How to Pick and Use the Best Paint Colors for Your Kitchen
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Effects of Color
Colors affect the sensory perception of most people. Using kitchen paint colors that are bold stimulate the senses of your guests. The most soothing to the eyes are pinks, purples and yellows. Colors that excite are oranges and reds. Kitchen paint colors that encourage are greens. Whites and beiges are neutral colors. You can choose what color best expresses your kitchen.
Modern and Traditional Kitchen Paint Colors

New modern kitchen color schemes include paint colors that are bold, such as yellow, orange or even red. Everyone will notice your kitchen if you use a bold color. When picking a kitchen paint color, decide ahead of time what you are comfortable with and choose a color that is the boldest you are willing to use. You can also ask for a sample of several paint colors you would like to try. Paint a small section of your wall with each color to pick the best kitchen paint color for your walls. This sampling will be very beneficial in your decision making, pick your choices wisely.
Traditional kitchen paint colors are pale. The color tones are still important, but they do not grab the eye like bold colors do. Traditional paint colors are always in style. They include pale beige, pale green and pale yellow. One of the most popular traditional paint colors is white. White on white kitchens can be just as bold and striking as more modern brightly colored kitchens.
New kitchen trends include multiple paint colors. Kitchen owners or designers use three different tones on three different walls. Another trendy style is a pattern. Painting a block pattern on a wall in two colors, while painting the background a third color. Three tone paint can also be used to paint the walls one color, the trim one color and then a few choice accents painted in a third color. Three-color schemes can be used with pale or bold colors or a combination of both.
With all the color choices, painting a kitchen can be quite exciting. There are also cabinet colors to choose if you are painting your cabinets. Cabinets can also be painted in multiple paint tones. Paint the cabinet one color, the outside edge another color and the crease a third color. The cabinets can match the walls or be bolder than the walls for a striking look. It is popular to paint the walls a pale color and then paint the cabinets a bolder color.
Remember that kitchen paint colors are an expression of yourself. Choose a color that suits you. Paint colors can always be sampled, so don't worry about making a mistake. View as many color schemes as possible until one strikes you as the best fit for your kitchen.
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What are your kitchen paint colors?
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bechand
Oct 16, 2011 @ 12:37 pm | delete
- I am getting ready to do my kitchen - wall paper has to go and want to paint - just still dont know what color.
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TravelingRae
Jun 21, 2011 @ 9:41 pm | delete
- I painted my (motorhome) kitchen (and surrounding space) a bright lemony yellow. It's tempered by the oak cabinetry and the curtains. I love it; it's so bright and happy! You can get a glimpse of the paint colour on my lens about painting the interior of your RV.
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