Monday, December 20, 2010

Kitchen Paint Swatches

Our kitchen has always felt unfinished to me. I think it's the white cabinets, white counters, white walls, white trim, white ceiling. Notice a trend? When we first moved in, we had high hopes of painting the laminate cabinets. Now, I think that would be a huge undertaking, and, honestly, I'm afraid of screwing them up. So, I've been thinking maybe a bit of wall color would help the situation.

Well, today I found a fun feature online. Sherwin Williams has a fancy shmancy Color Visualizer that allows you to upload pictures and add paint to your walls.

One of the issues I ran into is finding matching colors to the Saltillo tile floors. Here are a couple of palettes that I think would work.

Let's start with the kitchen how it is now.

Picture taken this evening.

Now, let's try a couple of color palettes.

Option 1: Green

Roycroft Brass for the tile & Ecru for the walls.

Green view into the kitchen.

Green view into the sun room.

Option 2: Blue

Urbane Bronze for the tile & Cork Wedge for the walls.
Blue view into the kitchen.

Blue view into the sun room.

We really like Option 1. Now, whether or not we actually ever paint is another question. Maybe Spring Break?

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