It’s time for a Pinterest roundup. I’ve been completely obsessing over blue kitchens.
Anyone know where this is from? I got a dead end on Pinterest. This is not my content.
Again, I’d kill for a source. This is NOT my original content.
I absolutely love these cheery kitchens! I was trying to find more photos, but most of the ones on Pinterest led back to House of Turquoise, who isn’t great at posting sources :-/
But I wonder how many different shades of blue one can actually HAVE in a house before things just get dizzying. I mean, I quite love the light, sky-ish blue that we’ve painted our giant living room.
Any “real” interior designers out there? I’d love some color tips!
I’ve heard tips that one should just chose a set palette of 5 (or so) colors and use that throughout a house, to make it feel cohesive. Would choosing too many colors in the same family be “too much”?
Or, if I don’t believe that beige is the best neutral out there– I wonder how I can use this sky blue as a new neutral?
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I use a washed out robin’s egg blue as a neutral in my house. Behr’s “Contemplation” covers 90% of my walls! But I use varying depths and brightnesses of that same sort of blue throughout. I think the problem comes when you try to use multiple blues of different undertones together. Like, when you wear a blue shirt with jeans and it’s just all wrong, but you switch to another and it’s great? In my mind, the sky is a natural backdrop to all of nature, whether it’s the greens of trees and grass or the silvers and greys of a cityscape, so it’s a natural choice as a neutral. :) Since you already have sky/robin’s egg blues in your home, I’d just choose a slightly deeper, grayer shade for cabinets with antique black, bronze or brass hardware. Then you can accent with the brighter shades!
oh, i never thought about it that way! it makes perfect sense to use sky blue as a neutral. and i’m pretty much alllllllll over the antique bronze thing right now. what great tips! thank you!
Thethird photos from the sadly defunct Blueprint Magazine,published by Martha Stewart. It’s been in my inspiration file since 2008!
thank you thank you thank you! i hate not knowing. will update accordingly!
I’ll take all three of those kitchens. Can someone come over and make my new kitchen look like that…….for free? Any takers? :)
i KNOW. if my landlord wouldn’t decapitate me, i’d be all over this. but, alas, i think i’ve painted enough surfaces in this house of ours at the moment.