Looking for a bit of advice on kitchens and carcass colours if anyone can help please! My wife and I are having a new kitchen and have chosen the door colour, its a light to medium matte grey colour and we are trying to choose the carcass colour inside them. We have been told to go for oak but I think it will look out of place so that leaves white or the door colour inside. I am thinking the door colour but the wife isn't sure and wants white. Been looking all over the net for photos but found very little.
Any help and advice will be much appreciated!
It’s a very personal thing but if it helps. We are doing a full (seriously full on) house renovation. We too have just ordered a painted grey kitchen with a complimentary second colour. For the carcasses we have opted for oak. For many reasons but white and same colour just won’t look right in our opinion. But as I said, it’s personal and others will say different. Oak internals are neutral and hopefully won’t date so quickly. Time will tell.
If you're talking about the inside of the carcass then I'd think hard about this.
Unfortunately whatever paint colour you go for will definitely scratch/mark/stain with use over time and will be difficult to clean.
Also if you decide to repaint the units at some point you'll probably have to paint the entire carcass as well as the doors making it a considerably more expensive operation.
A "standard" wooden look melamine finish will look good with any colour and you can scrub the hell out of it to remove pretty much anything and they don't scratch.
The beauty of cupboards is they have doors.
Close them it won't matter one iota what colour they are.
Fwiw we have light grey with possibly white interior.....I couldn't actually put my hand on my heart and say what colour they were inside......and I only fitted it 4 weeks ago.
What I do know is when I open the door I want as much light in there as possible so white would make sense.
We wont be keeping this house long enough to consider repainting it in the future if all goes to plan. Doors and worktops were easy to sort, this is proving a bit harder to decide on.
Standard white every time for reflected light.
Grey and white here.
I checked . They are white. Until this post I had no idea you got to pick the colour.....
Must be a posh kitchen thing
You say you won’t stay long enough to be around to repaint. You’ve got a choice of white, grey or oak. Make a descision and move on. Your not staying long enough. Shark bait said it better than me, re practicality.
Our kitchen is a sort of shiny dolphin colour. I made the oak detailing myself. The insides are white.
All seems to work by my eye.
We’ve just had a new kitchen fitted, high gloss doors (good luck if you have kids), half grey half white with matching carcasses.
Either would go with either but the wife chose same colour, I didn’t even know it was a thing until after they’d been fitted.
If the wife wants white then why are you asking STW? :p
Our kitchen is a sort of shiny dolphin colour
Sounds like a porpoiseful colourscheme.