“So if you want to do something bold, it's a relatively safe choice.”īelow, explore eight kitchens that make a case for the earthy hue. “The eye can actually decipher more shades of green than any other color, which gives it great depth,” she explains. “It feels fresh and clean and speaks to the green outside, but because it’s dark and more subdued, it doesn’t detract from it.”Īcross the pond, London-based designer Beata Heuman declares a similar devotion, saying one of her favorite looks is a dark green kitchen, painted in the almost-black Studio Green shade by Farrow and Ball. I don’t want you to be deceived, so I’m sharing the best dark green colors for kitchen cabinets: one: BM Steamed Spinach 643, two: BM Chrome Green HC-189, three: SW Billiard 0016, four: Garden Cucumber 644, five: SW Pewter Green 6208, six: BM Caldwell Green HC124, seven: BM Jack Pine 692, eight: SW Hunt Club 6468. “I use green in every project as much as I can,” says Frances Merrill, who coaxed her client to add a dash of the grassy hue into a pattern-forward L.A.
Meanwhile, Charlotte Ronson and Nate Ruess’s Manhattan kitchen is coated in a subtle sage. Kendall Jenner’s is sporting a Benjamin Moore teal. (Remember the minty green cabinets in the Brady Bunch house?) Dakota Johnson’s Pierce & Ward–designed Los Angeles kitchen is painted in Benjamin Moore’s Alligator Alley. Others have followed suit, embracing colors we might have once couched in 1960s kitsch. “It’s a fantastic way to bring nature-or nature’s spirit-into a space. “Green has always been a go-to color for me,” says Los Angeles–based designer Faith Blakeney, who has used the hue prominently in several kitchen designs. From mint and sage to dazzling emerald and deep forest, green of every shade is entering the kitchen. But lately, like so many other parts of the home, kitchens are taking their stylistic cues from the outdoors.
More recently, we saw the rise of that fad’s polar opposite-the black kitchen. For a while, homeowners favored a gleaming white, sparkling-yet-sometimes-sterile blank canvas of Carrara marble countertops and slick subway tiles.
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