Monday, July 1, 2013

Tommy Two-Tone

My mother-in-law is getting ready to put in a new custom kitchen and I'm getting super excited for her.  While doing some research, I've seen some beautiful kitchens with wood bottoms and painted uppers. I've been a big fan of the navy or black lowers, but this medium-tone is kickin' ass lately!







16 comments:

  1. Will you hate me if I say no?? I prefer a kitchen with all painted wood... or this may work if its a really light oaky distressed grey washy wood that they're showing all over the mags?

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  2. Yes, I like the look although I might do painted cabinets for both upper and lower given the choice.

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  3. Really depends on the wood and stain color of the lower cabs. I think I've had too many years of the unfortunately orangey oak of the 90's.

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  4. Love it! Doing one myself, although not as brave as that. I'll have brown island and pantry and the rest will be white. :-)

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  5. I don't mind it. I like the first one although, I have to admit, that uncentered window would make me lose sleep. Why didn't they just make that cabinet to the left a little narrower? But putting my symmetry OCD aside, I think it's interesting they chose to paint the island. And the drawer fronts are totally different. I guess it's supposed to look like a piece of furniture?

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  6. I think it's fun for a change, but agree with Kim - it depends on the stain color. Have a wonderful week!

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  7. I love it too, especially when I saw that quarter sawn oak tone that Christopher Peacock did a few years back at Kips Bay!
    I would do that wood tone in a minute!
    GreatPost!
    xo Karolyn

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  8. this all looks great...personally I love the really dark but when a whole kitchen looks this good...well...it can't be wrong!

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  9. I love the idea of mixing it up. I have two colors in my cabinets - island different from rest of kitchen and after 8 years am working on changing it up a bit. It will be just the walls but I did contemplate changing the island. Not yet, though.

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  10. I had 90's oak cabinets in my kitchen. We changed out the laminate counters to black granite back in '07 & added a white subway tile backsplash. I finally started painting my cabinets white. I did the uppers first. Once the new white doors where installed I went into shock. With my white appliances, it was too much white. So I'm not painting the lowers until I can replace the appliances with stainless.
    I would love to eventually paint the lowers something other than white but the black counters won't look good with any of the colors I would chose.
    So right now my kitchen looks like similar to the first & last picture your are showing. I have a feeling it's going to look like that for a long time.

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  11. I love the look! 1 and 3 are my favorites!!
    Thanks for the follow, friend!!
    Teresa
    xoxo

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  12. I'll take #3 please with a side of fries. ;)

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  13. I love the contrast and the variety of this look. For someone I'm working with, I am thinking of doing a mixture of finishes but on two sides of the room rather than upper/lower cabinets. Great images!

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  14. Love the first image- such a clever color scheme. Soothing but not sleepy. Gray is so pretty now. N.G.

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  15. Beautiful! I am especially loving the first photo- lots of cool tones to offset the warm wood. This would be a perfect solution for the couple who can't agree on cabinet finishes. Of course, this is an entirely hypothetical scenario. ;)

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