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I hate my kitchen cabinets please help!!

I know nothing about decorating but am really trying to read and learn now. I HATE these cabinets which were here before us. I hate yellow and I hate green (except in flowers/plants). Please please any hints how I can work with these and avoid them looking so yellow and so traditional? I picked BM Brandon Beige as a wall colour last week as anything else that had less green looked too grey with the cabinets. What round kitchen table would look okay? What stools? (Though in the future we may get rid of this enormous island). Lighting? Backsplash? Any other paint suggestions that would allow me to carry it to the rest of the house? Right now since the kitchen is Brandon Beige, I was going to go with Grant Beige for the rest of the house. I've attached a bunch of pics of my kitchen from different angles, of a potential glass tile 3x16 and those paint chips are Brandon Beige (current color - the darker one) with grant beige beside it and Elmira white (on same paint strip attached for no reason:). The black paint chip is a green based black (I think) called Black Knight. Am I going in the right direction with this glass tile or should I do a subway tile? I also attached two pictures to show you kitchens I HATE. I hate anything to do with roosters. My MIL has like 5 roosters around her kitchen and I'm afraid my kitchen was meant to look like that!!! Sorry about all the hate. I'm just stuck!!!!! I want to love my space!!

Comments (11)

  • 10 years ago
    This is the kitchen with the problem cabinets
  • 10 years ago
    This is a potential glass tile...if I'm going in the right direction but I'm open to suggestions
  • 10 years ago
    These are examples of rooster kitchens I am trying to avoid:)
  • 10 years ago

    Paint the cabinets a brighter white and definitely get rid of the weird island thing. Then stop. Do nothing else yet. After you paint the cabinets, post more pics. Stop trying to live with cabinets you hate and coordinate stuff around them. Fix the actual problem.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Well, coming from a person who has a *rooster* kitchen, I was going to tell you to keep the weird island thing as that is something a *rooster* kitchen would love. So, I guess, rip it out and paint the cabinets, and go gray all the way, *boom* no rooster kitchen.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Oh, and I would also remove all the grids from the windows and cabinets to avoid the rooster kitchen look.

  • 10 years ago
    Thank you for your comments. And I'm sorry if I offend by calling it a rooster kitchen. I can't use the word "traditional" because I often like traditional spaces...I actually like the grids in the windows. It's roosters and yellows and clutter I don't like but thank you for your input. I'm starting to realize there maybe be no way to get passed the cabinet finish as I thought this new paint colour would help but alas all I see is yellow:(.


    I'm wondering if painting the cabinets would result in a clean/high end look because the cabinets are in great condition so I guess I'm going to research that now:-/
  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Sophia- you did not offend me at all. It is all just personal preference. I love my yellow kitchen and a rooster or two. I was just pointing out that the grids, and unique island lend them self to the rooster kitchen. I actually like that definition of a kitchen and shall refer to mine as that in the future.

  • 10 years ago
    Hey Margo, I de roostered last year, I still have a vintage one I can send you!
  • 10 years ago

    Thanks Depo, but I am down to one big red rooster myself.;) Have fun on your vacay *waving*

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