I think it's charming/retro/casual- I like it but like anything it doesn't fit all homes.

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.

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 wrote:You could not pay me to do open shelving.

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?

I like the way it looks, but I’m clueless about fads or what’s “in”.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure I'd call this a current fad. It was being done 10 years ago when we did a kitchen update.

I bought my house in 2017 and the kitchen it came with, which was at least 20 years old, had two tone cabinets.

Anonymous wrote:They've been around since the 50s.

I was going to say, there’s something charmingly retro about a lot of two tone kitchens. I like it!

They've been around since the 50s.

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.

You could not pay me to do open shelving.

I don’t like it, and the shelves look cheap.

They've been trying to make this happen for a while.
I will never do it.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure I'd call this a current fad. It was being done 10 years ago when we did a kitchen update.

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.

I'm not sure I'd call this a current fad. It was being done 10 years ago when we did a kitchen update.

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.