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Debbie Black

I Should Have Known That Light Gray Kitchen Cabinets Would Be the Wrong Choice — Why This Color Didn't Work, and What I Should Have Picked Instead

A modern kitchen with floor-to-ceiling gray kitchen cabinets either side of a natural, fluted wood alcove with a large kitchen island in front with gray marble over the top and fluted natural wood underneath with four black bar stools and a sleek modern pendant light hanging above the island with a vase of pink flowers on top.

Considering I work in the interiors industry, I should have known better. Picking light gray kitchen cabinets — light gray, gloss kitchen cabinets — in our redesign is a decision I have regretted almost every day since it was installed.

Picking a kitchen cabinet color can be tricky — there are so many colors to choose from, where do you even begin? Our trouble was that we had what I like to call 'project blindness', in that we based a lot of our decisions on what had worked well for us in our last home, not adequately considering the vastly different shape/light/requirements of the new space.

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