Granite Color Help: Chickory Glaze Oak Cabinets
We are in the process of redoing our kitchen. We have an open U-shaped kitchen with chickory glaze oak cabinets (cathedral style) and white appliances. The kitchen is divided into two areas: a food preparation area and an eat-in area. We are installing creamy beige tile floors. The wallpaper in the food preparation area is peach, green, hints of blue and gold on a cream background. The eat-in area has this same wallpaper on the top with a green background with just cream design on the bottom half of the walls. This kitchen is open to a cathedral family room which has peach/rose faux finished walls. I don’t want a red or pink based granite. We are keeping our kitchen very traditional. It’s not a large space. We only need about 56 sq. feet of granite for countertops and a desktop. The desk will be against a wall with the peach/rose faux finish. We would like to know whether we should go with a large or small pattern. We looked at many but are having trouble visualizing the final product and need your help with some granite colors to help us narrow down our choices.
Thanks! Janice
Hello Janice,
This is a tough one. I think you are having trouble visualizing how this will look because you have three elements that are not updated. These are wallpaper, faux finish, and the color peach. All three of these are outdated and make it hard to bring in a shiny new granite surface into the room to compliment them.
However, let’s say that the wall paper, the faux and the peach color are all going to stay. I want to suggest a color that will tame those elements and still allow you to remodel later to a completely new look.
What I know about chicory glaze cabinets is that they are a little dark. This makes it even tougher because dark granite with a tight pattern would be great. However, I want to suggest the completely opposite direction. Consider Juparana Colombo Granite on the countertops with white 3×6 tile on the splash set on a brick pattern. This is a beautiful granite from India and reasonable priced. When carefully selected, this granite has all the colors you mentioned but more toned down. I think you will love it. It also has some gray in its tight patterns which will reduce brightness of the reds and rose elsewhere. If you ever remove the wallpaper and the faux, you will still have the colors that you like, but in an updated granite countertop!
I recommended the white 3×6 tile for the full splash because it will look very clean and updated while not adding anymore color to the kitchen. White fixtures are best with this décor.
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