okay, here’s what the kitchen looks like now.
mid-90’s honey-colored oak cabinets…heavy on the grain, light on style. white laminate countertop. floors are a dark chocolate-cherry color engineered wood. they’re not going anywhere, even though i kill myself struggling to keep them clean. honestly, the dust on these floors will send me to my grave.
here’s the granite i think we’re going to use. i have no idea what it’s called, but it sure is purty. it has flecks of goldish yellow, a gray that looks bluish or greenish depending on the light, a reddish brown, a blackish brown, and a beige-ish neutral base color. (seriously, i bet you’re amazed i haven’t made it as a skilled decorator with descriptions like that, huh?)
i’m thinking of putting an island in the middle – not a huge island, since we had one there already that i forced my husband to remove when we moved in – with a butcher block top and hanging pendant light above. i need extra surface space for food prep.
soooo….the question of the day. we were initially planning on painting the cabinets a very, very dark brown. think chocolate + espresso + a hint of tar…verging on black, but not quite black. i think it would look lovely with the granite we’ve chosen, but i worry that with the dark floors, our kitchen would feel like a tomb. if i go with dark cabinets, i think i’d pick a white paint for the island and jump on the two-color-cabinet bandwagon. should we do light cabinets and a dark island instead? would light cabinets be okay with that granite? would light (probably not pure white…not sure i can convince the husband to go with all white) cabinets look crappy?
I personally think that the dark cabinets and dark floors would be too much. You could go with a mid cabinet (like toffee) or white. you could also do a colored island and pick an accent color (maybe one to match your backsplash) for your cabinets, it would be a nice way to add color. If it were up to me I would do white/cream cabinets with a dark floor
Comment by ischwab — April 29, 2009 @ 12:46 am