I don’t think spending thousands on new counters is going to change much. I’d leave the counters as is and have the cabinets painted professionaly.

Consider a deep color to balance the countertops and add brass hardware.

This is B.M. Deep Silver. Love!

Thank you for your input! I would leave the counters but they are granite tile and stained with darkened areas all over and 5 years down the road afraid it would not sell. Need to keep up with neighborhood. House next door just sold for 679.000, I would appreciate your input again with this additional information please. Thank you

I want to say that counters will not do enough to change this kitchen into something fresh. Why spend the money now instead of waiting until you can revamp the entire thing?

Agreed with @User. Are you staying in the house or are you selling? If you're selling, leave the kitchen alone and price it to sell. No matter what you do, I guarantee the buyer will want to gut and remodel to their liking. Changing the counters to quartz will not disguise the fact that the cabinets and floors are outdated. In fact, changing the counters will make the orange-y cabinets stick out more.

If you're staying in the house, save, save, save for a proper remodel. Maybe that's refacing your cabinets or professionally repainting. Maybe it also includes replacing the tile floor. But if you're going to update one surface, you should plan to update them all.

I’m staying in the house for several more years. Our cabinets are outdated but they are in good shape so painting them down the road is a possibility. I really wanted to do new counters and backsplash. I appreciate the input and now do not know if I’m doing the right thing, I’m surprised as I see a lot of people on here keep their wood and do new counters and have Never read read don’t do it. Now I have thinking to do. Tommorow I’m supposed to sign on dotted line. I have been researching colors for weeks. i value your opinions so this is disappointing. Thank you

@HU-335630682 speaking from bitter experience--

its best not to do a piecemeal remodel. Do it all it once. Do not replace one element and later try to replace others. If you do backsplash and counters and then decide to paint or replace cabinets or redo floors, its just going to make that so much harder.

If you like your lay out you can certainly only do cosmetics. Paint the cabinets, do counters, floors and backsplashes. Pick new lighting fixtures. But if you don't like the lay out. its best to have someone help you to redesign and do everything at once. There are logical stages for these projects. Trust me. Don't do it piecemeal.

Five years down the road your kitchen won’t sell the house even if you invest $6,000.00 in countertops and leaving cabinets as is.

Make it yours, for now. Let new buyers make it theirs.

It is all about location, school systems, etc which sell a house…not countertops.

You don't need to paint the cabinets. The wood is fine, and looks like maple. The arched design is dated, but painting isn't going to change that. If your countertops were currently solid, I would also say to keep them, and most who suggested that may not have read that these are granite tile. It's a good update to move from a tile countertop to a solid surface. You may be able to save some money by choosing a solid cream or white countertop - check around.

HU, I just painted my cabs, got new counters and new flooring. So here's my .02.

If keeping the floor tile and the cabs as is, I wouldn't do that bright white, marble looking quartz. (if you plan on painting the cabs and possibly redoing your floors, fine) . The reason is that countertop appears to be very white, a cool white. your cabs and flooring are warm toned.

If keeping your cabs natural, then do TajMajal Quartzite. it will be the perfect match for your wood and tile floors. then you can choose a diff cabinet hardware, and update your lighting.

if you want a quartz, pick on that leans warm your second choice may be ok

here's Minuet w/more of a warmer greige/white cabinet

this one is similar to your first choice. It might work w/your maple, but it might not.

If you want to paint, then have the cabs painted and get new door fronts. You only have 10, so it shouldn't be that much. I had mine refaced when I had mine painted. (I had about 40 fronts refaced and it was only another 2K)

Yes those are beautiful and LG Hausys Clarion was one of my picks. I wish Tajamal could be used but it is way too expensive I can’t afford that, I have decided to wait now and rethink this. Thank you

I actually have more cabinets to reface than is in pic Beth. There is a whole other side of my kitchen not shown, but maybe about 25 all together but 40 is a lot. Replacing the tile is not going to happen as it flows into halls and into bathroom and dining. way too much money for me to do as I was quoted 20. 000 to put laminate wood in. I appreciate all your input and it has changed my mind right now as I even canceled my appointment tomorrow to sign on dotted line. I was always worried about my cabinets looking dated, but this just validated it. I will say the area where I live a lot of people don’t have high end stuff like the Bay Area in Palo Alto. This is way up Northern calif where the standards are lower. My main concern is my counters now are granite tile and are stained that is the reason for the change they look terrible and outdated. I have some things to think about. That is my ugly counter stained in a lot of different places like that. Thanks again

your cabinets aren't that bad. you could always get them redone down the road. even if you don't get them refaced, just painting them would be fine.

or, look around for some other options on the quartz.

can't see all your counters, but pre-fab granite or quartz is also an option. a 9' pre-fab averages $450. you hire a fabricator to fit it to your dimensions. usually they just cut it there on site. (sink cut out, stove, etc)

This is Taj in a pre-fab and it's considerably more. 1800 for a 9' countertop. but, if that's all you needed, this is a good price for taj. you'd hire a fabricator who would prob charge 800-1K to fit it onto your cabinets. (for regular low-priced granite you're going to pay at least 3K, so for Taj it's a really good deal)

these are just a few of the pre-fabs at my tile place.

the black would look nice w/your wood

this is a nice one too. Silver Supreme or Supreme White

Stellar Snow quartz

Thank you Beth you gave me something to think about I didn’t know anything about the prefab. Not sure about resell but price sure sounds good. My cabinets below in a different light. Maybe a little better in this lighting. Maybe I was too set on white.

