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Green/blue/grey cabinets? Would you do it again?

8 years ago

I made my first post here a few days ago. It's long overdue but I am finally getting a kitchen reno, new cabinets, flooring etc. Though the flooring and counters are still to be decided, I had thought I had the cabinet colour set at least ... that is up until today.

I've been waiting for this reno for a few years, and in my mind my cabinets were always an antique white in my dream kitchen. I never even thought about it until one evening a few weeks ago when I found myself being lured into something ... a little different. Also, I guess I realized I was completely tired with seeing/hearing
about white cabinets, granite counters and stainless steel appliances in
every kitchen re-do. I started to think about something with a bit of colour. Not gray, a green ... an airy, fresh colour. I think I found it in BM Soft Fern. I live in an older farmhouse, and the cabinet style is inset, with a copper apron-front sink, so I thought a soft sage-y colour would suit.

Now I'm not so sure. Maybe there's a good reason these are so popular. I have been poring over this forum for the last few nights, and there are some beautiful white and off-white cabinets. It's making me re-consider my decision to go with a soft green. Is it limiting? I'm concerned l may tire of it sooner than something more neutral.

I'd really like to hear from you if you've gone with a colour instead of white/off white or a stain/wood grain. Would you do it again?

Comments (62)

  • 8 years ago

    We did Farrow and Ball French Gray for all of our kitchen cabinets. In our particular room the color always reads soft green. I've seen it go gray in other locations. I LOVE the color and never get tired or it. The counters and backsplash are a quartz cararra look-alike, and the floors are a warm brown hardwood. Ovens and cook top are stainless, all other appliances are paneled to look like cabinets. Hardware in antique brass.


    I think you have to consider how the kitchen fits with the rest of the house, and how you feel about color in general. In our house you can only see the kitchen from the family room, and a peak of it from a back hall. If I could see it from everywhere I might not like colored cabs as much. Right now it's like a little surprise when I enter the room, and It always make me smile when I walk in. But it might be hard to decorate other rooms if I had to consider a colorful kitchen that I could see from everywhere.

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  • 8 years ago

    Lighting is the tricky part. Mine is a long rectangle with east and west windows (opposite each other on the short end) so all of the 8 colour swaths Ive done look different on either end. Sigh.

  • 8 years ago

    Ill add that I second the warning about samples. Green is HARD to get right, especially if you are going for a soft gray/sage/moss feeling. Sample in the brightest part of the room, and the darkest, and against the floor/counters etc. Our kitchen has a wall of wrap around windows so the lighting is pretty consistent, but it can look like a totally different room on a rainy day versus a sunny day.

    Check the samples in the morning, afternoon and after the sun goes down. Check them on a sunny day and a rainy day. And make sure you try your favorites on a big (like 2ftx2ft) board that is a true white underneath. Better yet get door samples from the cab maker of your top two or three choices. The expense and hassle of samples is MUCH smaller than repainting all your cabs, or living with something you don't love.

    Finally, ask your cab maker about the paint he uses, and get a sample of his final formula. Ours would only use certain paints, and had a special cabinet paint made. When he color matched one of our master bath paint samples it was not what we wanted. Luckily I saw the sample and his paint supplier reworked it until it was correct. I would have been very upset if I hadn't caught it and the cabs were all slightly off from my color pick.

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  • 8 years ago
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    • I am also drawn to kitchens in those soft blue/green/sage shades. I went with creamy white cabinets primarily for cohesiveness in my open floor plan. Colored cabinets would have driven the wall color and furnishings on the whole main floor and that's something I think I might have regretted over time. When we remodeled we knew (barring any disaster) that we would not be changing out our cabinets again.
    • If you have a floor plan where your cabinet color won't dictate all your other rooms, I say go for it. My3Dogs did a refresh last year where she used soft green on cabs and it turned out beautifully. Hers is not at all what I consider a trend driven shade.
    • If you've considered mixing cabinet colors, as crl_ did above, you may also take a look at nhbaskets' reveal. She has a distinctive soft blue island but used white perimeter cabs. Looks fresh, but not trendy or something one would tire of living with.
    • ETA. I don't know why my post contains those dots before the paragraphs! I will figure it out, but it wasn't done deliberately.
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  • 8 years ago
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    At the opposite end of the subtlety scale I first ran across this cheerful little kitchen years ago when looking for a VRBO and I still love the colors:

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  • 8 years ago
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    I love CRL's blue cabinets and don't think they'd become tiresome to look at as time goes on.

