As part two of The Listing Look’s take on Paint Colors for 2011, we decided to first explore kitchens.
Traditionally, great kitchen colors have ranged from white, off white, to many neutrals and on to greens and yellows — however, with the new trending there is no limit to the bold possibilities. Some of my personal favorite kitchen colors are Kelly Moore Home and Hearth (or Tortilla Chip or Iced Chai from the chip) and Glidden Springwater. I once also used a richer color that coordinated with a red/pink/black granite called Cinnamon Diamonds from Olympic (available at Lowe’s). I adored it and would even go a shade darker to Barn Door. Be careful with this one though — depending on how you round out your decor it could end up looking too mauve and too 80′s style.
Out of Glidden’s most popular colors for the year, the pale yellow Corn Silk would be great in a kitchen, as would Woodland Mystery (a soft sage) or even the neutral Tuscan Tan. Two other neutrals that could work well are ones Kelly Moore is currently tracking — Balsam Brown, a neutral yellowish tan (which I have used before in other rooms and loved– also incidentally KM says this matches The Color Marketing Group’s top color pick of 2011 which is called Yellow Hue Honey Moon.) The other is Star of the Garden, a lighter yellow-influenced neutral which Kelly Moore is claiming as its current go-to color.
Valspar has a current trends brochure with gorgeous, unusual colors and from their dreamscape collection, Summer Mist which is an extremely pale green would bring a nature-inspired feeling into a kitchen redo. Or, a green from them that has a little more blue in it and a shade deeper called Shade Moon which is part of their New Romanticism palette.
Behr gets a little edgier with their color presentation for kitchens — Eastern Amber is one they show (a light orange) and Butter Cookie (a very pale peach with orange undertones).
Sherwin Williams said that their all time most popular neutral (a taupe/tan) is Kilim Beige. And similarly, I’ve used Oyster from Kelly Moore. These are very safe neutrals to try.
Please let us know what your favorite kitchen colors are. We love helping people we know with color ideas and we also work with getting your house ready to sell (in addition to all the normal Realtor responsibilities) so we enjoy continually learning new things about remodeling, as we are coordinating staging and the like.
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