I was elbow-deep in paint swatches last Tuesday fifth trip to Home Depot that week, don’t judge, when I realized beige has been haunting my kitchen brain for years. Beige kitchen cabinets sound, well, boring, right? That’s exactly what I thought. But here’s the thing. Beige isn’t that sad, rental-apartment shade we all grew up…

True story: the first time I even thought about painting my cabinets black, I panicked halfway through stirring the paint. I had this gallon of Behr “Blackout” sitting on the counter, and my five-year-old asked if I was about to turn the kitchen into Batman’s cave. Honestly? Not far from my husband’s reaction either. But…

I was elbow-deep in paint samples last Tuesday, my fifth trip to Home Depot that week, don’t judge, when I realized something about gray kitchen cabinets that I wish someone had told me three kitchens ago. They’re the unicorn of cabinet colors. Not too trendy, not too plain. They hide fingerprints better than white, and…

Last Saturday morning, I walked into my kitchen and thought, Wow, this looks like one of those Pinterest photos. White cabinets glowing in the sunlight, counters clear for once, it lasted about five minutes. By the time the kids finished breakfast, there were syrup fingerprints on the drawers, my coffee ring on the island, and…

Two tone kitchen cabinets weren’t even on my radar until I messed up big time. I was elbow-deep in paint samples last Tuesday (my fifth trip to Home Depot that week, don’t judge) when I stepped back and realized something awful: my upper and lower cabinets looked like two strangers at a party pretending to…

I once painted my cabinets a shade from the swatch called Subtle Cream. Under my kitchen’s warm bulbs, that subtle turned banana milkshake overnight. I cried. Then I bought different bulbs, swapped the hardware, and added a pale gray-green on the walls, and suddenly it looked expensive, no,  yogurt. Point is: cream kitchen cabinets can be dreamy,…

I’d just spilled coffee down the front of my sad, off-white cabinet doors, the ones I’ve been threatening to redo soon since 2019. My toddler pointed at the mess and said, “Blue would hide that.” Bold of her, honestly. But… not wrong. That afternoon, I found myself holding a paint chip called Stillwater Blue, wondering…

It was one of those rainy Saturday mornings, the kind where you think, Maybe today’s the day I finally deal with these sad, chipped cabinets. My toddler was elbow-deep in a box of Goldfish, my husband was halfway through unclogging the sink (don’t ask), and I found myself holding a paint swatch called Dill Pickle….

Last week, I stood in my kitchen holding a paint swatch called “Moss Whisper,” wondering why it suddenly looked like guacamole under our lights. My toddler had just added fingerprints to a drawer I hadn’t even painted yet, and I caught myself thinking, Maybe beige wasn’t so bad after all. If you’ve ever second-guessed a…

When I started repainting my grandma’s 1970s kitchen cabinets, hands trembling, paintbrush in one hand, coffee in the other, I had no idea how complicated white could be. I figured, “Just grab a white. How hard can it be?” Famous last words. Turns out, choosing the best white paint color for kitchen cabinets is less…