Does everybody like white kitchen cabinets?
 

Am I the only one left who still like real wood finished cabinets? I just like the hominess of looking at real wood. The new white cabinets just don't appeal to me.

wonder where you are seeing new cabs in white?

I agree. I was looking ar a premier model recently and noticed they had white cabinets. To each their own, but for my taste they look cheap. And actually the white thermofoil cabinets are cheaper to purchase than an equivalent wood cabinet of say maple or cherry.

I bought a resale that had white cabinets. not my favorite, I would have preferred wood, but they obviously were not a deal breaker.

NO!

btk

You can decorate around them and make the room look okay, just would not be my first choice.

though I do prefer them over the very light maple cabinets I saw.

Would love them more than the dated (2008) oak I ha e.

I don't like them. I like wood-- but am tired of oak.

While I didn't choose white kitchen cabinets, I think they make any kitchen look brighter. Add black granite counter tops and you have that WOW factor!

Don't you think it just depends on your decorating style?

We close on our home next Monday. I picked darker wood cabinets and will brighten with accessories and furniture. I don't care for white or oak cabinets, either. I love the way my kitchen looks. Can't wait to be in TV this weekend to see the whole house.

have white cabinets with chocolate brown counters...not my first pic but its ok

I love my white kitchen.

I prefer wood grain. I really hate to see a beautiful piece of wood painted with any color paint. I don't mind stains as long as it still looks like wood.

I didn't realize that wood could be dated.

I just LOVE my white cabinets. Leaving my cherry cabinets up north and going light and bright in my new big kitchen. Can't wait to decorate in light and bright and leave all the dark, dark antique furniture behind. Don't want any of the antiques and dark woods either. They might be pretty, but some museum can have them as far as I'm concerned. New house and new bright everything. To each his own. That's why they have so many styles and choices.

Nope I hate the white. Ichose Cherry and have been very happy.:thumbup:

Love our white cabinets
 

We love our white kitchen and feel they will never go out of style. After all, you can coordinate anything with them. After living in our home for over a year, I wouldn't change a thing.

whatever. I don't like white in my house but I love to visit YOURs. white/light pastels are feminine receptive feeling versus masculine, leather, wood, earthy stuff that gives me a secure grounded sense.

I also LOVE your white kitchen. White never goes out of style, while wood tones (dark and light) go in out of style every decade or so. While looking at resales I noticed a lot of cabinets in pickled oak, that pinky beige whitish color that was popular in the 80's. That would be a deal breaker for me. However, my friend loves them and thinks they look "beachy". To each his own is right!

Our kitchen in Baltimore was brown maple and to me it looked depressing. In 2008 we had the kitchen gutted and a wall removed and installed white cabinets with stainless steel, granite and a tile backsplash. Here's a photo, when we listed our home for sale it sold in 18 hours.

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When we moved to TV in 2011 we bought a new CYV and had to select from only the inventory available. We wanted white cabinets again but ended up with natural maple. After a year of looking at these maple cabinets we had Remington Kitchens in Leesburg reface our cabinets with white.

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We had the white cabinets in Baltimore for three years before moving to TV. In the morning the white made the whole house and my outlook on the day brighter. When we moved here we were so disappointed that no CYV had white. We been in several friends homes and I kept seeing white cabinets so finally we had ours refaced. It makes the whole house brighter, best improvement we made.

Very nice John W!!

We also chose white cabinets and we LOVE it!

I don't dislike wood cabinets. Had them in every home so far.

Our cabinets are those pinky beige color and I hate them,but we loved the location and everything else about the house - and the price was right. I'm planning to have them painted sometime this year - redo the counter tops, etc... And I'm leaning toward "white".... Especially after seeing the picture of the white kitchen with Stainless appliances and dark granite counters... That means I won't have to replace my white blended tiles...

If this isn't fodder for a decorating section, what is?
 

I love white cabinets, always "in".

They look great with contemporary style as Angie Fox pointed out with black granite.

BUT they look just as great with cottagy, beachy, or traditional. They pop with color on the walls behind them or accessories in bright colors...or accessories in pastel colors.

I like the dark cabinets we have in this house too.

They work well with our furniture from Ohio which is more traditional.

We had the cottagy look in our home in Hadley with medium colored wood cabinets, and we have the traditional look in this home with dark wood cabinets.

