20 Kitchen Cabinetry Ideas
Painting your kitchen cabinets is a simple, effective way to create a focal point in your kitchen scheme.
Our Intelligent Paints are ideal for your kitchen cabinetry refresh, with incredible self-priming formulations that mean you can prime and paint using a single tin of paint.
Explore our inspiration for painting your kitchen cabinets, from timeless colour pairings to more contemporary spaces that deliver impact…
1. Homely and neutral
Introduce a palette of coordinating warm neutrals in your kitchen to create a beautiful, homely setting that instils calm and comfort within the heart of the home. From our ‘Stone’ palette, pair Light Bronze Green, Elysian Ground and Nether Red on walls with green-based neutral, Book Room Green, on cabinets.
Ceiling: Slaked Lime
Upper Wall: Light Bronze Green
Highlight Stripe: Nether Red
Splashback: Elysian Ground
Cabinets & Woodwork: Book Room Green
2. Natural green scheme
Invite nature inside your kitchen scheme by using a green shade all over, on your walls, woodwork and cabinets. Garden is a beautiful vibrant green that creates a strong sense of connection with the tranquillity of the outdoors and evokes a feeling of calm and wellbeing.
Ceiling: Pea Green
Walls: Garden
Larder Cupboards: Garden
Inside Cupboard: Dock Blue
Far Walls: Scullery
Door: Scullery
3. Sophisticated navy blue cabinets
Contrast neutral walls with a sophisticated navy blue like Juniper Ash on your kitchen cabinets. This muted dark blue is an excellent alternative to black or dark grey cabinets to accompany light wood floors and furniture.
Wall: Shirting
Cabinets: Juniper Ash
4. Wraparound golden warmth
From bright sunshine shades to deep honey tones, yellow is a wonderful colour choice to bring instant warmth, joy and liveliness to your kitchen scheme. Incorporate different golden yellows on your walls, woodwork and cabinetry to create a captivating scheme with wraparound warmth.
Ceiling: Middle Buff
Walls: Yellow-Pink
Window & Woodwork: Affogato
Cabinetry: Bassoon
Chair: Atomic Red
5. Impactful black cabinets
Black paint colours can create a strong focal point that will punctuate your scheme and add visual interest. For a contemporary look, paint your kitchen walls in the pretty light pink, Confetti, and contrast with Lamp Black on the cabinets.
Brickwork: Confetti
Cupboards: Lamp Black
6. Pink walls with grey cabinets
For a softer pairing, team pink walls with a cool, contemporary grey like Urbane Grey. Choose a very soft muted pink like Light Peachblossom and use alongside a mid-strength grey for a contrasting scheme.
Wall: Light Peachblossom
Units: Urbane Grey
7. Soft neutral kitchen
If you prefer a classic white shade like Flint for your kitchen cabinets, select a gentle, warm neutral such as Mushroom for the walls. This shade has subtle pink undertones that will soften the hard surfaces and create a relaxed, comforting environment.
Wall: Mushroom
Splash Back: Pompeian Ash
Kitchen Units: Flint
9. Create a colour drenched kitchen scheme
Colour drenching your kitchen scheme means painting the walls, woodwork and cabinets in one shade for an all-encompassed effect. An elegant warm neutral such as the mellow honeyed shade, Bombolone, is a wonderful choice to create enveloping warmth and comfort.
Walls & Cupboard doors: Bombolone
Window trim: Silt
Ceiling beam: Flint
10. Two-tone kitchen scheme
Pairing two different tones of one shade is a great way to inject design interest in your kitchen scheme, creating a subtle contrast that provides depth and dimension. Tea with Florence pairs beautifully with the rich deep teal, Harley Green, on the lower cabinets for a luxurious finish.
Units up to and including Shelf, and Wall Return: Harley Green
Above Shelf: Tea with Florence
11. Timeless white cabinets
With its elegant simplicity, white is a timeless choice for painting kitchen cabinets. For a rustic kitchen setting, choose the sophisticated warm white, Flint, and combine with traditional natural materials like bare wood, stone, brick rattan and jute.
