25 Kitchen that prove the timeless appeal of blue cabinets
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- 12 Aug 2022
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If you’ve resolved to change up the look of your kitchen this year, painting your cabinets a new color is an excellent (and relatively low-lift) way to freshen things up. Choosing just the right shade, however, can be challenging. Perhaps you’re looking to deviate from a classic, all-white look, but 2022’s maximalist kitchen trend isn’t quite your taste either. Enter blue kitchen cabinets, one of the most versatile and time-tested ways to give your cooking space some serious star power.
There’s no doubt that the color has been having a moment: Benjamin Moore named a soothing shade called Aegean Teal its 2021 Color of the Year; the year before, Pantone named Classic Blue as its everywhere shade. But unlike other “it” colors (here’s looking at you, Digital Lavender), blue has long been viewed as a classic, and with a veritable rainbow of tints and shades out there, it’s a hue that can be amped up or down to suit your style (for all of you midnight snackers out there, blue also has the benefit of being an appetite suppressant). “Blue can really be a neutral,” insists Jessica Davis, founder of the firm Atelier Davis. “Think of it like a pair of jeans.”
In one of Davis’s recent projects—the restoration of a classic Joseph Eichler house with architect Gustave Carlson—the design team and client were drawn to Farrow & Ball’s steely Hague Blue in the kitchen. But depending on your unique lighting conditions and space, you might opt to go for an electric Yves Klein–inspired blue, a barely there periwinkle, or (the best of two color trends, in our opinion), a rich blue-green. To complete your blue kitchen, Davis advises accentuating the kitchen cabinets with blue surfaces, whether it’s flecks in terrazzo flooring or veins in a marble countertop. From there, she will contrast “the coolness of blue with warmer colors like a yellow oven or the warmth of walnut.”
See below for 25 fabulous azure kitchen cabinet ideas—inspiration is bound to strike like a bolt from the blue.
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ALLEZ LES BLEUS
Jean-Louis Deniot incorporated the whimsy of Tintin into his vacation home off the coast. No space is as charming as his kitchen, with its custom blue cabinets—accented in neat, cream trim to play up the windows—and old-timey checkerboard floor.
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BLUE ISLAND
Designer Jessica Davis and architect Gustave Carlson breathed new life into a classic home first designed by Joseph Eichler in the 1970s. Their intervention included fun jolts of color, including the bright blue island and cabinets in the kitchen.
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DEEP BLUE-GREEN
If you’re on the fence about painting your cabinets blue or green, why not combine them? Budding design firm Perifio painted their own kitchen cabinets a deep teal from C2 Paint, a shade that helps draw in the green of the surrounding countryside.
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BLUE WITH INDUSTRIAL ACCENTS
The beauty of blue cabinets is that the hue also complements a surprising spectrum of materials, from timber to terrazzo, the material of choice here in a sleek vacation home designed by architect Blaze Makoid and interior designer Joe Nahem.
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CLASSIC DUCK EGG
Duck-egg blue is a total classic when it comes to kitchen cabinetry, and this is one of the most elegant examples out there. Here, in a residence, designer Zoe Feldman opted for Farrow & Ball’s Card Room Green, a shade inspired by Victorian homes. Read More...