I love leafing through magazines to see just what the experts use, or watching my favorite Candace Olsen who (with a great deal of money) transforms rooms into works of art. Livable works of art.

I just love feathering the nest.

John W. You have a beautiful home. Gorgeous.

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I actually CHOSE to get the "silk" colored cabinets which are very warm white as opposed to bright white. My other home "up north" have wood everything. Wood cabinets, walls, ceilings etc. A bit dark but very cozy. Wanted to be bright, cool and cheerful here in TV. Don't need much cozy here......cozy to me is snug and warm......something I don't need here in the land of sunshine and heat.
It is not that "pinkish" color of the 90's and not stark white. I'm finding it excellent to decorate with.

I love my white cabinets and they are not cheap looking, I don't believe anyone has real wood cabinets unless you bought them yourself.

I purchased a preowned home which had light colored wood cabinets. I had them spray painted a cream color and installed new countertops. I have a whole new kitchen without the price of a total renovation and I love my painted cabinets.

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Oh WOW Leenie. It looks like a page out of a magazine and a room I could just love to be in!

JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!:eclipsee_gold_cup::pepper2:

John, your kitchen is beautiful. Could I ask who did your living room floors? (I can't find a way to send you a PM).

We have white kitchen cabinets and covered an entire wall in our laundry room with the same type white cabinets. We were told by the sale people who installed both the original and additional cabinets that the white cabinets were an upgrade? They are very easy to maintain and brighten the kitchen

I prefer white because of the Florida location and at our location the house is situated and built such that we do not get direct sunlight which pleases me because we can better regulate our inside temperature

However my favorite look is colonial and especially South Carolina colonial. And so if I had settled there then the cabinets would have been wood

I agree, to a point. I like real wood cabinets for their wood beauty, but with new-home, current decorating trends, there's one thing that is unappealing after seeing too much of it in our homes in the northeast and midwest:

Country Oak......along with "country clutter". The look desired by many making a new start here is more "sleek" with simple lines (no carving) and high-quality materials. The heavy grained oak with medium orangy stain looks antique-y.

Beautiful! I have white cabinets and want to redo the countertops I love the look of yours what are they made of?

Our preference when we purchased our new Ranch house was white cabinets. It made the kitchen look brighter and we fell more like we are in Fl. Since it was a 2nd home they gave us a different look from our house in NY and made it easier to tell if we were in NY or Fl (actually there were a few other ways to tell - maybe more than a few ) . They are an upgrade over some of the wood look cabinets we like them.

I'm thinking of replacing the laminate counter tops in my white kitchen. I would love to hear what people have put with their white cabinets as to color. What colors granite they chose or high def laminate?

The countertops are Corian. I had granite up north and wanted something with less pattern, so I chose this Corian which I love.

Thank you Gracie!

We had linoleum in the kitchen and foyer and carpet in the dining room. We only needed 300 sf to replace all that with one surface. We used engineered hardwood in 5" planks from Great Lakes. The job was done in four hours and was less than $2,000 installed, so that's a little over $6.00 a sf installed. They are the same sub that installed the carpet in our area during construction. We also used them in the past for the tile backsplash in the kitchen and indoor/outdoor carpet in the lanai.

We had gone to two places for granite estimates. We have 65 sf of counter tops and for level 1 granite it would of cost about $3,500 installed with a new undermount stainless sink and faucet. So for now we've put that on the back burner because I wanted the refacing first and then switching to stainless steel appliances. Up north we did the granite right away and went with 'Santa Cecilia', it a middle grade level 2 and is a goldish yellow color with black specks.

Leenie, your kitchen turned out great. We considered going with a white paint job from Investment painters, would of been about $1,000 dollars whereas the refacing ran us $4,500. I could of almost done the granite with the difference but with refacing they actually put in new doors and drawer fronts plus hinges and hand pulls. So we went that route, but your painting looks great!!

I love the white or silk or painted kitchen cabinets, I need a bright kitchen and am not much of a brown person. I can readily decorate and stylize around white and a paint palate. I can appreciate a wood finish kitchen but am happiest in mine.

I also think my choice is tempered by the memory of that wonderful old farm kitchen with white beadboard cabinets with little latches and red linoleum countertops in which I spent my very early years. To finish off that sweet memory is the aroma of my mom cooking dinner and baking wonderful homemade breads.