How To Incorporate Colour into Your Kitchen

Incorporating colour can instantly lift and brighten your kitchen, making it feel cosier, happier and better aligned with your personal style. On average, we spend almost seven hours every week in our kitchens, which is why we think it's so important that you feel fully at home in your kitchen space.

Now, the great news is that kitchens are an ideal canvas for colour. So, let’s explore a few of our favourite ways to incorporate colour into your kitchen.

Experiment With Small, Bold Pops of Colour 

Whether it’s a colourful rug, a colourful ceramic fruit bowl, or open shelving displaying your collection of brightly coloured cookware or serving dishes, even small flashes of colour can do amazing things for your kitchen space.

Remember, if you want to incorporate rugs into your kitchen, it’s important to choose a material that’s durable because it’ll experience lots of foot traffic. We also recommend adding a non-slip pad beneath rugs to keep them in place.

Install Colourful Tiles 

Tiles are a brilliant way to effortlessly incorporate texture, colour and personality into your kitchen. They’re also an incredibly versatile option, as you can choose whether you want to install a few rows of tiles behind your worktops, focus on on a small area behind your cooker, or create a fully tiled feature wall that really delivers on the wow factor.

If your kitchen benefits from lots of natural light throughout the day, you can introduce an element of cosiness and drama by choosing bold or darker colours. Alternatively, if your kitchen space is more enclosed, choosing brighter or fresher colours can help to create the illusion of an airier, more spacious room.

Pro tip: If you’re a pattern lover, choosing colourful patterned tiles can deliver a beautifully bold look that brings even more texture into your space. Achieve a maximalist look by choosing a detailed pattern featuring bright rainbow colours, or create a more relaxing space by choosing gentler colours and a simpler pattern.

Enhance Your Space With Natural Colour

So many beautiful colours exist naturally within nature, so one way to bring colour into your kitchen in a very authentic way is by using bouquets of fresh flowers, creating a herb box that can live happily on a windowsill, or filling baskets with fresh apples, lemons and oranges. Not only will this allow you to surround yourself with colour, but it’ll also add fragrance to your kitchen space as well.

Create a Feature Wall With Colourful Wallpaper

We often see wallpaper being used to create bold hallways and living areas, but it can also work well within kitchen spaces too, especially when it’s used on a feature wall in a kitchen that also doubles as a dining space.

But you don’t even have to commit to wallpapering an entire wall. You could also choose a brightly coloured wallpaper and have small sections of it framed to create a unique feature art wall that delivers colour in a way that looks incredibly sophisticated and refined.

Choose Colourful Cupboard Doors 

Whether you’re completing a full kitchen makeover or you’re keen to refresh an existing kitchen, choosing colourful kitchen doors is a simple yet impactful way to transform both the look of your kitchen and how it feels to spend time within it.

In most kitchens, cabinets account for more than half of the surfaces, so this is a brilliant way to incorporate a large amount of colour. Just make sure that you choose kitchen doors in a colour that you truly love and want to surround yourself with every day.

Pro tip: to avoid overwhelming your kitchen space with colour, you can balance out bold cabinets with space-expanding design techniques such as choosing a bright white paint for your walls and installing open storage solutions to display your most-used cookware and accessories.

Complete Your Kitchen Makeover With Happy Doors

Incorporating colour into your kitchen is a fantastic way to make it feel more personal, vibrant, and inviting. Whether through bold cupboard doors, colourful tiles, natural accents, or a striking feature wall, there are endless ways to transform your space. With just a few creative touches, you can create a kitchen that’s both functional and full of personality.

Our kitchen doors come in a huge selection of colours and tones, with something in our collection to help you achieve the kitchen makeover of your dreams. Please contact us on 01256 845 816 or email us at hello@happy-doors.co.uk to learn more about how replacement doors can offer an affordable and simple way to refresh the heart of your home.