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Kitchen cabinets: Pale blue gray, pale minty green, or dark blue?

last year

Hi all - I'm about to make final color choices for my kitchen cabinets and am torn between a few options. My house is a little 1900 cottage in New England. I am completely redoing the kitchen and opening it up to the dining room, along with other interior and exterior renovations. I'm trying to be as sensitive to the era of the home and to preserve the original architecture wherever possible.


Cabinets will be custom inset doors with a simple bead and decorative brackets holding them up. There's a small run of open shelving. Counters will be honed Danby Olympian White marble. Floors will match the original medium dark brown white oak throughout the rest of the house. Dining room decor may change so won't dictate the cabinet color. Wall color will follow from cabinets.


For blues, I've narrowed to F&B Parma Gray and Borrowed Light and BM Gentle Gray. For greens, I like F&B Teresa's Green and Blue Green and BM Italian Ice Cream. For dark blues, I like F&B Stiffkey and BM Newburyport. All of these colors, IMO, work well with the marble and in different lighting conditions (I went through 30+ peel and stick samples that i cycled through different locations in the kitchen for multiple days each, but I'll also get a sample door of one or two finalists).


I want something that will look at home in an antique cottage, but it doesn't need to be "period." Because this is New England and the kitchen is not super bright (currently has one exposure and once open to dining room, will have two), I also want something that will look decent in low light and artificial light (some of the murkier F&B colors that are so popular do not).


I've thrown up a few inspiration photos, plus my floor plan and current views of the kitchen and dining room and a single photo that shows all the finalist colors together and examples of kitchens painted in those colors (couldn't find one for Italian Ice Cream). I realize that these are somewhat different vibes, but I think I could make any of them work. Just very indecisive about WHICH.


Thoughts on what makes the most sense here?



















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