Colour Splash: 10 Inspiring Kitchen Colour Trends

Hoping to add more colour to your kitchen?

In this blog, we’ll look at ten inspiring kitchen colour trends, including Earthy shades, Pantone’s Colour of the Year and soothing wood. Let’s explore some great trends that can inspire your kitchen interior design ideas for 2024!

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1. Soothing Wood

Among the many colours you may want to consider as part of redecorating your kitchen space are the ones provided by warm wooden surfaces.

Warm wood surfaces come with relatively bright tones, like brighter gradients of red, orange and brown. In contrast, paler wooden colours are associated with cool wood.

Some ways of including warm or soothing wood tones include the use of wood flooring, timber cabinets or, of course, a table and chairs.

2. Earthy Colours

Earthy colours will remain a popular trend in 2024. The timeless appeal of adding nature’s shades to an interior (or exterior) design can act as a fantastic way of enhancing your kitchen.

These colour gradients include faded versions of green, brown, orange, grey, red, beige and yellow. Earthy colours are known to introduce a calming look and feel to spaces while bringing the outdoors in to create a more natural, serene interior.

Of course, as with other colours you might want to add to your kitchen, Earthy shades may be added in various ways whether with wall colours (i.e. painting or wallpaper), fixtures/fittings, appliances, ornaments or kitchenware.

3. Neutral Tones

In general, the use of neutrals can provide a calm and accommodating appearance. Popular neutrals include taupe, white, grey, brown, cream, black, beige and toffee.

Neutrals can introduce a relative simplicity to your kitchen’s appearance whereby the space becomes soothing and unassuming, making it particularly welcoming for those living in your home and visitors alike.

4. Opt for Brown

Among the many neutral colours to consider, brown is a popular option at the moment. With brown interior design returning to popularity, you may want to introduce it to your kitchen by having your cabinets painted, using rustic brown seating or opting for brown countertops, hardware and accessories.

Brown generally goes with red, sea blue, sage green, beige, yellow, gold, faded pink or black. Depending on the sort of combinations you go for, the use of brown to enhance the look of your kitchen may help add a rustic aura, a feel of nature or a coastal atmosphere.

5. Use Red to Add Character and Sophistication

Each colour can add a range of attributes to your home depending on the colour combinations and approach taken.

Red is generally known to provide a sophisticated flavour to spaces. On the one hand, you may want to go for a daring visual by opting for red as the primary room colour. This might be achieved by painting the walls red or/and deciding to have your cabinets painted red.

Another approach worth considering that is in tune with current trends is to have red accents added to your kitchen for a more subdued look that nonetheless adds a touch of class.

Among the best approaches to include red accents is with the subtle use of red in suitable and suitably placed kitchen wallpaper, window treatments, pendant lights, utensils and kitchenware.

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6. Pantone’s Colour of the Year: Peach Fuzz

For 2024, Pantone’s Colour of the Year is Peach Fuzz. If this warm and cosy shade of peach is your cup of tea, you may want to introduce it to your kitchen as a way of creating a very calm and friendly environment.

Peach Fuzz tends to work well with faded pastel colours like lavender, sea blue, light terracotta, soft gold and coral.

Other Colours of the Year for 2024 you should consider include:

• Sweet Embrace (Dulux)
• Ironside (Dutch Boy Paints)
• Blue Nova 825 (Benjamin Moore)

As with any other kitchen colour trends, to add a splash of one of these tones in the right way means considering how to include them in the right ways and right amounts, as well as what other shades to feature that will work well to complement or contrast the primary colour gradient.

7. Try Out Yellow

Just as simple tones like mid-brown or medium green may be easy to overlook, the same applies to a range of yellows.

That said, currently, it is the more unassuming yellow tones like light shades of mustard yellow, that are expected to perform well in the near future.

Faded mustard yellows, while perhaps having an unfortunate unappetising ring to their name, can work well in a kitchen space as an alternative to the arguably overly-saturate bright sunshine yellows that a household might opt for.

In general, as you can tell, faded, calmer tones generally work better and trend more these days, given that they do not take over the space and create an overly vibrant and dramatic character. Instead, muted tones like soft mustard yellows can offer a balanced and gentle splash of colour that can make for a gorgeous and soothing kitchen in 2024.

8. A Two-Tone Approach

As alluded to, it’s a good idea to combine different shades when redecorating your kitchen. However, that is not the same as specifically going for a two-tone approach.

Taking a two-tone approach means focusing on two primary colours that work well together to add a certain look and feel to a space.

Here are some standout two-tone colour approaches to consider for your kitchen:

• Gold and Emerald Green
• Grey and Teal
• Black and Warm Wood Tones
• Mint and Yellow
• Grey/Cream and Lavender
• Navy and Light Grey
• Green and Orange
• Cream and Sage Green

9. Black Gradients

Opting for one or more shades of black can offer a classic, authoritative look. Black can work well in contrast to a pale neutral like cream, white or light grey.

In practice, this might mean opting for dark cabinets and light walls. However, another approach to consider is to take a largely two-tone approach featuring a light colour and another dark tone, such as chestnut, maroon or fog grey and then include black accents, potentially in the form of kitchenware, cabinet handles, chairs, window treatments or a cooker hood.

10. Pink Tones

Last but not least, you may want to consider opting for one or more shades of pink so that your kitchen can blossom into a vibrant, heart-warming space. Like Peach Fuzz and other warm hues, tones of pink can greatly enhance the aesthetic and character of a kitchen space.

Of course, what gradients of pink will work best will depend on your preferences while also considering the other colours in your kitchen and how they will look with pink tones.