Glamorous White Kitchen

I just received my latest House & Home Magazine which featured white kitchens and I just loved this one, so I had to show it to you!  And I'm joining the party at Hooked on Houses this Friday as well!

These cabinets are actually light gray (which one they did not include in the story), but I consider all painted kitchens from whites to creams to pale grays in the category of a ‘white kitchen’. You all know how I feel about accent tiles, I think if you’re going to use a mosaic tile (for example) you should ‘go big or go home’ like they’ve done here.  And of course eliminating the upper cabinets also gives a kitchen such a fabulous, clean, chic look!

Love the pantry wall, and built in microwave and stove.  What I love about this kitchen is the way it’s grounded with the dark chocolate trim, and it even makes the island almost feel like a dining table.

And the dining nook with the contrast piping on the settee. Lovely!

Photo by Maria Killam; taken with permission from my client!

I was at a consultation this week to choose colours for a kitchen in Richmond.  My client was renovating the entire kitchen (to get rid of the pink oak) but keeping the 12 x 12 tile because there was so much of it in the room, it carried into the great room and large adjoining sunroom/dining room.  So after going through about 20 granite samples that she had carried home, we ended up with a Caesarstone that picked up the same tones in the floor.  In my opinion, selecting kitchen finishes is just like any other decorating project, it looks the best when all the finishes relate to one another, like they are married (because they are!) just like the kitchen I've just featured here.

Then we chose BM cc-110 for the cabinets (see how nice it looks with the floor?), HC-86 for the island, cc-130 Cloud white was her existing trim (including a large expanse of shutters, so it was staying) and CC-490 Smoky Taupe for the walls.

Varying shades of grays are certainly coming up in many of my consultations these days.  Is gray the new brown or what do you think?

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