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Kitchen Cabinet Paint Color: Light or Dark - Help!!!

6 years ago

Building a new home, need suggestions please for the kitchen cabinet paint colors. Any neutral, dark or light, just not white and uppers and base need to be the same color. I really need help with this. Kitchen has one window, gets a lot of natural light and is 10 x 11.

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RugKnots | Area Rugs
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
How exciting that you're building a new home! Congrats!

What sort of style/feel are you gravitating towards? Warm or cool? Modern, traditional, rustic, etc.? There is so much more to cabinets than just colors. There are also finishes and styles. For example, gray rustic kitchen cabinets look very different from gray contemporary kitchen cabinets. Usually when people don't mention the style they're thinking in a traditional style sense, so I'll take a guess that you're coming from that angle.

With a lot of natural lighting, you can get away with having darker kitchen cabinets and still having a kitchen that feels open and bright. In my opinion, light countertops look best with dark brown cabinets.
lisab2362
Original Author
6 years ago
Thanks for the input. I was leaning towards a shaker cabinet with a white quartz counter top. Clean and simple. I was looking for a paint color rather than a stained cabinet. I am searching grays, taupes and Greige with no luck
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kariyava
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
There are tons of inspiration pictures on Houzz for gray cabinets especially: https://www.houzz.com/photos/kitchen/cabinet-finish--gray/cabinet-style--shaker/color--Gray/counter-material--engineered-quartz/type--kitchen%252Fdining

Do you have any restrictions with your builder in terms of cabinet manufacturers? Gray cabinets are popular these days, so I would imagine you would have options in that regard. If you can choose any cabinets you like, I would recommend Medallion, which we just chose. They have both gray and beige options that you might like: http://www.medallioncabinetry.com/wcsstore/lkcontent/medallion/medallion_showroomguide_2017.pdf
lisab2362 thanked kariyava
artistsharonva
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
J&K cabinets has 2 nice greys now.

My friend loves her Greige cabinets with white countertop.

Greige..

Grey Shaker
lisab2362
Original Author
6 years ago
Thanks - I will check them out.

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