PUMP up the JAMS
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Always test actual paint to assess the true color in your space.
A smear of berry preserves adds a tangy flavor burst to toast.
Taken out of the jam jar and reinterpreted as paint colors, these juicy hues are a decorating energy boost.
We recently spotted lacquered magenta cabinets causing quite a stir at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS), where they were a dramatic contrast to matte black appliances.
Turns out, designers are using these vibrant tones in home kitchens too.
Consider the move a shot of espresso for your hardest-working room.
by CHRISTINA POLETTO
photo CARSON DOWNING
styling: JESSICA THOMAS
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FILL WITH COLOR
Designers often experiment with hyper color in powder rooms, but Sheila Mayden went all in on Benjamin Moore Chinaberry in this kitchen, right.
“If you’re going to do a bold color, go big. We chose to keep the crown molding and window frame the same color,” she says.
Painting inside the cabinets creates a finished feel, and a honed granite counter “tones down the intensity of the color and pairs nicely with the black Lacanche range.”
LET PATTERN GUIDE YOU
Functionality is fundamental to a kitchen space, but that didn’t stop Hannah Cecil Harden from installing a chinoiserie wallpaper from de Gournay in her home’s busiest room, left.
(A glass panel installed below the cabinets protects it from splatters.)
“The rich berry tone of the cabinetry was conceived to chime with the jewel box palette of flowers,” she says of the custom hue. Orange lights and green barstools also draw from the pattern’s colors.
MAKE A STATEMENT
In this petite kitchen, right, at Aller Dorset, an English countryside retreat, owner Cat Earp dressed cabinets and shelves in perky Farrow & Ball Lake Red.
Like a bold application of lipstick, the color is meant to be a striking focal point.
A white counter and apron front sink anchor the fiery built-ins, allowing additional red accents in varying tones— including muted cherry in textiles and backsplash tiles and pink stripes on tableware—to playfully mingle.
“KITCHEN CABINETS PAINTED BENJAMIN MOORE CRUSHED VELVET STOPPED ME IN MY TRACKS AT GE’S CAFÉ BOOTH AT KBIS. WATCH FOR RASPBERRY TO BECOME THE NEXT ‘IT’ COLOR FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE A BOLDLY COLORFUL KITCHEN.”
—AMY PANOS, home editor
BUYING INFORMATION: BHG.com/Resources
PHOTOS: (TOP) CHRISTIAN ANDERSON,
(MIDDLE) DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN,
(BOTTOM) COURTESY OF CATHERINE EARP FOR ALLER DORSET
ILLUSTRATION: JESSICA DURRAN