Jhmarie your kitchen looks beautiful. I really like the LG colors. I’m going to do some more thinking and looking. this sure has opened my eyes up.

i Like The colors and saw some of these on Pinterest and that is what inspired me to do white with wood. Who knows everything white might be outdated some day.

There is a warmth to many of the LG counters that helps them work with wood cabinets.

If I ran the world, double bowl sinks would be outlawed. Installing a top mount double bowl into quartzite would be a capital crime as pictured in Beth's 6th picture down in her first post. Prolly a 20 gauge and the faucet came with the sink.

Joe, while I agree with your comment regarding drop-in vs undermount, there are reasons to have a double sink. I'll give you mine. My husband is very haphazard with how he does things in the kitchen and if I had a single bowl, many pieces of flatware would go into the disposal. If dishes are stacked in the larger (non-disposal) sink, this occurs much less frequently. Trust me, I've tried to get him to be more careful . . . but not successful.

I might consider off white or white corian in your shoes. I feel like quartz is too modern but corian could be appropriate for the era of your kitchen or more contemporary also.

I try to stay out of design advice because I have so many of my own questions about it. :) Also, I'm biased because bought a house recently with an outdated wood kitchen and I have some contradictory feelings and ideas about what I want to do with it.

However, I can do planning. My thought is this: If replacing the counters will make you feel happy about your kitchen for next several years, replace them! Yes, it's $6000 but once you pull the string on a full reno the tab will much higher. Perfect is the enemy of good.

On the flip side, if you are really irritated by the kitchen and you are hoping the quartz will fix things it cannot fix, then you might want to work out a bigger plan and see if its a possible destination for you.

I agree with the prior comment not to make any decisions based on resale in several years. You just don't know what the buyers will want, and houses are package deals. People may put the sweet kitchens and baths at the top of their showing list, but when push comes to shove its the number of bedrooms, the schools, the size of the yard, yadda yadda .... and of course price.

A simple update may help sell the house; I bought my house because it had the location, size, and yard we wanted, and the kitchen was updated *just enough* for me to be reasonably happy working in it for few years. What was the update? Bing bing bing, a new countertop.

But it also may *not* help: your buyer may plan to immediately replace the kitchen.

Same thing with a big renovation - it will help you sell, but so will having savings in the bank that allows you to price competitively when you list the house.

Point is, go with what works for you; there will always be buyers with similar priorities.

If you replace the counter, I like your second example - the warm veining in the second slab harmonizes / makes a pleasant nod to your wood tones.

Danielle thank you very informative! I think that is what this comes down to new counters that I have wanted for a long time as the ones that are in granite tile are out dated ugly and stained. There is no plans to sell so anything is better than what on there. I’m actually of thinking granite slab too as some of it is cheaper and the colors go better but time will tell.

HU, your cabinet color looks pretty good. The arch is a bit dated, but overall they look nice.

What do you think about updating the hardware a bit? maybe something a tad less 'curvy' ?

I think if you did your quartz counters (or a nice granite) and a nice tile backsplash, you'd have your updated kitchen. It's worth the money if it makes you happy.

Take a look at some of the other quartz options, just to see if there is something better you may like.

as for granite, Have you seen Alaska White (Delicatus white)? It's white but it has the warmer tones in it. Slabs vary a LOT, so look at different sources

I would do a creamy white tile splash.

or, this one is Yellow River (I'm sure it has other names)

I believe this was the name of the granite that I used to have before I painted my cabinets

Cambria has Windermere quartz. it has warmer tones

and Bellingham would look great w/your stain color

with this one you could do darker hardware

I really like those colors Beth! I do find a lot more options in granite which I’m not opposed to if the price is better than quartz. I love the hardware and was planning on getting rid of the curve look. Thank you so much I really like getting the pictures

I have been living with good quality maple cabinets for 10 years so I get the issues you are facing. I even have the strawberry backsplash to boot! I have been really inspired by these pictures to modernize so like Beth said before, new handles would go a long way.

go figure that I've been trying to change out my handles and they don't fit!!!!!

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Thanks susie yes it is a struggle matching those cabinet. I appreciate you sending those pictures