I prefer anything other than white, grey, or pastels. Emerald green cabinets look stunning imo. So do red, orange, purple, black and a rainbow of other colors in the right setting. White will always look dated in my home because that color is completely wrong for me. White or pastels look perfect in any other home that I don't have to live in. What difference does it make if the color you like is dated if it is what you love?

I think it depends on what else is in the room. If the floor and the counters and the cabinet color and the hardware are all from a certain time then the cabinet color will end up looking dated. If the trend is shoehorned into a room where it doesn't really work, it will definitely look dated and out of place as the affection for the new trend wears off.

Yes, they will become "dated" because that is how everything is designed to be. If you don't choose safe/boring...then it will be tied to when it was at its peak. I have green cabinets. My goal was never to be "timeless", I wanted something with good energy, something that excites me! I love color, I love contrast...my neighbor might not....so we can all just choose what's right for us.

One can only hope. Even if just a "trend", will be a relief from that dreary pall of gray-everything or, more recently, blingy white-everything. Good to know I'm on-trend for once, having just put in olive-colored cabinets in our kitchen. But, going to that color seemed natural, since soapstone counters were a given, as well as cherry-looking (Brazilian teak) floors that remained from the overly orange kitchen with cherry cabinets and St. Cecelia counters that came with the house twenty years ago. Perhaps, as a plant ecologist, I am fond of green anyway -- two other rooms in the house (the living room and my sitting room/office) have been painted shades of green for some time now. Green is a calm color, generally, and goes with lots of other colors.

There have always been a small percentage of homeowners who have blue or green (or some other color) kitchen cabinets. The shades of blue and green which are "in" change over time, so for instance, sometimes the greens lean yellow, sometimes blue. But to the point of the previous commenters, context is everything. We had a 25 year old white kitchen when we sold our previous house which to my mind was still perfect. They were expensive inset cabinets at the time they were installed and the house was built in 1945, so they were stylistically a good fit. The buyers ripped them out, installed a "modern" kitchen and painted all the walls gray. That is technically more up to date (at least it was three years ago before gray started dying out), but not consistent with the style of the house, so not what I would have chosen. But of course it was their right to do whatever they wanted to.

Unless you're planning on selling the house in the near future, you should be designing for yourself, not some future unknown buyer. If you love green or blue cabinets, then go for it. Or at least do the island in a color. Your house should be stylistically consistent (eclectic is a hard style to do well for amateurs), but there is always room for individuality in color choices. Your house, your money.

Blue and green cabinets may very much put a time stamp on your home depending on how they are used. If you go with blue lowers and white uppers, that will be done in 5 years time.

If you love these colors, you can make them work in a way that has more staying power. Here are a couple of examples from kitchens I've designed where the colors are used in a less trendy way and have more longevity behind them.

Here is the other kitchen I mentioned!

"If the trend is shoehorned into a room where it doesn't really work, it will definitely look dated and out of place as the affection for the new trend wears off."

^^ This.

Design the kitchen to work with the style of the house.

Everyone nowadays is doing shaker style cabinets, yet that doesn't work in many of the houses.

I think the particular shade of the color and the style of the house will dictate whether a particular kitchen in a house looks dated. I am so tired of reading about white subway tile, white cabinets, Taj Mahal quartzite with white something else. Subway tile makes me think of subways and all the nasty things associated with that.

I don't care what colors anyone else uses - I use what I like. I renovated my kitchen in Cathedral City last year, and I did NOT use Shaker style cabinets - I prefer slab style.

The bay window overlooks the pool, and the cabinets match the color of the pool water.

Here's the kitchen before:

We are extremely happy with the change, and that is all that matters. We plan to keep this house for a long time.

We are right next to Palm Springs, where the MCM style has been popular since the 1950s, and it seems to be a timeless choice here, but it also happens to be my favorite style.

We kept the black refrigerator because so much light comes through the bay window, and a stainless steel fridge would create too much of a glare.

Everything gets dated; color, style, they way we live in the space. Lomo made a good point about white kitchens. Clients tell me they want a timeless look (currently it's white shaker cabinets, quartz counters that look like white marble and subway backsplash) and I always point out that a white kitchen from the last 50 years is not on anyone's wish list. We just move from phase to phase, trend to trend.

Blue and green cabinets were standard offerings when I did two kitchens about 18 years ago for other people. One of them had had a 3 year old kitchen in another house that was green. So people have been doing it all along. Just fewer people.

