On the Aga: which colour would you choose?

 
 

     Just for fun  - and before we leave the subject of Agas for a while - what about colour?

     They currently come in six 'Traditional' colours and eight 'Signature' ones (you can play around with all of them here), but then there are special edition ones such as Emma Bridgewater's Polka Dot up at the top. Mine is British Racing Green, and I discovered the other day that Dame Agatha's Aga was a fetching dark blue - did she mull over her plots, cup of tea in hand, leaning on the rail, I wonder?

    

Comments

[Carla]

I'll take Dame Agatha's please

[Jennifer]

I think I would have to go with cream, boring I know, but when we build I think I want my kitchen to be cream and duck egg blue. You never know though...

[blackbird]

I have, actually, put quite a bit of thought into this... I love red but the claret is too dark and the signature red is too bright. I've seen the aubergine in real life and it's beautiful but... Your green is perfect in your kitchen with the tiles, space and light but if I had to choose today- it would be the classic blue. As a kitchen color, cobalt blue seems to go with everything. But, the cream is yummy too...

[sophiefair]

wedgewood blue for me please! or the signature red (the bright one).

[Elizabeth]

My neighbour lived in the UK for many years, and when they moved back to Australia they not only had a new Aga shipped out, they also had an enormous bath with a door in the side sent with it (her husband was ill and the bath was for him; I still haven't figured out how it would work though!). Her Aga is either dark blue or dark green, and I sometimes wonder whether Agas can't be purchased here; imagine how much the shipping must have cost!

[Pamela]

Personally, I love the chocolate brown. Yummy.
Whenever I've placed them in a client's kitchen however, I have gone with the cream.

[Boo]

Polka dots, definitely---or anything else FUN! I like a light, bright kitchen, and I love to have FUN!!!

[roxane stoner]

I would go for the Chocolate Brown. It looks really yummy.

[Neuroknitter]

Pink....oh, they don't make pink. Bright red it will be, but the polka dots are dang cute!! Can I have two? :)

[kristina]

It would most definitely be Duck Egg Blue for me, but it's being discontinued in December--bah. So Pistachio in the New Year! K x

[Ros]

Spotty Aga!!!! I might have to buy a house just so I can have one.

[Sian]

Didn't Pamela Mitford have the pale blue one to match her eyes?! I adore anything in British Racing Green, but Dame Agatha's looks so great I'll have to go with her (I have already named a rabbit after her, along with Daphne (Du Maurier) and Isaac (Asimov)!).

[Darlene]

I'm making myself laugh because I'm scrutinizing these colours as if the dealer was expecting my choice this morning! Love your green AGA and I'd have to say the cream would be next choice.

[P.K.]

Dame Agatha's dark blue. I have a serious liking for anything dark blue. Though the Polka Dot one is quite tempting but possibly less enduring.

[Mary McCartney]

Mine is British Racing Green but cream underneath - it's a late 1930s model, re-enamelled and reconditioned to run on oil instead of solid fuel. She's behaving very well this year after being very temperamental last year.

[Choclette]

Depending on kitchen size I'd have to go for the red as I love a splash of colour if a large kitchen, or cream if a smaller room so not so imposing. As it is I have a tiny kitchen, so no hope of ever having an aga here. Was bought up with a light blue one, so that will always hold a place in my heart.

[Karen]

Love the aqua--that's the color of my kitchen!

[Becky]

Forgive this ignorant Yank, but what exactly IS an Aga? Is it what we call "a woodstove"? Or is it something more wonderful altogether? It sounds like a grandmother, a cup of tea, sunshine, and a cat all rolled into one, but no one has ever really explained what makes "a stove in the kitchen" an Aga as such. Anyone willing to illuminate my darkness and, I sense, make me very, very envious?

[Fran]

British racing green was the colour of the first Aga I cooked on, followed by a bright red - that one moved with us three times. It certainly always made the kitchen look bright and cheerful.
But earlier this year I walked past the Aga shop in Edinburgh and saw the heavenly Wedgewood blue. I stood and stared a while, then took a photo. Yes, please that is the colour of the Aga on my wish list.

[Something's Dishy]

I like the red and the polka dots. I've seen some Agas at a culinary shop and was very interested but I lived with an oven without a glass window before and I can tell you it was very frustrating not to be able to see the cakes rise. I really prefer being able to see what I'm baking.

[Hayley]

I love the Wedgewood blue on the top row, but my other half likes navy and I would certainly settle for that. I love aga's and if I didn't live in a flat with wooden floors (load bearing issues i fear) would have moved heaven and earth to get one.

[Suzanne]

My AGA is aubergine and the AGA module is jade! It's so lovely to have an AGA in the kitchen....it seems a bit silly, but when the AGA went out last week I was sad. But now it's working again, and well, yes, I'm very happy!

[Simon T]

I'd settle for any! The cream or the dark blue, I think.