Stiligt’s color school part 6: The best tips and inspiration for coloring kitchen doors

Start by thinking about the layout of the kitchen, is it big or small? Dark or light? What kind of kitchen do you dream of in combination with the conditions available? A small kitchen “shrinks” with darker color choices, while lighter colors make the kitchen more airy. A large kitchen will be more rustic and have more character with darker colors. Also keep in mind that colors grow with the surface, which means that they become more colorful over a larger surface than over a smaller one. A good tip in choosing a kitchen color is to think about the other rooms in the home and find out the so-called “red thread” that permeates your home, and which should match and harmonize the style into a unit. If the rest of your home is painted in a cold tone, you may choose to follow the same tone instead of setting to a warm tone in the choice of kitchen color. Or if the home has variegated, colorful wallpaper that adjoins the kitchen, you pick one of the colors in the wallpaper to paint the kitchen with. A kitchen usually looks best if you keep the tones together, although wall paint and paint for kitchen doors do not have to be of the same color. You can get a sober, powdery surface on the wall by using, for example, gloss level 7, which gives a silky matte surface. Glossier kitchen doors harmonize with this to create a lovely finish. However, a general rule is to either stick to a cold or warm color that matches the rest of the decor in the home. Shades of blue/green are cold, shades of red/yellow are warm as a rule. Rooms in northern locations usually have a cold light, which means that cold shades are amplified and perceived as more blue or purple. Test paint with a few color samples, no more than 5, so as not to complicate it too much, to see how the color mixes with the light both from windows but also lamps during the different hours of the day, as they affect the color very much.