Are white cabinets ever stylish?? (laminated, moulding, walls, green)

[maciesmom]

Originally Posted by cattknap

i'l take that gorgeous kitchen virginia farm girl - what a beauty and i really don't care if white cabinets are in or out - they work in that kitchen.

exactly!

[kcam213]

Originally Posted by virginia farm girl

Sweet!

♥

This is beautiful! Such a nice spacious kitchen.

[Kootr]

Originally Posted by Cattknap

I'l take that gorgeous kitchen Virginia Farm Girl - what a beauty and I really don't care if white cabinets are in or out - they work in that kitchen.

It truly is gorgeous.

Can you imagine this same kitchen with stained brown cabinets? There is no way in the world it would look near as nice.

[desertsun41]

As promised. Here is some of what I do. Nothing you see here is custom made from raw wood. It is all made with stock catalog kitchen cabinets and trim pieces by which I use my magic to design everything from furniture pieces to dazzling kitchens to home offices and then my specialty, home entertainment centers. I do no staining or poly finishing. These are the color choices this company makes.

I have chosen some pics to show the colors I have found such success with over the many many years as well as design and style. Make no mistake, you will find no modern Euro anything in my portfolio.

The first pic is maple toffee, our 2nd best selling color. It is a free standing piece of furniture made with catalog componants. Yes it is nothing but kitchen cabinets trimmed out. I put this in a competition with the local Woodworkers Guild and got 4th place.

The second is a buffet table built into the nitch. I was asked to match the table and picture frame beside it with the same style. This is the most popular color sold by far that we call cherry paprika. It is the identical color as your spice paprika.

The 3rd one is the most awesome Hickory with a cider red wine tinge stain. This was built into a nitch for a school teacher. Look at that beautiful grain. There are quite a lot of people who do not like hickory. Hickory is not a great seller. I did do a Hickory kitchen for a member of Aerosmith this last spring.

The 4th is just a simple kitchen which is more my target customer. It is maple natural, maybe the 3rd best seller . The crown has a cherry paprika rope insert which is shown in a closup in the next pic. I love playing with mixing colors.

Then comes the white everyone is asking about. I can not show you my showroom. But this is an exact duplicate of what I have in my showroom I did for an older couple. It is our upgraded white with jet black onyx countertops and real brass knobs. It has all black appliances. Yes it is thermofoil over MDF doors and all the boxes are solid wood. I have only sold 2 whites in the past couple years yet this is the first display you see when you walk in the front door.

Of course I have oak and several other stains that are available on the all the wood species.
Yikes 7 pics, I hope this works......

[maciesmom]

If that is representative of the white cabinet display in your showroom, maybe that explains it. It does need to be updated. Brass? Most people I know de-brassed their homes several years ago. I haven't seen brass fixtures in magazines or model homes in years. Also, the black appliances and black countertops is a lot of stark contrast with nothing to soften it. Update the rest of the display and maybe some of those white cabinet will start selling....and maybe not...

[pennquaker09]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

Everyone is right except Maciesmom. If you read from the start you would have seen where I said and showed facts from trade journals and NKBA that white is not popular. I never told anyone to rip theirs out. Most of the pro white cabinet people here are painting theirs white.

As for the multiple requests for some pics. I have posted some here before. If I can find the links I will post that, if not I will work on it. Sorry but my website I sold the rights to so I can not post it. I can post pics though.

I have also posted on this very thread the statistics of the most popuar wood species sold in cabinetry taken from NKBA. I think I will post one pic of each color. If some of you stop sending me hate mail I might be nice and post pics of Celine Dion's, Tiger Woods, Mike Tysons and some other of my past clients who sought me out for their kitchens.

Gime some time to gather those pics up.

Could you point me to those articles please?

And I don't mean this in a bad way, but the white kitchen you have in your show room is one of those dime a dozen kitchens. White cabinets with a black granite counter, done. There wasn't any design put into it.

However, I tend to only like white cabinetry that has been professionally painted. The best way is to have the cabinets installed and then professionally primed and sprayed. I'd never order cabinets already painted. But I am also a fan of truly custom cabinetry.

[sandycat]

Yeah, the white kitchen was horrible compared to the other pieces you showed. The hickory was my favorite for sure. I loved it, nice work.

[gold*dust1]

Originally Posted by virginia farm girl

Sweet!

♥

Ahhh beautiful! I would call it country sophisticated, but where is the fridge?

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

Then comes the white everyone is asking about. I can not show you my showroom. But this is an exact duplicate of what I have in my showroom I did for an older couple. It is our upgraded white with jet black onyx countertops and real brass knobs. .

Well, no wonder! That's a colorless kitchen with 80s furbelows.

Most people I know de-brassed their homes several years ago.

Come to our house, LOL. We're still working on it. *sigh*

[sanrene]

That white kitchen looks like standard (inexpensive) builders cabinets.

Compare that to some of the pics of high-end, classic white cabinetry and I can see why you don't sell many white kitchens.