    I'm not a green person, but -- if I were -- I'd go for Writer'sBlock's green kitchen; I don't think that picture is about the green cabinets so much as the lovely combination of items that together add up to more than the individual components.

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  • 8 years ago

    I think it would be fine as an accent (for an island, for example), but not the whole kitchen. And only if you love the color. And only if a professional designer picked out the shade. (I always pick colors that are too saturated.)


    When I think of green cabinets, I think of the kitchen in the TV show Parenthood. I liked it at first, but week after week of seeing it made me tire of it.


    I have blues and greens on my walls. I also had yellow, but got tired of it so that got switched to neutral. The green in the bedrooms I think I could live with forever. It is bm guilford green and reads as yellow sometimes and blue sometimes. Those rooms are darker and I don't spend much time looking at the walls in there. The blues (except in the bathroom) will probably get switched out for neutral.


    To me, white is the happiest color and easiest to decorate around. It takes a lot longer for me to get tired of white.


    Blues tend to feel like gray to me, which is beautiful until you look at it all the time. Greens feel like brown to me which is not a color I want to look at all the time. I'm definitely a blue-green-white girl.


    Also with mid-tone colors, it is harder to find finishes and accessories that contrast well with them. The hue and lightness and saturation all have to be taken into consideration, whereas with white and black and light beige you do not have those issues as much.


    So, since I spend a lot of time looking at surfaces in the kitchen, I would pick something that I would NEVER tire of, and save the "treat" colors for surfaces I don't look at as often. I am having this dilemma choosing a kitchen countertop. I think that is the surface I look at most, and I want to be sure that whatever I pick has a positive effect on my mood.


    Some other ways to introduce the color: Back-painted glass inside cabinets with glass doors, colored dishes, colored accessories, curtains, wall paint, hand-painted cabinet knobs, flowers and greenery, table runner.

  • 8 years ago

    There are some beautiful green cabinets on GW (and other colors as well). However, for me, I find I do tire of color easily. I've painted and repainted my walls more than necessary because I tire of the colors. Which is why I now paint mostly in off whites, creams and beige, with a few exceptions. I might tire of cabinets in color after a time, although its hard to imagine with some of the beautiful colored cabinets I've seen posted here. Just me, I guess. If you love green now, you probably will love it in the years to come. If you do tire of it, you can always paint!

  • 8 years ago

    I can't remember her gardenweb name, maybe someone will, but I've always loved a Bluebonnet in Beantown 's cabinets


  • 8 years ago

    I do not have blue or green cabinets, but I painted my kitchen walls green in 2010 and still love them. And this wasn't just any green, it's a bright yellow-green bordering on fluorescent (my mom thinks it's yellow, but from where I'm standing it's solidly in the green camp; it comes of as more green in my kitchen's lighting than it looks on my monitor).

    Behr Pear

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  • 8 years ago

    cawaps, I have no idea what we'll paint the walls toward the back of our kitchen. But we've got gray cabinets and I'm tempted to try chartreuse to see what happens...

    It is spring.

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  • 8 years ago

    I have grey base cabinets. Kitchen still being finished cosmetically.

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  • 8 years ago

    Please tell us your final decision when you make it!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Our island is painted F&B French Gray, and I never get tired of seeing it. Other cabinetry is stained pine, F&B Cream and a F&B black hutch (you can see the bottom of it below, far left in the hallway between kitchen and laundry room). Ours is an open kitchen and I haven't found it hard to decorate adjacent rooms. The island base is actually one piece, but I still tease DH about taking it with us if/when we move.

    DD2 just had her base cabinets painted Navy blue. Off white uppers. It's a wonderful, young look. In our last home the kitchen cabinets were all originally painted a medium blue for the first 10 years we lived there.

