New kitchen colours - help please!!!

Wow Toni!

We have very similar tastes!

i am also building with PD, I am also having a Polar White Kitchen cuboards with bar handles, I'm having Starlight White for the QQ benchtop though...but in the same family as Ice..

I am also having timber floors - Spotted Gum

I have looked at Wattyl Flokati and White Pepper with white trims, but have finally decided on Kid Leather by Wattyl after some great advice from Mich, I feel Flokati might be a bit light for what I am after and the White Pepper just a touch to dark....Kid Leather seems to be in the middle of the two

I'm only left to think of the splashback colour, just looked at your Linseed colour - its gorgeous!! I am trying to decide between a brown splashback, or a grey splashback or a darker reddy/brown tone like Dlux Bleached Bark (thanks Paula )

Overall I think your colour selections sound great, and not just because they are similar to mine

Good Luck
bel

Toni - to give you an idea of colour....the main wall with windows is Flokati, the wall on the right is white pepper!!

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Ta!! I had posted it for Belinda the other day - then Toni was asking about those exact colours!!

Wow! Thanks for all your replies and so quick!

I like both the White Pepper and Flokati, I have a huge sample of my green carpet so would really like to go and put it up against a wall to see it together. I have been waiting for over a week for PD to get back to me letting me know which displays (if any) have the colours so I can go and see. Thanks for posting the photo, wonder though what the carpet colour is, bit hard to see in the photo. We had originally been advised to go for Chalk Beige Walls and Chalk Dust trims which I really like, the Chalk Beige seemed to pick up the carpet colour nicely. Then I was advised by another consultant not to have C/Beige and look at the others. I wonder if Kid Leather is too pinky.......I can see pink in the little sample - so hard to picture it on a wall. I guess I'd like something in between Pepper and Flokati. I would like to see a contrast between walls and trim and would love a dark olive feature wall!

I'm not a brown person, I think they look lovely but I can't live with it and that's why I've gone for the green/olivey carpet.

I love the Linseed on the Ice, it picks up the darker flecks in the bench top and looks really nice. It's not a colour I would have ever picked out from the bunch of samples but again the 2nd PD consultant I had suggested it. I think because there is going to be so much white with the overhead cupboards - I'll have three doubles - it might hopefully break it up!!!

I don't have alot of natural light coming it the kitchen at all!!! I have a small window in the pantry and a 850mm wide x 1800m height window at the end of the kitchen and then a large sliding door opposite kitchen with the meals area in between. I had to delete the large window in the meals area to fit in my 1,9m buffet/hutch piece of furniture which is dark wood (maybe a walnut colour) so the kitchen bench will end then it will be the 850mm window and then the buffet. I like both the Satin and the Gloss, I wondered if I had the gloss if I could have a different colour (bit like the linseed) on the back of the Island in gloss as that would be at no cost rather than a glass splash back there which would probably cost me over a thousand ???

Thanks Bel, but the bleached bark is not realy in the red tones, more the purple or taupe tones

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii130/johnspj_photos/P8070047.jpg

Way OT...but nice coffee machine...

Hhahha Paula - I have no idea why I was thinking it was red/brown....it is definatly not!!

I stil reallly like it

Slight OT - Can anyone suggest a greyish colour for me to look at from Dulux, I am also thinking a splashback in this colour might look good with my white kitchen...

Sorry haywgl, I was looking at "Your Shadow" in my wattyl brochure which is under kid leather, your shadow looks pinky to me. I think kid leather is in between the two colours I'm looking at. So hard to pick and imagine it all together!

No I haven't seen alabaster in paint only in the laminate. I really like the chalk beige which is in alot of PD's displays, it picks the green up nicely from the carpet but now have doubts due to 2nd consultant's comments. What house/area are you building in? Has your house started?

Vanderlay - can you tell me what colour carpet you have with your walls. Walls look really nice. I've seen Bone on display and that is a nice neutral colour too but more in the browns?

Michelle, thanks for your advice, I think you've helped me make up my mind over gloss and satin. I think I always wanted gloss but couldn't make the decision. I thought it might so nicely with the shiny splash back but then didn't know if that was the right way to think!!! The light is a concern in the room, I've increased the size of the family room windows which may help. The gloss is in a vinyl wrap, from what I've tried to find out from google this is different to 2pac.

Paula, you must tell me how you clean your splash back - good ol' windex? It looks lovely and clean!

You rang???

tdn, hope you don't mind me jumping into your thread since I have the same question about colours for our kitchen. We have satin poly doors in an Antique White (ie, off-white/creamy) and Caesarstone Almond Rocca benches. Want to tile the splash-back. We're thinking of just a plain, slightly textured white tile to maximise light, but trying a white tile against it I'm worried it might make the splash-back "jump out" a bit too much. Would that happen?

We're thinking of either a diamond pattern using 100x100 tiles, or stretcher bond pattern using rectangular tiles. No border or feature tiles, as most of the splash-back will be 450mm high.

Any suggestions?