Kitchen Colour Schemes For Your Next Renovation

Choosing between various kitchen colour schemes during a renovation might be something that’s preoccupying your mind. Or it could be something you haven’t yet given much thought to. Either way, whether it’s the kitchen benchtop colours or the shading of your cabinetry, there are many ways to incorporate a bit of colour to the space.

To help you find the right colour scheme for your kitchen, we’ve put together this handy guide. Remember: At the end of the day, the choice is yours. It’s your kitchen and you should be happy with its look and feel!

Kitchen Colour Scheme Options

White: clean and classy

White is a classic colour choice for a kitchen. Apart from the fact that it’s both elegant and inoffensive, white schemes don’t go out of style. If you’re a fan of minimalist and modern design, an all-white kitchen will go a long way to achieving that overall look. Plus, as a room of the house that sees a lot of traffic and business, a white colour scheme can help keep the space feeling and looking clean and spacious. Of course, there’s plenty of opportunity to infuse a bit of additional colour later on. But a white kitchen is a strong option as your initial, baseline kitchen colour scheme.

Black: bold and impressive

A black colour scheme may not come to mind when you’re considering options for your kitchen. Yet this bold colour choice can be very visually impressive. Whether you incorporate a dark kitchen benchtop only or opt for a black splashback to pop against the rest of the kitchen, the creative options are near endless.

You can even combine the two colour schemes mentioned so far. A black and white kitchen presents an aesthetically pleasing contrast and allows you to play with both foundational colours in a way that works really well.

Grey: timeless and elegant

Grey kitchen colour schemes are equally as timeless as white designs but still brings a bit of visual depth and complexity that some might feel is lacking in an all-white space. One of the key benefits of grey is that it allows you to infuse plenty of other colours as well. Grey simply pairs perfectly with almost any colour. Not to mention the fact that the sheer amount of different shades of grey gives you the versatility to find the perfect colour scheme to match the rest of your home and your preference.

Beige: calming and unique

Beige offers a lot of benefits as a kitchen colour scheme. For one thing, its lightness and brightness will evoke similar feelings of spaciousness as white. However, the tinges of colour and pinkness will go a long way to bringing your kitchen to life without being overwhelming. Like many of the colours on this list, there’s a wide spectrum of beige shading. This gives you plenty of opportunity to mix and match until you find the right style of beige that feels both calming and unique.

Brown: Earthy and warm

Brown is another, somewhat surprising, option for your kitchen. In fact, in recent years brown is becoming much more of a trendy choice for use in kitchens and homes in general. Used considerately and sparingly it can really inject a sense of comfort and warmth by evoking Earthy, natural feelings. Darker browns can complement wooden cabinetry while a lighter brown stone countertop can perfectly match a lighter kitchen as well.

Gold: bright and luxurious

If you’re after a luxurious feel for your kitchen, nothing stands out quite like a gold colour scheme. In addition to the yellow tones providing a positive emotional effect on family and friends, gold features in a kitchen can help highlight sunlight, brightness and joy. If you’re after a more regal or royal look, gold fittings, cabinetry and even wall cladding can elevate your kitchen in wonderful ways.

Green: refreshing and striking

Green kitchen colours is yet another emerging and increasingly popular trend. If you love the thought of incorporating a green-toned benchtop or green feature walls, there’s still plenty of scope to further choose your shade. From striking lime green to the refreshing look of mint green, this colour scheme can really bring on a sense of both harmony and visual flair at the same time. While we recommend choosing lighter shades of green, especially in kitchens with a lot of natural light, carefully considered applications of darker green can truly have a mesmerising effect as well.

Orange and red: Moody and captivating

It won’t surprise you at this point but both orange and red can be incorporated into your kitchen colour schemes in a variety of shades and ways. Paired with wooden countertops or even a grey island bench, both of these striking colours can really add a sense of wonder to your kitchen. We do recommend, however, taking into consideration the tones of the rest of your kitchen of course. A darker kitchen colour scheme might require a brighter orange or red tone, while a grey kitchen could look wonderful with darker feature colours of orange or red.

