Kitchen, Paint, Colors

Your kitchen is the place you tend to gather with your family, or spend a lot of informal social time. Since it′s the place that sets the tone for your home, paying attention to color, and making sure it coordinates with your overall cabinet design ad style, making sure you choose the most appropriate kitchen paint and color is a big help to your overall home design. Paint is one of the least expensive and easiest ways to improve a home. Color wheels and color families make it stress free for the average consumer. Most people take the task on themselves; however, some hire contractors to complete the job. The results may be stunningly dramatic or clean and simple, depending on the atmosphere desired.

When you are choosing paint you will want to consider how the room will be used. You will also want to consider the lighting in the room. Walls look different in dark rooms than in bright ones. Lighter colors work well in smaller rooms. Larger rooms can handle bold colors easily. Depending on the size of your kitchen you can choose the colors that not only compliment the look you want but express the best in the room size.

When you′ve chosen your kitchen cabinet design, you′ve already set the framework for the basic look of your kitchen. Whether you find formal and impressive your goal, or rustic and homey, your cabinets reflect the look and feel. But what about your kitchen paint and color? How does that fit in?

When you′re choosing a kitchen paint and color, you want to make sure that it fits in with the overall feel you want in your kitchen. The three basic concerns you′ll have are color, type of paint and texture. If you have a formal kitchen with dark woods and burnished brass on your cabinets, you′ll want a paint that harmonizes. While a bright, shiny latex would be inappropriate, muted colors that aren′t too dark work great. Don′t think you′re stuck with the standard white or parchment colors, though. Saddened colors of all hues give that old-money air beautifully. Different colors can evoke different emotions. Because of this a kitchen should have a calming color palette in it to encourage peace and joy. If you want to have a room that evokes energy a more cheery color is recommended as it will infuse energy into the room. You can use different types of painting styles to add texture to the walls with the painting you are doing. There is rag rolling, sponging, stippling and dragging are some of the ways to achieve looks similar to wallpaper. Sponging is a great way to hide irregularities on your walls. It can create a dramatic look in your room. Rag rolling uses three different colors of paint within the same family. You randomly blend the two darker colors and use the third lighter color on top to give it a textured look. Dragging is done on walls painted with a clear glaze. A paintbrush is dragged downward to create vertical lines while stippling involves producing tiny dots with a stippling brush for a calming effect in a room. If your cabinets are in the French provincial style, or are brighter in color, you probably want a bright kitchen -- possibly even with a good gloss. Consider a high-shine latex paint in cheery yellows or spring-like colors that will bring that note of cheerful industry that makes the country kitchen so welcoming and fun. For an art deco kitchen with straight lines or possibly even metal cabinets, you′ll want bright colors, but in a matte finish. Perhaps you could try some decorative stenciling in bold lines across the crown molding or just gracing the corners. But whatever you choose, paint in an inexpensive and lovely way to perk up an old kitchen and bring it to life.