Yes another splashback issue!

I finally have my kitchen in and love it, but I am really struggling with the splashback colour. The kitchen is open to the family area (where we have a dining table and buffet) and this then goes into the rumpus room. This is what we have so far:

cupboards - dulux white on white satin finish in a shaker style
bench - caeserstone Osprey
kickplate - looks like brushed stainless but I think it is laminex
window frames - dulux white on white
doors and architraves - white on white
skirting boards - grand piano (same colour as wall to hide them)
walls - grand piano
small feature wall - dulux linseed
ceilings - white

New wooden furniture is made of tassie oak, and it is I suppose a light chocolate colour (very hard to explain as I haven't see it anywhere else. It isn't dark chocolate, it isn't the orangey or walnut sort of colours either).

Lounges are in a wide cordoroy which is a chocolate colour.

Kitchen and family are tiled in a light colour, pretty much like grand piano.

So this is what I am thinking. How about a splashback in Porters Cardinal? It is a bit of a purply red colour. It is quite dark and dramatic but not sure if I'm brave enough to take the risk as I have a fair amount of splashback! Otherwise I'm thinking a green like Porters Eden.

Cardinal
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8015/cardinald.jpg

Eden
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6136/edeni.jpg

White on White
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3940/whiteqfv.jpg

Caeserstone Osprey
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/4884/osprey.jpg

Grand Piano
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/543/grandj.jpg

Linseed
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3250/linseed.jpg

Desperate to decide so very interested to see what you think!

Splashbacks are a hard one. Going through my own dilemas so i feel your pain. I'm no colour expert but sometimes it nice to just get an opinion, i think with your white kitchen, just about any colour would look good. I do like that eden green colour though and think it will look nice with the linseed feature wall.

Maybe get a sample pot so you can see how it looks on a larger scale as it can look much darker.

What about an aubergine colour? I like one of Michelles favourites - Dulux purple empire
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I’ll be putting you on my books soon…………….

I love that you pay attention to what I say!

I like this also....




Its not too in your face.

thanks for the feedback.

i don't think I'm brave enough to do the Cardinal colour - I just can't imagine how it will all look together. The Eden colour will bring in the colour of the trees that are outside the window and I think will go well with the earthy furniture, but it won't really be WOW!

Here are a couple of pics of the kitchen to date. The sliding door and window will be painted White on White to match the kitchen cupboards.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7996/img0015xq.jpg

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/1939/img0016sx.jpg

And here is a pic of the dining setting we are getting. The rest of the furniture (Buffet, console table, side tables, entertainment unit will match).
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6840/img0008im.jpg

If I go with Porters Eden for the splashback do you think I can use Dulux Linseed as a feature wall (the wall immediately to the left of the breakfast bar and behind the entertainment unit in the rumpus room)? The rest of the walls will be grand piano with White on White doors and architraves.

thanks heaps!

PS - sorry the photos are a bit blurry - took them with my phone! The bench is Osprey even though it doesn't look it in the photo!
The colours I'm thinking about are painted on the wall.