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Help! Cream cabinets

4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago

I have looked at a million creams it seems. I’m looking for a creamy color for my kitchen cabinets. Not too white and not too yellow. My cabinet maker is asking for my color choice and I am lost. We want warm and creamy. I Don’t want too much grey, green, or blue in the undertone. Doing a kitchen with a copper sink and lanterns. Old world look. I should add that i have medium color (on the dark side) hardwood floors, warm can lights (installed before i bought the home), and a quartzite countertop that is grey, with black veins and swaths of cream color (see photos for floor and counter). Current kitchen photo below (all appliances have quit working and our sink has a hole in it!). Oh! And we are painting the kitchen and living room- not blue. We can’t wait for a designer, due to the growth in our area, no one can come before late spring/summer and I have no working kitchen right now as single mom and working professional, so to get it done now, I have to forego waiting on a designer 🤪.



Anyone have suggestions? Pictures???

Comments (17)

  • 4 years ago

    It's going to depending on the lighting in your space, along with everything else (copper sink and lanterns isn't enough info to go on).


    Maybe one of the color experts will stop by with a general "safe" recommendation. Of course, it might not work with your floors, your countertop, and your lighting.


    What does your kitchen designer recommend? Or are you the designer??

    JJ Jensen thanked kempek01
  • 4 years ago

    I’m not in your space. So it’s super hard to say.
    Did you try :

    BM BALLET WHITE

  • 4 years ago

    If you have looked at a million creams and don't like any of them, check your lighting to make sure it's the color temperature you want. You'll need a lot of bulbs. It's pretty dark this time of year in Canada.

  • PRO
    4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Paint can be so tricky cause it changes in every space.

    Here's one of my favorite designers who does the creamy old-world look well:






    *cabinet color sources at the bottom of each photo in fine print

    JJ Jensen thanked User
  • 4 years ago





    JJ Jensen thanked Maureen
  • PRO
    4 years ago
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    Revere Pewter — Benjamin Moore



  • 4 years ago

    Why not simply replace the broken appliances and the sink with a hole in it?

  • 4 years ago

    SW Dover White. Creamy white. My favorite. But as others say, depends on your lighting (including natural light).

  • 4 years ago

    Long story, but the oven was placed in a cabinet that wasnt a proper oven cabinet. The oven caught on fire (not pictured), resulting in the need to replace that cabinet. The sink is a unique antique that was placed in a custom cabinet, meaning we have to cut the current granite to access the sink cabinet to size it for a new sink (the old sink size is near impossible to find).

    After needing to replace the oven cabinet, the sink cabinet, and the granite, thereby having to take out the backsplash, I just decided to remodel the entire kitchen!

  • 4 years ago

    Is it possible to pick up a few quarts of your top choices..paint a scrap and hold it up in the area.
    You are understandably overwhelmed.

    JJ Jensen thanked Chris
  • 4 years ago

    I went through a LOT of sample pots to find the right cream for our very dark kitchen.


    My first thought for you is Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee, as someone else posted above. it is the color in one of my favorite kitchens by Studio McGee.


    Other Benjamin Moore colors to consider are...


    Edgecomb Grey

    Pale Oak

    Feather Down


    I ended up choosing Maritime White. I really like Edgecomb Grey in most locations and thought I would use that on our cabinets, but my cursed kitchen is just too gloomy and it turned muddy.


    Good luck! Nicole



  • 4 years ago

    Swiss coffee

    by BenjaminMoore

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    @JJ Jensen- Is your cabinet maker making your cabinets from scratch?

    Or just repainting the ones you already have that have paint on them?

    I am asking because I thought kitchen cabinets made ab initio are not supposed to be painted with paint at all, but coated x 2 with a special coating made especially for cabinets.

    Is your cabinet maker a woodworker or really a kitchen cabinetmaker?

    Shouldn't he know this?

  • 4 years ago

    I don't understand why asking for a color would lead to any assumption about process or products being used!

  • 4 years ago

    Her cabinet maker asked her for a color. He didnt ask her how to finish, or what finish to use. How you jumped to that conclusion is beyond me.