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  • 8 years ago

    I think either you're a color person or you're not. I'm the opposite of Jane and lam. White is the most tiring color and other neutrals are very tiring to me. But I never tire of any color I like on the wall (or cabinet or whatever). YMMV

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  • 8 years ago

    clueless, that is pickle2's kitchen. I enjoyed her blog, too--was very sorry when she stopped updating it. IIRC she used F&B 'Cooking Apple.'

  • 8 years ago

    Thank you mama goose!

  • 8 years ago
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    amck2, you must have clicked the bulletpoint formatting option. I'm on a tablet and the formatting options are right underneith the comment box.

    • Hope this helps.

    I'm facing the same question with backsplash tile. I have a small area to tile, about 4 x 4, in a small open plan house, and am torn between cream and a lovely pale green. My walls are white American Clay plaster, so no chance to use green on the wall instead. My first house, mid 80s build, I used a terra cotta tile for the backsplash and ended up hating it, so I admit to some color phobia. But I agree the right soft blue or green seems like it should read pretty neutral.

  • 8 years ago
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    I'm still loving our green kitchen because it fits in with our vintage home. I might tire of the look if it wasn't congruent with the architecture. We used Dynasty Omega's Pesto. The finish and wear has me a bit on the fence, but that's a different topic.

    Here's a link to our contractor's blog post.

    http://goodhomeconstruction.blogspot.com/2012/11/1929-spanish-bungalow-full-kitchen-and.html?m=1

  • 8 years ago

    1929Spanish-GW: I love that! I'm in Canada, and I've never seen Dynasty brand. Mine would have to be a shade lighter since I don't have as much natural light at you do. Did you use marble on top -- and as a backsplash? I can't really tell. Thank you for sharing your kitchen, it's really beautiful. That atmosphere is what I am trying to achieve!

  • 8 years ago

    I have a green island base and then the same green in a bank of upper and lower cabs off the kitchen proper, but still within the kitchen space. ours is a dark green, not soft and light. I had gone into the process thinking I wanted a soft, light blue/green, but somehow ended up with this much deeper darker color and i love it. of course, it's still only a bit less than a year old.


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  • 8 years ago
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    Hi Rebecca, thanks for the complements. We used Corian Rain Cloud on the tops. At the time, the quartz options weren't that visually appealing and we drink too much red wine and espresso to make marble work. Despite my aversion to "not natural", the Corian has been great. The backsplash was cheap porcelain arabesque tiles from Home Depot. Overstock used to carry them by a different name. I found them before gardenweb and later learned they were quite popular here.


    added Dynasty Omega was the cabinet brand, not paint, in case it wasn't clear.

  • 8 years ago

    1929Spanish-GW, thanks for that. We're pretty messy too and marble would be disaster. Did you consider granite? What was your cabinet colour then, or have I somehow missed it?


  • 8 years ago

    We are not fans of granite and never considered it. Pesto was the cabinet color.

  • 8 years ago

    I painted my island a soft green- grey. It is BM Providence Olive. I love it so much I painted the nearby sunroom the same color. Still happy 2.5 years later when, I redid the powder/laundry room the cabinets are a slightly brighter version of the same color. I think many green-greys are practically neutral

  • 8 years ago
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    Green and especially blue are my favorite colors so no second thoughts about including blue in our new build kitchen. Thanks for the shout out by amck! This is a photo taken for our KDs website. Normally there are stools, but this gives you a better idea of the island color, which is very similar to BM Mineral Alloy.

  • 8 years ago

    Love the size and color of nhbaskets.

    I have a yellow green and turquoise in my home. Put the silver grey blue in room beyond.

  • 8 years ago

    SPOILER ALERT, HAHA! This is a very long reply. If you'd rather not hear me from my soapbox, skip the section labeled d) and scroll down to CONCLUSION. Won't offend me in the least. :-)

    Hi Rebecca! I think you are very smart to have asked your question in the way that you did. You didn't ask what is the right thing to do, and you didn't ask what we think you should do. You asked what is everybody's own personal experience and did they still love their decision or do they regret it. And by asking the question in that way, you got some amazing answers, stunning photos, and fond memories/stories. How great is that?!?

