- A white kitchen is a classic color choice.flowers in kitchen image by araraadt from Fotolia.com
Finding the right colors for painting your kitchen walls and cabinets is important as these are the colors that the rest of the decor of the room are going to either harmoniously contrast or strikingly complement. You don't want to pick colors that will be difficult for either of these tasks or that will give the room an unpleasant atmosphere. - A white kitchen is a traditional and popular color choice because, according to HGTV, "Many people believe the only color for the kitchen is white. They love the clean, fresh sanitary feel and the timeless, classic look." You can select a warm, atmospheric white for the matching walls and cabinets to give your kitchen a rustic, country feel. Alternatively, you can pick a cooler, more energetic white for a sleek, modern kitchen. The ease of painting with white is obvious as it makes decorating a breeze.
- For a slightly more dynamic, textured effect in your kitchen, paint your walls or your cabinets a warm shade of white, but not both of them. Then paint either the walls or the cabinets a warm color that you would like to use as the main decorative color in your kitchen. For example, you could paint your cabinets white and paint your walls mint green and then use mint green as the color for your backsplash, chair upholstery and curtains.
- If you like the idea of a white kitchen, but don't like the idea of a completely white kitchen, you can keep the walls white for a classic look, but give the cabinets, very slight hints of different hues, for a splash of color. For example, you could "pickle" the cabinets by using an oil-based paint, letting it soak into the cabinets and then wiping it off before it dries completely. Similarly, you could stain wooden cabinets so that they will still appear wooden, but with a hint of color to keep them from looking boring.
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