Julia Child's kitchen in the Smithsonian:

Thanks for the comments and pictures. Funny, I was never a “green” person, but when I moved here 16 years ago, I painted the bedroom a green to frame the garden, and the main living areas yellow, which to me was sunshine. I’ve never tired once of either choice! Photo - never mind that it was taken in the winter, it’s very green right now!

Lavender Lass!

You might also consider green stain instead of paint. Then you can have a lovely wood grain and the colour you love. I did this with my blue island and am very happy with it.

Whatever we do is for us. We’ll live here until they have to carry us out, and by then, someone will be ready to tear out and put a new kitchen in.
If we go with a non standard color, they will require us to order a sample door and sign off on the color, but I need to narrow down the samples, so I thought sample paint on my old cabinets would be a good start. Good point about the colors looking different from paint samples. I will be having a waterbourne finish as I’m sensitive to off gassing and allergic to oil based paints. Probably.
I don’t know deVol, just googled it. Nice!
I quite imagine Julia Child using what ever odd paint she might have had around, rather than going through all the decision turmoil we put ourselves through!
The island will have a butcher block top. I like walnut. Floor will likely be some sort of tile rather than wood. Counters will be light and plain. I love bead board. I’ll use it someplace.
I’m meeting with the KD again next Wednesday and it would be great to feel like I have a solid direction to go in!
So these sample go from 1-7, light to dark. I was originally thinking about 1, Filmy Green, but perhaps 2-4 is the range I should look at. These are SW.

Wow, all those greens go with the stone! Beautiful!

green cabinets, walnut countertop on the island(indeed needs to be painted then I presume)..no I'm already enamored, why do you think somebody will surely rip something beautiful out? if it works with the house?

I don't know what numbers you're referring to when you talk about samples because I don't know the order you set them in..it seems to be more than seven. or else you attached a photo that I can't see.

(I love eight shades, out of the ones that you put on your tray..one of them, one of the lighter one, reminds me my own cabs in a certain light(they're actually greige. half of the day, they're taupe. now they're this greenish color of your sample. funny how it all changes with light, one of the reason I like these colors).

But now as you're mentioning walnut-I'd go with a deeper, slightly cooler tone..something magnetizing my stare and sucking me in, like the sea does. Smth like this Basil. Or the color of the kitchen that Miranda posted. Or Vogue Green?

I'd like to have several little houses allover the world to experiment.

When we bought our house 34 years ago, we painted the ugly stained wood cabinets a color called Scarab Green. It was emerald, it wasn't forest. It was a green in my Brunschwig & Fils French documentary wallpaper called Fraise de Bois wallpaper. I loved it! I would never hesitate to have a green kitchen.

Starting at the top center, 1-7 counterclockwise is one color strip, and 1-7 clockwise is another color strip. I think the ones on the left are better. Basil falls at 6. My kitchen is not big, it’s a 10.5’ x 17.75’ condo kitchen actually. It has one large window to the floor that gets the east morning sun, but otherwise, it’s not a very bright space. One end will be a large open pass through, but it’s not an open floor plan. I don’t think I can go with the beautiful deep colors. I need to reflect light.

I also think that with what you describe, ones on the left are better. My favorites then are 5 and 6. and 4. But others are beautiful too (sigh). In short. You'll have to narrow down to your favorites and to get these sampled. and to stare at them for some time. Took me personally ten days and 12 doors(I had a very generous cabinetmaker), that I dragged around to see them in different lights, like some monkey, but was worth it. I hope though it comes easier to you, sometimes things are just obvious almost right away.

You'll need to look at them as they are placed vertically though. Can you, for now, attach them to the tray so they don't fall, and lean the tray so you see them in front of you?

@Anglophilia I bet that emerald was stunning!

i love "foxhall green" on sophie's sample. i would definitely go dark on the bottom!! or "vogue green". i feel the lighter shades will get washed out with natural and artificial light and just not feel right.

i myself am not a green person, but those dark ones speak to me.

i love luckyblueeye first 2 pics. the third one, meh, bland.

I like the meh! Lol! Maybe the medium toned and darker on the island. The darker toned would be lost in the limited natural lighting and ambient under cabinet lighting I think.

I hope you'll post pics as this goes along-I love green.

In this example, I don’t like the white on top, green on bottom, but I am also thinking about the crisp white for the island, to infuse some light into it.

If the green were darker I might like that one more. I like the idea of a wood stained island better than a white one. I saw a kitchen a little bit ago that struck me..it was wood and navy, two tone-tho you said you didn't care for two toned, just wanted to mention it b/c it was pretty striking I thought.

Regardless, even if you think your kitchen is dark so don't want to do dark green cabs, I bet if you have under cabinet lighting and enough other lighting, it wouldn't be too dark. What does your kitchen look like now?

"I quite imagine Julia Child using what ever odd paint she might have had around"

Just for historical accuracy, Julia Child's husband Paul chose that green color. It was 1962, and the color was very groovy at the time.

Aunt Bee liked it too.

This is my kitchen now, with the best light of the day. The island to which I refer is actually a peninsula that will attach to the wall where the table sits, but as it does not connect to a run of cabinets, it was easier to call it an island.

