However choosing colours for the house tends to freak me out a little bit...so I'm wanting to be quite conservative with the house colours and add colour into my home through canvas art, cushions, vases and other decoration. Thank you!! Our building journey has begun: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23138 Brookvale 45 by Porter Davis ************** Lead me not into temptation.....I can find the way myself. Re: need help with my kitchen! 2Jan 06, 2009 12:29 pm This is what I did - it might not suit everyone, but it works for me.
I chose a laminate for our overhead cupboards that almost matches the wall colour, so they kind of blend. We have Mocha coloured base cabinets, and like you, I thought the colour would be too dark on the overheads. Having an almost-match to the wall colour makes the overheads unobtrusive and also makes the room appear bigger. Dark overheads would close in the space and make it look smaller.... Get your Hog Bristle sample and go through the Laminex and Formica samples and see if you can find something like it. This is my kitchen. Walls are Wattyl Castilian and overhead cabinets are Stipple Hemp: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ By the way, I am REALLY peeved that PD are now allowing Dulux colours. I chose all my colours based on the Dulux fandeck and they insisted we could NOT have them, as they used Wattyl paints (Really!), so I had to re-choose all my paint colours at our appointment. Aargh! Re: need help with my kitchen! 3Jan 06, 2009 1:15 pm I really love your kitchen Kek and I have decided I am going to use some type of dark cupboards. I am leaning towards Formica Chocolate Pear, but the Mocha in your photos looks so good too. Your place is looking fantastic
Kristy Re: need help with my kitchen! 4Jan 06, 2009 2:24 pm Thanks Kristy....don't I know you from somewhere?
If you like the woodgrain effect, there are lots of choices too, both dark and light. I forgot to say earlier: I've seen some kitchens with dark overhead cupboards that look fantastic, but they usually have a window (mine doesn't) and/or light coloured walls. Which house are you building again, Overwhelmed? Re: need help with my kitchen! 5Jan 06, 2009 3:22 pm ooooh kek...your kitchen is sooo pretty!!! Thanks for the tips!!
We're building the Brookvale 45. Just got Dan to photoshop the facade...and it looks really good. Just got to get the colours right. Yah...PD now have Dulux for interior and Wattyl solaguard for rendering and exterior painting. I think you are right...without a window....it definately is too dark to have dark overhead as well. Your overhead cupboards are very pretty. I have stipple seal picked for the laundry......love the dimensions finish texture. Our building journey has begun: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23138 Brookvale 45 by Porter Davis ************** Lead me not into temptation.....I can find the way myself. Re: need help with my kitchen! 6Jan 06, 2009 4:31 pm I love Stipple Seal...it just didn't really go as well with my other colour choices.
My best advice so that you end up happy with your colour scheme? Get LOTS of samples. Go back to Hopetoun as often as you need to and collect samples of everything you can. You should be able to get brick samples and anything else Hopetoun can't give you direct from the manufacturers. Then you get to put your preferred colours together and you can swap and change them to see what looks best. We were going to go for black aluminium window frames till I put the black sample against my interior paint colours. It was a really cold effect... So I tried the Stone Beige and boy, what a difference! Sometimes a small detail like window frames or skirtings can really change how a colour scheme looks or "feels". Once you start to make decisions on a few things, it narrows down the other choices and you never know - you might even start to enjoy the process. Re: need help with my kitchen! 7Jan 07, 2009 7:49 pm After a rather bizarre nights sleep which involved dreaming of laminex samples, wall colours, floor tiles etc....hehehe...I decided that I should just drive to Laminex and let the sales staff help me pick stuff out.
Very happy with the end results. Kek, I've gone with oyster linea for the overhead cupboards. I was a little worried that it might be too much....but the sales lady showed me big samples and I had my tiles and wall colours with me and I just fell in love with the combination!! yay!!!! No more laminex dreams tonight! Hopefully I will sort out exterior colours so I'm not dreaming of exterior render colours!!! Our building journey has begun: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23138 Brookvale 45 by Porter Davis ************** Lead me not into temptation.....I can find the way myself. Levelling compound Ardit is the best but buy a bag of sand and make sand dam to protect your wood floor 2 15258 Hi there, I'm a conplete newbie to this, but I'm looking to put a floor down in my 6x9m shed. It's currently sitting on a 100mm thick concrete perimeter (dirt floor… 0 6468 Hi VK, Think it's worth investing time in an Owner Builder course to equip you with basic knowledge on Australian Building Industry and its regulations. Also, I suggest… 11 23508 |