    I noticed a few things in reading through the responses:

    1) People either like color in the kitchen or don't. However, there are some who are kind of on the fence. People's reactions and preferences are highly personalized.

    2) People are concerned with the overall effect that kitchen colors may have on the rest of the house, particularly when they have an open concept plan.

    3) There is some disagreement on what goes with what when bringing in flooring, walls, counter tops, and appliances to the mix. This is also highly individualized.

    4) There are people who know they will get tired of color and those who know they will get tired of neutrals. Again, it's a personal thing. It can also vary based on the room the color or neutral is in. People seem to tolerate color for a longer time in bathrooms and bedrooms than in kitchens and other public areas of the home. This is also an individual preference.

    5) People who responded here generously gave great technical advice, especially regarding how natural light affects color.

    6) A lot more people considered color in the kitchen than actually went through with it. The reasons, once again, varied with the individual.

    7) Although I keep saying "individual," there are some categories one can generalize. There are those who want neutrals everywhere, with possible pops of color coming from things like furniture, area rugs, decor, etc. Another, smaller, category is the folks clearly in the color camp. Then there are those who like color, as long as it looks as neutral as possible. Finally, there is a category of folks who want neutrals in the public spaces and color in the private ones. And, I should add, there are those who want whatever is currently trending. There is no right or wrong here. All categories are equally valid.

    I conclude from these observations that when it comes to color, just as with any decorating decision such as furniture style, the overall ambience the homeowner is going for, and those agonizing decisions over lighting, backsplashes, appliance preferences, flooring, etc., that the heart wants what the heart wants. Of course, your question is more along the lines of will my heart still want what it wants now ten years hence? That's a toughie!

    I have a couple of observations that are just my own personal OPINIONS. They are not right, wrong, or set in stone. They're merely my observations and preferences at this moment in time. Your mileage may, and in fact WILL, vary because no two people are alike.

    a) Your choices may need to consider ROI, if you plan to sell in the next very few years. Houses done in neutrals sell faster and can (but not always) get higher offers than homes with lots of color. It's a time proven fact of real estate in the US and Canada (but not in other parts of the world). HOWEVER, if you plan to sell 15+ years hence, it won't matter because it will be a 15 year old remodel/refresh the new owners will want to change regardless. Yes, even white. This assumes you don't change it between now and then. If you plan to age in place, paint it pink with purple polka dots if you want, because you're the only owners that matter.

    b) Paint is the biggest bang for your remodel/refresh buck. It can be relatively easily and inexpensively changed if and when you tire of it, and a change of color can dramatically change the look of a kitchen even if nothing else changes. Of course, you are limited to colors that will still go with the rest of the kitchen colors/choices. The more neutral the rest of the kitchen is, the more choices you will have when it comes to repainting walls and/or cabinets. But for literally a couple hundred bucks (depending on size of kitchen and amount of DIY) you can completely change the look and feel of your kitchen.

    c) Unless you're flipping a house, I am fond of saying if it's beautiful to YOU then it's beautiful and you should follow your heart. I am not a morning person. And that's a kind assessment of the situation, lol. My coffee mug says, "Yet, despite the look on my face, you're still talking." Lol! When I, to quote Dolly Parton, "Tumble out of bed/and stumble to the kitchen/to pour myself a cup of ambition," I want to SMILE when I walk in and see MY dream kitchen...not somebody else's dream kitchen sitting in my house.

    d) This is slightly OT, but at least tangentially related: I know I'm being a KF heretic here, but I've always been a bit of a reprobate, so here goes: not every kitchen has to be light and airy. I'm not talking about Rebecca, as she is going for light shades of color and has other white/bright fixtures in her very beautiful kitchen. A kitchen can use dark colors, in fact, it can BE dark, and it still can be beautiful and a joy to cook in. There. I said it. :-)

    And yes, I'm talking about MY dream kitchen. Not yours, or yours, or even yours. Someone decided at some point in time, that all kitchens must be bright, white, and sunny. I have a small kitchen that becomes a tiny kitchen when you consider it's an eat-in kitchen--I don't have a dining room in my little 920 sq ft house. The kitchen is 14x10 or so (positive on the 14, can't remember whether it's 10 or 12).

