I always feel like glazing, especially on light colors, makes the cabinets look like they need a good scrub. This is not a general rule (we just put dark cabs in the BR with an ebony glaze), but it's often how glazing in the kitchen strikes me. As far as "depth," perhaps you can get the look you want with sheen. You might try painting wood samples in your chosen color, but different sheens, propping them in the kitchen, and seeing if that delivers the look you're going for.

I think my other concern is that I only have a small swatch painted now. I know yellow can "blow up" in intensity...so I'm wondering if I go BM Goldfield everywhere, if the "blow up" will get me to an even BM Fresh Butter.

Point taken on the glaze. Since my daughter's clean up zone is one of the painted runs a little glazing might not be bad. But on the other hand, I don't really go in for the "hides a multitude of sins" finishes in kitchens and bathrooms (although having a white tile bathroom floor is little *too* unforgiving. ::cough::)

If you want it to look like it's been there forever, glaze isn't the way. Glazing really dates cabinets--not in a bad way, but it's certainly not an authentic 1920s cottagey look. I think "fresh butter" has a good 20s look. It's already verging on dingy and glazing will just make it icky.

With good paint, it'll clean up fine and you don't need to predirty your cabinets!

If you can find a shade you really love most of the time, I'd take that one. Make sure you try out the color with some of your accessories. The overall color impact is composed of so many things bouncing off of one another.

I wouldn't worry if the color is off only an hour a day. Getting a shade that you find pleasing in both several hours of daylight and at least 4 or 5 hours of artificial light is a such a big deal. An hour is not as important by comparison.

Yellow is a color that often intensifies when it goes up in quantity - it is also very transparent, and often needs multiple coats to achieve its true color.

I think you need to paint a large sample board with several coats, and in two levels of sheen, since sheen often lightens color significantly. Then you can decide.

When I was looking for just the "right" yellow for my kitchen cabinets I wound up using an exterior color and had it mixed for interior enamel. The exterior yellow look different, maybe because they are geared to the fact that the house will be in full sunlight, they seemed to have that more "brownish" tone you're looking for.

Too yellow? But how cheery!

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I want them all! I wonder what DH would say if I said I wanted my cabinets painted. I had them stained a different color about 3-4 yrs ago. I am just not happy with them :(

Remember that thread awhile ago someone started about picking a yellow for their cabinets. I think that would be me. :)

That last one is still just a touch brighter than I want...maybe. But, it has the feel of hand painted cabinets rather than the first one - which looks so perfect. And the glazed image is *too* glazed and not the look I want at all.

I've just this morning given up my dream of having two brass statement faucets...which came in at $2242 total - to going with chrome in a simpler style and the Karbon for the prep sink for $1000 total. I selected them with an eye towards maybe one day getting my fancy schmancy brass faucets.

But, through several compromises now that don't limit me to make the higher end choices in the future, I knocked about $30k off the original kitchen bid. I just will not take NO for an answer. :-)

Is Farrow and Ball Dorset Cream out of the question? I ask because many (not all) of the F&B colors manage to make statements without going gaudy in late afternoon southern light.

Can you paint three or four sample boards and place them edge to edge at right angles, or thereabouts, so that you can get an idea of how much the yellow will intensify at corners, in shadows, and so forth?

I foolishly loaned my Farrow and Ball fan deck to my old contractor and he never returned it. So I'd have to go off Dorset Cream based on my monitor til I could get a sample pot in. I'm not adverse to giving it a go.

I painted my swatches (large) on old cabinet doors. They aren't salvageable, and they are easy to prop up around the room. It's really only briefly in the afternoon that I am not crazy about the Fresh Butter. Otherwise, I like the way it plays in the light in the room. It always looks good on the run that never gets direct late afternoon light.

Ah, on my monitor (for what it's worth) Farrow's Cream matches my Fresh Butter chip.