Choosing The Right Kitchen Paint
The kitchen is often the heart of the family home. As a place of high activity, you can be bold with adventurous and interesting colour combinations. It’s also important to select the right finish for every surface to achieve a durable kitchen scheme with long-lasting colour.
Discover our guide to choosing the right paint finish and colours for your kitchen.
Which paint finish is right for my kitchen?
Our range of finishes bring durability and beauty to walls and woodwork, including kitchen cabinet doors. From low-sheen matt to high gloss, select the perfect finish for your kitchen project.
For more information, visit our guide on selecting a finish for your kitchen.
Do I need a primer for kitchen cabinets?
Intelligent ASP (All Surface Primer)
When renovating a kitchen, there are often many different surfaces which can be transformed with the use of colour. Kitchen cabinetry and furniture as well as tiles and melamine will be subject to a coat of paint. Our Intelligent All Surface Primer (ASP) provides the perfect surface on all walls, woodwork, Formica, tiles and glass.
Order Intelligent ASP in your chosen colour
Read our full guide to updating kitchen cabinets with Intelligent finishes.
How to choose a colour of paint for your kitchen?
When designing your scheme, consider what you would like the atmosphere and feeling of your kitchen to be. You can be bold with sumptuous dark colours, or produce a simple, neutral scheme with a bold colour highlight.
Consider existing colours in your home
When choosing kitchen colour schemes, try to decide what sort of style you are looking to achieve. Take into consideration colours that already exist within the space. Worktop surfaces, tiles, kitchen flooring and artwork are all elements that you can include within your colour palette.
If there are any architectural features or areas of interest within the kitchen, consider using colour to highlight them.
Look for kitchen inspiration
When beginning your decorating project, take time to research schemes that you would like to recreate. You can browse images on Pinterest or magazines for inspiration.
Browse our inspiration gallery to find the kitchen colour scheme of your dreams.
Choosing paint colours for kitchens with little natural light
The space, orientation and light in your kitchen will affect how the colour appears. Each shade can look different depending on the direction of natural light. So it’s always important to test sample pots in the space before making your final decision.
Discover our guide to considering the orientation of the space.
Sample kitchen paint colours in situ
Order sample pots of your selected shades and paint out large swatches onto A4 pieces of paper. Place these papers on different walls around the kitchen throughout the day.
Order sample potsInspiring kitchen colour schemes
Discover four beautiful colour schemes with some of our favourite kitchen colours. Whether you’re interested in kitchen trends or want to create a timeless space, find inspiration below.
Tea with Florence Kitchen
1. Combine complementary green shades for a vibrant, contemporary finish.
Pair Harley Green and Tea with Florence for a subtle contrast. This combination is perfect alongside light wooden furniture and gold finishings.
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Aquamarine Kitchen
2. Use one of the Colour Scales families to create a balanced, harmonious scheme.
We’ve produced four different shades using varying strengths of the same pigment. Use in combination for a fully coordinated finish.
The Aquamarine family are a classic blend of blue green which bring a gentle coolness and tranquillity to a room.
Here, the use of Livid on the door frame adds balance and grounds the scheme.
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Briar Rose Kitchen
3. Add pattern and texture to a neutral kitchen scheme by combining paint and wallpaper.
We paired Briar Rose - Green Stone with the Green Stone Colour Scales - neutrals with muted green undertones. The addition of Book Room Green on the cabinets adds more depth and warmth to the scheme.
Little Greene wallpapers are spongeable, to maintain a clean kitchen without damaging the print.
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Mochi Kitchen
4. Mochi is a dusky, pink-hued neutral that was used in the dining room of Calke Abbey in Derbyshire in the late 18th century. It complements the earthy neutral Attic II on the cabinets to provide a grounding base for the softer pink hues.
Explore this LookFor more kitchen paint inspiration, browse our kitchen image gallery.
If you’re struggling with selecting shades for your kitchen paint, seek help from our colour consultants. Our professionally trained consultants will help you decorate your home with confidence.