I love the idea of a creamy white kitchen and my plans are to paint
my oak wood cabinets, perhaps in the BM mannequin cream featured in one of your remodels.
A smooth, white finish can instantly modernize dark or
oak wood cabinets as well as brighten up a space, says stager Patti Stern (PJ & Company Staging and Interior Decorating).
Not exact matches
The Everygirl Weighs In: When we think of
wood cabinets, I would bet that the majority of us envision outdated cherry or
oak.
A stained
wood door accented with glass panels opens to a mudroom and home office boasting a pink vintage rug placed beneath a black pendant hung in front of brown
oak built - in lockers located between brown
oak drawers and brown
oak cabinets adorned with satin nickel pulls.
▪ Go with affordable
cabinets, possibly a line with simple maple, cherry, or
oak rather than exotic imported
wood or lacquered fronts.
Interestingly, with all the progress I made last year on redoing my kitchen bit by bit, and although I still plan to redo my floors throughout with a warm
wood - look similar in color to your floors, Melissa, and I still plan to repaint my
cabinets a creamy white, I'm finding that I can tolerate my old
oak cabinets more now because the warm
wood is needed (just not so much).
Medium
oak cabinets in the kitchen bathrooms and «linen»
cabinet at the end of the hallway will be painted some white or light in keeping with the style of my house plus my choice in floor color (can't be hardwood but I'm learning toward
wood - look porcelain tile similar to what Kate at CentsationalGirl did in her Nevada home.
The «trick» to getting the
oak woodgrain (or any faux
wood) right is to try to match the underlying color of the
cabinets.
The neutral shade of these
cabinets, a
wood - topped island unit and
oak flooring add warmth to this kitchen.
I have
oak cabinets, but the underneath looks like cheap presssed
wood.
I love my kitchen with its white shaker
cabinets, but I also love my vintage
wood, mostly
oak, furniture, some of it with its original finish.
I would love to paint my
wood oak cabinets.
As soon as we closed on our house, we started several projects immediately — we replaced our roof, removed the scruffy edges on the extra carport (aka «winnie hole»), added hardwood (red
oak) floors in the living room, dining room, kitchen / den, and laundry room to match the floors in the back half of the house, screened and recoated the hardwood floors in the back half of the house, replaced the two sliding glass doors from the kitchen / den out onto the porch with French doors, removed doors between the kitchen and dining room and between the den and entry way, painted the
wood panelling in the den, painted the
cabinets in the kitchen, replaced the old
cabinet hardware, replaced the sink and range / hood, replaced a single wall oven with a double one, added granite tile kitchen countertops, added a beadboard backsplash, replaced a few light fixtures, added a chair rail in the dining room, added crown moulding in the living room and dining room, and painted lots of rooms.
This will only happen over
wood cabinets or floors and not on every species of
wood (mostly pine,
oak, and mahogany).
At the time of our kitchen updating, we had replaced the
cabinet doors from those white laminate doors with the
oak wood trim at the very bottom of them.
But if it doesn't work out, you could always «skin» the side of the
cabinet with a thin panel of
wood and paint that to match the
oak fronts.
The lower
cabinets mirror the space's
oak parquet floors using
wood panels.
After transforming our kitchen by painting the
oak cabinets, I turned my efforts towards our builder grade, fake
wood master bathroom
cabinets.
-LCB- If you plan to turn it into a DIY project, you can start with layouts that make it possible to look at and study the various kitchen layouts of
wood tile floor in white living room palette with some drama from the black lampshades Flooring ideas honey
oak cabinets best.
The
cabinet fronts on the award - winning Wave collection are cut from solid
oak wood to create a beautiful wave effect adding a sculptural element to an extremely functional pieces.
As part of the renovation, the couple stripped and restored the wooden floors, which work beautifully with the painted -
wood cabinets and natural
oak worktops in the kitchen.