So apparently two toned kitchens are in.
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Anonymous
| I hate two toned kitchens. I think it looks funny and is also a fad that will fade. My kitchen is classic with all counters and cabinets the same color. It's pretty neutral and I add color with accessories that I can change out according to the season - dish towels, rug, etc. I love it. |
Anonymous
| I'm not sure I'd call this a current fad. It was being done 10 years ago when we did a kitchen update. |
Anonymous
Did you do a different colored island or different colored cabinets top and bottom? Different colored Island has been done for a long time and I don’t believe it’s a fad. Different colored cabinets (top and bottom) - not including open shelving (again been around for years but prob a fad) is definitely newish. |
Anonymous
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They've been trying to make this happen for a while.
I will never do it. |
Anonymous
| I don’t like it, and the shelves look cheap. |
Anonymous
| You could not pay me to do open shelving. |
Anonymous
| We have white and gray cabinets. Worked best with our design/layout. All gray would have been too dark; all white would have been too kitchen-y in DR, which is open to kitchen and was renovated at the same time. So it works. Probably would have gone all white if we didn't have the open-to-DR situation. |
Anonymous
| They've been around since the 50s. |
Anonymous
I was going to say, there’s something charmingly retro about a lot of two tone kitchens. I like it! |
Anonymous
I bought my house in 2017 and the kitchen it came with, which was at least 20 years old, had two tone cabinets. |
Anonymous
| I like the way it looks, but I’m clueless about fads or what’s “in”. |
Anonymous
Right? It looks like they didn’t have money for cabinets. Stuff would be falling off the shelves in my house due to lack of storage space. I mean what family has 4 neatly stacked plates and bowls and nothing else? 
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Anonymous
| We have white upper cabinets and blue lower cabinets, which we put in when we renovated a couple years ago. I love it. All blue would have been too dark. All white would have been too boring. I don't really care what other people think since it's my house where I spend time every day, not for a few hours a couple times per year. |
Anonymous
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I spend a lot of time on gardenweb, and people have been pushing this for 5+ years. In $100k kitchens, it can look very nice.
In the other 99% of kitchens, it almost always looks like two unrelated kitchens that were accidentally dropped in the same room. I find most examples using this style really jarring. I think people are going to really regret this choice in another five years. |
Anonymous
| I think it's charming/retro/casual- I like it but like anything it doesn't fit all homes. |