I build cabinets for a living, and green is the color I am asked about most after blue. These are kitchens by designers whose work I admire, each credited to the designer and photographer and linked to the full project.
Regan Baker Design, San Francisco, CA
Regan Baker calls this an earthy, undersaturated green, and that is exactly why it works: Shaker doors and the wainscoting in the same soft sage, so the whole room reads as one calm color. A walnut-toned island with a marble top breaks it up. If you want green that still feels like a neutral, this is the shade.
Sarahliz Lawson Design, Hillsborough, CA
Dark green cabinets under white counters, with an apron-front sink set under the window and a big island for seating. The deep green looks rich against white stone and keeps a large kitchen from feeling like a showroom. Dark green is forgiving too: it hides scuffs better than any white I build.
Susie Novak Interiors, Lafayette, CA
A Lafayette kitchen, close to our shop: deep green Shaker cabinets up and down, open wood shelves, and a white handmade-look tile behind them. The wood shelves are what make it, warming the green so it never goes cold. It is a good one to copy if your kitchen is small and you still want color.
Noz Design, San Francisco, CA
Noz Design painted the whole kitchen a vibrant Kelly green and swapped a dated island for one that works harder. Glass-front uppers and white counters keep the color from closing in. This is the bold end of green, and it only works when everything else in the room stays simple.
Ann Lowengart Interiors, West Palm Beach, FL
A Bay Area designer working in Florida: light green flat-panel cabinets with a patterned green tile behind the range. Matching the tile to the cabinet color is what makes a pale green look intentional rather than washed out. Flat slab doors suit a lighter green, because there are no profiles to catch shadow.
How to get a green kitchen like these
Every kitchen here is custom: cabinets sized to the room and finished in a color chosen for it. That is what we build. Plywood boxes, full-extension dovetail drawers and soft-close hinges come standard, and every kitchen is delivered fully assembled, in the Bay Area or anywhere in the US.
Every kitchen here is credited to its designer and photographer, with a link to the full project. If one is yours and you’d like it changed or taken down, email [email protected] and we’ll do it the same day.
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