Help with updating kitchen, paint all cabinets, paint island only?
Hello! I have builder grade maple cabinets, in descent condition. Just replaced counter to fantasy brown quartzite and love it. Debate is, do I paint cabinets? Here I have BM Dove Wing (lighter) and BM Bruxton White (darker) . I love depth and am afraid to go too light that I will hate it. Island I want a dark gray regardless of what I do with rest of cabinets. I have even considered dark gray on all cabinets and lighter on island.
Tiles are just some subway option small is Sonoma Stellar Rainstorm crackle (might try lighter) and larger is ADEX Nature Smoke. Both of those are up for change if I come up with color scheme for cabinets that I love.
NOTE: GE Café stainless appliances on order and floor is getting refinished too, Jacobean or dark gray mix.
ADVICE PLEASE!!
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Bri Bosh
5 years ago
PROBeth H. :
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agono gray. not those anyway. too blue next to your floors. do them in White dove,,,you can do the island in a light gray, like they did here, and left the other cabs in the wood.
other Fan. Bro. kitchens White looks much better.
mbinford thanked Beth H. :mbinford
5 years agoThanks for all your input!
To clarify when I said darker I meant darker than white, Bruxton white BM is darker than White Dove, its the darker shade I painted on back splash as sample.
The color for the island is not blue, bad photo. Paint swatch is KendalL Charcoal HC-166, Amherst Gray HC-167 and Chelsea Gray-HC-168. I am currently leaning toward BM Stone Harbor 2111-50 or Gray Huskie AC-26 for perimeter cabinets, light subway backsplash and dark gray of one listed on island.
Agree , no gray floor, Jacobean or walnut
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