Gloss or matt white tiles with an Ikea white gloss kitchen?

lobster123

I'm in the process of planning my kitchen refurb and will be buying Ikea white gloss Abstrakt units. What tiles would look best - buying some rectangle shaped ones but can't make up my mind if gloss would be too "razzle dazzle"

The un-tiled walls will be painted white and then I'll accessorize with colour....

Thanks

oldskoo1

We decorate very similar, we are having a gloss cream kitchen with white beveled edged rectangle gloss tiles from wickes.

We had them in our old house with a white Ikea kitchen and a lovely oak top. Looked amazing.

We had and are having crown milk white walls too, as you say, add style and colour by accessorising. We did offset the clinical white look with a black tile floor, never again. Looked amazing when clean but showed up every crumb.

NVRAM

I'm currently torn between the grey Abstrakt and the Red one

Was thinking either with a strip of recatanlge tiles as splashbacks

Leif

Wall or floor tiles? If floor, matt, gloss are too slippery. IMO of course.

lobster123

Leif wrote: »

Wall or floor tiles? If floor, matt, gloss are too slippery. IMO of course.

I should have said it's white wall tiles I'm buying. The worktops will be in oak as will the floor.

Thanks everyone else for your advice

keystone

Abstrakt is a plain flat glossy door. I think that maybe having it in white with very white gloosy tiles and white walls will be too much.

White tiles and white walls would work with an offwhite door with some visual depth and physical characteristics to it like Stad or Adel IMO.

Cheers

namecheck

My recently fitted kitchen has matt white units and gloss white tiles. Personally I think gloss units AND tiles would be too much.

tesuhoha

We are having the Abstrakt yellow white kitchen. There is only a small area behind the hob and extractor chimney that needs something. We were going to have stainless steel but have changed our minds and are now going to have glass tiles, probably Lotus Blue which is a kind of almost turquoise.

lobster123

I was going for this type of look and actually thought the white tiles looked ok.

http://www.cococozy.com/2008/09/taste-for-space-saving-style-in-small.html

My kitchen is small - long, narrow and dark, hence all white! I intend to have units along 2 walls (galley style) with large prints/pictures to add some colour. DIY is not easy

namecheck

lobster123 wrote: »

I was going for this type of look and actually thought the white tiles looked ok.

http://www.cococozy.com/2008/09/taste-for-space-saving-style-in-small.html

My kitchen is small - long, narrow and dark, hence all white! I intend to have units along 2 walls (galley style) with large prints/pictures to add some colour. DIY is not easy

Yes, I do like that...so I think I have changed my mind...

And in a galley-style kitchen it is a good choice.

lobster123

namecheck wrote: »

Yes, I do like that...so I think I have changed my mind...

And in a galley-style kitchen it is a good choice.

Cheers, I haven't got such bad taste after all :D