Blue: Stunning and limitless

Blue, whether it’s navy or baby blue, can be used quite creatively throughout the kitchen. Some of the most recent kitchen colour trends include incorporating deep navy cabinets that pop against white tiled walls and splashbacks. Alternatively, a slab of blue natural stone for your countertop with complex veining and patterns can look an absolute treat in just about any kitchen. Blue as a colour is extraordinarily versatile and there’s enough options of shading to suit any personal preference and application.

Find You Kitchen Colour Scheme With Euro Marble

Using stone in your kitchen is highly functional and fashionable thanks to its stunning visual qualities and durable nature. Many of our customers are pleasantly surprised to discover just how many colours and options of natural stone slabs there are available: Reds, blacks, blues, greens, pinks and more!
If you’re not sure which of the above kitchen colour schemes are right for you or you know what you’re looking for and want to visit our showroom to find the right slab, make sure to give our team at Euro Marble a call today!

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12 ways to add colour to your dining room

We all love the dining room! It’s where we come together to eat, socialise and spend time with the family. Finding the right balance between a colourful dining room and a sophisticated aesthetic isn’t always easy.

To help inspire you with some colour ideas for your dining room, here are 12 easy and affordable ways in which you can add some colour.

How To Add Colour to Your Dining Room

Colourful Rugs

One of the simplest ways in which you can easily infuse colour and warmth into your dining room is through a colourful rug. Of course, there’s plenty of options available, from luxurious Persian-style carpets to bold coloured rugs and everything in between. With a wide range of price points as well, there’s a colourful rug solution for just about any budget and home.

Window Furnishings

Moving away from the floors of your colourful dining room, consider how to use your window furnishings to great effect. Bold coloured drapes or curtains adorning a dining room window can add a truly elegant and appealing effect to the entire room. Plus, by moving the feature colour away from the dining table and towards the window, you can more easily balance the aesthetics of your dining room.

Accessorise

Using accessories allows you to infuse many different colour ideas for your dining room. Whether you opt for a bold yellow lamp or choose faux indoor plants to add a bit of greenery, there’s a lot of room for personal creativity and the perfect balance of boldness and subtlety. Another benefit of accessorising is that you can change it up as you see fit without having to commit to any one colour scheme or design style for your dining room indefinitely.

Greenery

While we’re on the topic… If fake plants aren’t quite your style you can go for the real deal. Indoor pot plants and other greenery–including flowers, though expensive to maintain–can add a sense of vibrant life when delicately adorned in a dining room. It can be hard to balance a colourful dining room without overdoing it, and natural greenery is one of the best options for striking that elusive balance.

Tableware

A dining room table needs tableware, and your utensils, plates, bowls and serving dishes provide the perfect opportunity to inject a bit of pop and colour. How bright and bold you go is really up to you. At the end of the day, there’s enough variety of tableware and utensils on the market that you can mix and match until your heart’s (and eye’s) content!

Artwork

The walls of your home offer a lot of potential for colour ideas for a dining room. Artwork is so vast in its style, colour and aesthetic that you can find the right piece of art that suits your chosen design. A classy displayed piece of art can add depth and sophistication to just about any dining area and will often not just introduce a bit of colour, but can also act as a central topic of conversation with dinner guests.

Ignored Spaces

Many homeowners don’t realise the opportunity the forgotten or ignored spaces in their dining room offers. It might be recessed bookshelves that can be adorned with brightly-spined books or feature a painted backdrop, a corner of the room that can house a colourful sofa, or even spaces that can sport throw pillows or a similar accessory to add a bit of colour to the space.

Statement Lighting

The lighting in your dining room serves such a practical purpose one can often forget the many opportunities available for infusing colour. Statement lighting, whether it’s an ornate chandelier or a bold blue or green pendant light, can make a huge impact thanks to its central placement without becoming too distracting.

