Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Dec 29, 2009 9:21 pm We have just had a new kitchen installed - White Poly cupboards and Coral Reef stone benchtops. We had our heart set on a glass splashback and after deliberting over colours chose the Dulux colour Toffee Fingers on starfire glass - yes we chose it from a tiny little square on a dulux colour chart. It arrived - disaster, the colour was just terrible and it did not match the benchtops at all. There was no way we were installing it and so now we are going down the very expensive road of stripping the glass and having it repainted. (We are talking a full splashback not just a piece behind the canopy range hood). I WAS HOPING SOMEONE HAD SOME COLOUR SUGGESTIONS !!!! I am a very neutral person - most of the house is painted light rice and we have beige sofas with wooden floorboards and wooden venetians. In the kitchen we have wooden venetians and are tossing between continuing the floor boards or maybe tiles (ohh another decision!). Would appreciate any help ... this is going to be one expensive splashback and I really want to get it right Cheers, Kylie. Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 2Dec 29, 2009 9:33 pm Hi KyzaJ, Sorry your original choice didn't work for you; colour samples probably need to be 8 feet across; or at least offered up for public sacrifice - they lead to so many errors, lol. Best thing you can do to help people out with your decision is to whack up a couple of pictures of your kitchen. Even with the specific names of colours, there's variations between brands, application and light - would be a stab in the dark for most here. If you can take a pic of your kitchen as it is (with or without the offending glass), upload the image to photobucket or similar, then paste the link back into your thread - seeing the *actual* colours will help immensely with suggestions. Good luck! - Land registered 27/11/09, settlement 22/01/10 - Currently doing the rounds of display homes. Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 3Dec 29, 2009 9:45 pm Hi KyzaJ, Found this picture although the top is not Coral Reef I think that they are very similar. Give you some idea of colours. Cupboards - Polar White, Benchtop is Quantum Quartz Ice, Splashback - Dulux White Duck. Floors are in Tasmanian Oak. http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r72/Mias_Mummy/P6022520.jpg Quantum Coral Reef with a metallic silver splashback. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I prefer the the Dulux White Duck. I think you can always jazz up white with other kitchen utilities eg Jug, saucepans etc. Have fun! PCI Done Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 4Dec 29, 2009 9:52 pm I have Ferric Sheen cupboards which are a metalic gloss in a champagne colour or my daughter did hers in Java Dusk, which is a bit darker champagne bronzy colour and very gorgeous. There are photos on here of both......tomorrow I will find them. Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 5Dec 30, 2009 12:05 am SuH I have Ferric Sheen cupboards which are a metalic gloss in a champagne colour or my daughter did hers in Java Dusk, which is a bit darker champagne bronzy colour and very gorgeous. There are photos on here of both......tomorrow I will find them. sorry to hear about this kylie, I know your pain, we had a disappointment with our wall colour choice, AND I understand your decision to re-do, as I repainted the whole indoor of the house at handover and everyone said, oh your mad... etc etc... but the colour was just C.R.A.P.!! And I didn't want to live in that blah colour... anyways, Su'h's suggestion sounds like exactly what you need, I'd prefer a bit of definition, I'd go the darker one, but surely depends on the other colours in the home, so good luck! A thankful person is a happy person. [/color]My hobby design blog: http://aviewondesign.blogspot.com/ Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 6Dec 30, 2009 12:13 am I am thinking this is the coral reef you are talking about Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ If so you might consider the more taupey(grey) browns rather than the caramel brown of toffee fingers. Something like Dulux Linseed or Army issue Maybe consider what other colours you like as feature colours......reds, blues, greens. That will help you. Good luck Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 7Dec 30, 2009 9:48 am Im so sorry to hear you hate it, that would be my worst nightmare! If the benchtop that gweluphome has put a sample up of is the one that you have i really quite like the first grey sample she has put next to it. I agree that a grey would match better than a brown (but then i love grey lol). Or alternatively go white and at least you will know that will match and use some different coloured pieces in the room. Good luck definately post some pics of your kitchen if you can. Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 8Dec 30, 2009 10:45 am This is Java Dusk, it is THE most gorgeous metallic colour and my daughters benchtop is Basmati in QQ. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ These are my FerricSheen cupboards, which is a silver/gold champagney colour which I love to death but it is lighter than the Java Dusk Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and this of course is my Ironbark splashback, which I hated with a passion when I first saw it, but it has grown on me Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: HELP - Splashback nightmare 9Dec 30, 2009 1:07 pm http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu172/JosephRuey/DSC_1211.jpg Splashback colour is: Mocha Magic I know my cupboards aren't white....but the mocha magic is a nice neutral colour...so I thought I'd share. 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