Key points
- Avoid outdated cabinet tones such as marine, cherry wood, mustard yellow and country red.
- These colors once felt warm or luxurious, but now kitchens are dated or excessively discussed.
- Instead, choose softer neutral, natural forests or richer steamed tones for a timeless feeling.
Regardless of whether you decorate or renovate a kitchen, your cupboards are as important as the walls and tiles.
The colors that you choose set the entire room of the room – and some colors are much better in creating a warm and inviting ambience for the heart of your home than others.
One of the most common decorative errors that our interior design experts see in the houses of their customers is an outdated kitchen cabinet color – which is why they are here to spill the seven shades that you should avoid for a modern space.
Navy
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While soft and airy tones from Robin Egg and Sky Blue Bauernhaus kitchens can make it inviting and modern, the designers Dan Mazzarini and Gaia Guidi Filippi both say that dark blue cupboards feel nautical and outdated.
“I have seen so many navy kitchens and remodels in the past 10 years -I never liked it at the time and I would never recommend it now,” said Guidi Filippi. “Navy seems to be just out of place in a modern kitchen.”
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Mint
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“I actually think that Green is somehow tired at the time,” says Peter Spalding, co -founder and Chief Creative Officer of Daniel House Club. “It was the gate into the world of colorful cupboards, but I think we should rest a little.”
Although earthy, naturally inspired sage, forest and subtle olive green tones are always popular with all of our designers, the sweet, mint green colors would prefer to see both spalding and designer Nina Lichtenstein in retirement.
“Mint Green was a popular choice in modern kitchen in the middle of the century, and although it can still have a place in designs inspired by Retro, it is not the best choice for a modern, timeless look,” adds Lichtenstein.
Honey oak wood
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When scrolling through rental websites and through the structural, structural cuisine, the light and warm orange tones made of honey oak wood constantly browse. Especially when it is polished, this variety of wood immediately feels much older.
“Honey Eiche cabinets were a basic kitchen cabinet style in the 1980s and 1990s – and while they once represented a warm and homely atmosphere, they can feel a room outdated and heavy today,” says Lichtenstein.
Design tip
If you love the classic, biological feeling that a wooden cabinet can bring into a kitchen, Lichtenstein recommends a more subtle warm maple, contemporary dark walnut or ash wood in Scandinavian ash wood.
Cherry wood
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Colorful Cherry Wood kitchen cabinets were another trademark of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s and were particularly popular when they were paired with granite slabs to feel particularly luxurious and opulent.
But because rich, deep tones and materials have been replaced by love for light and neutral rooms over the years, this look has come out of fashion.
“Rich, dark cherry and dark mahogany cabinets once conveyed luxury and sophistication, but in today's modern kitchens they can feel too formal and even too depressing,” explains Lichtenstein.
“I would stay away from passé wood types and stains,” added Guidi Filippi. “No red-tone, Cherry Woods is made from this designer!”
Cherry Woods, this designer, no red-tinted, Cherry Woods is carried out by this designer!
Mustard yellow
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Despite a light, soft butter yellow shadow, which thanks to their cheerful properties among our readers 'favorite colors are among our readers' favorite colors, some courageous variations can feel overwhelming and old -fashioned.
“The yellow kitchens of the early 2000s inspired by Tuscan fell out of favor,” says Lichtenstein. “These warm, golden tones have now been associated with an excessively thematic design style that no longer resonates with modern life.”
“If a customer wants to integrate a sunny feeling, I would suggest using yellow as an accent color as the main cabinet color and instead neutral cupboards with yellow snaps in the decor or in the kitchen baking splash,” she adds.
Land red
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Another overwhelming color of both Mazzarini and Spalding suggests that avoiding country is red. Similar to red-tinted forests and Tuscan yellow, this color is often used on cupboards to try to convey a feeling of warmth and wealth in the kitchen, but it can feel extremely in a modern home.
According to Spalding, however, there are extensive, deeper tones that your kitchen cupboards can still feel up to date under the right circumstances.
“If the light in your room requires such colors, you should listen,” says Spalding. “Plums, apricots, curry and dark chocolate are all colors that I would now like to see on kitchen cabinets. They are richer, calmer, warmer – fatty backgrounds for the production of pasta and drinking wine.”
Strong white
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The final color on the list of our experts may be a surprise, especially in view of the versatile and popular.
White has been a common choice for kitchen cupboards since the early 2000s to make the room lighter and larger. However, Lichtenstein tends to keep the customers of strong white color because it can feel cold and clinically instead of openly and inviting.
“Modern kitchens include softer, warmer neutral such as creamy off-white, soft shades of gray or even greater,” she says. “These colors keep the brightness of white upright, but with a more subtle, inviting tone that gives the room depth and heat.”