Splashback and Units: Flint
12. Colour drench with Hicks’ Blue
Hicks’ Blue is a versatile deep blue that works wonderfully in a variety of spaces, from bedrooms to living rooms and exterior schemes. In your kitchen, embrace Hicks’ Blue all over on walls, woodwork and cabinets to achieve instant impact.
Walls and cabinets: Hicks’ Blue
Stool: Green Verditer
13. Inviting and contemporary
Using a darker hue on your cabinets can really ground your kitchen scheme, adding inviting depth and character to your space. Consider a contemporary neutral pairing like Mochi with Attic II, pairing with light wood furniture and botanical elements.
Walls, Shelf & Tiles: Mochi
Lower units and cupboard unit: Attic II
Ceiling: Slaked Lime
14. Harmonious wallpaper scheme
Using wallpaper in your kitchen scheme will introduce a textural element to your walls and create an inviting, comforting atmosphere. For a harmonious scheme, paint your cabinets in a related neutral shade, such as Green Stone with Briar Rose – Green Stone wallpaper.
Wallpaper: Briar Rose – Green Stone
Ceiling, Wall and Upper Panelling: Green Stone - Pale
Lower Panelling, Dado and Baseboard: Green Stone - Light
Kitchen Units: Book Room Green
15. Coordinate paint and wallpaper
For a dynamic kitchen scheme that’s bursting with personality, accompany wallpapered walls with a coordinating paint colour on your kitchen cabinets. Hopper is the perfect shade to pair with Spring Flowers – Garden for a kitchen that evokes the joy and beauty of springtime.
Wallpaper: Spring Flowers – Garden and Spring Flowers – Portland Stone
Door frame: Portland Stone - Pale
Window frame: Garden
Cabinet doors: Hopper
16. Contemporary earth-red cabinets
Muscovado is a rich, deep, warm reddish-brown colour that can look striking and contemporary when it features on kitchen cabinets. Contrast with white walls painted in Slaked Lime to make Muscovado the focus of your scheme.
Kitchen units and tiled splashbacks: Muscovado
Wall: Slaked Lime - Dark
Cornice: Slaked Lime - Mid
17. Cosy brown scheme
From light golden shades to deep chocolates, warm brown hues have a comforting, alluring quality, perfect for adding a sense of cosiness to your kitchen. Paint your cabinets in the rich dark brown, Chocolate Colour, alongside Light Bronze Green and Ditsy Block – Bombolone.
Wallpaper: Ditsy Block – Bombolone
Ceiling: Bombolone
Wall, baseboard & window trim: Light Bronze Green
Cabinets: Chocolate Colour
18. Sunshine yellow cabinets
As a room full of life and activity, your kitchen is the ideal place to incorporate vibrant, mood-boosting shades in your home’s interior design. Giallo will bring a ray of sunshine to your kitchen, whether it’s embraced all over or as a colour highlight on cabinets only.
Ceiling, Walls & Cupboard: Giallo
Left Wall: Bone China Blue – Faint
19. Pair green walls with rich red cabinets
Elevate your kitchen with a classic complementary colour pairing like green and red. Windmill Lane and Cordoba can be used in combination on walls and cabinets to create a beautiful, attractive colour contrast.
Wall and Ceiling: Windmill Lane
Kitchen Units: Córdoba
20. Paint upper and lower cabinets in different shades
You can introduce colour on various elements of your kitchen to accentuate and highlight different parts of the space. Paint your upper cabinets in the delicate blue, Bone China Blue – Deep, and contrast with richly coloured burnt orange, Heat, on the lower cabinets to draw the eye.
Wall: Apple
Wall Unit & Tiles: Bone China Blue – Deep
Lower Units: Heat
Floor: Dock Blue
Explore more kitchen cabinet paint ideas and inspiring schemes in our gallery, or order a complimentary colour card to browse shades for your kitchen refresh.