Colourful Furniture

Among some of our favourite colour ideas for dining rooms are colourful furniture. By incorporating either colourful chairs that pop and make a bold statement, or a colourful table (and, yes, natural stone table tops do come in a variety of colours as well!) you can create a magnificent aesthetic for your family, friends and visitors to enjoy.

Differently Coloured Chairs

If you’re looking for something a little more bold and unique, you can even consider choosing different coloured fabric chairs. Having an array of colours around your table will help to make everything come alive and feel very vibrant. It also allows for you to play around with how you arrange each chair based on the various other colours and accessories in the room.

Feature Walls

Feature walls are excellent for introducing style and colour into any room, but make for a particularly effective dining room colour combination. By limiting the splash of bold colour to one wall, you won’t have to worry about your colour choice being overbearing or drowning the rest of your design. There’s a ton of options, from paint colours and wallpaper to marble wall cladding, all of which will help turn your dining room colourful.

Stone Slab Table

A dining room table offers more than just a surface on which to place food and utensils. With a natural stone slab table, you can enjoy a lot more than just a hard-wearing and durable tabletop. Stone, especially when incorporated as a single slab, makes for a breathtaking addition to any home and will serve as a central feature in your dining room. Whether you opt for granite, marble or any of the other types available, there’s a surprising range of colours, shades and patterns on offer. Practical, stylish and economically efficient, natural stone tables offer plenty of benefits for the colourful dining room.

Need some assistance? We’re a phone call away!

If you’re struggling to get the right dining room colour combination or just want some more ideas about how to work in colours to your home, give the Euro Marble team a call. We love helping our customers and the wider community to achieve the home design of their dreams. If you’d like assistance, contact us today.

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Stylish outdoor dining area ideas to inspire you

Do you love making the most of Australia’s beautiful weather and dining outdoors? There are many ways in which you can transform your outdoor dining area into something both functional and fashionable.

With so many options out there, we’d thought we’d put together a handy list of outdoor alfresco ideas to help inspire you.

1. Rustic Look

As far as outdoor alfresco ideas go, the rustic look is among the most popular. Providing the perfect backdrop for most backyards and outdoor areas, a rustic design still offers plenty of customisability. From wooden slab tables and benches, to incorporating natural stone, there’s an outdoor dining rustic look for everyone.

2. Create a Corner Terrace

A corner terrace offers great aesthetics and practicality as an outdoor dining setting. Perfect for hosting a range of meals, you can enjoy all the benefits of outdoor dining while enjoying the protective nature of a corner terrace. There’s plenty of opportunity for customising your terrace as well with red brick walls for a rustic feel or marble stone for a more luxurious look.

3. Simplistic, Elegant Benches

If you want to really enjoy outdoor dining amongst a beautiful garden or leafy backyard, opt for a simple wooden table with a few matching chairs or even a bench. This intimate setting can be perfect for a romantic evening and also for hosting friends and acquaintances, making the most of outdoor entertaining. Plus, it’s affordable and completely construction/renovation free!

4. Window Kitchen Bar

This outdoor entertaining idea is dependent upon the structure and layout of your house, but is certainly stylish, efficient and practical! Installing a window in the wall that opens your kitchen out to the entertaining patio or pergola allows for easy access for outdoor entertaining. By putting a kitchen bar there as well, you’ll even find serving and hosting to be that much more efficient.

5. White Aesthetic

Many outdoor alfresco ideas lean into the natural aesthetic of a rustic design, but if you’re wanting a style that pops without being visually overwhelming, consider incorporating a white aesthetic. Beautiful, elegant and modern, this minimalist design can be incorporated in everything from white stone walls, to white painted wooden tables, and even a light toned floor.

6. Seaside Aesthetic

Another delightful idea for your outdoor dining setting is to opt for a coastal or seaside aesthetic. With light blue-toned tables, chairs or even benches and pillows, you can infuse a relaxing and comforting feel to your outdoor area. There’s plenty of opportunity for creative customisability as well with options to incorporate shell and other ocean accessories and ornaments to really engage the aesthetic.

