Kitchens!

Were having ours done this week and it's hell seriously hell. All the ripping out and emptying grrr doesn't help the kitchen in the house was handmade 25 years ago and has bricks and alllll sorts!!

But onto your questions no I'm rubbish at imagination

Me either. Things never look the same as they did in my head. I can't match things and I CANT carry colour in my head. Things i bring home are often not remotely like the colour I thought I was buying. I currently have bits of grey painted sheets of paper on my lounge walls. Love dark grey walls on Pinterest pics but everyone is saying it's too dark ormyoure hving what colour! etc and giving my wobbles. Sigh. Just going to have to be brave.

Yes ripping out kitchens is the worst! At least my kitchen only needs paint and being its off the lounge I'm thinking pale grey to give it more light.

Lala - my parents recently had their kitchen done and it was an absolute bombsite. They ended up staying with us for a couple of nights to escape the mess. I can't say I'm excited about the upheaval and not having a kitchen to work with, although friends remind me that it'll mean a week of eating out and takeaways. Every cloud, I guess

Jayne - I'd like to think I'm okay with remembering colours, it's just what will work with x, y, z. I think your idea - light grey in kitchen, dark grey in lounge will look nice. Is this for the place in Spain or UK?

With the kitchen, we're having a beech-ish worktop, cream cupboards and then we've decided on a dark grey floor. We were thinking of a light grey floor, but OH is convinced the darker floor will give it more pizzazz. I shall bow to his vision and hope to god it works! Ha ha.

We've just bought our first home and I'm intensely grateful that it doesn't need any major revamping! The kitchen was only put in a couple of years ago thankfully!

I'm dreadful at picturing things though. We saw loads of houses and I couldn't picture our furniture in any of them! Had to trust my OH to know that we would manage to get things fitted in. I'm considering moving my piano into the new house and our argument just now is that he doesn't think it's going to fit but I'm desperate to have it with me so it will just need to get squeezed in somewhere.

This is in the UK. Much more modern here with black leather furniture and the kitchen open to the lounge is gloss white units and black granite(with sparkles of course!). We have just had a flood which means a new lounge carpet (shame! ?) so probably a pale grey carpet this time with dark grey walls and light grey walls in kitchen. (Painted by a decorator due also to the flood ?) Surely even my colour ineptitude can't mess that one up. I'm leaving the brighter colour to artwork and cushions. Cheaper and easier to change when I mess it up.

I'm liking the sound of dark grey floor. I need new flooring in the kitchen too and have no idea what to do with it.

I once ripped a kitchen out. Yes makes a right mess EVERYWHERE and involves a LOT of eating out and take away but it's worth it in the long run.

Two things.... firstly I keep reading this post title as 'Kittens' and being just a bit disappointed that there is no fluffy cuteness when I open it... secondly Jayne E- I put my foot down and insisted on dark grey walls in our bedroom against a LOT of opposition- and we both absolutely love it now it's done- dark grey walls, grey/green carpet (not my choice, but it works!) and black furniture/ curtains/ fittings with splashes of purple accents- go for it in your lounge- with black furniture and grey carpet you will be able to change the look of the room really quickly with cushions/throws/pictures/ flowers or whatever your 'accessory bag' is ?

Thanks for that. I'm going to be brave and ignore everyone who looks at me like I'm CRAZY! Dark grey it is on ALL the walls. My abstract paintings are all 'fire' colours so lots of red orange and yellow.

Unfortunately I don't have any kittens ?

DreamsComeTrue - we moved into our house a year 15 months ago and this is the first bit of decorating we've done. In fairness, the kitchen doesn't NEED doing, it's just a little tired and we'd like to start making our mark on the house. I am excited; we live in a 3-storey town house and downstairs is a long hallway, cloakroom, garage and kitchen/diner and it gets so blooming cold in the winter. We're putting in underfloor heating which should make it much warmer and cosy. Yum!

My OH is a dab hand at scale drawings - when we were planning on where to put furniture when we first moved in, he drew up the room and all of our furniture (plus the sofas we wanted to get using the dimensions online) and we played around with it like that. Really helped and allowed us to make decisions on how big the sofa could be!

Jayne - your colours sound fantastic and well-suited to the UK. I was struggling to imagine a Spanish villa decked out in dark grey - they're always so white!

2BMrsC - I'm sorry this thread isn't about kittens ha ha!

Yeah for kittens!!!! Pooba I'm sure underfloor heating will make it lovely and cosy. Wish I had some in Spain as the tiled floors are like ice in the winter. And no I wouldn't dream of painting my room in Spain dark grey although I have an English friend there who did and it looks nice but I think I prefer the pale walls there. We put cream cabinets and a beech worktop in a past property and it still looks lovely 8 years later. Very classic and fresh looking so I'm sure you will be pleased with it once the messy bit is done.

Awwww.... squeeeee! Cute Kitty! Thanks Pooba!

Awwww.... squeeeee! Cute Kitty! Thanks Pooba!