Colour suggestions please

[emilybronte]

I've got to choose floor tiles and colour/s to paint the walls and cabinets, in a north-facing small kitchen (8' x 12') with a cranberry coloured range cooker http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/househ...ange-cooker-cranberry-brass-21406551-pdt.html and light oak worktops.

Don't want anything too oppressive, but on the other hand nothing too pale on the floor.

Any suggestions for a complementary scheme would be appreciated. I'm going round in circles with this one.

 

[Belle427]

I think a cream colour always looks nice against the wood worktops.
Cant help on the tiles though as everyone likes different styles, difficult choice with a cranberry cooker!

 

[emilybronte]

I think a cream colour always looks nice against the wood worktops.
Cant help on the tiles though as everyone likes different styles, difficult choice with a cranberry cooker!

Thank you! Yes, I was thinking perhaps cream and/or a pale taupe for the cabinets/walls, or even something like Little Greene's Slaked Lime.

Tiles ...I am inclined to go for something like charcoal-grey slate, as it's a 200 year old Yorkshire stone cottage and slate is used quite a lot in these cottages. That would also allow me to have dark coloured grout. One of my worst errors of judgement when originally tiling that floor was having sand-coloured grout (far too pale for a kitchen). To keep it from looking grubby and tatty, you have to scrub the groutlines every frew weeks with neat bleach. Life's too short!

What does anyone think of charcoal/slate for the floor?

 

[Belle427]

Slate does look nice, i saw these a while back in someones house and they looked really nice too. Picture is from a random website.

http://www.premiumtile.co.uk/silver_gray_travertine.html

 

[footprints]

Ask any builder and you will get the answer Magnolia
Cream, Pale Taupe, Buttermilk, Orchid White. Whoever walks in will think it's Magnolia anyway

 

[emilybronte]

Ask any builder and you will get the answer Magnolia
Cream, Pale Taupe, Buttermilk, Orchid White. Whoever walks in will think it's Magnolia anyway.

I try not to ask builders anything about decorating or colour. It upsets me too much.

 

[footprints]

 

[emilybronte]

'Magnolia' is actually an expletive, in my house!