    I saw yet another kitchen reveal today (NOT on GW) of a kitchen with real hardwood floors, creamy white cabs and island, stone countertops mostly white with some brownish movement, all SS appliances, and white subway tile backsplash with a few brownish tiles mixed in that matched the movement in the counter tops, and those ubiquitous pendants. Oh, and a copper apron front sink with a gargantuan faucet. Of course, two wall ovens, built in microwave, a separate prep sink, and a completely oversized vented hood, also copper. When I looked at it, I threw up a little bit in my mouth.

    Don't get me wrong. It was a GORGEOUS kitchen!!! Absolutely stunning!! If magic fairies came tonight, waved their wands and sprinkled fairy dust, and I walked into THAT kitchen in the morning, I'd never change it because it's beautiful. And, to quote the poet, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Factoring in that it was a total gut remodel, the Italian appliances, the high end/custom EVERYTHING, it had to be easily six figures.

    But there are other, equally valid, ways to go, and we've seen some of them right here on the KF! I freely admit my taste is both eclectic and non-conventional. :-) I hate white appliances with a passion. I don't love wood stained cabinets. I almost never care for glass front cabinets. I don't like peg boards unless they're in a shop, shed, or garage. Stone counter tops are not my thing. And I don't like white kitchens for ME because I'm clumsy due to my disability (arthritic hands drop a lot of stuff), and I'd be terrified to cook in one.

    I DO like farmhouse sinks, pendants, drawers-not-cabs, wood countertops, windows, no uppers, and black appliances. I like luxury vinyl planks, induction cooktops on a dual regular/convection range, OTR microwave, and big windows.

    My kitchen has a very large window on the north wall, where the eat-in dinette is for right now, and a smaller window on the south side, above the sink, which will be greatly enlarged when I take down the uppers.

    The kitchen has TONS of natural light and will have even more when the bigger sink window is installed. I also love gray, black, white, and pops of maroon. Since my eat-in kitchen will be an open plan with the living room, those will be my colors there as well.

    As I intend to age in place, Lord willing, I don't care one iota what anyone thinks of my color scheme. When I'm called home this house will be my daughter's. She loves the planned kitchen remodel too, so that's what's happening.

    CONCLUSION:

    Rebeca, sorry to momentarily hijack your thread! My point, and this DOES directly connect to your thread, is that people are like snowflakes: no two are alike. And isn't it great that we have such diversity?! I'm SO HAPPY you posed this awesome question, asking real people to share real experiences with color!

    I personally believe the kitchen is the most important room in the house. It literally sustains us by the food we prepare there. It is the family gathering place, the room that allows a family to interact and build relationships. It's often the room where kids (or grown ups!) do their homework. It is the first room where our children learn real life adult skills (OK, potty training may technically be first, lol) like preparing food and cooking it, and washing dishes/learning to clean their own messes, which in turn teaches them to take pride in their home by keeping it clean and well maintained. It can be a spiritual place where a family prays before or after a meal, no matter which faith you practice. It can be the place where a kid comes out late at night and over a mug of hot chocolate finally opens up about that thing that's going on at school. This room sustains us physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. That's why kitchens are so important to me as a person.

    So my hope for you, Rebecca, is for your kitchen to be that place for you and whomever else lives there. Pick a color and shade that gives you serenity and then enjoy it for as long as it does!

    Have a fabulous day! :-)

    Sincerely,

    Debbie

  • 8 years ago

    I have light blue cabinets with white marble counters, and I posted my kitchen 5 years ago here. I still love it. But I agree that people are either color people or not. If you are reselling your house, you have to keep that in mind. In my old house I did a light yellow, traditional kitchen, and it was beautiful and the house sold with multiple offers. But it was more of a traditional creamy yellow. Light blue and light green aren't that common. I think soft colors are more like a white.

