Need help with paint color for IKEA kitchen

8 years ago

We recently renovated our home and installed an IKEA kitchen - Grimslov off-white cabinets everywhere. We get so much natural light in our kitchen (S, E and W facing windows) that the cabinets look super yellow to me - which I hate. I'm more a white and grey fan. What color tile backsplash and wall color could we paint to make the cabinets look more white? Our granite is a white/grey with black veining. Please help!

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Eileen Snow

8 years ago

Id go with a color that is in opposition to the yellow family. Try a grey/blue color family.

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Debra Toney, AIA Assoc.
8 years ago
Oh no! That's disappointing! While nothing is really going to "correct" this, the current white walls only serve to offer up a comparison, so adding color to walls and backslash should help.

Working in some of the cream color of the cabinets into the tile scheme through a multi colored mosaic might help things make sense.

We would also recommend painting the walls a grey tone to bring out the veining in the counter and to contrast the cabinets to make them look more white.

There are many companies that will replace the doors of ikea cabinets and its a fairly simple process, but I understand it would be super disappointing to spend more money for corrections of a brand new kitchen.

Hope this helps!

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Jill DeCastro
8 years ago
Could you please tell me what your flooring is? I love it. I am about to install an Ikea kitchen too.
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kahope
8 years ago
Beautiful kitchen!

I'd keep it clean and simple with white subway tile and grey grout and paint the walls a medium shade of grey.
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jess_fo12
Original Author
8 years ago
Our flooring is actually from Lowes; Opal Creek Classic Scrape 5-in Prefinished Oak Hardwood Flooring (Quicksilver)
Boomers775
8 years ago
It's been nearly a month since you first posted this so I'm wondering if you have found your paint color for the walls and your backsplash. I hope you didn't decide on white subway as that would just accentuate your off white cabinets. Your ceiling paint is also very white which does the same thing. I would suggest painting that in a creamier white like BM Cloud White.
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Clare S Design
8 years ago
Since the warm light is creating a yellowish cast, go with the opposite in the wall paint color , which would be of course, cool tones! Blue is the opposite of yellow on the color wheel, so a nice Robin's Egg Blue or a Wedgewood Blue might look good. You could also go with Greys, like a Light Grey all the way up to a (medium-toned) Charcoal.
alexwu
7 years ago
How is the quality of the flooring? We are thinking about buying but found little information about the brand.Thanks!
kristen_j_e
7 years ago
I have also been checking out the lowes flooring that you have installed. Interested to know if you like it??
jess_fo12
Original Author
7 years ago
We ended up painting our walls BM's Cinder, which is supposedly the color of the Bodbyn grey cabinets at IKEA. It looks good, although we are still without a backsplash.

Our flooring from Lowes has been great so far. We have a 15 month old who loves to run all his toys across it and it hasn't scratched or chipped yet (going on 6 months since install). So far we're finding it quite durable. I will warn you that up close there a lot of imperfections on some boards (this is a "true" barn board like appearance) which might not be for everyone.
monali12
7 years ago
We are also thinking of going with Ikea Grimslov off-white cabinets. I'm worried too, as we've lot of natural light coming in kitchen (east facing). Can you please tell me your experience wether will it look yellowish?
Libby Mondello
5 years ago
We do not have a ton of natural light, but are about to put the same cabinets in! I worry about the off white color and am trying to think of a good backsplash and counter top color!! Thanks for posting!
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Gather and Spruce Design Remodel
5 years ago
Keep it light!!

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