Advice on a Pop of Colour in my kitchen.

When me and my brother were doing a complete renovation of our kitchen, we've considered to replace the old and almost broken kitchen faucet, and couple days for searching a great analogue for it, and we've found an article (here it is: cozyhousetoday.com/best-high-arc-kitchen-faucet/), that showed us greatest options of high arc faucets we couldn't even imagine they exist.

Pink works very well with grey and white. The shade is important ....not too 'Barbie'....more a sugared almond type.
My daughter used this combination (one wall a soft pink the rest white )and when she told me I though it a bit odd....she was never a pink sort of a girl....but its a good combination in a small to midsized kitchen.

Lime sorbet, I've just used it, it's not indecently bright, but it's fun, or what about a mint green or if you want really zingy and cheerful..tangerine..so long as it's not on every wall and surface !

I have recently done out the kitchen, and I have tiles at the back of the hob made in Seville. They are the most gorgeous sea green colour, and the quality is excellent.

I found a lovely Italian kettle whose handle matches the tiles exactly and a radio .

All on line. I spent happy hours looking for what I wanted ?

Clean white and grey is lovely in a smaller room and you stay fresh too.

Similar to my kitchen and I have used bright orange to contrast with the largely black and white decor and units.

Keep the cream but add colour with kettle, toaster, containers, tea towels and curtains or blinds etc. It is a small room so you have to be careful painting walls. Light bounces off of the light colour rather than absorbing it as darker colours do.

Sure it is Dulux (not Crowne or F & B or any other) who have a paint testing ap where you photograph the room to be decorated and then superimpose a paint colour onto the relevant surfaces. Might be worth a go to see what you like best. (Doesn’t matter about what anyone else thinks apart from maybe your DH).

Might force get DH to paint my cupboards. My kitchen cupboards are very old, but they are sturdy. Don't want to replace them with flimsy new stuff, and there is the problem with the "new" measurements too. We had new doors/drawer fronts fitted a few years back but they need doing up now.

I wanted a pink kitchen. I was shouted down. Probably just as well. I've got a very very pale pink living room instead.

Do not replace that lovely leaded window with clear glass! (Sorry Gabriella)

Daughter is painting hers pale greyish. Colour is called putty I think.

I love duck egg blue!
I think the easiest way to add a pop of colour is with things like small electrical items - kettle, toaster etc all now available in a myriad of colours. Also chopping boards, oven gloves, teatowels etc. Doesn't have to cost much and can easily be discarded when you get bored of it!

Think pink. Maybe baby pink? You can paint cupboard doors. #2 daughter moved and the kitchen was ok. Other things to do first so she painted the cupboard doors.

We have a large, light kitchen. The cupboards are white with oak tops and the floor a pale marble. So we went for it and painted the walls Thai Sapphire , a deep purple. The central island was white but is now Deep Space Blue. It is different and I love it. That is the most important thing. It is your kitchen. If you like a shelf for bits , I have one, then so be it. Just be a little adventurous. I would like to use Sulking Room Pink somewhere , just because I like the name

My problem is more to tidy away the pops of colour. I do enjoy to look at my row of matching soup and tomato tins on a narrow display shelf that I planned just for those tins.

Thanks everyone.
I'd prefer not to change the toaster, kettle etc as they are relatively new (grey) but it is an option.
There are two blinds which we rarely use, they are neutral stripes and are kept up high out of the way. We are very private at the back.

The kitchen window stuff .... I got dh to make the white (removable) shelving so it can hold small bits that are used regularly.... Jugs, spoon rests, a little dish holds a lipstick, reading glasses, odds and ends, flowers from the garden especially the odd broken stem get popped into the jugs. I like it because it's different, saw one in a craft shop and asked dh to copy it.

Not sure about the fablon - it reminds me of years ago when my mother would have used it, there were air bubbles and the edges curled. Perhaps she wasn't too good at putting it on.

The end wall is already a pale green, it doesn't show up well in the pic. The living room is already sage greens which is why I was thinking of continuity with the lime green.

The porch is mint green and I don't like it. Asked dh to get another tin of sage green for it and he came home with mint green which was on offer. Not only that, it was shiny finish. Not wanting to knock his efforts I went with it but to be honest might just be biding my time with it. I guess it's ok but I don't love it.

I think the blandness is the cupboards and walls being the same colour.
Don't fancy a true blue.
Uncertain about a pink.
At the start of this I said definitely not yellow but I'm swaying on that. It seems popular with you GNers, maybe a limish yellow?

I agree with Monica about going for the jackpot and not pussyfooting, but not lollipop pink. (sorry Monica). Getting reminded of the colour of peptobismal medicine

You have all been so helpful.
Perhaps I need to go to B & Q bearing in mind all your suggestions and look at the colour card display.

Who knows I could come home with sunshine yellow or lollipop pink.

I like the green of your towel. Rather than paint a wall I would accessorise with small touches of green, using the colour for things you use regularly oven glove; tea towels, dishwashing brush, plant pot etc. that way the colour doesn't dominate and can be changed. But they must all be the exact shade.

I think it looks a very nice little kitchen just as it is tbh. I definitely wouldn't move the plants out of the window. They give it a cottage-y look, which I like. I need more flowering plants in my kitchen.

I'm not sure about green in a kitchen.

But then, my kitchen is blue with yellow cabinets. Maybe not to everyone's taste.

Old fashioned tiling and painting...sorry.

We have lime green with walnut effect units in our en suite. I think it's a lovely combination.

I would not paint walls a bright colour, keep pale and neutral and add colour with toaster, kettle etc. This will ensure a small kitchen does not appear even smaller.

It is a small kitchen, nothing can hide that. Paint the end wall bright lollypop pink, or give the window a bright pink blind. Go for the jackpot and do not pussy around with a touch ofcolour and more blandness.

The advantage of one small wall of bright colour is that it is cheap, simple and easy to repaint it another colour if you get tired of the first bright colour.

Personally I don't like lime. It may pall after a while like the red as Coolgran describes. It is rather aggressive.

Definitely move the plants from the window and use the empty space over the sink on the left. Perhaps with racks to place the washing up - it can drain straight into the sink.

As for the dishwasher - try to match the cream doors. The room is too small to introduce another colour except with accessories. I would vote for yellow but you have said you don't want yellow. Or lavender to .match your plants.

However, almost any colour will make the room look smaller than with white or magnolia,so go as light as you can with the colour.

I too would remove the stuff from in front of the window.

What about sunshine yellow, or any bright colour, roller blinds to provide colour, rather than paint the walls/cupboards.

Voile-type material lets in the light and would only need to be pulled down a few inches to show the colour.