7. Barbeque Centred

If you like nothing more than firing up the barbeque, consider centering your outdoor dining area around the barbeque itself. Of course, if you have an in-built grill complete with an outdoor kitchen, sink, and mini-fridge you’ll find this easier. Nonetheless, even stand-alone barbeques offer excellent central points around which to incorporate benches, tables, chairs and even outdoor furniture like couches.

8. Seamless Integration

With bi-fold doors and similar options becoming more and more affordable, it’s easier to incorporate a seamless outdoor entertaining area with the rest of your home. There’s something wonderful about having the ability to simply extend your indoor dining room into an integrated outdoor dining setting. Whether you opt to put up clear glass walls around the outdoor alfresco or leave it open to the elements is up to you. Either way it’s immensely practical and looks a treat too.

9. Green Alfresco

As far as outdoor alfresco ideas go, this one is among the most ‘outdoorsy’. Whether you’re a fan of hibiscus, ivy or even grape vines, incorporating live greenery up the walls and along the beams of your alfresco is an excellent and stylish way of truly incorporating the outdoors in your dining area.

10. Lighting

While most of our outdoor entertaining area ideas so far have focused on where you’re sitting and what’s surrounding you, it’s important to think beyond that as well. For enjoyable outdoor dining, you’ll need some form of adequate lighting. With minimal cost and effort, outdoor string lighting can be arrayed in all sorts of patterns to highlight the feature outdoor dining table or to focus on the surrounding plants and gardens. Just because it’s practical and necessary doesn’t mean you can’t make something really visually arresting.

11. Cosy Benches

If you’re not planning on hosting large or more formal outdoor gatherings, a nice cosy dining corner can be very appealing. Complete with a foam cushioned bench and wooden, stone or cement table, your corner dining area can be the perfect place for the family, an intimate dinner for couples or even for a party with a few close friends.

12. Wicker Furniture

If you’re not quite sure what sort of furniture to add to your outdoor dining setting, perhaps you should consider wicker. Wicker furniture comes in a range of styles and colours so whether you’re going for the classic, rustic look or a modern, minimalist aesthetic there are plenty of practical and beautiful options for you and just about any outdoor setting.

13. Wrought Iron

If neither rustic nor modern is your style, you might want to consider something equally classy yet bold and unique. Wrought iron metal chairs and tables ooze style and hospitality. While most wrought iron outdoor furniture is white–for that classic garden picnic look–there’s still scope for darker options as well. Incorporated into a garden or surrounded by pot plants and greenery, wrought iron dining areas are functional and visually inviting.

14. Garden Table

We’ve saved the most striking for last. This unique and one-of-a-kind outdoor dining table incorporates greenery, plants and flowers to jaw-dropping effect. By installing a cement or stone bench table with an inbuilt water trough and plant beds complete with soil, plants and flowers, you can take your outdoor dining experience to a whole new level! It’s an effective way to make a fantastic impression on family, friends and guests.

Need more ideas? Contact Euro Marble today!

Whether one of the above outdoor entertaining area ideas have inspired you or you’re looking for something a bit different, the friendly team right here at Euro Marble can help. We love all things home design, outdoor dining settings and–of course–marble and stone. Contact us today to find out more.

New stone slabs have landed at EuroMarble!

Euro Marble is committed to being the premier supplier of natural stone for our customers. Part of that commitment is ensuring that our range of stone offers new and exciting products quarried from the highest quality of sites worldwide.

To help you identify what’s new and fresh in our showroom collection, we’ve listed some of the most recent products from Costa right here.

Macaubas White

Macaubas White–sometimes written as Macubas White–hails from Brazil and offers an untainted and utterly stunning aesthetic for use in your home. The snowy white tone ensures a lightness in any room it’s applied while the subtle shading ensures an aesthetic depth that simply cannot be replicated.

