It looks like you don't have much wall and I would suggest raiding the bargain bins at various tiling shops and getting a collection of blue tiles or various shapes (as long as they are the same thickness). Then make a random pattern of them on the wall between cupboards and paint any other bits of wall a toning blue. Cheap, but fun to do.
I'm not that keen on high-contrast random, but that could work. Currently my dad and I are trying to work how I can possibly try to afford these tiles that are £35 each by just doing a small area then doing cheapo for the rest.
I think if you were doing blue, an aqua blue would be the right one to balance with all that wood. But a deep plummy purple would be slightly more unexpected and tone really nicely (and clash in a great way with your blinds!!). You could do a subtle Indian-esque purple, gold and turquoise as a minor accent thing. Which would go very well with those tiles if they're the ones I'm thinking of!
ETA: And of course, the mirror ball expects high glam.
Well, we thought the peacock was a little bright although it's more flexible in terms of wall colour choice(that Shanghai one was more tasteful in real life as well). The Flamed Gold is still the favourite, I'm thinking that I could buy four or five of them for the hob area then have cheap black matt titles everywhere else. No one will see them behind the junk anyway and it could still be under £200 for the lot.
Oh, the nebula idea is wonderful! Is there perhaps a wallcovering that'd do it for you?
We redid our kitchen last year; the Spouse fell in love with a hunk of granite because it reminded him of a golden nebula, so we went with it. The nebula is wonderful. I feel like I'm cooking in the stars. Consequently, I'm hoping you can create a nebula, too. ::hug::
Yes! I was looking at this one here. It's not entirely off the table, but it'll probably work out a bit expensive for something that you won't be able to see much of. I still love the idea though.
I'm glad there is someone else out that that doesn't think this idea is totally mad! Your nebula sounds lovely, I was also thinking early on of having some sort of nice rock (slate though).
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I think if you were doing blue, an aqua blue would be the right one to balance with all that wood. But a deep plummy purple would be slightly more unexpected and tone really nicely (and clash in a great way with your blinds!!). You could do a subtle Indian-esque purple, gold and turquoise as a minor accent thing. Which would go very well with those tiles if they're the ones I'm thinking of!
ETA: And of course, the mirror ball expects high glam.
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I still don't know about the walls though.
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We redid our kitchen last year; the Spouse fell in love with a hunk of granite because it reminded him of a golden nebula, so we went with it. The nebula is wonderful. I feel like I'm cooking in the stars. Consequently, I'm hoping you can create a nebula, too. ::hug::
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I'm glad there is someone else out that that doesn't think this idea is totally mad! Your nebula sounds lovely, I was also thinking early on of having some sort of nice rock (slate though).
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and I love the idea of pairing it with a rough rock, like slate.
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