What’s your thought on cherry wood kitchen cabinets?

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They always look better painted. Professionally painted.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Yes I generally love natural wood. However, I do prefer a lighter aesthetic but it feels almost sacrilege to paint them. I wonder if new countertops would do the trick for brightening things up. Currently an oatmeal/cream. Would go for white marble or quartzite perhaps.

You could have them restained a lighter color, but I’d just go with white kitchen, install under cabinet lighting, etc. What goes around comes around. If you stay true to your home’s era or style esthetic, you can never go wrong. Give it four or five years and the most popular decor articles will have titles like, “How to get paint off my wooden cabinets.”

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Anonymous wrote:I have them. I hate them and would prefer white, but I know they painting them will ruin them and they are nice cabinets and only 10 years old.

Same. Miss the white kitchen in my old house, but these are perfectly functional, so I can't justify a redo.

I'm very much a cool tones person (love blues and greens, hate red), so this is not my thing. I get why it was popular, though, and suspect it's in for a resurgence as a reaction to all the white.

Ad a designer I can tell you thetr is absolutely no resurgence of cherry cabinets. Very dated and still is.

C'mon! Designers wouldn't have a business plan if things didn't become dated a few months later!

Bingo! Americans are such suckers…spend, spend, spend and then ask how to pay for college or get millions in 401Ks and IRAs.

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Anonymous wrote:I have maple-ish in ours. Pretty but definitely give an older air. I've decided instead of painting or replacing to change to white countertops and change the hardware. I think it'll go with the overall look of the house, but be more timeless.

That’s what I hope to do. Ours are Wood-Mode. You can also buy new doors and space saver thingys to help.

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Anonymous wrote:I have them. I hate them and would prefer white, but I know they painting them will ruin them and they are nice cabinets and only 10 years old.

Same. Miss the white kitchen in my old house, but these are perfectly functional, so I can't justify a redo.

I'm very much a cool tones person (love blues and greens, hate red), so this is not my thing. I get why it was popular, though, and suspect it's in for a resurgence as a reaction to all the white.

Ad a designer I can tell you thetr is absolutely no resurgence of cherry cabinets. Very dated and still is.

C'mon! Designers wouldn't have a business plan if things didn't become dated a few months later!

Bingo! Americans are such suckers…spend, spend, spend and then ask how to pay for college or get millions in 401Ks and IRAs.

I moved here from Sweden with my American husband and I don’t think you all spend enough on your kitchens. So many old fashioned and heavy looking. The wood cabinets are so dingy in appearance. I don’t know how to explain it. Your kitchens (and your homes in general) look very clunky with the heavy wood cabinets that aren’t even nice craft work.

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Go back to Sweden. And take that IKEA junk that is landfill fodder with you.

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I'm told that Germans take their kitchen cabinets with them from place to place.

I didn't understand it at first, until I moved to the DMV and saw the abominations that people always try to pass off as kitchens.

Natural wood or painted (we prefer the latter) is marginally irrelevant when you're talking about builder-grade. Gross.

[Anonymous]

I suggest replacing the doors on key upper cherry cabinets to stainless steel/alumininum frames with glass and/or frosted glass insert. Very modern looking and much cheaper than replacing all the cabinets while still retaining the wood look. Examples can be found on house. Take a look .......

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I have very expensive natural cherry shaker style cabinets and love them. Bright white counter and island tops look great. (no weird or ornate backsplash tiles.)

Do what you like OP. Keep in mind you cannot "unpaint" them.

I like white kitchens as well, but we all know it's cheap wood that gets painted white for those cabinets. That was not what I wanted.

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer real woods over paint on cabinets any day. Yep

Same. And I am a super modern designer type of person, not an old fuddy duddy.

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest replacing the doors on key upper cherry cabinets to stainless steel/alumininum frames with glass and/or frosted glass insert. Very modern looking and much cheaper than replacing all the cabinets while still retaining the wood look. Examples can be found on house. Take a look .......

Why did you bump a 2 year old thread? I assume the OP has already made a decision 😂