[doggone]

Hey All, I have been lurking here for a while and have posted a couple of small things. Here goes...
We are working on planning our kitchen remodel and we set up some sample color schemes in Photoshop tonight. We are pretty brave about bold color. Our dining room is a navy blue and our bedroom is a deep rhubarb red. The kitchen is sort of in between physically so we are trying to AVOID blue or red for the kitchen. We have our door fronts down to three choices with samples coming from IKEA soon. I have placed the color schemes here in OUR order of preference. See what you all think. I BEG for your feedback!

Each image shows the door style, a representation of the "Porcelain" ceiling color and the wall color. The bottom row of squares is a selection for a 4 color cork floor. The black and butcherblock boxes on the side represent the soapstone or paperstone countertops (no veining desired!) and the butcherblock that we will put in select locations.




























Thanks,




Rene

[Clueless]

I think you hit it out of the park with choice #1. That floor is a knockout with the cabs.

[Cyndi_L]

I like the floor in #2 and the color of #4.

Cyndi

[nigel-bigel]

My first choice is #1, my second is #3, although I don't love the wall color in #3.

Nicole

[DesignDiva]

I like the first one with the third cork choice. I think greens with birch are beautiful. It will make for a lively transition between the red and the blue, so be prepared that it will be a very energetic look.

I also like the last one with the pale cabinets and the dark (first) flooring choice. That would be a striking look but not as energetic as the other, which is probably a better choice given your strong colors in the other rooms. It's a cool modern look.

I think any yellows with birch will be too much contrast with the other spaces because there's a lot of yellow in birch and it will bring it out a lot. I prefer to offset the warmth of the birch with blues or cool greens. I think Adel MB would be way too warm, and any red flooring would also be way too warm with any other choices.

I think the intensity of the vertical planes should be similar and the tones of the horizontals (countertop and floor) similar as well unless you want your countertop or flooring to stand out.

[doggone]

Hello and thank you all for your replies. I have gotten a lot of really good feedback from both here and the kitchen forum on GardenWeb. I appreciate everyone's time. I don't know if this bit of info will help but we don't have a "modern" house. We have a turn of the century farmhouse. We have high ceilings and tons of moldings. Hardwood floors in the rest of the house and tall, one over one windows. We have gone with bold but (for lack of a better word) "muddy" colors so that we can avoid the fresher, cooler tones of more modern designs. We have a living room the color of a bit o honey candy bar, our dining room is very dark blue above and then porcelain below the chair rail, our office is gray, our main floor bath is a muted purple/cocoa/silver color called mink. We have a dark red bedroom upstairs that will be next to a beige master bath. I usually lean toward dark furnishings and have a mix of modern and antique pieces.

I am thinking of the kitchen floor as a multi color thing. I want the cork to be the focal point of the kitchen and want the cabinets to be the background. I will not have uppers but prefer some open, floating shelving there instead. I have stainless appliances. All the doors and trim in the house are painted "porcelain".

Any more feedback would be greatly appreciated. We are just starting our planning and this is FUN.

Rene

[a]

wow!

That first one seems most amazing! though at first glance I wondered if the first of the 4 cork squares shown [in figure one] was just a wee bit light for the rest of the palette.

can't wait to see the end result.

amazing choices!