Designers reveal their top kitchen cabinet colors for 2022
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- 01 Apr 2022
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Although there’s nothing like an all-white kitchen, a punch of color never hurt anyone. In 2022, interior designers are taking risks as far as bold hues are concerned, whether it’s on their counters, backsplashes, walls, or appliances. But selecting the right paint color for your kitchen cabinets can be a particularly daunting process, especially when you factor in givens like light conditions, cupboard style, and room size. To help with this stressful (albeit colorful) dilemma, we tapped some of our favorite interior designers to weigh in on the colors they are noticing the most this year in the kitchen. Read on for their recommendations and personal favorites (we’re definitely naming paint colors here!) to spark inspiration for your dream kitchen.
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MATTE RED
New York firm Cochineal Design loves to introduce color into a space whenever they can—and the kitchen is a prime spot to experiment. “Kitchens are almost entirely millwork, so it’s a space where we play with color and texture most often,” the firm’s designers tell us. “With painted cabinetry, we select rich colors in muted tones.” Here, in an apartment in Manhattan’s West Village, for instance, they chose Farrow & Ball's Preference Red in a matte finish, “because it offered a slightly old-world touch that seemed to balance and tone down the marble [on the counters and backsplash] a bit, allowing the kitchen to be breathtaking but also cozy.”
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DEEP GRAY-GREEN
For this warm and bright kitchen in the mountains of Telluride, Colorado, interior designer Thomas Hamel took inspiration from the nature surrounding the home and chose a deep gray-green shade called Stonehedge from Benjamin Moore to counterbalance the natural lightness of the room and the tone of the timber floors and walls. “There were beautiful russet red colors in the stone that we incorporated into the earthy red of the tiles and countertops,” the designer shares. “With the large window, the room has plenty of light to balance with the dark cabinetry color. We find the effect cozy and sleek at the same time.”
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SHEER GRAY
Oliver Haslegrave, founder of Brooklyn-based design firm Home Studios, loves to show off the natural wood grain of kitchen cabinetry but also seeks out a bit of color. Haslegrave’s favorites at the moment are Farrow & Ball’s Pigeon (as shown here in one of his more recent projects) and Pointing, both of which provide a deliberately neutral and calm palette,” he says. “[Pigeon]’s impact is reminiscent of the colorful expression of Parisian courtyard doors and also complements additional kitchen details, including the Rosa Aurora Macchia Vecchia honed marble countertops and the custom copper hood perched above a Wolf range.”
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GLEAMING BRASS
If you want to inject color into your cabinetry, you don’t necessarily have to rely on paint. LAUN’s founding partner Rachel Bullock says that the design firm has been incorporating different types of metals for kitchen cabinets in a handful of recent projects. “When paired with the right color palette—like cool tones with the warmth of brass or deep violets and sage greens with aluminum—it can bring a lot of richness to a space,” says Bullock. She points to a Silver Lake cottage the firm designed in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles: “We did a fully custom unlacquered brass kitchen. The brass beautifully complements the bold material palette of the kitchen, which includes a forest green lacquer and pink marble.”
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OCEAN BLUE
For his own home, in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Civilian principal and co-founder Nicko Elliott sheathed the kitchen cabinets in a custom deep blue-green. “Darker, more saturated colors can help kitchen cabinets read as a distinct and interesting architectural element, in contrast to your island and other storage,” he tells us. Unable to find the perfect shade, the designer—at the suggestion of a friend—mixed up art pigments from Kremer Paints and polyurethane and arrived at his dream shade. “It was a labor of love.... At first glance the cabinets read as black, but in daylight they glow as a deep oceanic teal that leans green or blue depending on the weather and contrasts with the black stone countertop.”
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DUSTY PINK
Designer Liz MacPhail sees kitchens pretty in pink. She’s a big fan of Farrow & Ball’s Sulking Room Pink, she’s also a fan of Benjamin Moore’s muddier Meadow Pink, which she used in this kitchen in Austin, Texas. “We love colors that are a little off the mark of their true definition like brownish pinks or greens with depth. For us, that’s the key to getting it right,” MacPhail says.
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RED HOT DOORS
Other designers are doubling down on color. “Color is definitely increasing in popularity over the last few years,” designer Summer Thornton says. “We are seeing these colors in combination with bolder marbles and stones for the tops, which is refreshing and exciting.” Here, for instance, she paired white oak cabinets with deep red inserts, similar to Caliente by Benjamin Moore, and even went as far as choosing a red range to match. “This kitchen definitely doesn’t apologize for being bold,” Thornton notes. Read More...
