Kitchen Appliances - White, Silver, Red?

anotheruser

Or what other colour?

Our oven/hob is currently silver, although I'm moving somewhere where it's white. To be honest, the white does look a little cheap But then the whole kitchen is really dated so I suspect that isn't helping.

However, we've just bought a new fridge freezer (one of those big American ones!) and a dishwasher in preperation for the new house, both of which are white. The website describes it as "gloss white". Our microwave is silver but we're looking to replace that soon. Plus, I couldn't really justify the extra cost for stainless steel versions. I'm also slightly put off as it's easier to scratch and shows fingerprints easier.

Our kitchen will hopefully end up in cream and an emerald green perhaps, with nice wooden style counter tops (sort of shaker style kitchen) so I thought white would look/fit much nicer than silver/stainless steel.

What colour are yours and why did you deicde that?

EssexExile

The only trouble with all white "white goods" is that every manufacturer uses a different white. Even on one appliance if some parts are metal & some are plastic, after a couple of years they will be different colours.

We have a stainless steel American f/f (unfortunately), brown oven & hob & cream dishwasher. The washing machine is white & the tumble dryer almond. Variety is the spice of life.

Why those colours? Everything was almond in 1993, only the tumble dryer & dishwasher remain but I resprayed the dishwasher. The f/f only came in stainless steel, oven & hob only came in brown or white (white's no good for cookers, the heat changes the colours too fast) & the washing machine only came in white.

Waterlily24

I love stainless steel, our kitchen is stainless steel cupboards and a black larder and oven housing but is an absolute pain to keep the stainless looking good. My fridges are in the utility room with the washing machine and tumble drier, they are all white but all different whites as EssexExile says! lol

prowla

White or silver for me - an other colours will date.

dermonte

I had silver with my old kitchen. Just got my new kitchen and bought white appliances, sold silver appliances. Silver/stainless steel scratch/ dents easily and hard to keep clean. White looks better with my wooden worktop too and no finger prints on them.

Grenage

We bought a black washing machine as nothing else in the kitchen was white - and the tiled floor is black. Our fridge is bright pink, the cupboards are wooden, the oven is black, and the microwave is silver.

The problem with maintaining a colour scheme is that when you have everything one of two/three colours, anything new that isn't a match will look out of place.

I think it's best to have a very rough colour scheme based around the floor and walls, and let the rest just change with time. Kitchens don't have to look like Ikea/Wickes catalogue examples - in fact I'd argue that they shouldn't.

bouicca21

White cupboards, white f/f, but kettle, toaster etc are black. Works well IMHO.

Davesnave

Ivory cupboards etc, as we found out that was the base colour; any other option was sprayed over it, reducing the grain on the wood and leaving the possibility of chipping/wearing back to ivory.

Ovens are non optional black glass/ss and F/F white.

It won't date much.