Baby Blue Kitchen with Luxurious Gold Accents
A while back, we took a look at a particular kitchen that is built with a very light baby blue type cabinet and a particular gold leaf type color accent. The gold color stands out in this particular design but also reverberates in other small accents such as the cabinet pulls.
The range hood has a graduated and elongated curved flare, almost a bell type shape that ends in a rectilinear type shape above the cooktop area. The gold band wraps the rectangular shape of the bottom of the range hood and then a pair of vertical thin metal straps run upwards to meet a choking collar type band around the thinnest part of the range hood below the ceiling. This type of aestheirltic is mostly an design embellishment because none of these accept flares and accessory detail parts actually do anything functionally.
In the relatively light color backsplash, which is almost like a white color marble effect, there is a light gray color veining that runs through the otherwise lighter color marble aesthetic. This veining brings in a little bit of the color of the blue although it’s more gray, these light blue and gray colors do look similar and almost complement each other. This particular backsplash isn’t really inelintended bring in color to the design, it’s supposed to be natural, somewhat muted, and someone random with it’s very pattern of marbling.
The gold accent is the perfect example of a true accent, where the gold doesn’t really reoccur in the majority of the elements in the kitchen in fact it just pops up a couple few places here and there. Sometimes accent colors are used so much that they become less of an accent and more of a second distracting color from the main design. In most cases, though, accents should either contrast so significantly or almost pair well with the original main colors so that they do not distract or create a visual business.
A true accent should support the main color scheme through complement or through stark contrast, not by overwhelming or fighting with the main color scheme for attention or prominence. In the very top of the picture above, you’ll notice a pattern of round beaded buttons that run through the vertical center at the band at the edge of the bottom of the range hood. This pattern of round cap buttons runs in a horizontal direction. It’s intended as a type of embellishment, to be an imitation or fake look alike of an actual historic type of nailhead. These little gold buttons though have no functional purpose, they just add a sense of historic detail.
Here, the kitchen designer made an interesting choice, because the gold banding is its own type of color while the canibet door hardware, initially intended to complement the gold banding or gold accents, looks similar but it’s not actually a gold color, instead it’s more of an antique brass. If it were planned a little bit better, we would prefer the straps at the exhaust hood to match the same color or pair more closely to the color of the cabinet door pulls and drawer hardware.
The range hood has a metal trim or stainless steel type sheet metal that creates the base of the appliance. The grates are made from a black cast iron these are relatively neutral types of colors, yet they bring a different new type of color into the overall design. Here, the designer consider these elements to be so ubiquitously commonplace that their overall neutral color, although contrasting from the other elements of design, was almost overlooked completely. When you really stand back though, and look at the overall kitchen design, this is a new element which creates a contrast.
This contrast neither accentuates the other details nor compliments and is somewhat problematic in the overall aesthetic. It’s a good quality range though and the designer should have instead thought about coordinating the entirety of the kitchen elements, not just a handful of somewhat random selections.
One element of this kitchenette that minimizes the overall business though is that at least the backsplash and countertop are of the same stone finish and blend together with each other because they actually match.
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