Cabinet color help

11 years ago

last modified: 11 years ago

we have around 11 inch by 10 inch U shaped kitchen as below. We are planning to order cabinets soon and have been thinking of dark shades like espresso (or pepper shaker) - with white quartz and backsplash on maple wood.

At last minute, we do have concerns around usage of dark shade in relatively smaller kitchen with too many cabinets and limited wall/back splash exposure. Any thoughts or advice on this? Will below design with dark shade make kitchen [not great] without sufficient contrast? Lasty, will this be a neutral cabinet color ? Here are our alternatives for finishes: http://www.wellborn.com/finbrowser.php

Note - there are no windows here but right when the kitchen ends(across the range), we have our eat-in dinning area followed by backyard door.

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cpartist
11 years ago
Instead of showing just a picture of all the cabinet doors, how about a picture of your kitchen so we can see whether or not it will be too dark.
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User
11 years ago
We need to talk. Not about cab color. Your layout.

Here is my before and after. Look familiar?

Because your pantry cabinet is so wide, it pushes your fridge too close to your stove. Problems: feeling crowded at stove. Really bad if someone is cooking and someone wants to get in fridge. Hard to get into cabinets in corner. In our case we couldn't even open the drawer near the stove without it bumping into the fridge. Lack of counter space to the left of the fridge and feeling squeezed in when using corner. Now I keep the Breville oven on that counter (moved it from the corner as shown in after photo because it was steaming the cabinets).

I think our old pantry cabinet was 24" wide and the current pull-out pantry is 10" wide. I can pull it out and see everything at a glance. I had a 12" useless base cabinet to the left of the fridge and now I have 17" drawers. The top drawer is a spice drawer and the middle drawer is bread and snacks. I had a single upper cabinet and now I have a 27" double door cabinet. I keep all my baking supplies in that cabinet and all other food is in the pantry.

I had no deep counter to spread out for prep. I had a raised bar that we never used because our dining room backs up to the bar stools. I love the one-level peninsula.

I changed my sink base from 36" to 28" and went from a small double sink to a large single sink. I added a 13" pull-out trash cabinet by bumping into my hallway by 5".

I was also afraid of the kitchen looking too dark. My cabinets are natural cherry--would have loved stained cherry. We used a light colored quartz countertop, which was one of our best decisions. I also used a chimney hood to break up the row of wood on that wall. Still haven't installed a backsplash, which will most likely be a cream color.
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daved123
Original Author
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Cpartist - pics added.

mayflowers - all ur fridge pts are valid including unable to open drawer. We cant move fridge to right due to huge hvac as well as plumbing behind that wall right of fridge.