Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Feb 28, 2011 10:19 am Hi everyone i need help with the choice of colour for benchtops and splashbacks. I have seen so many beautiful kitchens on this forum that i feel i have come to the professionalls.There seems to be so many of you choosing the white ranges over the darker shades. Why is this are the darker ones not fashionable. I have rather a lot of bench space and i already have white which i want to keep. We moved into this house 9 months ago and i feel i would like to put a CS benchtop and glass splashback in it. We have a mottly grey laminate at the moment but is lifting in all the joins so we need to change. I saw a CS colour in Walnut and wondered if this would be to dark and if i have a dark colour would it be high maintenace ,also are the white range of CS hard to keep clean and do they stain easily. I am so confused at the moment i need help with the colour scheme. Please can someone advise me. Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 2Feb 28, 2011 10:32 am Sorry I can't help, but I'll be watching this thread with interest. I'm also not sure about a white benchtop but I'm not sure why. A friend has a black CS benchtop with white cupboards which looks very elegant, but not my cup of tea for my house. Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 3Feb 28, 2011 10:57 am At the risk of sounding like a broken record - choose what you like / love. It is your kitchen and you have to see it day in day out. I have a large kitchen with plenty of light so chose a mid to dark colour stone. Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 4Feb 28, 2011 11:02 am I think there might be an argument that a shiny dark surface will be hard to keep smear-free but I think shiny stone will be comparatively harder than matt laminex anyway. At the end of the day I've gone with the colour I like best regardless of how difficult it is to keep clean - for me that was light but if I liked dark I wouldn't have worried about the cleaning angle too much. I don't know that dark isn't as fashionable - I've seen some stunning modern kitchens with dark benchtops. Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 5Feb 28, 2011 12:45 pm We have "Zulu" benchtops. Haven't had any issues so far keeping it clean, or smear free. Wouldn't change it for anything. Very happy. Pics on our blog http://aaronerinpanorama.blogspot.com/2 ... tchen.html Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 6Feb 28, 2011 8:20 pm Thankyou for all your input. Erin your kitchen is simplly stunning. I went to look at some show homes today to get some inspiration. I liked the CS colours Urban and CS Linen. These i dont consider to dark or to light. Has anyone had these colours and also if so what colour splashbacks would compliment them. Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 7Feb 28, 2011 8:32 pm We went for a dark, non shiney laminate with our last kitchen and with young children (aka greasy fingers/messy eaters) it was frustrating keeping the surface streak free and the same thing in the rental atm, it's shiney dark surface and all I can always see is the finger prints ... sigh. If I didn't have children or they were alot older it might be different, but for us a dark surface doesn't work. With this build we're going for a lighter surface in the hope of not being able to see the finger prints as much. ~ trying to build our dream home by the sea ~ Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 11Mar 04, 2011 2:33 pm Go for it Happy to answer if I can Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 12Mar 04, 2011 3:16 pm I normally keep the benchtops matching the floor and the splashbacks matching the cabinet doors.. e.g. Dark floors, dark tops. Light doors light splashbacks. If you are struggling to make a decision, stick to this and you can't go wrong. Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 14Mar 05, 2011 8:25 am lastone Erin - who came up with the design? There's quite a bit in there I've not seen before. Re: Light colour benchtop verses darker colour benchtop 15Mar 05, 2011 8:57 am We've gone for a white benchtop in our kitchen simply because we liked the colour and we thought it would be what would work best with the other colours in that area. We will have lots of other dark colours in our family room (dark panel on the back of the island bench, dark window treatments, dark(ish)floors, dark furniture) and we thought it would be too much to also have a dark benchtop. Hi - thanks for your reply. Yes I think 'Ill go for whitish with very speckly bits rather than pure white something like this. PS was actually 2008 I built the… 2 11683 That was always going to be a challenge and a test of patience. Full marks to your mate. 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