Painting Kitchen with Sapphire Blue Counters

By

Allison5

I like desert tan by Benjamin Moore. It's actually more yellow/golden than tan, depending on the light in the room. Another option is to go with a blue that is a few shaded lighter than your countertops, depending on how much blue you want, though.

By

Cyinda

There's nothing like a creamy golden, light butter yellow as an accent to Sapphire Blue! This yellow & blue gives the room a traditional, classy look. You can use one or many shades of yellow & blue to decorate your kitchen with. But be careful, if you can see the kitchen from other rooms in your house the adjoining rooms should have a common color.

Other options are golden beige, or many shades of blue, or a golden beige or golden brown (like peanut butter) with your Blue. Or sage green, or a Tri-colored room with brown, greens (ANY shade) & blue. But I favor Blues (dark, med & light) mixed with shades of golden yellow. If you want a modern room you can use primary colors like Red & bright dark yellow along with the blues. I am using 3 colors to decorate my kitchen-living room area, Olive green, golden beige & medium blue. I found a wonderful rug with all 3 of these colors & am using that to pull all 3 colors together.

When painting with yellow, it helps to tint your primer yellow too because yellow is transparent, this means it takes a few more coats of paint that most colors & if you start with a tinted primer your painting will require less paint. Also buy a high quality paint, not a cheap brand when painting with any yellow shade.

If I were you, I'd find a beautiful kitchen rug, some wonderful canisters or some nice paintings or framed & matted prints (like old-looking botanicals, sunflowers or a mixed-floral print) & use the colors in these to pull your decor & paint colors from!

If you have already decided on white trim, then why not go with dark blue, med blue, light blue & white as your decor colors. A "mono-colored" room (all different shades of one color). If you do this, be sure to add different textures in your decor or it can look boring. If you want to add a bit of "sunshine" & "happiness" to your room, why not change the white to a creamy-yellow butter or light-maize color instead?

A bit of yellow is especially nice if you live somewhere with long winters or little Sunshine (like Seattle or Alaska!)... If you live in a hot area (like Arizona or Florida) then stay away from the "sunny-warm" colors & instead use neutral or "cool" colors! ...In MA, I'd go with the yellow... It makes people feel warm, sunny & happy! (this yellow does not have to be bold, it can be the color of butter, a lighter shade of yellow)

I need help with kitchen wall paint color ideas. I have light maple cabinets with a coffee glaze, with a sapphire blue granite counter top