Our custom kitchen is *this close* to being installed. We’re only a few days away from delivery, at which point installation will take a few days. The counters come after that. I cannot wait to see it all in place, so much time and thought has gone into planning this space.
Mark and I picked the colours this past week. We were sent to Randall’s (GREAT store by the way) to choose a white from the Pratt & Lambert palette. In the end we came home with a headache and this. Turns out that staring at 50 Shades of White is enough to make your eyeballs peel!
After a significant amount of backing and forthing and hmming and hawing we finally chose a white named “Swiss Coffee,” which, if you judged it by name alone you would assume is a creamy cup of chai, but it is actually white. Sort of. It’s a soft white with a tiny smidgeon of hazel-fawn-caramel. (SEE. HEAD. ACHE.) I saw a proper sample of it yesterday and am very happy with it.
Bob the kitchen guy also mocked up a sample of an espresso-ebony-chestnut for our island, which will have cabinetry that is the same profile as the rest of the kitchen (a modified shaker style I chose based on a reader’s comment on a past post). All of the counters – along the counters and on the island – will be a dark granite that has flecks of brown and streaks of snow-coloured crystal.
So here’s my current worry: the white kitchen cabinet style will also be used in the 2-piece bathroom off the mudroom AND the family bathroom upstairs where we’ll have a small double vanity. NOW we need to pick out a colour for the upstairs bathroom counter. Here’s what I’m looking at (Bob loaned us his Formica samples):
The white board in the photo above is the colour of our cabinetry, the white-that’s-not-really-white a.k.a. SWISS COFFEE.
Bob is casting a vote for something dark like the floors (they are grey). There are white subway tiles in the vicinity. The trim is white, the walls will be grey. I have wanted very light counters to balance all this grey, but now I am looking at this blue and I thinking … wow, that could be a really cool hit of colour.
What do you think? The grey-speckled white is cool too…
