Kitchen Colors: Dark Teal Walls

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Executive Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
published Dec 18, 2013
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I’ve always found dark teal to be a deeply rich, romantic color. (I recently painted my hallway this color, and I love it.) But it’s not a color you often see in the kitchen; it’s usually reserved for small bedrooms or libraries. And yet this photo makes a compelling case, in my view, that dark teal is a dramatic yet workable choice for a kitchen.

Unless you want a very moody kitchen, the key to using dark teal without it dragging down the whole room is to balance it with lighter colors — in this case, white cabinets and molding. This provides a strong contrast, and allows the dark teal to achieve that wow state — when you look at something and immediately notice how striking it is. (It wouldn’t have the same effect if the cabinets were dark.)

What do you think? Would you ever paint your kitchen walls in a dramatic dark teal?

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