Can Colour Analysis Level Up Your Kitchen Design?

Thursday, 13th February 2:18pm 2025

The colour analysis trend is everywhere right now. If you haven’t seen it, the idea is simple: an influencer visits a “colour analyst” – a professional who helps individuals carry out a seasonal colour analysis – to determine their best clothing and makeup colours based on their physical features.

Why do a colour analysis? Spawning from the fashion world, finding “your colour” is said to help you accentuate your strongest features, boost confidence and look your best. But is it a pseudoscience and, if it’s legit, is even a free colour analysis worth it? Can a colour really make you look better?

Today at Masterclass Kitchens, we answer all this and more, including, “Can you apply a colour analysis to kitchens?” So, read on to understand how a colour consultation works, identify your “season,” and hear the scientific verdict on whether the right kitchen colour can improve how others perceive you.

A H-Line Amalfi Onyx and Sunset range by Neat Kitchens.

How Colour Palette Analysis Works

Research colour analysts and you’ll discover that they follow a relatively logical playbook. Search “colour analysis near me” and you’ll typically be able to conduct an online colour analysis or get an appointment in a salon or day spa.

Working in clean rooms, analysts with beauty-adjacent businesses will split a personal colour analysis into three phases:

• Assessing your skin tone, hair colour and eye colour
• Identifying which “season” represents your physical characteristics
• Recommending harmonious colours that will complement you

Often, the process will involve a “colour palette analysis” where an analyst holds up a swatch book of coloured fabrics to your face. In doing so, they will deduce whether you suit “cool” or “warm” tones, discussing their reasoning as they go. The end goal is to unearth your best overall colour palette.

Spring Colour Analysis Recommendations

Say you have medium skin with a peachy hue. Mix in blonde, strawberry blonde or light brown hair, and blue, green or light hazel eyes, and a tonal colour analysis will assign you a spring palette. In that case, you will discover that warm and bright colour analysis swatches best complement you.

A Hawksmoor Sea Salt range and a H-Line Sutton Autumn Blush range.

Coral, peach, yellow-gold and turquoise all complement someone with a spring colour palette. Take, for example, this Hawksmoor Sea Salt range or this H-Line Sutton Autumn Blush range. Both are striking but with a pastel tint. The key to a spring colour analysis is to avoid dark or muted colours.

Summer Colour Analysis Recommendations

Next up: summer characteristics. If you have light-to-medium skin with pink or blue undertones, plus ash blonde, light brown or soft grey hair, and blue, grey or hazel eyes, you’ll suit summer colours. Generally, these are muted. Think pastel pink, lavender, soft blue or rose.

An Oxwich Coastal Mist range by The Kitchen Store.

Take this Oxwich range. Not too warm or bold, its Coastal Mist doors and steel D handles perfectly contrast someone with a cool summer colour analysis result. Forget the elusive week of British summer. After a colour analysis, summer will be a year-round affair in your home!

Autumn Colour Analysis Recommendations

Darker skin with olive or golden hues will give you an autumn colour analysis result. If that sounds like you, we’re sure you’ll… ahem…  fall for our true autumn colour palette! (See what we did there.) Indeed, earthy colours work best, complementing red or auburn hair and darker brown or green eyes.

A Madoc Breakfast Dresser by R L A Design and a H-Line Hampton Olive range by Owen Williams.

Popular choices include olive, mustard and chocolate brown – all colours that reflect a walk in an autumnal park. Rustic or modern – either style is fine, as long as you adhere to a classic autumn colour analysis palette. Unlike spring and summer, this is one case where you want to avoid cool pastels.

Winter Colour Analysis Recommendations

When assigning a winter colour analysis palette to an individual, analysts often give hair colour precedence, namely, dark brown, black and silver. However, if you doubt that a cool winter colour analysis palette will suit you, check your eyes. Are they brown, blue or cool hazel? If so, it’s a certainty.

A H-Line Amalfi Onyx range by Stratton Studios.

You see, winterfolk have high-contrast features, and only an equally high-contrast kitchen will accentuate them. That means you need to focus on black and white. If you do opt for colours then bold ones work best, like navy or a striking ruby or sapphire – anything that isn’t muted.

Is Colour Analysis Scientific?

So, you now understand how to identify your “season.” While getting a colour analysis for skin tone, hair colour and eye colour might be trending, though, does science actually back up influencer claims? In reality, research is limited. Most studies lack a significant sample size of test subjects.

According to one reputable study by Japanese researchers, who used electrodes to monitor the brain activity of 18 participants, different colour combinations do ignite different parts of the brain. That said, results only indicated a weak correlation linking colour harmony and perceived pleasantness.

Ultimately, while you can take a scientific approach, the impact of personal preference overshadows that of any particular colour combination. So, you’ll be happier working with a professional kitchen designer who can help you find a kitchen that matches your preferences rather than your skin tone.

Want a Kitchen Colour Consultation?

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