Anonymous wrote:My friend is painting hers a really pretty mushroom-y color and using satin brass handles. They look really nice—natural, neutral, but fresh.

This sounds really nice. I also like blue and green (lighter, not navy or evergreen).
We have warm wood from the early 2000s, which I know is supposed to be dated but we get compliments.

Any neutral whatsoever

We didn’t do this but I really liked this wood cabinet color with white counters … it looks better in a whole kitchen picture but I can’t find one now:
https://medallioncabinetry.com/finish/cappuccino-with-burnt-sienna-glaze-highlight/

We did a warm brown stain on maple and I love it.

I started out not wanting white but ended up with it because we have an open plan house and also because our floors are golden oak and it aaa really hard to find something that I liked that worked with the golden oak floors. I did an island is a marine blue. It’s basic but whatever. If it wasn’t an open plan kitchen I might have thought about green or yellow or cornflower blue. I saw a lot of medium stained walnut cabinets I really liked or some nice medium tone woods but they looked off with the golden oak floors.

I was just in a kitchen with cabinets painted Farrow and Ball “Hay,” and it was fantastic — at once neutral and warm, soothing and cheerful. Really gorgeous.

We were selecting from Sherwin Williams (not sure why, that’s what the contractor recommended), and we painted a ton of samples. Some of my favorite colors were:
-svelte sage
-evergreen fog (if you want to go a little moodier)
-wool skein
-shoji white (which was a warm ivory with a hint of blush)
-rainwashed

Also, accessible beige is like a chameleon, it works in all sorts of spaces.

But if I were doing it today, I’d do F&B Hay, because that color was perfect.

You want a warm color. Eventually cool tones will come back in, but not soon.

Use something like an accessible beige, and then when cool tones are back have them resurfaced to be white.

If not white go light brown wood look.

I'm doing light blue...not a baby blue, but closer to cornflower.

It's my favorite color and I figure that if I get tired of it, I can have the cabinets painted white.

In case you want to flip through some pictures, we had a "just kitchens" thread a while back. People made requests for what they wanted to see and I tracked down inspiration. A lot of the requests were for non-white kitchens.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/890971.page

There is a BEAUTIFUL set installed in the mock-up kitchen at our local cabinet/builder supply store.

They are an artful combination of hard maple and walnut with natural finishes, so the wood gets to speak.

From DeWils (we are on the west coast).

Rift white oak is beautiful if you're going wood-grain.

We went with a lightly stained maple and I love how warm it looks. They have held up well, too.

Ours are cherry, a friend recently went with maple, another friend did gray, go with a color you love

My friend is painting hers a really pretty mushroom-y color and using satin brass handles. They look really nice—natural, neutral, but fresh.

We're redoing our cabinets and I thought I wanted to redo in white. But every recent kitchen reno I've seen is that way and I've come to the conclusion that I really don't love it; it looks too sterile. Anyone do something different recently that they love?