Do you want your kitchen to be not just the embodiment of comfort and a standard of functionality, but to give true pleasure from being in it and inspire you to create culinary masterpieces? Then you should pay due attention to the color scheme of the kitchen.
Usually, the main difficulty in creating a harmonious kitchen interior lies in the ability to correctly combine colors. The colors are not only of the kitchen, but also of the room in which the future kitchen will be located. Let's not neglect the advice of experts and listen to the opinions of experienced designers.
Warming warmth or cool freshness?
Speaking about the color of the kitchen, it is worth emphasizing that we are talking about the color of the kitchen facades. Before choosing one or more specific colors for facades, it is worth knowing: all colors are conventionally divided into cold and warm shades. And their use directly depends on the characteristics of your premises.
The windows of the kitchen room face north, are you constantly lacking warmth and light? A palette of warm shades will change the situation. Yellow, orange, brown, red, beige - all these colors can 'warm up'.
Do you have a south side and the sun is in your kitchen from morning to evening? Cool colors such as blue, green, purple will come to the rescue. They will bring the missing coolness.
Light and darkness: who will win?
Which shades to give preference to: light or dark is also an important question. If you want your kitchen to look stylish and impressive, pay attention to sets with glossy facades, made in dark shades, dark gray, brown, and other similar colors. But it is worth considering that such a palette will look advantageous over a large area.
Light, pastel colors will help expand the walls of a small kitchen and add airiness. In this case, we are not just talking about sterile white, but about soft shades such as coffee with milk, ivory, pearl, milk, etc.
Color solutions for every taste
What is color? From the point of view of physicists, this is a property of light, which is essentially an electromagnetic wave. The length of this wave determines the color.
There are several basic rules (schemes) for color combinations, following which even a non-professional can choose the ideal palette for the kitchen, and for any room.
Monochrome interior. It will appeal to those who love order in everything and want the kitchen to have a neat, thoughtful look. It is enough just to use different shades of the same color.
Neutral color scheme. It can be recommended to lovers of a calm atmosphere. You need to take two adjacent shades and add one achromatic color: white, black or gray. Alternatively, a set of warm wood shades, standing against the background of greenish walls, can be successfully complemented with a white stone countertop.
A game of contrasts. It is achieved through a complementary color scheme, when shades that are opposite on the color wheel are selected, for example, yellow and blue, turquoise and lilac, orange and blue. It will help make the interior brighter and more vibrant.
Rule of analogy. The kitchen will look very elegant if you use related (neighboring on the spectrum) colors to decorate it. Thus, blue color goes well with greenish-yellow and light green shades, and the richness of crimson will perfectly complement and balance purple and blue tones.
Triad of harmony. This is a more complex scheme. To implement it, 3 shades are combined, located at the vertices of an equilateral triangle inscribed in the color wheel.
Double contrast. Surprisingly, two pairs of complementary, that is, contrasting, shades create a good tandem.
If you still can't decide to choose a palette of colors for your kitchen yourself, you can turn to special programs for help that will clearly show color combinations in a complementary scheme.