Picking a Kitchen Color

11 Feb Picking a Kitchen Color

Since I am going to have a beautiful new room off of my kitchen…someday…maybe (do your projects seem to go on forever?), for the last several months, I have been doing a mini kitchen makeover.  Granted, the kitchen in this house was the one room that didn’t need much work.  What I have changed is simply aesthetically preferential such as switching out lighting fixtures, painting cabinets, etc.  Our latest kitchen project involves taking down a ghastly looking texture off of the walls.  And by ghastly, think about the impression a big tire leaves in the mud.  A little texture I can handle, this is just downright egregious.  So since that is going, I am thinking about paint colors.

Our bottom cabinets and island are painted Benjamin Moore’s Rockport Gray, a really pretty medium gray with a taupe-y feel to it.

I also added unlacquered brass hardware to the cabinets and drawers, and it looks sooo beautiful.  Can’t wait to show you guys!   Before the bottom cabinets were painted, I originally painted the walls of the kitchen Benjamin Moore’s Stonington Gray (yes, I have already painted this room once), a really pretty blue-gray color, but it just looked too dark with my new bottom cabinet paint.

Therefore, the decision making process began.  I guess you could say it’s a bit intense.

In case you are wondering, the bar is across the back door because I was worried the kids would open it and fall out before they built the room up in the back of the house.

I wanted the kitchen color to be an aqua-y-gray-y-blue-green-barely-there-color.  The shade I was searching for was in my mind, but I could not find it.  As you can imagine, I have an extensive paint collection, and of course, I had to try every color that *may* work.  A girl needs to save where she can!

I finally decided on Benjamin Moore’s Gray Sky until a fateful trip to Home Depot this weekend where I found Martha Stewart’s Bakery Box White.

Now I don’t know about yours, but this color reads terribly on my computer screen.  It doesn’t look aqua-y-gray-y-blue-green-barely-there-color-y at all!

I actually had a really difficult time finding photos of this color painted on walls.  Perhaps it is a recently added shade??  But I did find a couple that may help you get the idea.

butimeanwell.blogspot.com

kljswilson.wordpress.com (color of the dresser)

pvedesign.blogspot.com

What I really like about the Bakery Box White is it really brightens the room without being overpowering, and nearly every time I look at it, I read a different color.  Is it blue?  Is it green?  It really is both!

After I get the room smoothed out and painted, I need to get the window treatment over the sink made, and then I can reveal!

Have you made any new-to-you paint color discoveries lately?