Will I regret a gray kitchen?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most people update kitchens and baths every ten years so who cares what's dated later

Most people do not renovate their kitchens and bathrooms every ten years.

Most people live with their kitchens for 20-30 years and their bathrooms as well.

If you can't redo bathrooms and kitchens every ten years, you have over extended yourself

Renovating big expensive rooms like kitchens and bathrooms as soon as you tire of them is a VERY recent, HGTV inspired trend.

It is frivolous and wasteful to tear out and redo your kitchen and bathrooms in such quick intervals in the same way you would redecorate and change the paint and textiles in your bedroom.

This is true whether you are living paycheck to paycheck or are pare of the DCUM "I know I make $300K a year but I am really middle class at best" crowd.

It is a waste of money and a definite waste of resources.

Save a tree. Pick classic colors and styles for your cabinets that will stand the test of time and save trends for things like paint, door pulls and backsplashes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people update kitchens and baths every ten years so who cares what's dated later

Most people do not renovate their kitchens and bathrooms every ten years.

Most people live with their kitchens for 20-30 years and their bathrooms as well.

If you can't redo bathrooms and kitchens every ten years, you have over extended yourself

If you have to renovate your kitchens and bathrooms every year you have bad/trendy tastes and don't know how to manage money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do NOT do gray.
White is timeless.

White is not timeless, it is trendy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Subway tiles are also classic.

We went with white cabinets and a white/gray/marble-y quartz countertop. The floors throughout the house are dark wood. Stainless steel tile backsplash (which I fear we will tire of one day, but I love it now). Very light gray walls.

Subway tiles have been around a long time. But that doesn't make them timeless. They have definitely been trendy last three to five years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have lightly stained maple cabinets but used a modern glass and metal tile mosaic for the backsplash and I get so many complements on it. I love the natural look of the wood and the tile really pops.

Can you share a picture of your backsplash? That sounds pretty. We have lightly stained maple too and I want to update our kitchen but installing new countertops and a new backsplash. Looking for ways to update when le keeping our current cabinets.

[Anonymous]

I have a white kitchen that's close to 10 years old, and I would pick white again in a heartbeat. I like it best because it works with traditional and modern. I have white subway tile too. I would only choose gray cabinets for the bottom cabinets, and I would do paint grade, so they could be changed down the road. The safest route would be to paint the walls gray. That's ultimately much easier to change than the cabinets.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on the light you have in the room. We chose espresso cabinets and light granite when we built our new construction house. We loved it at first. Then the houses on either side of us were built and our natural light was reduced and I think the room is now way too dark for espresso cabinets. Gray cabinets without sufficient natural light could look dreary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have lightly stained maple cabinets but used a modern glass and metal tile mosaic for the backsplash and I get so many complements on it. I love the natural look of the wood and the tile really pops.

Can you share a picture of your backsplash? That sounds pretty. We have lightly stained maple too and I want to update our kitchen but installing new countertops and a new backsplash. Looking for ways to update when le keeping our current cabinets.

Do not do glass mosaic backsplash, it is already so outdated!

[Anonymous]

White isn't trendy. It's pretty timeless. My parents put in a white kitchen in the height of white kitchens in 1986. It was pretty suburban classic and looked good all through the 90s. I remember bidding on a house in 2004 with a white kitchen - we loved that kitchen back then. And then my parents sold their house in 2009 - they updated the hardware and appliances, but the agent said the white kitchen sold the house. And we've done two kitchen renos (because of a relocation) in 2011 and 2015 -- and both have white beautiful kitchens. Point is that white kitchens were selling features in all those years -- 1986, 2004, 2009, 2011, and 2015. That's pretty timeless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gray is sad

Yes. Ew. Not a food color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people update kitchens and baths every ten years so who cares what's dated later

Most people do not renovate their kitchens and bathrooms every ten years.

Most people live with their kitchens for 20-30 years and their bathrooms as well.

If you can't redo bathrooms and kitchens every ten years, you have over extended yourself

Renovating big expensive rooms like kitchens and bathrooms as soon as you tire of them is a VERY recent, HGTV inspired trend.

It is frivolous and wasteful to tear out and redo your kitchen and bathrooms in such quick intervals in the same way you would redecorate and change the paint and textiles in your bedroom.

This is true whether you are living paycheck to paycheck or are pare of the DCUM "I know I make $300K a year but I am really middle class at best" crowd.

It is a waste of money and a definite waste of resources.

Save a tree. Pick classic colors and styles for your cabinets that will stand the test of time and save trends for things like paint, door pulls and backsplashes.

Another option is to buy a new house every 8-10 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends on the light you have in the room. We chose espresso cabinets and light granite when we built our new construction house. We loved it at first. Then the houses on either side of us were built and our natural light was reduced and I think the room is now way too dark for espresso cabinets. Gray cabinets without sufficient natural light could look dreary.

This is part of the reason we went with white cabinets, low natural light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people update kitchens and baths every ten years so who cares what's dated later

Most people do not renovate their kitchens and bathrooms every ten years.

Most people live with their kitchens for 20-30 years and their bathrooms as well.

If you can't redo bathrooms and kitchens every ten years, you have over extended yourself

You can't be serious, what spend 100-200k or so every 10 years.

[Anonymous]

White cabinets and grey walls. Still cool and sleek, and you can accent with pops of color to make it warmer. When I told my mother we were putting in white cabinets and light grey/white granite counters, she was appalled (she also has an all-oak kitchen...), but even she admitted she likes how it came together. Agree with the PP about finding the right grey though-- painting test colors on your walls is a must, because greys look so different in different lighting conditions. Ours turned out to be a bit bluer than I intended, but I"m fine with it.

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Anonymous wrote:We have warm gray kitchen cabinets with a creamy granite and a warm mid-tone bamboo floor. It looks amazing and we have no regrets. It may look dated in ten years, but white or wood tone cabinets look dated right now.

When we were looking at houses 99% of the homes we saw were full of brown...wood cabinets, wood floor, tan backsplash, brown granite, tan carpet. Some people may prefer brown. We prefer gray. When we get sick of it, we'll change it.

+1. I personally love warm gray cabinets. So interesting how many people in DC prefer white...