One of my favorite kitchens is designed by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, one of the top designers in the country. He used a peacock blue color for the kitchen in this photo This kitchen is about 6 years old at this point and still looks fresh (other than the tiny prep sink, which may be a trick of the photography). I saw another kitchen of his where he used bright kelly green cabinets on an island and white cabinets on the perimeter.

@likestonehomes it's a mistake to focus just on the cabinetry finish when hoping for longevity in design - it's about the materials for the floor, counters, lighting, etc. For example, stripey LVP flooring is going to look squarely early 2020s no matter what the cabinetry is. Or cabinetry constructed in the partial overlay style looks dated regardless of its finish. Soapstone counters looked great 100 years ago, and look great today. You cannot isolate the cabinetry finish when talking about whether a kitchen's design has staying power or will become quickly dated.

Aqua and pink (my mother's 1950s kitchen had pink tile, aqua walls, and varnished slab cabinets with plywood doors) were big MCM colors back in the day (my early childhood) . That sequed into avocado green and harvest gold in the 1970s which, judging by old layers of paint and somewhat psychedelic, rather colorful wallpaper we occasionally uncover here, were original features of our current early 1970s, single-story ranch of otherwise indeterminate style (tract home). So, our green cabinets may be harking back to that a bit.

But, whatever their flaws (no big MCM fan here, and psychedelic wallpaper gives me a headache), at least there was a bit of real color and personality in those old trends that seems to be missing with icy white and gray schemes, which were never part of the history of this house in any case and look "off" when flippers have imposed those trends on other houses in our neighborhood.

A trend can also be timeless.

If you don't plan on selling anytime soon, then it shouldn't be a concern.

I love my white kitchens, I have two, but can appreciate a blue or green kitchen.

You have to really love those colors to commit.

Most ask questions like this for a permission slip. So.......what is it you are thinking of doing? Because it depends what else is going on in there? With the green or the blue cabinetry....and what cabinetry it is applied to

Everyone is making comments about a room no one has seen. How about a photo?

The current trend of blue, green, teal cabinets will come to an end. Spaces within the genre that are well-done will have some longevity, as mentioned. However, ultimately, these color choices for cabinetry are extremely taste specific; and i think that is the bigger issue, and should be the most obvious issue. So if you are choosing these color palettes for your own personal residence, then by all means. If it is for near future resale, or for an air bnb or other rental, I would say it’s not the best idea.

Lars, I like the color of yours, but you need some tweaking. I can see what direction you want the kitchen to be, but I think you got stuck.

The beige wall color (Just use a nice, bright white) the zebra charis (a tomato red/white chair would look much better) and the light is hung too high over the table. I'd also bring in a runner w/some coordinating colors

a runner w/some color. White walls. maybe add a wood shelf under the bay window and add some plants of some type

A diff floor tile would be a huge addition.

since those 12X12 white tiles are too 90's looking, You could replace them w/a larger terrazzo type of porcelain tile. Emser tile has the Terazio porcelain that would look perfect! and they're a 24x24. (lowes, home depot, wayfair carry them)

Terazio Bianco:

See? look how nice it is w/this style. (And bright white walls. and some plants!)

Here's the white ones shown w/the black. (in fact, this checkboard design would also look amazing w/your turquoise!)

Here, gave you a wood table and matchihng blue chairs, and a nice light fixture. I'd paint the walls Pure White

If you could do a wood bench under the window w/some plants, it would add some warmth and color.

Not to this extent, but mcm is about color. at least do some plants the walls, and change out the chairs.

I like this table/chairs, some type of wood, and the rug

Or, try this type of table / charis w/the bench under the window, the wood shelf, and some other mcm inprired accessories:

Here's yours again. Sorry, but that table/chair is wrong. (light needs to be 30-35" from the top of the table)

Just showing how the white walls and some wood added to the mix look really nice

Do what you like, do it well, using quality materials and expert craftsmanship, and you will have a room (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, etc.) that you will love to come home to.

I have always liked 18th Century American and English style, both formal and casual. I adore Colonial Williamsburg. My home was furnished many years ago in this style with very high quality cherry reproduction furniture, and while I change the textiles, paint, and window treatments, I like what I like. I wouldn't exchange my 18th century reproductions for MCM, French provincial, Tuscan, transitional, etc., etc.

I love blue and green, and would do a kitchen in either of those colors in a heartbeat, and would keep it for many years. The only good thing about trends is that it is fairly easy to find products in whatever trend is popular.

All that matters is whether you like it and if you will feel like painting over it if and when you tire of it. Everybody hates something and people will hate your green cabinets now and in the future. Do you love it now? Will you love it in the future?

