COLOUR QUESTIONS?

Hi gpierce,

When we built, we went through a similar debacle. We ended up going light/light for the kitchen and timber floors. Part of the reasoning for going light/light was because we had other furniture built in the same area and wanted to make sure the light colours gave the room a nice lift.

I’ll try and hunt up some photos to give you an idea.

EDIT:

Okay I found some photos when we were building, I hope this works

This is a combined kitchen, meals, family area.

If you can imagine you are standing in the family area and you look towards the kitchen

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Now if you turn to the right we have the Recipe Nook, and bulk items pantry.

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Then turning right again we have the family room wall unit.

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I hope this is of some use?

Nice kitchen kiwi056, very balanced and spacious.

Greg……I’m in a bit of a dilemma here with your selections as well……I like both looks you and your wife are arguing over.

Heres my thoughts on a kitchen…..the kitchen is the hub of the home; this is where most activity happens, and where we usually spend time catching up with other members of the family. It needs to be appealing but most of all functional.

A white kitchen will never date; it will always be fresh and appealing.

Timber kitchens tend to have a country look about them, even if they are not designed to a country style.

If you’re new home is a modern plan, I would tend to stay with the all white, and timber floors. It won’t look to bring, as you then get to add colour throughout, because you have a crisp white to work with.

Timber tends to make a space darker, with timber floor and cabinets, you can be assured your kitchen will be darker no matter how may windows or natural light you have coming in to that space.

Examples of the colour variances

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dna......

1. WC vanity doors – Same selection as your kitchen…..and I can’t remember what that was???
2. Laundry cabinet doors – same as kitchen
3. Laundry benchtop - Did you check out the “Pebble Brook” yet”

Remember….the whole 3 spaces are visually seen, so they should be of the same selections.

Kitchen would be white poly, yet to decide on the exact tone though, however it would be a cool white. That being said, would doing all three areas be too much white and turn out bland??? Would having the WC and laundry in the same but contrasting with the kitchen work? Or best play it safe and go for similar colour, also considering the small size of the laundry/WC so light colours might work better............. I didn't mind your initial suggestion of Expresso for the laundry cupboards but worried that it might be too dark for the area. The laundry cupboards also include a broom closet and linen cupboard so it'll be a fairly big area.

Other than online and in a brochure, I have yet to take a look at Pebble Brook but will do so, was hoping to visit the laminex showroom to see some larger samples, but they are only open on weekdays so that'll have to wait a few weeks til we take some time off.

I really apologise for being difficult, and seem to be rejecting your suggestions so think should stop bugging you for now and just continue looking ourselves (and add to the collection of laminate samples that we're building ). I will run by you our selections for your approval (whenever that happens). Thanks so much for your guidance thus far.

Bec…take a look at dna’s floor plan you will see what I mean for her/him……. Their wet areas are quite close, all 3 of them.

Your whites are fine!!!

We managed to grab a sample of of Brook Pebble today, unfortunately don't quite like it as there's too much brown in it. Good news is that we saw a kitchen in the showroom in Laminex natural quartz which looked great so we'll investigate that option. Typical that colour is only available in the squareform range so might need to upgrade. Or alternately might just fully upgrade to Caesarstone for the laundry

hahahaha

good someone to blame yay!!

I had a complete and utter breakdown bout colours that night lol
but Im back to half hearted worrying now lol

Well according to the Laminex Squareform brochure, the Natural Quartz is exclusive to the squareform benchtops, doesn't bother us too much as we prefer the square look anyway just wondering if there will be any cost difference and if so how much.

I’ll have a look tomorrow JK….just had friends over, off to bed now.