Kitchen cabinetry options include painted, antiqued and distressed finishes or two-tone, painted finishes. Enhancing open cabinets and floating shelves, cabinetry finishes utilize the cabinets’ structure to showcase your dishes in pastels, neutrals and bright colors. Finishes are usually DIY, so it’s possible to revamp your cupboards in a budget. Many kitchen layouts mix wood tones and decorated finishes, allowing you to have the best of versatile cabinetry styles.

Painted and Antiqued

Painting cabinets in white or a pastel color makes a kitchen appear larger. By applying an acrylic base coat with antiquing glazes or milk paint with distressing, your cupboards acquire a weathered appearance. Cabinets in cream, buff, sage or aqua create a classic feel. A farmhouse table with a foundation hue that matches the cupboards increases the kitchen’s color harmony. When cabinets and walls share a light coat of antiquing glaze, it simulates an old patina. If cabinets are white, porcelain lighting fixtures in white provide a matching antique touch.

Ample Painted Cabinetry

Another variation includes pastel or white cabinets without doors. Indoors, cabinets are occasionally painted in bright or darker colors that off set colored or white dishes. Two tones of the exact same hue create visual unity, like cream outer cupboards with mustard inner cabinets or outer cabinets in light peach with coral inner cabinets. A related cabinetry alternative is floating shelves, which traverse the wall. The long shelves are held in place by brackets, and when painted, both shelves and mounts echo colors on your kitchen decor.

Gray Harmony

Gray cabinets provide a subtle alternative. Cabinets with a smooth, green-gray finish mix with green-gray walls, greenish nickel hardware and counters in granite. Light slate gray is another cabinet color alternative. Both grays are color wheel opposites of orangish copper, so copper accents add color contrast, while black accents provide tonal contrast. Cabinets with a distressed, crackle finish in reddish taupe set the stage for a textured kitchen with a tone-on-tone color scheme, especially with taupe stucco walls and furniture at reddish espresso.

Mixed Cabinetry

Contemporary kitchens feature cabinetry in mixed hues, like painted cabinetry with wood tones. Or, leave the cabinetry unpainted, and pair it with a kitchen island foundation that has a painted finish. Maple cabinets with countertops in white granite are balanced with a white, painted kitchen island with a black granite top. Colours of two-tone walls echo cabinets painted in two colours, like green-gray bottom cabinets with top cupboards in robin’s egg blue. Though an espresso kitchen island has a different color, its green-gray granite shirt links with sage cabinets to provide visual cohesion.

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