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I'm doing an L-shaped kitchen with an island. Stat White cabinets, Pragel stone effect black laminate perimeter counters, one of Ikea's butcher block counters on the island (haven't decided which one yet), Domsjo double sink, black appliances, Marmoleum Click floor in Lava (very dark charcoal, almost black, with a bit of swirly pattern in it). The backsplash will be just painted, in American Tradition Laura Ashley Apple 5 or Apple 6, a medium/dark apple green.
The cabinets will be to the ceiling, so the only non-backsplash part of those two walls that shows is a few inches to the right of the refrigerator and surrounding the door to the garage. The third wall is nonexistent -- the whole kitchen is open to the adjoining family room. The fourth wall is parallel to the island and contains the door to the powder room. (Why anyone would put a bathroom directly off a kitchen is beyond me, but unless we win the lottery, we can't afford to move it.)
My original plan, since I wanted to de-emphasize the whole bathroom-in-the-kitchen thing, was that I would paint that wall (plus the few inches that show on the other wall) a grayish white, with the door the same color as the wall. Thinking that would draw less attention to the door, and also emphasize that wall's function as the walkway from the garage to the rest of the house, rather than as part of the kitchen. (Yes, I do tend to overthink and overanalyze even the most minute details.)
However, we've now decided to put a hidden door on the powder room. So instead of looking like a door, it will look like a shallow, built-in bookcase in the middle of that wall, painted white (probably the same white as the cabinets). So I'm trying to decide whether to stick with the original plan of a soft, grayish-white, only with white hidden door and white baseboards, or instead to paint the walls Pale Apple (which, as the name implies, is a pale apple green) to coordinate with the rest of the kitchen (again, with white door and baseboard). Or I guess I could choose some other color that would go well with the rest of the kitchen.
Any opinions? Or did you all quit reading three paragraphs ago?
I have a bathroom off my kitchen...actually behind my pantry! But considering that it started life as a toilet in a room...without a sink...this is an improvement.
Are you really just asking if that wall with the door should be a greyish white? How are you making the door look like a bookcase? Do people ever use the bathroom? Our wonky bathroom is our only public toilet, so I have to let guests use it.
If making the door a bookcase means painting it white, then I prefer the idea of a pale apple green to greyish.
We also (unfortunately for us, and for our guests) have a bathroom right near the kitchen, although technically I guess you could say it's in the back hall. Close enough. Anyway, I think if I am picturing what you're describing, I'd go with the pale apple. I think you'd call more attention to it by making it a different color. Might as well go with it and be glad the previous owners didn't put the toilet(s) in the living room.
I'd go with the kitchen color, the green you chose. Having lived in a great room style with both walls of different colors and all walls the same, it's much more pleasant with the walls all the same.
Except instead of paying a ton of money for a premade one, we're designing and building our own. 'Cause, you know, redoing the kitchen isn't enough stress on its own -- we've got to kick it up a notch.
That is so cool! I'd love to have a Niche door. I'm afraid though, that you have
DIY
disease. If you're not careful, you could find yourself constructing a wraps cabinet.
Tigger
still wants to wire it to make it a hot knife. **shakes head** :?
Yeah, we have a terminal case of
DIY
disease -- this is only the latest symptom.
Since our white door will have open shelves above and a pair of doors below like most of the doors on that site, we're debating whether to have plain doors or to buy a pair of Stat doors to use there -- to further tie the door into the rest of the kitchen. Any opinions?
Hey, if you're customizing it to fit in your kitchen, I'd say use the STAT doors to tie it in to the rest of the kitchen. Sounds like it's coming along nicely! Any chance we get to see pictures?
We're nowhere near picture-ready. I'll post some photos when there's more done. (I was going to say I'd post photos when it was finished, but I have a feeling it'll never be totally done -- we'll always come up with some new project we want to do.)
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