Whatever makes you happy, OP! Please paint swatches first, and observe them throughout the day to see how the light plays on them. Any dark color on a swatch will be much, much darker when you paint the whole thing, so be careful with that.

"Trends" are made-up nonsense, for clothing or paints or home decor or whatever. The most important thing is to make yourself happy. You're the one who is going to live in the clothes, or live in the house.

I've always loved blue and pink all my life, and find myself gravitating to these colors. Why fight it? They make me happy. My suburban home's cabinets are cream, my kitchen wall is robin egg's blue, and the rest of the house is cream with a warm pink undertone (ceilings too, to make the white moldings pop).

For a lake house, I would lean into shades of hazy blue and green, but your description of mariner blue , pine and white/grey/cream seems to work well too.

OP here - I have no desire to paint upper and lower cupboards different colors.

I really, really hate different top and bottom kitchen cabinets. I don't mind if the island is different but the two tone makes me irrationally upset. I feel it is such a hard look to pull off successfully.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s dark for upper cabinets

OP could go two tone with the upper cabinets white.

Did you just fly in from 2021? Are people still doing blue kitchen cabinets? Are people still doing two tone kitchen cabinets??

According to this, two tone kitchens still enduring in 2026.

https://nvkitchenandbath.com/two-tone-kitchen-cabinets/

I used ai to see what it would look like and love it. The backdrop of the wall is knotty pine. White ceiling, laminate wood floor. The countertop is very serviceable light gray tiles and the appliances are creamy white.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s dark for upper cabinets

OP could go two tone with the upper cabinets white.

Did you just fly in from 2021? Are people still doing blue kitchen cabinets? Are people still doing two tone kitchen cabinets??

A friend from college posted a picture on FB of their son dressed for prom in their kitchen and their cool blue cabinets caught my attention more than the prom finery, lol.

We have painted cabinets in our bathroom and after that I don't think I'd do them in the kitchen because the painted finish isn't as durable as wood stain.

Anonymous wrote:Anything but white. White is definitely out.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLO

White is classic and always will be. Door styles have trends. We go over this in every thread.

Anonymous wrote:It’s dark for upper cabinets

OP could go two tone with the upper cabinets white.

Anything but white. White is definitely out.

Too dark, will show every smear, grease etc

More like a cross between navy and royal blue. Mariner blue?

It’s dark for upper cabinets

What is the question exactly?

Yes, have done it but in a DC rowhouse

Would I do again? No. Every fingerprint or smudge is visible

Has anyone done it? It’s lake home with an open floor plan.