This quartzite stone is highly durable to both pressure and temperature which is why it’s commonly used throughout bathrooms and kitchens. Not to mention the fact that when heated, its internal crystalline structure begins to shimmer, bringing the surface of the Macaubas White to life. For this reason, a polished finish is recommended.

While minimalist and low key in its colour palette, Macaubas makes for a versatile addition and balances the benefits of minimalist design with fabulous luxury of high quality and exclusive natural stone.

Tundra Grey Limestone

We’re over the moon to welcome a range of Tundra Grey Limestone to our showroom floor. Quarried, as its name suggests, from the Tundra, this grey limestone is known for its evocative cloud like patterns and cool yet sophisticated grey shading.

Being a natural stone, no two slabs of Tundra Grey Limestone are exactly the same. Nonetheless, thanks to its aesthetic style there is plenty of conformity and consistency from slab to slab, making large scale applications in your home (such as the floor or wall cladding) easier to match perfectly. The lightness of this grey stone wonderfully balances the right level of visual depth with a minimalist feel, so you can enjoy both its elegance and aesthetics.

On a practical note, the high density of limestone, Tundra in particular, means that you can incorporate it wherever you want in your home, including the bathroom or kitchen. Its hardy nature–whether polished, brushed, honed or sandblasted–will ensure it retains its beauty for many years to come.

New York

New York marble, also known as lilac marble, is another new and fantastic addition to our showroom here at Euro Marble. Despite its name, New York doesn’t hail from the City That Never Sleeps. Instead, this rare marble is quarried from Turkey and shipped directly to us.

This exquisite stone features the iconic white shading of marble complete with an eye-catching pattern of dark purple veining that really brings the slab to life. Thanks to this fine balance of aesthetic depth and yet subtle colouring, New York is perfect for application throughout the interior of your home.

Popular for more than just its luxurious design, New York marble is relatively rare and for that reason makes for a wonderful addition in any home. To bring this intense and yet refined marble to life, we recommend a polished finish.

Azul Macaubas

Azul Macaubas is a truly stunning quartzite found in the mines of Brazil. Sometimes spelled as Azul Macubas, this blue stone evokes the liberating feeling of both sea and sky thanks to its unique colouring and flowing white wave-like patterns.

Being both exotic in nature and rare in the market, Azul Macaubas has only become more and more popular over time. The blue colouring does vary from slab to slab with options of deep, rich blue available as well as more subtle light blue mixed in with a more classic white grey.

Thanks to the unique feature of Azul Macaubas being both visually arresting while also suitably subtle, it’s a popular stone for use in both domestic and commercial applications. Without overwhelming the senses or overshadowing other decor, this quartzite can infuse a splash of colour in a refined, prestigious way. Azul Macaubas is available with a polished or honed finish.

View our new products for yourself!

There’s nothing quite like seeing our range of brand new marble and quartzite stones for yourself. Our showroom is located at 11 Rich Street, Marrickville, and our friendly team of marble experts would love nothing more than to introduce you to our brand new Costa products. There truly is a natural stone for everyone and no matter what sort of colour, style and pattern you’re after, we’ll find a truly exquisite option just for you.

New products have just landed!

When it comes to our showroom’s selection of gorgeous natural stone and marble, the options are never set in stone! With new products quarried from exotic locations around the world arriving regularly, there’s plenty of fresh, new products for all customers of Euro Marble to enjoy.

Let’s take a look at some of our newest stones and products fresh off the ship from Costa!

Blue Roma Quartzite

The stunning and opulent-looking Blue Roma Quartz is quarried from the mines of Brazil. The elegantly balanced blue shading mixed with iconic gold and brown veined textures evokes both luxury and the beauty of our natural world.

If you’re looking for a hardy yet eye-popping stone to use on your walls, floors or staircases, Blue Roma Quartz might be just for you. This hardy stone is more than up to the task and can even be used in high traffic areas and applications, such as kitchen benchtops or bathroom vanities.

