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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I'm not really comfortable with bright red. I'm not really a primary color kind of person. The cabinets are fairly light and more cool than warm. Maybe a brightish medium/dark blue? There's not a ton of wall space -- cabinets and the refrigerator cover much of the walls, and there's a passthrough/bar over the sink area. The only appliances I would really have on the counter are a matte grey metallic mixer and maybe a black coffeemaker.
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Bright /= primary. And the fact that there is very little exposed wall space means you can go lots brighter, and darker, than you otherwise would have.
As for blue, I seriously considered it for my kitchen, because the trim on my tile countertops is a periwinkle-ish blue. Then one particularly gray day I looked out the window and at the blue paint chips and realized my kitchen would be pretty, but not cheery, if I did that. However, Texas has a much different climate than we do here, and a nice blue may be just what you need to counteract the screaming sunshine outside.
Get the biggest chips you can (Miller, based here, has chips about the size of a dollar bill; there's also a company that sells poster-sized paint chips for $5 ea), and don't be afraid to try test swatches.
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