Admission #1: I am obsessed with teal/mint/teal-ish-mint/teal-y-blue-ey-mint/anything in that whole awesome and spectacular colour family at the moment.
Admission #2: I have ginormous plans to either…
a) paint my kitchen cupboards with the fabulous above mentioned teal/mint/somewhat teal-tinted-mint-based hue (if I’m feeling particularly adventurous and brave – painting kitchen cupboards takes A WHOLE LOT of work, so it’s quite a crazy project and not at all for the colour-fearing commitment-phobe)
OR
b) paint my kitchen walls teal/mint/teal-y-mint should I chicken out of my bold kitchen cupboard painting plans and opt for the more low-risk option.
Admission #3: I don’t yet own the aforementioned kitchen with its not yet painted cupboards and/or walls but I will very very shortly – only FOUR weeks (plus a few days) to go! Until then, in true (likely predictable) Melissa fashion, I will obsess endlessly and scour Pinterest for loveliness. (I’m a little lot OCD like that.)
So, in lieu of actually having an actual real-life kitchen to paint at present (holy moly I can’t wait to have to have my own little kitchen again!) and in light of the fact that I’m a little obsessed with paint colours at the moment, here are a few of my favourite marvellous quasi-teal/mint/absolutely lovely kitchens…
Triangle Honeymoon (whose site seems to be down at the moment) (which makes me super sad – there’s a whole lot of awesomeness there!) painted their kitchen in Glidden’s Gentle Tide…
Looks so perfect with the butcher’s block countertops, no?
And take a look at Brenda over at Cottage4C’s (bravely!) painted kitchen cupboards…
The colour (Sherwin Williams Rain) is a tad more blue-ish than minty-ish, and I love it. So pretty!
Our little loo at the last house was painted in Benjamin Moore’s Woodlawn Blue, but I think it’d be super pretty in a kitchen with white accents and such (like this one from Darryl Carter)…
Lastly (but most definitely not leastly) is this teal/green/slightly-minty-I-suppose (but definitely lovely!) kitchen courtesy of House of Turquoise…
Oh, swoon. I absolutely adore this kitchen! So much so that I think we should see another pic (don’t you?)
(I’m still swooning over here.) The colour is so fantastically cheery, but not obnoxiously so (since, well, I can only stand so much cheeriness pre-coffee in the morning.) And with pretty yellow accents it just looks so… fresh. Like a cucumber I suppose. Or a big head of iceberg lettuce. Both of which, appropriately enough, belong in a kitchen. So perhaps Kensington Green belongs in my kitchen…
And perhaps I should make a salad.
(As soon as I officially own my kitchen that is.) (Only four weeks plus five days to go!)
Here’s another mint kitchen you might like.
http://www.shelterness.com/17-retro-kitchen-designs-that-inspire/
My husband and I just bought some acreage in Abbotsford BC and the existing house on the property has a kitchen very similar to this one. I’m thinking of painting the cabinets mint, but quite commit!
Thanks for the link – that first kitchen is absolutely (positively!) adorable! (And I’m super jealous if your new kitchen is similar to that!) Mint cupboards would be a huge commitment (I really really dislike painting cupboards) BUT it looks soooo good in other people’s kitchens… I’m hoping it would look just as good in mine (AND yours!) Let me know if you end up taking the plunge!
Mint cupboards would be awesome! So retro-cottage-chic :)
I agree! We’ll see how brave I’m feeling in about 28 more days (official house-possessing day! Yay!)