Choosing a color for the kitchen
What color is better to choose for the kitchen?
The choice of colors for the kitchen should be approached responsibly, because this place is the most popular in the house. It should bring only positive emotions, improve mood and, of course, appetite.
Before any changes made in the kitchen, whether it be the purchase of new wallpaper, kitchen set, curtains, or a complete overhaul, it is important to consult with all the inhabitants of the house. Why? The answer is simple: each family member may have his own color preferences and his own ideas about beauty. After consulting, you can dwell on the variant that will not irritate, but only charge you with a positive attitude, rallying the whole family. Such successful solutions are visible in the photo.
Photo: English style kitchen
What is important to consider?
There are basic rules that will help move in the right direction when choosing colors for the kitchen.
- If the windows face the sunny side, it would be better to choose cool or not too bright warm colors. The heat from the stove and the sun-drenched room, complemented by orange, red or yellow wallpaper or furniture, will create a desert effect and are unlikely to add comfort.
- For a small kitchen you should choose tones that visually expand the space: light and unobtrusive. Dark, I saturated, deep tones will make the atmosphere squeezed and heavy.
- The dark tones of the kitchen set conceal household stains, but they give away accumulated fat or touches of dirty hands. And light furniture and wallpapers will suit only the most clean hostesses and will not suit families with small children at all.
- Define the palette of the kitchen will be wallpaper, floor, kitchen cabinets and countertop. Therefore, it is their choice that should be taken most seriously. The rest will serve as accents and additional color dots.
First of all, you need to consider what is expected from the kitchen, what impact it should have on the audience. To do this, you need to know how primary colors affect us.
Classic
Especially popular for the kitchen are usually the colors of the tree. You can choose cream, milk, chocolate, coffee. All of them are neutral and open to fruitful partnerships with other, more expressive shades. Wallpapers can be bought bright, for example, yellow or lilac, and furniture - brown or cream.
Pure white color also fits the classics. Yet the snow-white kitchen will be a mistake on the part of the hostess. On the one hand, it will look spectacular and stylish, but on the other, it is not practical at all, which is a significant drawback for a place where food is constantly cooked.
Tip: white color in the kitchen can be dominant. Combine it with the idea of ​​practicality can be, if you choose him in a couple of other bright colors. In any combination, it will stand out for its freshness and create an atmosphere of purity.
Red color, although it is classic, is hardly popular for kitchen decoration. It distracts attention, does not allow to concentrate on cooking. In addition, the dominant red palette will irritate and overload vision. Therefore, you can not think of anything better, how to use it for the design of individual zones - seats for a chair or an accent strip of wallpaper. If you arrange the kitchen in the prevailing cold, nondescript shade (for example, gray), then red will help to balance its despondency.
Photo: competent design of individual areas in the kitchen in red
Cool shades
Such a choice should be made for kitchens, constantly flooded with the sun. Then the interior will look harmonious and cozy in its own way. However, here the choice should be taken seriously.
The prevailing blue, blue or cold purple color is dangerous for the kitchen. These shades tend to reduce appetite. In addition, with prolonged exposure to humans, they can cause feelings of anxiety and depression.
Therefore, it is better to use the trick, filling out the entire kitchen in a neutral shade. For example, most of the furniture, floors, doors and other attributes to make unobtrusive. But for the walls to choose wallpaper saturated blue or any other cool color. Although it will be present in just one element of the interior, it will still stand out and catch the eye.
Photo: the original design of the working apron in purple
Unusual solutions
As for all other rooms, in the kitchen no one forbade experimenting! Therefore, for its design, you can choose non-standard color solutions.
For example, the color scheme may be strictly black and white. Black and white striped wallpaper, white headset and black table top, or vice versa. And as soon as you get tired, it will be enough to add a couple of bright elements as small accents: bright dishes, a tablecloth or the table top itself. Moreover, these elements are better to change from time to time, so that the interior was lively and interesting. Today is yellow, tomorrow is green.
By the way, green in all its incarnations, from grass to emerald, is used in the kitchen quite rarely, and very much in vain. After all, almost everyone loves him, as he has a positive effect on the psyche and increases appetite.
So, the choice of colors for the kitchen - the process is not the easiest, but pleasant. Depending on the color preferences of the whole family, you can stay on the shade that will delight everyone. If the opinions are different, the rainbow style will come to the rescue, he certainly will not leave anyone mad!