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If that artist is inspired by that kitchen, then good for her, I suppose. Personally, it gave me a bit of eyestrain just looking at it once. I think it's awful.

Ditto

Geez, the first pink is like straight out of Barbies house, no thanks.
The second one is better (imho) but still not something I would go for. But I do like the ceiling curtains or (whatever they're called) on the second picture.
It looks like there's no ceiling at all above them. Is there?

Perfect use of pink and gray. I would do it instantly except I just finished doing my kitchen butter and gray.

Wouldn't do it in a kitchen. Did it years ago to living/dining room in a 1920s bungalow we owned. Used soft pink with white trim - it went well with our furniture at the time and it was very relaxing & warm. Kitchen - no. I would feel like I was in Barbie's Dream House & would only be able to serve fake food like you sometimes see in model homes.

If ever there was a "Barbie vomit pink" (See Rea's question for the origin of the phrase), the color of that first kitchen is it. Blech. In fact, it's even worse - like Barbie vomit meets bubblegum.

More pink kitchens...
http://retrorenovation.com/2008/04/05/61-mamie-pink-kitchens-some-of-the-best-for-last/

I have white walls in my living room, and I foolishly went out and bought bright red curtains, thinking that they would be a nice popping color. But when the sun shines through the curtains, it makes the walls pink, just like in the first photo. It looks ridiculous now.

Our homes' previous owner painted our 1920's cottage kitchen pink. I think she had good intentions, but it was too pink with none of the salmon tones of that decade.
She was Queen of Oops Paint of the Home Depot.

I adore them both but especially the first. The first has enough earthy tones (the masks and the wood table) to make me OK with it. (Although it looks like the appliances are pink too, unless it's just the light - I would draw the line there.) The second has enough sort of industrial appliances to not make it too frou-frou. In the kitchen I'm in, it totally would not work. In a place like the first, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

But what I like most is that blue door.

I love the top kitchen. I think it totally works because (a) this is the south of France; (b) the quality of light there is different and (c) it appears to be a "rural" kitchen with all the associated rustic charms - vintage stove, farm table, etc. Did I already say I love it?

My grandmother in the Dominican Republic had a pink kitchen so seeing these pictures brings me good memories. She liked the pink so much she painted the outside of the house the same color which is almost exactly as the ceiling in the 1st pic. She passed away many years ago and the house has been repainted many times but it's always in pink.

I would loose my appetite for good...

I'm with bkrafi. I wouldn't do a hot neon pink kitchen up here in Boston, but the blue/pink combination immediately reminded me of the Caribbean. It's really a question of context.

In my last apartment, there was pale pink wallpaper and the cabinets were painted in a color that failed to match. It was kind of crap. However. I liked having a pink kitchen in theory! I didn't like the pink kitchen I had, but when I moved, I liked to carry this idea with me and accessorize in a little pink, red, white, green. It's very happy.

The kitchen, it is mostly white. I haven't painted the walls or acquired much in the way of small pink appliances (my blender is red but everything else is neutral. I have open shelving and so towels, some mixing bowls are shades of pink, the shelf liner is cherries, and my inherited china is Apple by Franciscan (not the more popular Desert Rose) which brings in deep brick pink/reds. I use other colors besides, but I made a mistake painting the base of my swivel table blue, it's paint chipped blue on white (because I was impatient and stripping furniture is harder than they make it look!). I wish it back "original" salvage barn peeling white but I might paint it black, heaven help me, I think it will look nicer.

The pink does seem like quite a committment - maybe just one wall would do it, but i love how it looks in that picture - it looks like kitchens i've seen in Central America and i think it would be a beautiful juxtaposition in a more traditional apartment.

I love the idea!!! But I am really into 1940s and 1950s design. I would love a pink kitchen with a boomerang formica countertop, and all mid-century furnishings and accessories. Dreamy!

That top one would put a horse off it's feed.

The second photo is relatively inoffensive to me; the first is a disaster, but kudos to the resident for having strong taste.

Wow! That first kitchen is one hot mess.

it looks like pepto bismol to me.
yech.........

There was a lovely pink kitchen in one of the AT contests a couple years ago. So theoretically, I might do it, but neither of these really appeals to me.

The top one gives me a headache, though the turquoise door keeps it from being a total loss.

I think the first kitchen is gorgeous in pink, but it works because of the roughness of the walls, the aged wood table and floors, the peeling blue (?) door, and the earthy accessories. It'd be a lot harder to get away with in new American construction.

That top photo is the perfect little French kitchen. But the masks have gotta go!

My kitchen is hot pink (similar to the first photo, a bit warmer). It's a small room in a house about 100 years old, with creamy white cupboards and a dark wood table.

I painted it that colour because the kitchen was in rough shape and (since it is a rental) this definitely detracts from lumpy walls, stained floors, and outdated appliances. A light colour would have highlighted all the room's flaws and, as the room is fairly dark, something like a chocolate or charcoal colour would have made it cave-like.

The small, hot pink kitchen works in our house because the rest of the rooms are painted in neutral tones that inject small pops of colour through accessories - this is the reverse and I enjoy the contrast. I wouldn't want a livingroom that colour but I like it for a room we don't spend a ton of time in.

Pink is energizing. It's happy and inspires a good appetite. Most people who visit think it's over the top, but we love it.

I would go a little more towards fuschia, but I love the saturation, the wood, the blue door. My kitchen faces south overlooking the beach in a hot climate and the whole apartment is sort of Zanzibar, so a hot pink kitchen would be wonderful.

hahaha i love the bright pink one. i'm pretty sure my whole house would have to be awfully bold to pull this off - maybe if i had that summer home...wait, let me scrape together enough for a rest-of-the-year home first! but this is great.

I think the top one works for where it is (and because of that luscious turquoise door). And the second one is adorable and just needs some pops of brighter color (not pastels).

But then, I have been in the weirdest pink mood lately. After bitterly avoiding it in my childhood and youth, suddenly I love pink and want to swim in it.

I think the first one is hideous, but I like the second one. It wouldn't be my first choice for a kitchen color tho.

Makes me think of Pepto-Bismol.

Oops..didn't realize someone else made the same exact comment! LOL!

The kitchen in my lovely NYC ground-floor brownstone apartment was the most dismal institutional yellow-green. It's a very dark room with very old dark wood, so I painted it pink and it is PERFECT. It is a very very pale, very warm pink.

The use of the overhead light is forbidden, so the warm light cast by a great Japanese hanging lantern makes the pink even warmer.

I think this is the key to using pink in decor--warm it up!!

I like Barbie and I love pink! I definetely would do this! Young and hot!

Suzy8track and cityof paris . . . my thought exactly: Pepto Bismal Pink. HATE IT!!! That color would NEVER be allowed in my place. I'm a girl but hate pink.

I'll put in that I'm a girl and I don't have very strong emotions about pink. It appealed to me to have it in the kitchen (it was also in the bathroom fixtures, which was attached to the kitchen) in my old place, but I'm not mad for pink, I don't buy things just because they come in pink, I'm not going to have the breast cancer awareness kitchen. I don't reject pink either. It's just a pretty color like any color. I never thought I'd do gold and orange in the bathroom, but I found a shower curtain I liked that coordinated a buttery mustardy color with my mismatched towels in shades of canteloupe and pink. Came out pretty nice.