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Is the gray walls and white kitchen cabinets trend still on?

5 years ago

I'm building a house and still deciding paint colors. Two years ago when we started walking through model homes I sneered at the gray walls/white kitchen cabinets, they looked cold and ugly to me. Part of why we are building is I just couldn't find a spec/newer built home without that look and I was bound and determined to paint my walls beige and stain my cabinets, make it "cozy", just like I'd done in my current home.

Well, after seeing home after home in white and gray, guess what am I doing? Looking at gray paint ("warm" grays) for walls and white paints for cabinets. I'm nothing if not a follower. And now, looking at old questions here on Houzz and how long people have been doing this, I'm starting to question whether this trend is on its way out. When we redid our current home's kitchen and bathrooms 2010-2012, I did mostly beiges and browns, and we stained the cabinets what we thought was a pretty "cinnamon" but is now looking dated even though the cabinets and floors are all relatively new, so I should have paid more attention to trends at the time.

I don't want to be behind the times that quickly in our new home.

Is white still a good choice for kitchen cabinets? What's next?


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