5 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Kitchen Cabinet Color

Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing a Kitchen Cabinet Color

Before we explore today’s kitchen cabinet color tips, here are three ideas that will help you avoid common mistakes as you evaluate your cabinet color choices: 

• Don’t place “matched” colors side-by-side: Most home improvement stores have a color matching tool. While these are helpful, an exact match might not be possible, and you’ll notice a difference every time you enter the kitchen. To avoid this problem completely, consider refinishing your cabinets so that they all match perfectly.
  
  
• Choose a creamy white instead of a bright white: White is the most popular kitchen cabinet color among both traditional and modern cabinet colors. However, a bright white probably won’t work well if you want your cabinets to blend with the rest of the kitchen or contrast with neutral colors like gray for your backsplash. Choosing a creamy white or off-white color will solve this issue.
  
  
• Trends fade fast: Powder blue and mint green are popular kitchen cabinet colors right now. But if you choose a popular color simply because it’s popular, you might be disappointed in less than a year. If you choose a popular color, pick it because it inspires your overall aesthetic so that you enjoy spending time in your kitchen for years to come.
  
  
• Remember that dark colors make a space feel smaller, and light colors make a space feel larger: If you want your kitchen to feel open, choose a lighter cabinet color than the walls. If you want your kitchen to feel smaller, choose a darker cabinet color than the walls.
  

How to Pick the Perfect Color for Your Kitchen Cabinets

Make your hunt for the right kitchen cabinet color more productive and less stressful with these tips.

Here’s how to choose a kitchen cabinet color:

Tip #1: For Neutral Tones, a Color Swatch is Your Best Friend

Color swatches are the most useful tool for homeowners who want their kitchen to have a neutral tone. If you find a neutral cabinet color you love, search for swatches that include the color. You’ll gain a valuable tool to choose colors for the entire space, including your cabinets, walls, and backsplash. 

If you want a neutral kitchen and have stainless steel appliances, incorporate gray or metallic silver in your plans for a seamless design.

Tip #2: Larger Kitchens Provide a Wonderful Canvas for Dramatic Colors

In larger kitchens, accent walls or a dramatic color for cabinets can help focus the space and set whatever mood you like.

If you have a smaller kitchen, a little bit of drama goes a long way. Anything more than a single accent wall or cabinet painted with a dramatic color can eclipse the look you were going for when you first picked your cabinet color.

Tip #3: Selling Soon? You Should Let the Answer to this Question Affect Your Color Choice

As realtor.com notes, kitchens and bathrooms sell houses. Kitchens in particular can affect the value of your home. As you make a potentially large home investment, consider the impact your kitchen cabinet color choice will have on how much you want to sell your home for, or reduce your expenses by refinishing your cabinets.

Tip #4: Consider the Color of the Dining Rooms and Living Room Walls

Do you want the color of your kitchen to blend in with the rest of your home? Or, are you looking to establish your kitchen as an accent room? If you want your kitchen to blend in, use the theme or color scheme you already have. You can also use one or two dramatic colors to transform the kitchen into your home’s accent room (see tip #5).

Tip #5: Use Color Contrasts to Your Advantage

If you want to step away from neutral tones or explore combining dramatic colors for your kitchen, experiment with contrasting colors. Here’s how:

• Find a color wheel online. 
• Choose a color that speaks to you. 
• Look at the color directly opposite your color on the wheel.

For example, reds and greens are well-known contrasting colors. Yellows and purples are also contrasting colors seen together often in popular culture.

Call Oceanside to Switch Your Kitchen Cabinet Color Effortlessly

Choosing the perfect kitchen cabinet color that fits your remodeling goals doesn’t have to feel like a hassle. Instead of simply repainting, replacing, or refacing your cabinets, you can refinish them. 

Refinishing involves chemically removing the original color or stain from your cabinets, making minor repairs, and then painting or staining them with the new, perfect color of your choice. 

Our team at Oceanside Painting & Refinishing makes the process easy for homeowners who are remodeling their kitchen. 

If you want more information about choosing the perfect cabinet color or refinishing your cabinets with the color you’ve chosen, Oceanside Painting & Refinishing is ready to help. 

Call Oceanside Painting & Refinishing today at 732-818-0092 or send us an email at phil.oceanside@gmail.com.