White Kitchen help

[memenee]

I am pretty boring and basic in my kitchen design choices and I’m certainly not trying to reinvent the wheel here.

I like simple white shaker cabinets.
I love Quartz counters that look like marble.
And I love classic white subway tile backsplash.

I like the break up all the white with different touches around the room - plants, shades, runner, etc.

(For reference my floors are medium brown oak)

We are doing our kitchen without a designer or anything. Just me making the choices and the contractor doing the work.

My question is about all the white. I don’t know which whites need to ‘match’. Should the cabinets be the same white as the subway tile? Or should the subway tile be the same white as the white in the “marble look” Quartz? I don’t want clashing whites.

Right now, with what I’m considering, my cabinets and subway tile are the same white, while the white in the quartz countertop is ‘creamier’ and a little off white.

Can anyone help? Also if anyone has a similarly white kitchen I’d love to hear from you/see pics! Thank you!

[aprilsails]

I’m going to give you the same advise I give everyone which is to wait to pick out subway tile until after the countertop and cabinets and lighting is installed. Based on the lighting in your house the colour and tone of the backsplash tile can look significantly different. We went through a couple of options that I thought were shoe-ins but looked terrible when they were put up against the wall. So just a word of warning. I think if all of the tones are shades of off white and look good together it will generally work. Based on my experience I would make sure the countertop and the cabinets look good together first.

If you are worried about too much white I would go with darker cabinet hardware. We used graphite coloured ones on our white cabinets. Another option is to pick a few colours you want to highlight and add them in. We have colourful tea towels, a fruit bowl, and a stand mixer that sit out.

[rooster222]

I have white cabinets (BM Chantilly Lace), white marble look quartz and light blu-ish/gray subway tile.

My quartz is a bit creamier than my cabinet color. When we looked all the options were on the creamy side.

I looked at different white tile options, especially marble and just wasn't happy with it at all. I agree with the above advice about waiting until the counters are in to decide. I love the look of all white but for my kitchen it just wasn't working. Picking a grout color also made my head spin. I had a designer helping me, I would have had no clue on my own.

[pinotgrig]

memenee - this sounds like my kitchen! White shaker cabs, white subway tile, and white quartz tops that look like marble. Happy to post pics if you’re still looking for ideas. I did the island in navy for some color and had the tile backsplash installed in a herringbone pattern to add some variety.

[memenee]

pinotgrig YES! Would love to see pics - thank you so much for offering- I can’t wait to see them. What counter top did you go with?

[atarianna]

I personally love white on white on white, but my H doesn’t so we had to compromise and did a bit more color for the backsplash. I love how it turned out.

My ILs house has white/white/real marble (beautiful, but big mistake) and I love that their subway tile has more of a pearl/opal sheen and some texture. It is beautiful.

[pinotgrig]

Here’s a view of the entire kitchen -


And here’s a close up of the cabs/tops/backsplash -

[pinotgrig]

Aug 10, 2020 20:57:37 GMT -5 memenee said:

pinotgrig YES! Would love to see pics - thank you so much for offering- I can’t wait to see them. What counter top did you go with?

I didn’t pick them out - I came in when the reno was almost done so I don’t know the name. Sorry!

[memenee]

pinotgrig

Thank you so much for sharing - your kitchen is gorgeous! And I have been thinking of doing a herringbone pattern as well. I love yours!

[mrsukyankee]

Aug 11, 2020 11:06:27 GMT -5 memenee said:

pinotgrig

Thank you so much for sharing - your kitchen is gorgeous! And I have been thinking of doing a herringbone pattern as well. I love yours!

Our last kitchen had a herringbone pattern with white subway tiles and it got a lot of compliments. I'd definitely consider it!

[cosmowife]

We got samples of like 6 different subway tiles and tried them all out with the cabinets and the counters. That’s really the only way to do it! And just pick what looks best