Kitchens are considered by many to be the heart of the home, so it’s important to get the mood right. This can lead to overthinking, though, about kitchen décor — should it be cozy or sleek? Traditional or techy?
Sometimes looking to current trends can settle such questions or at least give you a frame of reference while weighing your options.
When it comes to color it’s easy to worry about going overboard if you stray from tried-and-true neutrals like creamy whites, grays or beiges. But seeing the trends being embraced by others for their kitchens can increase your confidence in trying something a bit outside that box.
Designers report kitchen color mixing is becoming more prevalent, so you have more options than ever. Here are some trendier shades:
All blues
Shades of blue are dominating the color of the year sweepstakes for 2024, coming from across the spectrum but more concentrated on the paler, coastal-inspired end, as with Skipping Stones by Dunn-Edwards. Benjamin Moore’s Blue Nova is one of the deep, lustrous outliers.
Warm neutrals
Kitchen remodelers have been leaning toward warmer, earthy neutrals for their transformations, along the lines of Glidden’s choice of Limitless for its color of the year.
It’s an “anything-but-yellow honey beige,” which still reads as a pale
but still sunny yellow to many
people.
Orange and red undertones
The pursuit of warmth is drawing people toward orange- and red-tinged colors, if not the full-bore true colors.
Sherwin Williams’ HGTV Home collection’s Persimmon color of the year, terra cotta’s slightly paler cousin with the same cheery earthiness, is a nod in this direction.
Moody depths
Anyone who loves the drama of a black kitchen will be happy to hear there is demand out there for rich, enveloping colors.
Behr’s charcoal-ly Cracked Pepper and Dutch Boy Paints’ green-tinged Ironside colors of the year go deep with sophisticated nuance.
