Cabinet Paint Colors That Are Anything but Neutral
Craving some color for your kitchen? Consider these bright choices for your cabinetry
Whites, soft grays and warm woods have dominated the kitchen style arena lately. But there are those who want to amp up the color in their kitchens. While some wade in with soft blues, others want to make dinner surrounded by hues like a sunny yellow or an electrifying cobalt. If you’re considering a cabinet makeover, check out these bold and beautiful paint options.
Fiery orange. A shock of orange runs along the lower cabinetry in this open-plan kitchen, bringing the heat to the work zone without intruding on the rest of the calmer finishes in the adjacent spaces. The paint job was customized by applying many layers and then finishing it with hand polishing.
Cabinet paint: Outrageous Orange, Benjamin Moore
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Cabinet paint: Outrageous Orange, Benjamin Moore
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Lemon yellow. No matter how sleepy the homeowners are, this bright farmhouse kitchen must perk them right up in the morning. A pitcher of sunflowers is right at home in the yummy lemon yellow room. Note the way the designers painted the trim to match the cabinets. They did this around the windows and doors as well as on a narrow piece of molding around the ceiling to continue the brightness around the room.
Cabinet paint: Babouche, Farrow & Ball
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Cabinet paint: Babouche, Farrow & Ball
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Lemon yellow is a good choice for a more contemporary kitchen as well. Here, architect Alisa Block chose a yellow that’s bright but does not overwhelm the senses.
Cabinet color: Yellow Finch, 2024-40, Benjamin Moore
Cabinet color: Yellow Finch, 2024-40, Benjamin Moore
Kelly green. These homeowners wanted to play with bright color in their lake-house kitchen. A white backsplash and Carrara marble countertops provide a strong contrast to the invigorating hue, while wood floors and a wood island countertop warm things up.
Cabinet paint: Bunker Hill Green, Benjamin Moore
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Cabinet paint: Bunker Hill Green, Benjamin Moore
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Pistachio green. A soothing shade of green connects this light and airy kitchen with the outdoors. It also plays beautifully off the gray veins in the backsplash marble.
Cabinet paint: Urban Nature AF-440, Benjamin Moore
Cabinet paint: Urban Nature AF-440, Benjamin Moore
Distressed turquoise. The renovation on this historic Massachusetts farmhouse included a large dream kitchen for the restaurant-owning homeowners. A pleasing turquoise with a distressed finish works beautifully against the exposed brick wall. And we’ll give them bonus points for all the wonderful colors of the ingredients in the Mason jars.
Cabinet paint: Bermuda Turquoise, Benjamin Moore
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Cabinet paint: Bermuda Turquoise, Benjamin Moore
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Sky blue. This home’s style is a Victorian-bohemian mashup, and it certainly shows in the kitchen. The sky blue paint on the cabinetry is calmed a bit by a waxed finish and complemented by gold and deep-orange hues.
Cabinet paint: Spirit in the Sky 676, Benjamin Moore; island paint: Bryant Gold HC-7, Benjamin Moore
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Cabinet paint: Spirit in the Sky 676, Benjamin Moore; island paint: Bryant Gold HC-7, Benjamin Moore
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Cobalt. Though blue is generally considered to be calming, this glossy cobalt is energizing. There are a handful of different finishes and materials in here, including the stainless steel and wood countertops, brass hardware and black metal on the windows and light fixtures that all play off the bold cabinet color beautifully.
Cabinet paint: Drawing Room Blue in full-gloss finish, Farrow & Ball
Cabinet paint: Drawing Room Blue in full-gloss finish, Farrow & Ball
Eggplant. A basket of vegetables is a great source of inspiration for kitchen color palettes. This yummy eggplant is made even more beautiful by the warm metallic finishes on the hardware and faucets. And if you’re not ready to paint all of your cabinets, try using your saturated-color choice as a large accent like they did here, where using it on just one wall of lower cabinets was the right dose.
Share: Houzzers, what’s your preference in the kitchen cabinet color conundrum? Are you more into light neutrals, white, wood or a particular color? Let’s chat about it in the Comments.
Cabinet paint: Wicked C2-001, Philips Perfect Colors
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Share: Houzzers, what’s your preference in the kitchen cabinet color conundrum? Are you more into light neutrals, white, wood or a particular color? Let’s chat about it in the Comments.
Cabinet paint: Wicked C2-001, Philips Perfect Colors
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Cabinets: Northern Contours with foil color Red Gloss 8003 (for wood cabinets, a similar paint color is Red 2000-10, Benjamin Moore)
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