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Outdated granite and backsplash. Best option for cabinet color?

last year
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Our kitchen had a leak leading to replacing a few cabinets. Using it to update our doors to shaker style. Since they'll be painted, I'm trying to find a solid white/neutral color for cabinets. Any thoughts on these white swatches?



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  • last year

    alabaster seems the best.

  • last year

    Will you collect samples of other possible products & finishes that you like for kitchen— flooring counters—plus any adjacent room color scheme— and then see which cabinet color is likely to support? Presuming you may have some ideas about what material and general color focus you want for new counters. And , nog to choose wall paint now, but, do you plan on a white that needs to coordinate, or already planning for a color contrast likely.

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    How about much larger closeups of your existing counter and backsplash material? Floors too. What's the color temp of your presumably led lighting? Then a large sample of each color choice under your lighting. Maybe some useful feedback, other than AI, can develop.

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    Really pics of the counter, the backsplash and the floor in actual pictures we can see and as for which white if the original worked why are you changing it at all. I like LED 4000K lighting in kitchens but whatever you like neds to be there before choosing color and to me thay all look just about the same except for the Pure white

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    From my understanding, the countertops and backsplash have cool undertones. The current cabinets seem to have a warm undertone. So maybe we dont need to change it at all. I never felt like our kitchen was very cohesive and thought a new undertone may help a little. And white seems like the best option to me.


    Lots of warm throughout with the dark wood floors. I prefer a warmer look than modern but might need to just make best with what we have. Im struggling to know what tones to match!

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    Please take a photo of each wall of the kitchen with a white paper towel or white piece of paper taped to a cabinet. On my monitor, the last photo shows bright white cabinets on the right and off-white cabinets straight ahead. The granite and the backsplash are beautiful.


    Edited to add: please take photos of the granite and backsplash with the white paper, too. It helps the camera's color balance.

    Also, I would like to re-emphasize that your lighting's color temperature affects how the cabinets look. Take down a bulb or two and then tell us what the marked color temperature is.

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    the 4 hanging from the cabinet.......1, 2. and 4 work w backsplash. However your wall color is warm [ on the right] so are you more interested in working w splash? wall paint can be changed. I think # 2 might be the best bet.....theres a chance it will work w the wall color also.

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    You can get the free chips or the 8x8 ones to look at in your space. You got to do it. To close on a monitor.

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    Your going down the right path by narrowing your choices based on the small paper samples, but your final decision should be based on large samples using actual paint color. The best source is Samplize.com. The best way to view colors is in natural daylight - the undertones show up so much better in natural sunlight than under artificial light and looking at the colors together outside on a clear day can save you from making a big, expensive mistake.


    The doors need to work with the countertop, the back splash and the flooring. It also needs to work with the wall color and trim colors unless those are also being updated.


    If you are keeping the trim color and it is consistent throughout the house it is often selected as the cabinet color to maintain consistency. Changing trim in one room can make the room feel disjointed from the rest of the house and can make one trim look dingy or stark in comparison to the rest of the home.


    You want to eliminate colors that appear too yellow, too green, too pink or too blue next to each of these.


    Are you keeping the dark floors?


    There are other choices you could make depending on the color palette and style of the rest of the home. Sage green could add some color to the kitchen. Make sure if you choose a color that it is soft and muted. The blue island is too clean and bright with the rest of the kitchen.


    Try not to compare the new sample colors to the color of your current cabinets. Keep the samples next to the colors that are going to stay.


  • last year

    Is the island blue like Jennifer thought?

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    Such a thoughtful response thank you! This is all helpful. Wall color is SW Grayish throughout the house. Not sure what color trim is but its also same throughout.


    The island is a different color than rest of kitchen. Its a blue-ish gray, dont have the color either. The floors are getting refinished as part of the repair and flow into dining and living room. Planned to keep them the dark walnut they are as our upper level also has the same floor.


    i popped the can lights out to see if I could adjust, they arent adjustable. Looking them up says they are set to 3000k.





  • last year

    3000k is on the warm end of white. Only 2700k to match incandescent is more yellow white.