Gray kitchen: 7 winning combinations and 54 design ideas

Ashes, fog, dampness... many associate gray with a sense of timelessness, a slowly dragging present. I regard it as a universal mature color that brings solidity and harmony to the interior. Is the gray kitchen worthy of the attention of true interior aesthetes, let's figure it out together.

Gray is often associated with cloudy spring mornings, summer gray-purple nights, gray winter twilight, and oppressive black-and-gray autumn forest.

However, color combinations with gray have a simultaneous contrast. This means that a particular color gives gray an additional shade, which proves its impersonality and versatility.

Grey - as well as black, white and beige is base color. This suggests that it has a wide range of combinations with other colors.

Its main property - neutrality.

Nature has created a ton of shades of gray:

• pearl;
• smoky;
• ashen;
• mouse;
• lead;
• asphalt;
• gray;
• anthracite;
• and even the color of a swooning frog (no, I'm not kidding).

As you can see, you can list them endlessly.

Combination and combination rules

In duet with pink

The neutral tone goes well with pale pink shades: salmon, orange-pink, apple blossom. In such a duet, pink loses its lightness and becomes more serious and restrained.

Bright shades become more comfortable for perception, so even in a small kitchen you can safely use lingonberry and fuchsia.

Next to red

The combination is softer, but still has echoes of the black and red duo. If you like joyful interiors, choose a light pearlescent color for your kitchen and one of the bright shades of red, for example, scarlet, light red, alizarin.

A more dramatic interior is obtained by adding burgundy or carmine. You can slightly dilute the duet with white or a small amount of black.

Combine with orange

Impulsive orange takes on seriousness and solidity next to gray. Feel free to choose from intense orange and carrot tones, no less successful will be a combination with a shade of powder and flesh.

Yellow friend

An amazing duo that allows you to use shades of equal saturation. In the context of recent interior exhibitions, pink-yellow, pale yellow and sandy are gaining special popularity.

The darker the color, the more appropriate bright shades of yellow, such as canary and lemon, will be.

What do you think of green?

Steel and green - the colors are calm and even a little boring, so to create a dynamic interior, choose bright shades, for example, spruce color, scartez, bright green, pine needles or toad in love.

If you like cool shades, go for neon green, mint or turquoise. With a large enough area of ​​the room, you can use dark tones: patina and needles.

Close relative blue

Serious blue next to gray will only strengthen its interior "authority". Positive aquamarine will turn a mouse shade into silver, while a rich blue-black will allow you to get a truly masculine interior in the kitchen.

Friend or foe? Brown

The combination is rather atypical and rarely used, and all because steel, mouse and pigeon look muted and almost inconspicuous against a brown background.

If you need a quality background, add a slate shade of light ocher, red-brown, dark chocolate or tea color.

Style under the microscope

Gray has no specific characteristics, it can be strict and businesslike, homely and cozy, almost invisible, and sometimes even depressing.

1. The classic has a great attitude towards gray, prefers to combine it with warm shades of furniture and gender. The possible lack of expression can be compensated for by the abundance of small details in architecture and furniture.

Even monochrome interiors with an abundance of light successfully exist in a small kitchen.

1. Minimalism and modern style are the basis for interior experiments, in which steel and silver are often combined with black and white.

1. IN loft in kitchens, graphite is realized in finishing (tiles, concrete, plaster).

How to use color in the interior

How to use color in your kitchen interior?

I have a small instruction for you on how to implement "dullness":

• Wooden furniture in a gray shade can pretend to be a classic wood range.

When the wall is painted gray, such furniture can "hide" the cabinet, highlighting the more attractive interior elements.

• Slate is often used for artificial aging of the surface; this technique will be relevant for Provence, country and loft style kitchens.

• As strange as it may sound, interior accents can also be gray. If you like this idea, emphasize the unusual shape of the decor.

• Not the last place in the harmony of the shade belongs to materials. If your goal is a cozy and homely interior, look towards the tree. Natural shades of wood go well with gray, diluting its coldness.

• Take a closer look at beech, alder, light oak, birch, walnut, goncalo and spruce, they are most successfully combined with shades of gray. In addition to this duo, you can take rattan products and wicker furniture, decor with sea pebbles.

• The use of gray in combination with plastic, metal, glass and concrete is no less important.

Classic gray can be obtained by mixing black and white or opposite colors, for example, yellow and purple, blue and orange, red and green.

Color combination table

Cold shades	Warm shades
green; blue-violet; cherry; lilac; blue; turquoise.	light yellow; redhead; walnut; Orange; coral; lobster red.

Summing up

As you can see, dullness is not as gray as it seems at first glance. Rather, it is universal and to understand this, it is enough to look at the video in this article.

How do you feel about this shade in the interior? Do you find it boring or versatile? Does a gray kitchen have a right to exist? Share your reasoning in the comments.

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