Get LED bulbs in 5000K which mimics bright sunlight.

I'm having the same exact issue stephanied0wns. In fact my kitchen looks exactly like yours AND our living room has the same exact chandelier. I'm trying this suggestion as well. What are the best under cabinet LED lights to get? Preferably ones that can be dimmed?

What is your hardware color? Brass or bronze? Hard to tell. Also, what countertop do you have?

Looks great.

I think its the white backsplash that cause this issue

stephanied0wns, what did you end up using for your lights in the kitchen? Did it work out? Do you have pendant lights over your beautiful island? If so, which ones? Is your trim White Dove too or something else? I love the look of your space! :)

It seems the unchangeable white tile is the problem? Does all of the white tile have UCL's covering it? You could get diurnal UCL's that would let you play with the color temp to come up with something that warms the tile up a bit. RGBA UCL's might be a good option as well.

Okay. Thread's been dead for almost 8 months, but what the hell, go ahead and resurrect it for no good reason. Bump a new question off the front page; they won't mind, right?

Sheesh.

Humans. You just can't depend on perfection from them.

I would use a 4000 K light. That's what I did in my hallway to turn the grey paint from vomity-yellow to a true grey. Click here to see before and after pictures.

We have Linen White cabinets and used BM Clay for the walls. Looks great!

Going to a cooler (higher color temperature) bulb may help a little, but many people find that type of light to be sterile. If you do seek out a daylight bulb, try at least to find one with a Color Rendering Index (CRI) of 85 or more; this will produce a more balanced light.

Your basic problem is that your backsplash is a much brighter white than your cabinets. It's probably from the GY (green-yellow) family and very low chroma, so White Dove, which is at 102 degrees in the Yellow family appears a little more yellow next to it.

I suspect your countertop is also a cooler, lower-chroma white than the cabinets.

The closer anything gets to actual white (or black or gray), the harder it is to tell by eye which color family it's from. This is why a trained color professional can be of help during the process. We can scan these materials to find out their scientific color properties, and more easily hone in on coordinating cabinet and wall colors.

But in this case, I really wouldn't worry about it. White Dove is very compatible with the Classic Gray wall color. As you add accent colors, you can give the eye something else to focus on. Another way to downplay the differences in the two whites is by adding more white tones in decor or fabric. That makes the mixture of various whites look more intentional.

We just installed beautiful Woodland khaki cabinets in our bath, but the top set cabinet looks golden in the corner where the sink and the makeup vanity are located. All the rest of them remain true to tone. We have a 4 light fixture over each mirror in the corner with 60 W LEDs. I think it's the lighting that is making the cabinets gold, but don't know how to fix it. Now I have a two tone bathroom. HELP!

Also, still looking for a paint color for the room, but I think we have to solve the light problem first.

Hi! I am having this same exact issue right now. Did anything help?!

I'm having the exact same issue with new white dove cabinets. Look great during the day and I hate them at night. It has to be my bulbs.

The issue is not color temp but color rendering. Lower quality LED lamps do not produce the entire color spectrum, they have gaps of colors, usually in the red values, that they do not produce well which makes the light from them and any surfaces they light look vacuous. There are also health issues with the unbalanced spectrum but that's another topic for another day.

CRI is an antiquated and poor measure but a lamp with a CRI of 95 will be better than one with a CRI of 85. You can also look for a high R-9 (red) value (> 50 is good but you really want > 80) if they publish it. TM-30 is a much better measure but the U.S. is about 15 years behind Europe and Asia on adopting it.

This chart may give you an idea of the spectral quality of various light sources (Daylight is actual sunlight) and why your cabinets (and you and everything) look so bad.

Here's the CRI chart for the Warm White LED above. Even though it scores a 90 CRI (R1-R8) and is 'warm' with a color temp of 2700k, it has extremely little red light so none of the red pigment in the paint will be reflected making the cabinets vacuous.