Kitchen Paint Colour Schemes
Kitchen colour scheme
Kitchen Garden, a coherent green kitchen
The trusted way to build a scheme is to keep every colour in one temperature family, then pick a main wall colour and let a few companions do the rest. These five Grafclean shades are all cool, leafy greens, so they layer without clashing. Choose a soft sage for the walls, keep the ceiling light, take the woodwork either gentle or deep, and ground the room with green cabinetry. No feature wall, the interest comes from depth. Every colour is breathable, low odour Graphenstone Grafclean, endorsed by English Heritage.
Five tones of one green family, light to deep. Screens vary, so treat these as a guide and try a swatch at home.
Start here · Main wall colour
Silver Moss on the walls
A soft, fresh sage that wraps the whole room. It is light enough to keep a kitchen bright and calm, with just enough colour to set the tone for everything else. All walls in one colour, no feature wall, is exactly what a coherent, tonal scheme wants. In our washable Grafclean matt.
Shop Silver MossUse Silver Moss with
a light ceiling and your choice of gentle or deep woodworkIceberg
The palest whisper of green
Keep the ceiling light. Iceberg is barely there, a cool green-white that stays in the family without pulling the eye up. Softer and warmer to live under than a stark brilliant white.
Shop IcebergSilver Birch
The gentle route
A soft, cool off-white for skirting, architrave and doors when you want the woodwork to quietly recede and the room to feel airy. In wipeable Grafclean Eggshell for everyday knocks.
Shop Silver BirchForest Slate
The moodier route
Prefer the trim to frame the room? This muted grey-green sits a clear step deeper than the walls for a considered, layered look. Also in wipeable Grafclean Eggshell.
Shop Forest SlateAnd for the joinery
Gables Green cabinetry
A rich, deep green for the base and wall units, where the scheme gets its weight. Against the pale sage walls it gives the contrast a calm room still needs, and it loves natural wood worktops and brass or aged-bronze handles. Painted in wipeable Grafclean Eggshell so it takes kitchen life. For a bolder island, drop it a shade deeper to Cypress.
Shop Gables GreenHow to balance it
- 60%Silver Moss walls, wrapping the whole room.
- 30%Gables Green cabinetry and joinery, the depth.
- 10%Woodwork in Silver Birch or Forest Slate, plus small accents.
Keep the ceiling light in Iceberg, and let the room's warmth come from wood worktops, oak stools and brass, which stop an all-green kitchen feeling cold.
Softer or bolder
- SofterTake the woodwork in Silver Birch and keep cabinetry to the base units only, for a light, breezy kitchen.
- BolderWoodwork in Forest Slate and a Cypress island, or colour-drench the lower walls in Gables Green with Silver Moss above.
Behind the hob or sink, where it gets damp and steamy, a mould resistant silicate such as Auro 303 copes better than emulsion.
Swatch films show the real painted cards in daylight. Screens vary, so always try a swatch or tester at home before you commit. Hex values are indicative only.
