Coincidentally, I just minutes ago saw a blue and a green cabinet shelf pairing, with matching tableware on LivingEtc. I have to paint or paper some cabinets this week and think I'll go with paper.

I think this would be improved if the contents of the colored shelves were also colorful or sculptural or interesting. Maybe taking the color bands to the floor would anchor it and distribute the visual weight.

I quite like this. If you have this sort of old-fashioned kitchen, why not have a little fun with it? The colors go well together and the checkerboard floor does all the anchoring. It's a little 80s, but in a pleasing way.

It seems to shout, "look up here", but there is not anything to command your attention to the back drop. Maybe they had a great cookie jar collection or something, that has been removed for selling the house. Now I gotta go fix my own cabinets.

absolutely hideous... sorry.

I want to know what the floor is, tile?

I second the "hideous"! I see they are trying to blend the red counters, but blech! I hate the bright shades they used.

I agree with kate(NC), but think it would be improved with white contents instead of something else.

It's not my style at all, but it's certainly interesting, visually... makes me think of Venice Italy, Carnival, and Harlequins.

Uggghh! The colors aren't really even bold, they're 'muddy'.

This is a small kitchen, and if they devoted all their shelf space to decorative tchotchkes, I suspect they'd be unable to store kitchen equipment. It's not everyone's taste, but not everyone is happy in homes that are.

Well, that's one way to keep buyers from noticing a 1970's Harvest Gold range hood and Bright Red laminate countertops...

Sorry, but this looks like a 'before'. The shelf colors, the range hood, the floor, the cabinets, the counter tops - I find every single one of them really ugly.

I think it's too busy. I like the red painted the same color as the countertop, and then I would have picked just the yellow to go in the cabinets. That would look fantastic against all white ceramic ware.

Color me not a fan. To my mind, you need some consistency in color to pull everything together. Random stripes just look busy and childish -- like a grownup's playhouse.

Also, that particular shade of red is very McDonald's.

I just wish they had wallpapered the back of the shelves in something... less primary.

OUT-DATED.

My parents did bold primary colors with this exact floor in the early 90s. It was cool then. Kinda like a diner. Several years ago they updated it to deep gorgeous wood cabinets with matching built-in fridge, redid the floor, painted the walls a soft color. Because you know, it was no longer the 90s...

Where can I get that flooring? Anyone? I'm looking for inexpensive but classic flooring solutions for a kitchen.

I feel like I want some Skittles;)

Sorry. I love colour, but to me this looks god awful. I would like it more if there was no white at all! If the white cabinets, dorr, walls, etc were all blue, for example, I think it'd look better.

I'm sorry, but this is really ugly. The colors remind of me elementary school art class paint, and it's really impractical - no one wants to see all their old pots lined up on shelves without doors.

@ ch8r: u can usually find peel & stick floor tiles in 1 ft. squares in black & white @ hardware/flooring stores pretty cheap. i did my 12x12 kitchen 9 yrs ago for like $60... WAY better than the hideous beige-pink linoleum that i covered up & super fast & easy to do...

I must agree with several here and stay his isn't very practical or appealing. It's just plain ugly; also it doesn't flow very well with the dining room.

I must agree with several here and say this isn't very practical or appealing. It's just plain ugly; also it doesn't flow very well with the dining room.

I actually quite like this. When what you've got to work with is basically dingy, this is a great distraction. I think it would have been great in my last place, which had crappy cabinets, crappy appliances, crappy everything. I wouldn't have done the colors quite that way though--perhaps red on bottom as they've done, to match the counter, then red-orange, orange, and yellow on top?

I like the floors and cabinets for my own taste. Checkerboard and white is classic.

If I had been afflicted with red countertops, I think the red walls are a good solution. I would have gone just one colour in the open shelves though, probably a '40s jadeite green or a vintage aqua. Then white ceramicware.

But I'd be saving up for cabinet doors, because I hate open shelves. I still think its a reasonably good way to use existent surfaces.

sorry, but no. in theory, one could paint all of the shelves bright white, and paper the very back of them with some au courant wallpaper. but even then: probably not.

LOVE it!

i almost like it. but i have to call bs that there's NOTHING on their counters. nothing? yeah right!