How to Choose the Best Pantry Paint Colour
The pantry is one of the most functional parts of the home, but it still offers many opportunities to create a beautiful space with personality.
Introducing colour into your pantry can transform the look and feel of the space, creating a characterful interior that brings you joy each day. You could add a lively pop of colour to your cabinets, or drench every surface in a cosy, comforting hue that exudes warmth.
Discover our tips and ideas for choosing the perfect pantry paint colour to create a scheme that complements your personal style.
9 Pantry Colour Ideas for your Home
Whether you’re seeking a bold colour pairing or a simple neutral for your pantry walls, explore our selection of pantry colour ideas. Discover much-loved contemporary shades to bring personality to your scheme, along with beautiful, timeless greens that bring nature indoors.
Light Teal
In functional spaces like pantries, consider using colour to instil a sense of calm and tranquillity as you use the room each day. One of the simplest ways to bring a calming atmosphere to an interior is by selecting shades that evoke nature.
Soothing, light teals like our Aquamarine family are perfect. They remind us of the feeling of peace and wellbeing we gain when we spend time in the natural world. Introduce two or more shades from this family on your walls, woodwork and ceiling to create a beautiful, tonal scheme that feels effortlessly soothing.
Golden Yellow
Yellow is a wonderful colour choice for all kinds of interior settings. In your pantry, shades of yellow will introduce a feeling of joy, warmth and optimism to put you in a positive mood.
Consider using a mellow, honey-toned yellow like Bombolone to bring a comforting, reassuring mood to the space. This inviting soft gold works wonderfully in colour drenching schemes, embraced on walls, woodwork and cabinetry to create encompassing warmth.
Green & Brown
Consider using a beautiful, contrasting colour combination to bring personality to your pantry scheme. A green and brown pairing offers a real sense of familiarity, as it recalls the colours we see in the natural world.
Team our bright, summery green, Garden, with a deep brown like Scullery to give your pantry a rustic feel. This earthy combination is the perfect accompaniment to natural finishes like bare wood furniture and traditional stone floors.
Pink & Black
For a more contemporary combination, use pink and black together in your pantry scheme. This is a smart and elegant pairing that delivers a balance of sweetness and impact for an elevated look.
Choose an inviting, playful pink like Confetti for your pantry walls. Then introduce the warm black, Lamp Black, on cabinetry and trim to create contrast, providing depth and dimension. Pink and black works particularly well in modern or industrial spaces to enhance their contemporary style.
Classic Green
Green is a classic colour that creates schemes with enduring beauty and charm. Due to their neutral undertones and association with nature, shades of green feel comfortable in most spaces, including kitchens and pantries.
Your pantry is a fabulous place to create an energising, uplifting environment by incorporating some of our boldest greens, Hopper and Garden. Paint your cabinetry and woodwork in these strong, confident hues, then enliven your pantry walls with our Spring Flowers wallpaper in the Garden colourway.
Red Brown
Our sumptuous red brown, Muscovado, is a fabulous choice for those seeking to make a real design statement in their pantry. A deep, warm hue, it brings enticing richness to woodwork, providing a wonderful colour to create a cosy, intimate and sophisticated scheme.
Our most-loved off-white, Slaked Lime, is a beautiful, neutral wall colour to pair with Muscovado. By keeping the rest of the scheme pared-back and neutral, your eyes will be drawn to the striking, dark red focal point.
Botanical Wallpaper
Small, functional parts of the home are often some of the best spaces to be a little more playful with your design choices. The light-hearted designs in our ‘Storybook Papers’ collection will work fantastically in a pantry scheme.
Consider using our vibrant tree print, Rodney Street – Sage & Onions, to inject an element of fun, liveliness and creativity into your pantry. Bursting with childlike imagination, this characterful wallpaper teams well with a deep brown like Elysian Ground on cabinets to ground the scheme.
Warm Neutral
If you prefer neutral interiors, you can certainly opt for a neutral palette in your pantry. Rather than the palest whites, consider selecting a shade with a little more depth and warmth to bring a touch of comfort to the space.
Bath Stone is a historic, natural hue that originates in the Victorian period, used to paint many house exteriors. In a pantry, it will provide an elegant warm backdrop to china ceramics, wood finishes and greenery. Pair with our gentle warm white, Flint, on the surrounding walls to create a harmonious contrast.
Chocolate Brown
For a scheme with more impact, a rich, deep chocolate brown is an excellent choice. Purple Brown is another authentic Victorian shade, with a completely natural makeup, based on burnt sienna.
Embrace Purple Brown on your walls, woodwork, cabinetry and even furniture to deliver a cocooning, all-encompassed feel. With sumptuous depth, this natural dark brown nonetheless feels timeless, reassuring and calming, perfect for a bold pantry scheme with longevity.
Explore pantry paint colours for your upcoming project from our palette. If you’re seeking guidance to help you plan your scheme, our Greenwich Showroom provides a Colour Consultancy Service, with video, in-store and at-home appointments.