So here they are vertically on the best lit cabinet area. The lightest is too light, and the darkest is too dark I think. White is at the bottom for reference.

My favorites are the two mid-shade ones, 4 and 5 from the top

I stay with 4,5, and 6. Will you have glass in some of upper cabinets? everything will be changed, right? flooring, appliances?

I have a green kitchen in a vintage house, so it fits the surroundings. Think about how it will relate to the architecture of the rest of your home before committing. A lot of people don't like green, so you've got to be sure. It's been my favorite color since I was a very young kid pointing out green in traffic lights!

That being said, greens will be heavily affected by light in your room. My personal preference is "green as neutral" - not too light, not too dark. I'd take the upper right range and try a few in the room.

Here's the photos of ours. We used Omega Dynasty Pesto rather than having the painted on site. We broke up the green with a ton of glass cabinets filled mostly with white dishes - one full of color. Even in a vintage home, two full walls of green would have been too much for me. (And yes, we committed the GW Kitchen's ultimate sin of installing a paneled refrigerator rather than integrated. Nobody has died because of it.)

I was so hoping you'll come, Spanish! love your kitchen so much

Thanks April. I love your shopping finds!

So many different, but equally beautiful green kitchens! Everything will be changed, floor to ceiling. The yellow and white outside the kitchen will remain, so has to go with that. I will have some glass front cabinets, but most will be closed. I may have one open for cookbooks. We have lived in 6 different countries, so I have an eclectic and colorful mix of items that just have to live together. This shows a representative mix of some of what would be displayed, though in glass, not all together. I won’t be going shopping to fill them with white dishes. At one point I thought I had better go back to white with all the color, but then I went back to green. Everything goes with green.
Spanish, I love your terra cotta floors! I had them when I lived in Brazil and had a moment of crazy thought to put them throughout my Michigan condo, but as you said, it has to fit. I think terra cotta is wonderful with green. I would put it in this kitchen if I could get away with it and afford it! Here also is a floor I love.

Thanks. Our floor is not terra cotta. It’s by Arto Brick. More durable and they have lots of choices.

https://www.arto.com/

Here the color samples are in a darker part of the kitchen, without lights and with the lights on. I will have better lighting. This pass through will be opened up from counter height with no cabinets overhead.

Hard to get accurate lighting and color!

I think all the green kitchens are really beautiful. That said, they are the current trend of the day, and as a trend, they are much more likely to "age" quickly. I think in 5 years, a lot of people may be regretting their green kitchens.... Of course, the old adage "get what you love". But i always caveat that by noting that the things we love can't help but be influenced by trends. Our preferences and trends are highly intertwined with each other, and i don't think you can say "do what you love" without thinking about trends.

Also, i agree with a comment above that you need to make sure this green kitchen fits with the rest of your house. I think if the rest of your house is a middle of the road ranch home that hasn't been updated much in 20 years, and wasn't particularly thoughtfully decorated to begin with, a green kitchen can end up looking like an awkward holdover from 1984 instead of bringing the house into 2018.

But i repeat: i do love all those green kitchens that everyone is posting!

H202 - I guess I'm ahead of the trend. I picked a sage green accent wall and a wilderness green sort of quartz countertop in my kitchen (with stained wood cabs). Frankly, I don't care if it's a trend or not a trend, I'm simply enjoying it. I am just ahead of the curve on this one (and behind the curve on my ORB fixtures...)

Since I live rurally, most potential buyers around here would be perfectly happy with Formica -- which indeed can be quite nice these days -- and whatever else, if the layout itself suits them.

I did this kitchen about 14 years ago. I just wanted you to see what a dark green would look like. My kitchen is a little outdated and tired but it functions well.

If we wanted to avoid anything that someone might consider a trend, past, present or future, we would simply have everything sitting on the floor in boxes! Lol! On trend or off trend does not matter to me, but continuity does. I have vaulted ceilings in a more formal, traditional style, which is downplayed with a mix of formal and casual furnishings. A green kitchen would tie into green that is elsewhere already, but so would white. I just need to keep it connected style wise, which was the above poster’s well taken point.

Riverrat, it’s a beautiful kitchen and you’ve got the space to pull off such a deep color!

Love this shade of green.

That’s very pretty and goes well with the yellow and blue I have. A little too minty for me maybe.

That actually looks very much like the green I have in my bedroom, which I love every time I walk in the room. I’ve had it for 16 years!

The only place I could find to try out the samples under cool led lighting was inside my new refrigerator! Lol!

vs. direct sunlight and daylight.

Janet,

what did you end up with?

Green is still going strong 6 years later but not mainstream.

Blue and gray are out.

White has calmed down

White oak is all the rage

Bought a spec home and builder put dark heavy stained caninets in. Its like a cool espresso.

Im debating on playing it safe with a timeless white or going with a neutral green like SW Escape Gray. I’d go with Evegreen Fog or Jade Green but natural light is lacking.

I also don’t have a lot of natural light.

Very nice - thanks for sharing the images!

Good call on adding some glass.

What color green is that?

It’s called Willow Green, and was a standard color from the cabinet manufacturer.

Another view, with mirror reflecting.

love the green cabinets,

Last corner

Oh, pic would help

Looking good! I bet its Evergreen fog.

Willow.