Homeowner’s Guide: White Kitchen Cabinets

Choosing the best white kitchen cabinet color sounds pretty easy.

Until you realize there are about a gazillion whites, and the wrong one can make your backsplash look yellow, your countertop look dirty, or your beautiful new cabinets look disconnected from the rest of your kitchen.

White doesn’t actually go with everything, especially in kitchens. If it did, I’d have a much shorter career.

Your cabinet color needs to coordinate with your countertop, backsplash, flooring, wall color, trim, underwear, and toenails – while also behaving itself in your room’s lighting situation.

The good news? You do NOT need to sample every white on the market; you just need to know what to LOOK for when sampling.

Using REAL HOME examples, I’ll show you how to find the best white paint colors for your cabinets based on what’s actually in YOUR kitchen – not just which whites happen to be popular.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to…

• Choose between white, soft, true, warm, and cool-appearing whites.
• Coordinate white with quartz, marble, laminate, and other countertop finishes.
• Work with backsplash tile, flooring, wood, and other finishes.
• Coordinate white cabinets with existing trim and other white finishes.
• Help you figure out what your kitchen needs, which whites make sense, and which you can rule out.
• Understand how lighting and exposure can affect your room.
• Avoid whites that appear too yellow, dingy, cool, etc.
• Narrow down your options, so you’re not staring at 64 white samples wondering where you went wrong.

This isn’t another ’10 Best Cabinet Colors’ list, because there is no SINGLE best white for every home and every kitchen.

The best white paint color is the one that goes with your home, your finishes, your lighting, and your style.

Stop second-guessing every paint chip and choose your cabinet color with less guessing, fewer samples, and a whole lot more color confidence.