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No to painting! The cabinets are beautiful, change the island to one level and paint it if you must.

Can you? Sure. Should you? Heck no. First rule of renovation-- don't destroy good old work. Granted this isn't particularly old, but the cabinets are still beautiful. Downgrading them to a painted finish (heaven forbid the incredibly boring white/gray current fad) makes little sense.

"replace granite with stone" No idea what that means, last I checked granite is stone, unlike the many currently trendy composite materials. Agree with making the island one level.

They are truly beautiful, so please do not paint them. If it is too much wood, what about painting the window frames and the cooktop hood? or treating yourself to a new hood in a contrasting material?

Sure, you can spend about 10-15K having those professionally painted with an industrial wood coating. You absolutely SHOULD NOT. Wood is back again big time, and those are prime examples of a very desirable look that has never really been out of style. Those are the very definition of Rustic Modern. You would be losing multiple tens of thousands of dollars when even that pro paint job failed, and you had to replace the cabinets.

Also, that stone is beautiful and perfect with those cabinets.

You should live in a home at least 6 months before planning hundreds of thousands of renovations that do not even work.

You can't get more Rustic Modern than natural wood cabinets and a beautiful stone. Are you trolling everyone here?

Before I did anything to the gorgeous cabinets or granite, I’d replace the floor.

Yes to changing floors not wood tone!

what is your inspiration. road map is not clear and therefore large expenditures should wait until you get an overall scheme with value to the activities.... simply because what you have is basically fine.

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Modern rustic sounds fantastic! here is a bit of inspiration…. yes paint the cabinets a neutral white..why not…..do what you want with them…if adding stone and painting cabinets I would consider changing out the flooring to a light wood.

You want painted cabinets! Great- paint them!!!!! Your house. Great on you for keeping the cabinets since a huge volume of landfill waste is from construction. Hire the most expensive painter using expensive paint- you don’t want Bob with a brush.

You can certainly create a Rustic Modern kitchen by keeping those cabinets! Also keeping that gorgeous stone. The island can be cut to one level, and painted a green from the stone. Then top it with a butcher block that matches the cabinets. Paint the walls a warm white. Address the lighting and flooring, and you can be under 40K for the total.

If you really, really, can’t tolerate the kitchen cabinets (and what color would you even paint them that would be modern rustic?) do not paint them. Sell them. Someone will covet them.

The cabinets are beautiful as they are- and IMO are “modern rustic “. I’d replace the flooring, the lighting, the hood, and change the island to one level. Perhaps replace the sink and faucet, too. Please share your Modern Rustic inspiration photos.

It doesn't matter how gorgeous we think it is if you don't like it. You have to live with it. I do think you are very close to a cool modern rustic look though.

1. Remove now the uppers that sit on the counter between the window and fridge.

2. Paint window, door frames, and the post white.

3. Make the island one level.

4. Add countertops that you like.

5. Get a new hood.

6. Add hardware that you like.

7. Don't paint the cabinets.

I've had to make intermediate updates to a kitchen with cherry cabinets I didn't like and my updates were great and got me to like my kitchen for three more years. Keep these great cherry cabinet. They are the foundation for a cool modern look.

wow, so many comments on my kitchen.

i have to address a few things. im so confused why some people have to be so rude and disrespectful when someone is just asking a question.

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let me start off by saying we have lived in our home for almost THREE years, haven't touched a single thing but the fireplace.

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i know most of you love these cabinets we do too. the previous owner was extremely wealthy and spent a TON of money in the 90s to add custom cherry cabinets to almost every room in the house. its absurd how much cherry is in this house. I mean we are talking, Kitchen, all three bathrooms, the laundry room, the formal office, two bedrooms, the movie room, EVERY SINGLE DOOR, every single closet doors, pantry doors, its overwhelming. the only room in the house that does not have cherry cabinets is my walk in closet, which they opted for maple. (which is my preference)

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THE HOOD: , its not a hood, it hold three little lights, we are going to remove it, and have to cut a peice of that granite to fill the blank or completely redo the backsplash (that option is at the top of the totem pole) the stove is downdraft. we are replacing it with induction and pop up fan this summer.

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we want to keep the cabinets and not toss them because they are wonderful quality and have a nice shape, but the color is not what we like.. therefore, painting or staining IS our option. unless someone wants to trade me, then they can come to rural Oregon and get these. i will trade for MAPLE (spalted would be a dream), and for this door style or a smooth door.

as far as the "ugly floor" this tile (with smaller accent squares of kitchen granite) is in every room but the bedrooms (clean white carpet, hate it) and the office (travertine, Love it) . thank you but i wasn't asking about the floor. It will be removed when we can find someone to install the heated floor then the sustainable bamboo.

