I have a long kitchen, galley style. The sink, dishwasher, stove, and microwave are on one side and the laundry closet and refrigerator are on the opposite wall. The ceilings are 8 feet. The cabinets are natural oak and the counters are black and dark blue fleck. The floor is vinyl and has dark blue, grays, tans flecks in the pattern.
The dinning room is attached, well it's really an eat in, I guess. There is no dividing wall for the space, it's open to the kitchen. Right now the kitchen is a blue/white, more blue than a cool white, but not much, called Day spa. We are thinking of making the kitchen a chocolate, mocha brown. I am trying to decide it that is a good idea. We are thinking warm, inviting, etc., but we don't want it to feel small either.
By DV
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You're right that too much brown can make a room feel uncomfortably close. Have you thought instead of trying a lighter shade of the gray in your floor?
Gray walls (not too dark) can cause the rest of the colours in your room to really pop. Next time it's gray outside have a look at how well the evergreens and anything in a vivid colour stand out against the gray, it's amazing!
You can buy gray paint with chocolate undertones, that makes for a 'warmer' feeling gray than one with blue undertones.
I Have honey oak cabinets too, and my kitchen walls were salmon, which I loved. I painted my living room with Sherwin Williams Repose gray, beautiful light color, I decided to go with Alpaca gray for the kitchen and dining room. I don't have an open floor plan so multiple tones of the gray look beautiful because of all the doorways that look into the other rooms I went with ceiling white for all the ceilings in the house and for the trim, which was formerly gray, It really pops and my crown molding looks amazing!
We have a dark chocolate/blue/beige with pops of dark red combo in our bedroom and I love it! I just added some light sage green pillowcases.
Brown and blue are complimentary colors, but you don't want to go dark as it sounds like you have enough of that.
I would go with a muted blue. If you like denim, for instance, you can take some samples of blues you like, then go to HDepot or Lowes and do a computerized look in the paint department. It's fun and you get to see a room done with your colors before they become your colors.
I hope this helps. PBP
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