The calming aesthetic of this blue quartzite makes it highly suitable for domestic and commercial applications, especially throughout the hospitality industry. The splash of subtle colour ensures that any room you use it in will come alive without being too overwhelming.

Calcite Caraibica Blue

Our range of Calcite Caraibica Blue stone has just arrived and with it comes the unique opportunity for our customers to incorporate this one-of-a-kind natural material into their home.

The Calcite Caraibica’s iconic crystal aesthetic is most commonly translucent or even clear, but with each slab being unique and different, it’s not uncommon for the calcite to feature indications of blue or green veining. This unique chemical composition allows the calcite to both add a lightness and airiness to any room it’s incorporated in whilst still evoking memories of the sky, ocean or forest.

The nature of Calcite Caraibica Blue’s crystalline make-up means that there’s a wide range of aesthetics when you’re comparing one slab to another. This ensures our customers have plenty of options to find not just the exact style and colour they’re looking for, but to truly own an exclusive slab not replicated anywhere else in the world.

This stunning stone can be used in a wide variety of applications throughout the home, especially in kitchen benchtops and bathroom vanities where the blue-undertones will make for a warm yet light addition.

Concordia

The entire team at Euro Marble is excited to be welcoming the iconic Concordia marble to our collection. Also known formally as Cote D’Azure, Concordia even has many ‘nicknames’ that are indicative of its unique aesthetic. From “iceberg marble” to “invisible grey marble”, there are few stones that can match Concordia for its blend of luxuriousness and visual drama.

While the stone itself is rather neutral in colour–think cream and beige–making it perfect for understated application throughout the home, it’s veined with darker grey patterns and shading that bring the entire surface of the slab to life. There is still plenty of variation in the patterns and exact shading, so you can find the perfect balance of colours to suit your aesthetic.

Thanks to its properties as a highly versatile and highly durable marble stone, Concordia is particularly well suited for kitchen benchtops, floors exposed to lots of foot traffic, staircases and even vanities. Of course, like most marble, this beautiful stone can come in both polished or honed finishes depending on your personal preference.

Cosmopolitan Quartzite

There’s simply no walking past the truly gorgeous Cosmopolitan Quartzite. This unique natural stone is also quarried in Brazil and shipped all around the world so people everywhere can enjoy the rich red wine aesthetic. The rather striking shading of the Cosmopolitan Quartzite is complemented by the complex, arresting veining that adds a sense of depth and sophistication to the stone itself.

While known for its red shading, the tones do vary. From white and grey to black and brown, there’s plenty of variety to choose from amongst our newest selection. Plus, there are even slabs that feature higher translucency so wherever you decide to incorporate Cosmopolitan in your home, you can be guaranteed a light and yet visually awe-striking effect.

Being quartzite this stone is extraordinarily tough and hardy, so it can be used in a whole range of applications throughout the home. Many of our customers choose to incorporate it outside as well whether it’s the garden or window sills.

Cristallo Rosa

The exotic Cristallo Rosa is yet another recent addition to our showroom that hails from the quarries of Brazil. This quartzite boasts an illustrious and long history of use in construction projects of all kinds thanks to its perfect blend of visual beauty and practical hardiness.

Known for its white and semi-translucent shading, Cristallo Rosa slabs come with glittering flecks of crystals, delicate flourishes of veining and engaging pale pink patterns. This wonderful balance of sophistication and luxurious simplicity gives you the opportunity to incorporate Cristallo in just about any home or setting of your house. We highly recommend considering it for the kitchen or bathroom, both areas where you’ll want to use a light colour to help increase the amount of perceived space.

Check out our new products in our showroom today!

We absolutely love talking about all things stone, marble and quartzite, and we’re beyond excited to share our new Costa products with our customers. But if you want to experience the natural stone at its best and get a real, tangible feel for just how beautiful these stones are, make sure to come on in and visit our showroom at 11 Rich Street, Marrickville.