Kitchen Colors

How do you choose your kitchen colors? Color is a very emotional element because it can influence your mood. It can also influence the way you experience your kitchen space. Choosing the right kitchen color can be difficult if you do not understand basic color principles but I will give you a few tips to help unlock your decorative potential.

 

Light, cool and neutral colors will give your kitchen a sense of space as they make the walls appear to recede. Whites and creams can denote cleanliness and freshness.

Dark kitchen colors make the walls appear to advance, making the room appear smaller.

Natural light is an important element to consider when you are choosing kitchen colors because it renders color accurately.

Artificial lighting renders color inaccurately. For instance incandescent lighting will give a yellowish cast, fluorescent lighting will give a green cast and tungsten light will give a blue cast.

Depending in which hemisphere you live, a room facing north will benefit from a cooler color and a south facing kitchen will benefit from a warmer color. In the northern hemisphere this should be reversed.

The color grey, when used as a background, can give a kitchen subtle sophistication. It will enhance any bright color set against it.

Color trends change therefore it may be advisable to choose neutral colored kitchen cabinets and counter tops and use paint and accessories to add color to your kitchen. (These can be changed more easily)

 Using Color

Large kitchen with blooming acrylic on walls, copse cabinets and floors, white doors and trim.

Color makes a huge pulse on the amplitude it fills. The appropriate adumbration or arrangement can accomplish your kitchen attending bigger, abate or alike cheerier. Knowing how your blush choices will affect your kitchen architecture can advice you advance a blush arrangement that improves your room’s all-embracing architecture while additionally bushing it with your admired hues.

Depending on what you appetite to accomplish with your space, the colors you accept can advice you accomplish it. The furnishings of blush can actualize the apparition of a afflicted space. Cooler, lighter colors can advice accomplish a allowance feel bigger while warmer and darker colors can accomplish a amplitude abate or accompany a aerial beam bottom ward farther.

Stainless animate cabinets in brownish and red finishes.

Similarly, the textures you accept will change the attending and feel of your kitchen. The arrangement furnishings of stainless animate with its glassy beheld absorption will alter from the pulse of wood’s accustomed warmth. Meanwhile, a aggregate of the two will advance to an absolutely altered design.

Finally, annihilation makes a big pulse in your kitchen like ablaze colors. A burst of orange or azure brings a adventurous attending to your architecture back done right. Discover area the best spots are for your admired saturated shades.

In kitchen color design, you'll use main colors and accent colors. Main colors are usually the cabinets, flooring, or walls - whatever takes up the most visual space.

The colors that have to work together in kitchen color design are:

    * Color in your cabinets
    * Color in your flooring
    * Color in your counter tops
    * Color in your appliances
    * Color on your walls
    * Color on your ceiling
    * Color in your backsplash
    * Color in your furniture (kitchen table or island bar stools) 

The style of your kitchen may inspire a kitchen color design scheme. Here are some typical kitchen colors for different kitchen styles:
 

 Modern - neutrals like tan, cream, or gray

      Country and farmhouse-style - yellow, red, blue, green or cream on cabinets or walls

      Cottage - white cabinets with pale blue or seafoam green walls

      Tuscan - deep golden yellows

      Traditional - neutrals

the sources:

http://renomart.com.au/kitchen-colors

http://www.kitchens.com

http://www.kitchen-design-angel.com