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the granite. it is pretty, it is dark it is, busy, its different heights in the kitchen, it hides dirt, stains, food, and messes perfectly, its perfect for kids. we don't like it. it add to the darkness to the room, we want to have an open feel to the kitchen. we are looking at QUARTZITE countertops. to help it seem bigger we are going to eventually remove the ceiling and have the vault thats in the rest of the home. there are so many skylights and windows in the house we only turn our lights on at night. we want to maximize the open feeling.

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someone even said "you bought the wrong house" that is just stupid. this house was built in 1974 and was partially remodeled in the 90s. we love this house. this is our forever home. and for two disabled veterans its perfect for us. we live river front, have two acres, and have the peace and quite its the perfect house. just because we dont like the cherry does not mean we bought the wrong house. Nobody buys the wrong house they buy a house because they love it some people just have to do some renovations and make it theirs. which is what we are doing. haven't you seen ANY renovation tv show? You'd be so lucky to have a home that was perfect and exactly what you wanted, never had to paint, never had to do a single thing to it. but that isnt our situation.

ok. i absolutely LOVE LOVE what Home interiors With Ease suggested. that rock backsplash! 🥰 love.

i also love the idea of painting the island a pretty green (im in a green phase right now)

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For those who don't know what modern rustic is. i have added a few pictures of what we are using for inspiration. i have also added one of the current granite.

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all the windows are going to be replaced, black frames all ours are brown. what this boils down to. Im a child of the 80s - 90s i cant handle the tan, brown, beige anymore. I love color, not afraid of modern but love my antiques. i want it to flow and look cohesive. i dont care about fads, whats in, whats not.. i want to like it.. when you buy a forever home you get to make it yours no matter what anyone says.

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I appreciate the help and the suggestions. i hope people look at other posts with kindness and a lot less personal opinion. to each home their own.

thank you for the suggestions. :)

i thought Costa Esmeralda granite is only in shades of green, its on EVERY SINGLE counter in the house. except for the downstairs bathroom wich has black marble.

its a super closeup of a small portion of the counter, i can take a better photo later. im not sure if this is that, yours is stunning

Here is a better picture of the granite

My neighbors (in a split level, and I miss my split too) bought a kitchen at a demolition sale. They took out a wall to accommodate it, cabinets, appliances, countertop, and just had to buy backsplash and do some flooring. Just sell it and get what you want. Same with the other spaces.

There is no crime in wanting what you want! This can help fund it.

I would take it is a heartbeat, if you ever want to sell it! It is one of the nicest kitchens I have seen.

Holy hell, I can see why you want to bust out of the cherry insanity. I would too if I had this in every room of my house. So to respond to your original question of "can we paint them" are you asking about painting them yourselves or having them painted? I researched this with ours, and others on here will know more about the technical aspects, but you do not want to DIY paint these or any other good cabinets. You want a professional cabinet painter. Not a house painter. You want them to use specific processes that will get the paint to adhere and cure to a heavily used surface. Quite different than painting a wall. And quite a bit more expensive!

Sounds like you could probably sell your counters for a pretty sum. Good luck with that. I've only ever seen one granite I liked. They are not my cup of tea either.

Here is my main hallway.

These doors are solid not hollow.

Really beautiful. Are you keeping the doors? I could see a polished nickel or polished chrome hardware and whiter wall paint brightening up this hallway quite a bit.

They are beautiful cabinets! Cherry is hard to paint over. In your second photo you have a couple cabinets with doors. Maybe replace those with glass center? It would make it lighter and open the room up. Maybe you already said this, but replace the countertops with something lighter/less heavy. If it were me I’d probably hire a designer that can help. It really is a beautiful kitchen.

Your inspiration pics are light oak and black Lots of people like that combo. Can you paint the perimeter cabinets white and replace the island with the llight oak you prefer?

On my monitor, the zoomed-in photos of the granite don't look the same to my eye as your original pics, so IDK what's going on there. Deleted my above posts since I may have been wrong in assessing the granite -- though I do see green in the original photos so I think it still may be Costa E.

ETA: Regardless of the what the granite actually is, it's beautiful as is the whole of the kitchen.

I totally understand that you want a change. I love cherry wood and much of my furniture is made from it. The kitchen we installed many years ago was cherry and was a showstopper in its time. However, I also wanted a change, I needed more light/windows and that required a new layout. Keeping the original cabinets was not part of the plan. BUT I respected the beauty of the wood as well as the fine quality of the construction. I decided to donate the cabinets after having them carefully removed so as not to do any damage. I never would have painted them, but that's just me.

The thing is that I don't think that you are going to achieve the look that you show in your inspiration photos by painting or staining the cherry cabinets. As someone said previously, what you show is white oak, very much in demand right now, and a beautiful wood. Re-staining cherry could give you a lighter color, but because of the red in the wood, you might get pink. I don't think that's what you want.

Your doors are gorgeous, btw.