What color is your kitchen?

[JanetRose]

If our living room is next to the kitchen with an open doorway, do the colors of the kitchen and living room need to match?

 

[grinningghost]

Good question. Our kitchen, living room and dining room all connect and I always think it would look really dumb if I just "switch" colors right in the middle of the wall.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Our kitchen and family room connect, with an eating area in between. Our kitchen is a terra cotta red and our family room - as the rest of the main house - is a buttercream color. The eating area between the kitchen and family room is sage green. We also used sage green on one wall in our formal dining area (which also happens to be connected to our "formal" living room, so that it sort of ties in together. I've seen lots of houses where the kitchen is painted differently from the connected family room, and it looks really nice.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Our kitchen, living room and dining room all match. There are big doorways between them, so a color change would not look good. The DR and LR have the same window treatments, the kitchens are different but in the same color.

 

[Miller1412]

Is it all one great big room, or are there open doorways in between? My dining room, kitchen, family room and sun room all run together so I chose colors that compliment each other. Dining (gray), Kitchen and family room (navy) and sunroom (palm green).

If it's all one large room, I'd make it the same color unless you have bumped out walls that only give you a view of one side. I think it looks cool when one wall is painted a different color than others in the same room as a point of focus.

 

[soccerchick]

I don't think they have to "match" per se, but probably should complement each other. In our first house, the kitchen wall ran into the family room wall. We wallpapered the kitchen and DH put up a really nice strip of moulding (casing type, I Think) to break up the wall/rooms without just having the wallpaper stop. Depending on how yours is set up, this may be an option.

 

[rhanditresmom]

My kitchen is papered...green ivy and my family room is neutral...browns, greens, beiges, and maroons. They somewhat compliment each other, but I would really like to change the kitchen to mediterranian (sp?)...yellows, greens and browns.

 

[ElizK]

My living room is a jamocha color, kitchen is gold. There is no doorway seperating them, just the outside edge of a corner. As long as the colors "go" together, it'll look great!

 

[Goofyzgurl]

Our house right now is all cream colored, but I'm about to paint it. We just painted the formal dining room a sage and we're about to paint the living room, kitchen and breakfast nook a rich yellow. I think as long as the colors complement one another it'll be fine.