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Which White to choose for kitchen cabinets in grey/white kitchen

13 years ago
Can you please help me. I have attached a picture and need helping with my cabinet color.

There is not much natural light in the kitchen I am remodeling and I like cool colors.

I am trying desperately to choose a perfect white color for the cabinets, there will be mainly just lower cabinets. I will be putting in a light grey tile floor (from porcelanosa with purple undertones), chrome appliances and a honed ceasarstone counter along with a very white glossy stacked glass tile backsplash (not opaque).

I don't want the kitchen to look to stark or industrial, or BLAH, but I want it to be crisp and modern. I plan to put in some type of rolling wood butcher block and possibly some natural wood shelving or picture frames if needed to warm things up.

I am considering BM Snowfall because that is the color I used on much of my trim in the other parts of my house. I also like Chantilly Lace. I have gotten suggestions for White Dove but I think it looks so beige on the sample and Decorators White but I think it looks too grey. Are there any suggestions or thoughts you have for me for my cabinet color and which do you think would be the better option out of Snowfall White or Chantilly Lace. Any other suggestions would be helpful. I have attached a picture of the floor tile, pebble ceasarstone and white backplash.

Comments (16)

  • 13 years ago
    By the way, the big piece of tile is the floor tile, the small darker grey is the ceasarstone countertop and the white is the backsplash
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    You should be working with an interior designer with kitchen experience. A kitchen remodel should not turn into a RE MUDDEL. Bring on a professional for guidence.
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  • 12 years ago
    Can you include a picture of your kitchen now so we can visualize which might go better? Though i think i vote for the large light grey swatch on the largest panel.
  • 12 years ago
    I suggest you look at off-whites - test bm light pewter - it is going to read at first glance as white, but have more depth and presence also bm balboa mist and the off-white bm classic gray - they are going to make the room feel 1000 percent more sophisticated - you have a great eye with the things you have selected . . . try these just off whites
  • 12 years ago
    Thanks for the comments, I really want the cabinets to be white, not off white and the small grey piece above is the countertop and the white piece above is the backsplash. I was going to use the bigger piece about as tile flooring, but I opted to do hardwood instead and am thinking of going with a medium dark color. I have decided on Chantilly Lace for the cabinets and I hope it will work well.
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    I use architectural white a lot and it looks good with these tones
  • 12 years ago
    what brand of paint?
  • PRO
  • 12 years ago
    Thanks for your comments Dclostboy and Libradesigneye. Help please me. I am no longer doing the light grey tile floor and have decided on medium to dark hardwood, still with the white stacked backsplash and honed pebble ceasarstone countertops. I decided on the chantilly lace and told the cabinetmaker to make up a sample, and the sample they made was more yellow/creamy looking than the actual paint sample, yuck!!!! I'm not sure what to do because it seems like with their curing process to make the cabinets durable probably brings in some yellow so it ruins that color. I am going to the store today to look at the samples of light pewter and classic gray but I am kind of lost at this point. I wanted the cabinets to be bright white like the backsplash, but maybe I should go with more of a light pewter, I am confused. Any comments would help. there will be no upper cabinets except for just a small one over the refrigerator, all chrome appliances, will put some medium to dark modern shelving into the backplash at various points and there is a floor to ceiling pantry that will be about 12 to 14 inches deep of the same cabinet material/same color. The backsplash is very bright white and there is quite a bit of it. I have attached several pictures of the backsplash and countertop together, one has my sample of the chantilly lace behind it and another picture if just of my old kitchen
  • 12 years ago
    Also, I looked up that C2 paint and they do not have it anywhere around my area to look at, except 45 minutes away in SF, so I decided not to pursue it but thanks for the recommendation.
  • 12 years ago
    I looked at the light pewter and classic gray, way too tan looking
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    simply white or frostine from Benjamin Moore
  • 12 years ago
    we are using Chantilly lace for our all wood shaker style cabinets. we are going with a medium wood floor with grey undertones (riverstone) and a ceasarstone countertop (London grey). I had a very hard time picking too however unlike your experience the Chantilly lace was the most white (without being too cold). I didn't want anything creamy. our backsplash is still to be decided - our designer chose a very dark grey backsplash but I'm on the fence still. Today pendants have me stumped!! hope your kitchen turned out beautiful!
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    I would really consider going with the dark color on the floor....if you use the dark on counters in smaller kitchens it can look like you chopped it through the middle. Personally I think there is too much contract between the backsplash and counter as you have it. I am sure you are done with your kitchen tho and hope you love it.
  • 9 years ago

    Just put glass backsplash