Painting cabinets - color for the inside

[sbj405]

I have 50's era wood cabinets, painted white very plain. I recently saw a magazine with nearly my exact kitchen with the bottom cabinets painted red. I've decided to do it, but am curious what to do with the inside of the doors. They are currently white and not in too bad of shape. Do I leave them white or paint them the red? Thanks.

[NMDemDist2]

1. what color are the walls?

paint the doors all red (unless you don't want to do the extra work)

are you leaving the cabinet frames white? that would look nice and just take the doors off and paint them

[sbj405]

2. Walls are white

I have a border at the top with fat chefs :-) I was planning on painting the frames as well. They are old, so the amount of frame that shows is very little and might look funny if kept white.

[NMDemDist2]

3. you can leave the insides of the cabinets white too then

that way you don't even have to unload the cabinets, just take the doors off and tape off the inside edges and rock and roll (the paint)

should look great!

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I know its a matter of taste, but I would leave the frames and interior

white .... and even repaint them (in white) if they need it. The red doors framed in white will look great. In fact, that sort of paint scheme is all the rage these days. So are different color upper and lower cabinet doors.

Kinda like this, that a Google search turned up:


edited for grammar

[NMDemDist2]

5. i looked for that picture

that was exactly the look I was thinking on my first post

thanks for finding it H2S

PS... how's your hand ?? hope it's feeling better :pals:

[Stinky The Clown]

6. The hand's doing okay ........

No feeling in the skin where it happened, but that's normal. A 2nd degree for sure. But no splits, no blisters, and right now, very little discomfort.

Thanks fer askin'! :hi:

[NMDemDist2]

7. keep it clean and

keep that antibiotic ointment going

glad it's feeling "ok" and hope you heal FASTFASTFAST :)

PS sorry for 'jacking your thread SBJ, and show us pics of what you did ;)

[Phentex]

8. I've been pondering this myself and was told

I should keep them white. A color might darken them more than I'd like.

[Warpy]

9. I have a 1952 kitchen

with 1952 built in cabinets, a whole wall of them.

I tried stripping the doors down, and after I'd gotten through successive layers of white, ivory, turquoise, yellow, landlord brown and pink (remember the 60s?) paint, I found that the wood they were made from was poor quality, with defects patched with joint compound.

I spray painted the hardware kelly green and painted the outsides of the cabinets white. The insides are a lighter bluish green, a color that plays nicely off my plain white dishes. My countertops are Formica, a "granite pattern" green with tiny flecks that match both the insides of the cabinets and the kelly green hardware.

It sounds weird, I know, but it all works, and it isn't at all jarring with the style of the old cabinets.

I'd steer clear of red cabinet doors in white frames. I've never seen that combo look anything but amateurish. All red would be wonderful, though.

[Warpy]

10. Pictures

[Stinky The Clown]

11. That looks great! Not even a hint of "jarring"

I can't imagine why anyone would think that combo is jarring. :shrug:

That little whiote and red stripe thing on the right ..... an electric tea kettle? How "veddy British"!

[Warpy]

12. It gets HOT here in the summer

and that wee electric kettle will heat up enough water for tea without heating up the kitchen as much as the stove does.