Best kitchen colour for a contemporary home

I have gloss kitchen units, one wall of dark grey housing ovens fridge and freezer, rest of kitchen is in white gloss. Floor in light grey Amtico and worktops in Corian, white with grey flecks. Walls are light mauvish grey. Ovens, microwave, toaster, kettle and cannisters are in brushed steel as are two window blinds.
I also have two very large brushed steel radiators which break up an otherwise large expanse of wall.

I think your kitchen will depend on what type of light you get at what time of day. My kitchen gets the morning sun from dawn until lunchtime.

Some styles are classics, like Shaker, wood and painted finishes. At least there's the possibility of changing just the doors and drawer fronts, even the handles, rather than the cabinets. I like a kitchen to be cosy and welcoming. I dislike white, stainless steel and high gloss finishes as they tend to look as cold as a science laboratory.

Whatever colours you decide remember you have to live with it for a long time.

Wall colours are easier to change then kitchens.

We don't tend to change kitchens when the style changes.

This is all giving me kitchen envy .

Our neighbours have all black.
It seems very depressing to me, but they seem happy with it.
Ours are cream and white.

I think its always wise to keep the cabinets and work surfaces in the neutral range as they are the bits you live with longest. Its far easier to change the colour of your walls than your cupboards. I have also realised that paler worksurfaces are a better option especially if space or lighting is an issue.
Apart from that its very personal and I really believe a kitchen should be a personal choice - there is nothing worse than a kitchen that does not fit your personality. We once moved into a house that had a huge expensive kitchen that at first I liked but I soon realised I really was not a black shiny marble person.....much more into gentle neutrals!

I’m having a new kitchen in January. It’s a very small kitchen we’ve chosen wrens sea foam. It’s the lightest of light sage. Anyone else had this colour? I’d love midnight blue it’s my favourite colour but my kitchen is far too small to carry it off.

sorry I didn't see that post so thought it was my blue ,my worktops are very pale grey marble

It doesn't have to be just one colour. Our kitchen has pale oak worktops and units (real wood) with a sage green wall, a white wall and two pale yellow (buttermilk) walls. The floor is a pale greyish wood tone. The fridge is bright turquoise. It all goes together really well!

Buy some house magazines whose styler matches yours and look at the pictures and articles within or go online and look at houses on pinterest.

For what it is worth, this was the sentence in question
We have recently completed our kitchen renovation and done in a royal blue shades of the cabinets and countertops

Paddyann my comment about royal blue units and counters (?) was nothing to do with your midnight blue units which sound lovely, but in reply to the deleted comment which was not only blatant advertising but a colour scheme which struck me as having too much blue ((and a bright one at that)
I hope that is clear.

Teal paint and tiles with cream cupboards and speckled cream/grey work tops ...makes for light airy and restful

I love the dark blue units that are en vogue and would have had them in our kitchen but as it’s quite a dark room I went for a light colour instead. Don’t be guided by what’s in fashion if it doesn’t work for your room.

not at all MawB as you dont have to live with it thats fine.It has been much admired though and since we did ours I've seen many versions on adverts and in TV programmes .It is a very large very bright kitchen and the light bounces off the glossy units .

Forget what's an 'in' colour. What colours do you actually like? You're going to be living with it after all. Fashions change all the time and you won't want a 'dated' kitchen in 5 years.

One of my Nephews has just built a super new house, his wife chose white everything with slate blue cupboard fronts very modern and minimalist. It’s lovely but when the sun shines on those white sparkly worktops it kind of hits you.!

Reported but would it also sound unfair to also comment that I hate the sound of a royal blue kitchen?

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We have cream gloss units, cream floor tiles, light oak worktops and furniture, copper accessories and light fittings and a light grey on the walls. It’s a big space but quite dark thanks to the woodland we back onto but the cream and light grey really lighten it up.

I've got Shaker-style cream units and yellow walls in my north and west-facing kitchen.

I don't like the current fad for grey - in Scotland you can't tell where the walls end and the sky begins!

Well, Isabelle, an Essex designer kitchen will certainly be contemporary and up to the minute! (no offence meant, our family live there!)
Personally white always looks nice, but lately I've seen some nice greys and dusky blues. A friend has black, it looks like a tunnel.

Light wood units, dark mottled effect worktops and dark grey tiled floor. Walls are a sea bluey/green colour.
BBevan I love the sound of your kitchen, purple is my favourite colour and I have it in my bedroom. Kitchen is north facing and 12'x10' so it wouldn't work.

Creamy shades and light wood cupboards for me! I must have light, so I can't bear the modern trend for black/grey kitchen. (So gloomy!) I think am rather old fashioned.....

I have a almost midnight blue for units and pale grey tiles .our room has a lot of light and it works very well ,I swap up the accessories now and again with red towels or acid green and just now its bright yellow.My kettle and toaster are the only items on the worktops and they are white