  • 8 years ago
    Debbie! Thank you so much for taking the time to collate all the results, love it! I am with you 100 per cent. I know I want a soft, mossy green but I'm not sure I can find it. My room is long and narrow so what's perfect at one end isn't so much at the other. I have only recently found the houzz forums and now I am addicted. Best thing since sliced bread! Have a great day!
  • 8 years ago
    Debbie and finestra: I'm a newbie here. Are there photos of your kitchens on here? I'd love to see them!
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    There is a link to my kitchen photos on photo bucket on her somewhere. I am not sure I remember how to do it. They are all old - before the kitchen was finished. The range now has corbels under the hood. and the crown is on everything etc. Have you also checked the photo section of houzz and put green cabinets in kitchens in for the search term? Sometimes people put in their paint colors. http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/finestra1/library/

  • 8 years ago

    Have you seen wonbyherwits' previous kitchen? Her current GW/Houzz name is dyhgarden. Lovely green!

  • 8 years ago

    finestra and wonbyherwits -- two spectacular kitchens! I am humbled.

  • 8 years ago

    Great post Debbie! You always manage to sum up things wonderfully.

    Rebecca, as said, do what you love. Honestly I would do light green/gray cabinets myself except for the fact I'm doing a very busy green quartzite. And honestly, if you're not selling in the next 5 years, it really doesn't matter what you do because like others have said, in 5 years, something else will be the new "in" thing.

  • 8 years ago

    I'd link this if I could but I posted some updated pictures this week on a thread titled: Hardware Finish with Hammered Copper Sink. It shows (not accurately) the cabinet colour I decided on!


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    8 years ago

    Debbie, I wish you were my next door neighbor and we could age in place together!

    As for gray cabinets - well, ask me in a couple of weeks when mine are installed! It's a difficult color and mine are not the "gray in my head", but what the cabinet company offered as I could not afford to have them hand painted.

    OP, I think your cabinets are gorgeous and I love the color! My library is a similar color and I find it "wears well".

  • 8 years ago

    Debbie, you made my day (as I sit here in my dark wood kitchen with my OTR microwave and mosiac backsplash that many here would find too busy). And yet still EVERY SINGLE DAY, I walk into my kitchen and smile because I love it. Rebecca, I say do what you love :)

    Chelle

  • 7 years ago

    What did you decide? I'm having the same internal debate for new construction - a retirement lake home

  • 7 years ago

    Love this thread, thanks for bringing it back.

    My kitchen was done 8 years ago and I SOOO wish that Semihandmade had been around then (from DIY2's link). They would have saved me a lot of money and frustration with contractors.

    Anyway, my cabs are white and awhile ago, I saw a brilliant dark royal blue kitchen in a magazine. I thought maybe I'll do that some day, but don't think that's very realistic of me.

    However, it is time to repaint the walls, so I appreciate this discussion of color. They've been a cheerful cantaloupe and am thinking about a pale creamy yellow. The more dramatic option of the deep blue is also attractive. What to do...













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    7 years ago

    A year later, I ADORE my Repose Gray kitchen. It's very serene and is less choppy than its two previous lives were. It goes very well with the rest of my house as I have color in every single room! My entire house is far from neutral! But a kitchen on the small side with three door openings and a huge bay window over the sink can look very choppy and off- putting. No more - very cohesive, and as I said, very peaceful.

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    With my kitchen 99% complete, here are a few pictures. I decided on BM Soft Fern for the cabinets, and I'm very happy with the results. I think we made the best of the idiosyncrasies of our old home.

  • 7 years ago

    Very cute!

  • 7 years ago

    My two tone stained/painted grey kitchen

  • 7 years ago

    For lots,of sagey green kitchens, check out webites of Plain English and Devol kitchens in UK.

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    We've got maple cabinets that had a glaze and some light distressing as an OEM finish. That was in 2004. We had the cabinets sanded, then sprayed with an enamel. They came out really well. Also had the wall faux pattern changed from tan/orange to light green. Picts below, first the original layout.






  • 3 years ago

    Oh my gosh, GORGEOUS!!!! Wowee, great job. I love green cabinets

  • 3 years ago

    I was inspired to get gray kitchen cabinets after a trip to Colonial Williamsburg❣️About two years ago I had my kitchen renovated and still love my gray kitchen cabinets. When I had my 2 small bathrooms renovated, I chose sage green vanities that I also still love❣️I think gray and green are great colors in a home. All my walls are antique white and are a great backdrop for my gray and green cabinetry.