How to Select the Perfect Countertop Colour to Match Your Home’s Style

Colour matching can pose a challenge in any room, with subtle nuances that impact how colours read in different spaces. In this article, we will offer tips to help you select the perfect countertop colour to suit any home design.

Take Cues From the Cabinets to Ace Countertop Colour

Kitchen cabinets are the most prominent feature in the room. When choosing a countertop colour, you want to create harmony with your cabinets. This can be achieved in a number of ways, including the following:

• For a more dramatic look, choose complementary colours for contrast.
• For a subtle look, pick countertop colours that are heavily accented by similar colours to your cabinets.
• For a neutral look, choose quartz colours that are solid, as opposed to countertop colours with noticeable patterns like veining or speckling.
• For a unified look, consider using different colour tones and hues matched to your cabinets.

Get Inspired by Countertop Colour Trends

Kitchen colour trends offer a jumping-off point that inspires your countertop colour choices. For example, there’s a move away from the basic white kitchen in favour of warmer or character-filled colours. Earthy tones such as sage green, deep blues, and mocha-inspired browns lean into warm colours, while buttery yellows, soft hues of pink, and elegant reds add character or a more historic feel.

Quartz colours that pick up on these trends instantly update your kitchen with a fresh and fashion-forward feel. While you won’t find exact colour matches to these trends, you can add nuanced, trendy quartz colours that pick up on them.

Remember Your Flooring to Create Unity With Your Countertop Colour

Your floors and counters tend to catch the eye at the same time. Thus, it often helps to consider your flooring colours and tones to create a more unified look. By matching your horizontal colours and contrasting with your vertical ones, you can create a more restful feeling as the eyes take in the room.

When your floors and counters are too different, it can feel messy and mismatched. Pairing them, though, creates a sense of harmony for a more intentional home design scheme. While you want to avoid doing the exact same material on floors and countertops that feels too monotonous, carrying the same colour family or pattern between the two surfaces works well.

Get Inspired by Backsplash Designs for Your Countertop Colour

Backsplashes have always held a special place in designers’ hearts because they create an accent opportunity. Using backsplash designs for inspiration can help you find a countertop colour that will fall into place more organically with your home design plans.

For example, if you love the traditional look of carrara marble backsplashes, you can carry that elegant, classic feeling into your kitchen countertop colour with marble-look countertops or solid quartz colours in white or grey.

If you are going for a high-texture, high-gloss look, like Moroccan-inspired zellige tiles, warm-toned quartz colours that either contrast or blend in with the tiles work well.

Understand the Rules of Effective Contrast for Your Countertop Colour

As mentioned, countertop colour adds drama and interest when it contrasts with a prominent feature such as your cabinets or backsplash. When going for contrast, it is important to understand the rules of effective contrast to avoid creating chaos or colour clashes.

You might have noticed a pattern forming in our tips above. For instance, contrasting counters and cabinets or backsplashes and counters works, while contrasting flooring and counters does not. This is because contrast tends to work best between vertical and horizontal colours.

That said, you can also create focal points to add contrast to similar surfaces, such as a backsplash that features an interesting patterned tile above the stove to create separation. Just keep in mind that this tends to work best when the focal point doesn’t clash with your countertop colour, such as using a speckled brown-toned granite tile behind the stove paired with grey-toned veining in your countertop colours—not flattering!

Patterned vs. Solid Countertop Colour Options

Quartz colours are often associated with stone looks, veining, speckling, and other interesting patterns. However, one of the benefits of quartz countertops is that you also have solid colour options. This provides much more creativity in other surfaces and finishes in your kitchen, whether it is your cabinets, backsplash, focal points, or other design-intensive features like wallpaper.

In a kitchen with less texture and patterns, you can use your countertop colour to add more interest with veining or speckling, while in a kitchen with heavily textured finishes for your backsplash or walls, you can rely on solid quartz colours for a harmonious look.

Don’t Forget Open Concept Designs When Choosing Countertop Colours

If you have an open-concept home design, you want to add a sense of unity between your kitchen and shared living spaces. While you can certainly do this with other elements such as window treatments, flooring, and accent fabrics, your countertop colour should make sense in the overall scheme of the space. A few ways to help make the space work might include:

• Incorporating the same quartz used for your kitchen counters into your fireplace surround or hearth.
• Designing a custom quartz desktop for your office area using the same material as your counters.
• Introducing a coffee table-top in quartz to match your kitchen counters.

These little details help pull the space together while allowing the separate functions of the room to remain distinct. It creates a more welcoming space that feels calm and design-savvy by connecting the room’s elements in subtle yet effective ways.

Contact the Professionals at Quartz Co Surfaces

Kitchen countertop colours take thoughtful planning to capture the elements that appeal to your sense of aesthetics. Whether you want a modern monotone look, live for drama and high contrast, or want to achieve classic sophistication, these tips will help you select the perfect countertop colour to suit your home’s style.

Quartz Co Surfaces offers customized quartz kitchen countertops with valuable designer input to create a beautifully harmonious space. In hand with professional installation by our skilled team, you can feel confident that your kitchen will shine. 

For more information about quartz surfaces, book an in-person or virtual consultation or visit one of our showrooms near you.