Red painted kitchen cabinet. photo via: dutchboy.com

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What Color To Paint Your Cottage Style Kitchen Cabinets

Choose A Style Of Kitchen With The Type Of Style For Your Life

In fact, there are plenty of kitchen paint ideas you can choose from to transform your kitchen into the exact look you want, but you also need to take your time when choosing a paint color. Painting cabinets is a smart alternative to replacing them. The right color scheme can update the cabinets and your overall kitchen. Decide on a palette that works with the walls. Even curtains or dishtowels can provide inspiration for a kitchen’s color palette. A semi-gloss is the most common finish used in the kitchen because it’s highly scrubbable, but not too shiny that it overtakes the whole room. A hi-gloss also stands up well to scrubbing and washing and is ideal for cabinets.

Light blue walls and dark green cabinet doors, from the Kitchen Vote.

Start painting by removing the cabinet drawers, doors and hardware. Lightly sand the cabinet surface dull, wash and apply a good primer coat. Lay cabinet doors flat and on a raised surface (such as two sawhorses). Paint the front and edges. Allow them to dry, then paint the back. Paint drawers, then the cabinet frames. You also may want to incorporate new cabinet hardware into your new look.

Kitchen Colors Ideas
One of the most efficient ways to add color to a kitchen would be to paint the kitchen cabinet. Since cabinets usually occupy the greater part of the kitchen, adding color to them would be a great way spice up the kitchen Decor.
For the kitchen walls, the best bet would be to install new tiles in trendy designs and deep tones all over the kitchen or above the kitchen counters. Apart from looking beautiful and colorful, tiles make cleaning and wiping easy and simple.
A monochromatic color scheme with matching cabinet, countertop and wall colors can be spiced up by creating a focal point in the kitchen in bold contrasting colors and stenciled motifs.
Another area of concern for beautifying a kitchen would be to install bright, multihued curtains available in decorative patterns. However, get curtains that are easily washable.
Do not overlook the fact that colors look different in different lighting systems. If you are planning to go for fluorescent or incandescent lighting, it may affect the hue of your kitchen color in a different fashion entirely.

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