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Looking at Kitchen Colors You Can Use for Your Own Kitchen

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Get Your Kitchen Color On - With a Little Help from Ben
Kitchen Paint Color Pictures Benjamin Moore
I spend a lot of time looking at kitchen color issues, and one of the best tools out there is from Benjamin Moore. It's their Personal Color Viewer, which lets you see how a kitchen will look with certain paint colors.

Ho hum, you say. Been there, done that.

Fine by us, but we've run this tool through someone who deals with kitchen colors day in and day out. And here are a few kitchen colors you can use for your own kitchen.

Since all come from Benjamin Moore, go ahead and print out the page and take it into the store. As the saying goes, Benjamin Moore is available at "all finer stores." Which isn't too far from the truth. You will find Benjamin Moore paints mainly at Benjamin Moore stores or at specialty paint stores, rather than big-box home improvement warehouses. That's one interesting note about Benjamin Moore, and they even explain on their site that are committed to selling "exclusively through our network of independent storeowners."

Not to worry, there are over 4,000 of these stores out there.

What's This Kitchen Color?

Yellow has got to be the most popular kitchen color around, so it's only appropriate that we begin here. The Yellow Brick Road wall color is tempered greatly by the color wash finish. Trim of Halifax Cream sets off well with the strong wall colors. And the decidedly dark Cloudy Sky ceiling is a great counterpoint to all of that yellow.

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