CANDY RED Steel Cabinets, Oh My !! I really needed a good laugh - still grinning! Our realtor just suggested the Red color on the day that our contract was accepted - this buying and selling of our house has been a real experience, in these times - roller coaster of negotiating on both ends! Our nerves are shredded but we remain steadfast - maybe this is the reason that we just cannot decide what to do with our new, OLD Cabinets!! We need a VACATION on an Italian Beach, maybe we would see something there that might inspire us? We love the tropical, warm breezes and all of the colors that feel so relaxing! Candy Red cabinets might be nice for a visit but we need a more tranquil space, I think! Turquoise is my favorite color of blue but then I like most all of the cheerful blue shades! What if the Old cabinets were painted a light shade of Turquoise and then the walls, one or two shades darker. Perhaps the hues of the Sea will look good with the sandy tones in the ceramic tile floor! Our current house has most every wall painted a medium hue of Sea Blue with softer shades of complimentary blue in some smaller rooms and two rooms being a warmer sunny shade! May sound like a bit much but we have never grown tired of these seaside colors in all of these years! So if we use some - Turquoise hues in the new kitchen - what accent colors do you see? Maybe a bit of the Red or perhaps some Coral or even some warmer Peach? Is this why some of you have a decorator? Most of my friends ask me to help them with design but these Metal Cabinets have just been an unexpected challenge and we know that we will only want to paint these ONCE! Very tempting to sell them and order our favorite Cherry Wood Cabinets!! And we still have to figure out how to remove the old plastic wall tiles in the Kitchen or else we will be painting over them just like they did before! The new house is 80 years old, with plaster walls and lots of wall paper to be taken down, also!! We did order the new Bosch Dishwasher, today - have an Asko but DH wanted to try the Bosch, hope this works well for us. Like to have a new Frig. with the freezer on the bottom, we have that now with our Sub Zero and it is wonderful, will miss it! ANY suggestions for a more affordable, SS Frig, counter depth and not too tall - because in the new Old Kitchen there are vintage, wooden pantry cabinets built into one corner of Kitchen and around the Frig. Just wonder, should these wood pantry cabinets be the same paint as the metal cabinets, or the darker Turquoise like the walls or re-paint them white! ALL of your Ideas are so very Welcome! Rose

bbstx, thank you so much for the tips. I have some other remodeling to be done by contractors. These days, I have been busy buying lights and materials for bathroom remodeling. Sorry for my late response. For the kitchen cabinets, I will paint them myself. screedesq, thank you very much for sharing your experience, which is very helpful. I'll use the Benjamin Moore Advance Simply White Semi Gloss. For the primer, I'll use Sherwin Williams PrepRiteProBlock latex primer. The sales lady recommended SW premium wall wood primer. But according to bbstx's referred post, the former should be better. I have the external hinge of bronze color. Did you have the same? Did you change them to stainless steel? I don't know if it would be a good idea to change them to internal hinge and if it would be an easy job. Did it take you a lot of time to degloss and sand the cabinets? Did you use a rotary orbital sander to do the job? The contractor who is going to remodel my house suggested Rust-Oleum Transformations. I doubt it would produce the same good result as SW preprite problock latex primer + BM advance? Really appreciate your help.

I liked Crema Marfil and checked it,like, fifty times as a countertop option with my-new-then-to-be very warm greige/bordering oatmeal cabinets. I really wanted it to work, yet it didn't. I guess it'll be a challenge to find gray paint-even very warm one-to support your other elements that are there to stay Obviously photos you posted don't give one the truest feel of colors..maybe they seem more golden to me than they are..can you post a close up of floors and counters? something along the lines of your wall colors will work..but you want to get away from the current look, why to go through this expensive hassle I can see smth warmer yet lighter..creamier.. you can try of course to find your gray..the thing is: will it read as gray? willl it fit your vision? If you make it purple enough -it can be a nice combo...but in order to get so, it'll be already more purple than gray same thing with warm greens and blues..they can be muted(have gray in them), but they'll already be muted greens and blues rather than grays when mixing neutrals in spaces that have natural stones etc, you need to be especially careful..you don't fight the neutral, you work with it, either by having another natural material that makes sense next to it, like your current stain, or by trying to repeat its nature, or by doing a color that'll contrast it in a way you'll continue to like your neutral. You can't just pick color X and it'll work, because you already have many elements to work with, Frankly I wouldn't paint at all, but rather play with hardware, lighting, introducing accessories that have gray in them(clay, fabrics, etc) so you can have your gray without big overhaul Again, because I can't see close up of the flooring etc, I might be wrong because I can't see your colors correctly. From your description (off white plus greige) it might work, I just can't see it on the photos So. Additional photos would help. And even then I think it should be something really warm comparing to other grays..light greige, something like it. And I'm not sure that's what you're looking for. What are you looking for? In terms of vibe, you know? What looks great in one kitchen wouldn't neccessarily work in other. Even more than that, sometimes a paint color works on one wall in the space, but doesn't on the other:) It's a lot of thinking, considerations, sampling(paint on wood will also always look different than on walls..so should be door samples)..and money. Again, additional photos would help.

Are you keeping the foot print? Are you changing/ripping out anything? Is it JUST the cabinet colours that are being updated? You have multiple posts going about the same concerns but the answers to our questions are limited. You have multiple woods (the wood floor is lovely BTW) with multiple styles of doors/finishes. You need cohesion. It looks like you are struggling with the basics....like what your style is. Here are some hints: Flooring is OFTEN inspired or PAIRED with COUNTER TOPS. Cabinets are often used to contrast the counters (ie. dark counters = light cabinets). Backsplashes are often used to assist the counters to work with the cabinets. An island that is a 'different' colour is used to HIGHLIGHT an expensive upgrade or as a DIVA in the kitchen. It draws attention TO the kitchen...not away from it. Right now you have an entry level granite on the counter tops. You have high-value wood floors. You have wood cabinets that work well (tone on tone) with the floors. You have wooden built-ins that DO NOT work with the floors nor the kitchen (pink/salmon/pickled colour vs. golden brown wood tones). You really need to narrow down WHAT is being done and WHY you want it done. At this point a kitchen designer or a colour consultant would be money well spent. Before hiring someone, please pick up some magazines that have photos of things you LOVE. Cut them out and make a collage. This will help you/the designer figure out what you are 'after'.