Personally I would avoid pure black also as it's a bit stark. Truffle grey sounds good. Reds tend to look darker and cooler against white and they glow paler and warmer against darker sombre colours. Photographing actual samples together in the room will really help. Also, start collecting paint samples, paint them onto pieces of A4 card so you can move them around. Maybe start a red ideas book?

Is it that you love red and want some red in the kitchen, or that you want red units? You could incorporate red into the scheme but not necessarily on the units. My kitchen is quite dark and I used deep olive bronze walls/tiles but with pale wood units.

Hi Kat. I don't have any really good pics, just mobile phone ones. Your kitchen is similar layout to mine. The most useful things we did were to set back the cooker wall units a little to create a shelf that runs all the way across the wall. This is good as it removes clutter from worktop and cooking stuff is away from tiles. Also we knocked a hole in a supporting wall to house fridge (the boxing in on other side in hall was made into a useful coat store).

Hi Kat, the tiles were riven quartzite tiles (see link) and they weren't too pricey but I would go for honed as the riven were very riven. We ordered far too many and selected the ones we wanted. Make sure they are sealed before grouting. The paint is Light Bronze Green and I chose it to bring out the violet tones in the pale oak. Got the shelf idea from an old Conran book and it is so useful. Also, interestingly enough, there are no splashes on the tiles and it all looks as new (I have sealed them and grout though) so they are very forgiving.

https://www.stonetilecompany.co.uk/natural-deoli-green-quartzite-brick-tiles

https://www.littlegreene.com/light-bronze-green?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlbrzoP3K2AIVzLftCh1bMAvCEAYYASABEgLezvD_BwE

I don't know how practical/costly it would be to have done but charred wood (can't remember what the Japanese call it!) might work with the whole aesthetic for the darker elements? It's not easy to find charred wood kitchen pictures (!) but obviously you can control how dark it is. If not the truffle sounds good. I think I'd go handleless for the units

I quite like a red kitchen. Although this style is less modern than yours, I think it shows that red can really work in this environment even though it is a strong colour.

Hi Kat, yes this could be very nice. Are you suggesting glass splashback? If so I'd be tempted to only go up the wall about 400/500mm and then paint the rest of the wall so it's got a nice crisp clean look. I notice that you've changed the cabinets to drawer-line. I find that these can be a bit harder to use than having a combination of drawer cabinets and door cabinets, as you had in your previous design. Food for thought maybe.

Kind regards

Steve

I prefer your first pic, with the red cabinets. I think I would personally have the cabinet doors at the bottom of the light wooden ones in the same light wood. So it is a tall bank of units in light wood.

And I love colourhappy's tiles and shelf idea. Would look gorgeous. The Japanese charred wood that Minnie is referring to is Shou Sugi Ban.

Dzień dobry Kat,
Have you finished your renovation? Red colour always been my favourite in the kitchen, but I see something missing on the visualization.

I am talking about kitchen splashback, this month we have done a really nice splashback that would fit red colour range (Here is a review of this splashback).

In case you did not like the design, let us know, we can put any image on it. Our free design offer applies to kitchen splashbacks as well.

Would you like me to schedule an introductory call with our advisor?

Thank you,

Erwin