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Bright white or off-white cabinets

4 years ago

Im in chosing which white cabinet hell. i keep going back and forth. the bright white almost feels too white but we also have drywall ceilings and an 80s kitchen so im sure the general dinge makes it look brighter. the off white i like when the rooms getting a lot of direct natural light but thats usually for a few hours in the morning into early afternoon and i find myself turning on every light to get the true soft white appearance vs dingy. I wish there was a white in the middle but theres not.we need new lighting though-i have a call in for the estimate as well.. i would love to just wait until our new floors are in and walls are painted but its a 15 wk lead time and if i wait another 8 weeks for the floors/finish to decide were talking christmas time for instal which is not ideal. im just afraid of making the 17k wrong choice.



Comments (21)

  • 4 years ago

    Definitely picture #2!!

  • 4 years ago

    Another vote for the white… so pretty!

  • 4 years ago

    Brighter white

  • 4 years ago

    Been there, done that. Pure white is a classic for a reason. Last kitchen I chose a cream, and it was hard to really coordinate anything. This time, I went BM Simply White. Very pleased.

  • 4 years ago

    Another vote for bright white.

  • 4 years ago

    Bright white.

  • 4 years ago

    Bright white it will look lovely

  • 4 years ago

    Definitely bright white

  • 4 years ago

    The brighter white color.

    The off-white color looks yellow with your quartz counter. You end up getting a yellow and blue feel to the space.

    I used BM Chantilly Lace in the house we built this past year. Used it for all cabinets, trim and ceilings.

  • 4 years ago

    We had off-white/cream cabs then had a house fire and replaced with bright white. We really liked the cream when we chose it and it suited our style at the time, but it was time for a change. The bright white seemed like a more current colour and looked better with our accessories and dishware.

  • 4 years ago

    Bright White 100%

  • 4 years ago

    The brighter white i would say more closely resembles chantilly lace. maybe slightly brighter while the off white most closely resembles simply white but takes on a more beigey look when not in bright daylight

  • 4 years ago

    The 2nd photo for sure! It looks great with your countertop. The other cabinet reads yellow and doesn't do much for the countertop.

  • 4 years ago

    I have Creamy cabinets - yellow undertones. I hate it. I want to have my cabinets painted a WARM White. Soothing. Cool Whites are too harsh / bright in my opinion.

    Go with White.

  • 4 years ago

    For that quartz, the whiter one is better.

  • 4 years ago

    My choices for whites are sea salt (the bright white) , white icing (the creamier one) or magnolia which I do not have a sample door but it’s an off white with a tint of gray vs and off white with a tint of yellow.

  • 4 years ago

    I knew I wanted a mostly white kitchen, albeit not a cold white. Our trim is BM Chantilly Lace, which is a nice, clean white that doesn’t read cold, so we settled on that. Our cabinet folks actually had a sample piece of it in cabinet paint, and we noticed that it came out more yellow-y than my painted sample board. However, the co has a white cabinet paint called ”extra white”, and it matched my sample board perfectly. Most cabs are in, and we love it, so I’m glad i switched. That being said, I think Chantilly Lace is a great white!

  • 4 years ago

    Sea Salt, definitely definitely.

  • 4 years ago

    In my opinion, your whites should all be the same to avoid the dingy look of off-white. If you have selected a counter material with white in it, your cabinets will look best if the cabinet white matches the counter white.

  • 4 years ago

    I hate my off white cabinets.

    Going to paint them White. no yellow tones.


    Match the counter as close as possible to white.