I was in someone’s kitchen last week and we had a conversation that I think is relevant to this discussion. It led me to believe that the all white kitchen isn’t going away anytime soon.

The people I was visiting are not fad chasers and they just redid their kitchen in this same dominantly white style. Their reason was that the kitchen they replaced was the standard dark wood kitchen cabinets, a darker granite, and darker floors. They commented about just being so glad to be in a light and airy kitchen after more than twenty years of that heavy and oppressive kitchen (their words).

I looked around on Zillow at the overwhelming number of dark kitchens and I can’t help but think that this fad is so popular in reaction to how popular the deep dark kitchen cabinets were. While designers might be getting tired of the all white look, dark kitchens still likely outnumber them by at least ten to one and I stongly suspect we are not nearly finished with people wanting exactly the opposite of what they have.