I have blue- green kitchen cabinets. Because I have always, as long as I can remember, loved blues and greens. I was amused when i started seeing pics of kitchens with blue and green cabinets. I have brushed gold accents in kitchen. Because it’s “on trend “? No, because I have always loved turquoise jewelry set in gold. I suppose it seemed a natural combination because it’s always been something pleasing to my eye.
That being said, this is our forever home. We have lived on this lot many years and rebuilt on this property. I have no concern for resale. The kids can worry about that when they inherit it, lol. Will the color become outdated? Maybe. Probably. It’s a personal preference in the end. I doubt that I will ever regret the color choice though, since I picked something I love

Painted cabinets in interesting colors have pretty much been the norm for the last 3-400 years. I don't think they are suddenly going to become "dated", despite what the kitchen designers and fashion moguls might tell you.

White and gray are boring as heck, go for it!

Green is the new gray, and not just in the kitchen. About 90% of answers to color question here are now "Paint it green." People got so sick of gray, understandably, but to some extent you can tell people are still afraid of color. Green and blue are 'safe' colors, and most of the time the suggestions are to paint things a gray green.

I like kitchens that are yellow or dark red, depending on when the house was built. I also like high gloss metal cabinetry, but I doubt it will ever be popular in the US, given how often people want to redecorate their kitchens.

It's never going to be just one thing that places a kitchen in the period it was designed/installed. It's not going to be just a color, just a door style, just a type of cabinet hardware. It's going to be a combination of things. Appliances used to be one thing that would tell you how old a kitchen is. They don't last long enough to do that anymore.

I think painted cabinets when done in a space that needs a painted cabinet is perfect. I do often suggest greens because to me they are a neutral much more than beige or even gray or white . Rooms tell me what color they need to be not sure how but they do. I love grays but some of my home has accent walls in colors that work in the space . This id my kitchen it needed the orange .Listen to your instint not to what is "timeless" good design is timeless.

Whether cabinetry is white, wood, or a muted or strong color, a kitchen doesn’t feel necessarily dated by color alone (including white), but a sum of its parts: flooring, lighting, backsplash, cabinetry design, hardware, etc. If a person goes with what they love, it will be enjoyed for longer, trends or not. There is plenty of colored cabinetry out there and certainly green has been around forever and is quite adaptable - a color doesn't define a space.

Sorry, Beth H. : but I love my table the way it is, as well as the chairs. I do NOT like the table and chairs that you proposed, and I am very happy with my design the way it is. I've been a professional designer since 1974, starting in fashion and switching to high end furniture in 1989. I know what pleases me and what does not.

Across from the kitchen is the dining area, and I have a couple of these chairs there,

which I reupholstered in the same Clarence House, London, zebra tapestry fabric, which I love, and I move these chairs into the kitchen when we have guests. The chairs are a 1960 American knock-off of a Hans Wegner design, and I have four more chairs plus the dining table at my house in Los Angeles.

I've also made pillows for the living room in Cathedral City with this fabric.

I would like to have the kitchen walls painted white instead of beige, but if you look at the back wall in the kitchen, you can see that it extends into the living room, which extends into the halls, etc, and so it is not a simple matter to change the colors of the walls in the kitchen - it would be a huge undertaking and I do not feel that it is necessary at this time. Although I hate beige, I can live with it for now. However, I absolutely do NOT want wood in the kitchen, except for the occasions when I have to move the extra chairs. We do not live in this house full time - yet.

I made these napkins for the kitchen

and this is enough orange for me.

The tile floor also goes throughout the entire house, and I happen to like that as it is. I've had a checkerboard tile floor in my kitchen in Venice, and I do not want another one. I also do not want any rugs in the kitchen or dining room. I use the dining room more as a sewing area, and it has a very nice view of the pool, not to mention tons of light, like the entire house.

I am perfectly happy with the height of the chandelier in the kitchen, and it is the perfect height for viewing at night through the bay window while I am in the spa in the patio.

When one is in this kitchen, one has an expansive view of the pool and patio area, but this is very difficult to photograph because of the extreme glare from the bay window. However, the experience of being in this room is vastly different from the experience of viewing photographs of it. Here's the view I have of the dining room from the kitchen, more or less:

This room is a work in progress at the moment. This photo was taken right after we painted this wall, at my brother's suggestion, and we hung one of his paintings on it.

This is the dining room showing food for our last party.

Eventually, we will move to this house and sell the house in Los Angeles, and so we need to keep it sparse for now. We will do more changes right before we move.