The best white paint color for kitchen cabinets.
Everywhere you look online, white kitchen cabinets are all the rage. Actually white kitchens have been around forever, we just have more opportunity to look into people’s homes thanks to the internet and Pinterest.
Anyway, I am in the middle of painting my cabinets white and I thought I’d share some great (and popular) white paint colors for kitchen cabinets.
5 of the best white paint colors for kitchen cabinets
1. BM White Dove – a soft warm white with a touch of gray.
2. BM Chantilly Lace – a true white that is not too gray or creamy.
3. BM Swiss Coffee – a creamy white.
4. SW Alabaster – a warm but crisp white. It’s often compared with BM White Dove.
5. SW Pure White – a crisp white
These are just a few of the whites I considered when I was trying to choose a color for my own kitchen cabinets. It took me several tries to pick “the one” for my cabinets but I finally found the perfect color.
If I could give you one good tip on choosing paint for your cabinets it is to try it in your room (not just with the paint chip). I bought a few pieces of poster board and painted them with the samples I picked out. Use painter’s tape to put your sample on your cabinet and keep it there for several days, look at it in daylight and at night.
Try it all around your room, even near your appliances and backsplash material, and you’ll find your white. Picking a paint color for your kitchen cabinets doesn’t have to be stressful.
Which one of these white paint colors did I go with?
We went with Benjamin Moore White Dove, and it was the perfect choice. I also used it on the trim, doors and 4 of the ceilings throughout our house. It’s safe to say that it’s one of my favorite white paint colors.
Check out my completed kitchen remodel, along with my white painted cabinets and custom DIY refrigerator cabinet.
Are there any white paint colors that you’d love to use in your home?
Kristi
There are so many whites out there that it’s overwhelming. I’m just glad that I found something that worked well in my house.
So glad you liked my tip on painting poster board for sampling colors. It’s really helpful and you can just move it around your room without having different colored paint stripes all over your walls.
Thanks so much for visiting today.
K.
Kristi
I heard that SW Alabaster was a close match to BM White Dove. Isn’t it an awesome color?
I am going to paint my basement stairway and try SW Alabaster so I’m excited to see how they measure up to each other. Hopefully I can find a coupon like you did. 40% off is great!
K.
Brenda Melendez
I never knew there were so many different white choices for cabinets. That’s a good idea to put the paint on a poster board, rather than your cabinets. Thanks for the tip. I’m here from the Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop.
Michele
Hello, I just painted my kitchen cabinets with Alabaster from Sherwin Williams. I am really happy with it. It is like White Dove. I had a 40% off coupon for SW, so I matched the White Dove chip I had planned to use. I thought the paint was good too. I did a lot of research, you picked all colors that were on my short list.
Kristi
Yes Stacey, I’ll definitely show pictures of my painted cabinets. I’m working hard to get them finished. I hope you’ll come back to check our progress. Thanks for stopping in.
K.
Stacey
Thanks! Those whites are beautiful! Will you be showing pictures of your cabinets when they are painted?
Kristi
Great idea using old cabinet doors from Habitat. Love that place. Thanks so much for sharing your fav paint colors too. I need to check out that Valspar Bermuda Sand.
K.
distresseddonna
I love SW Dover White in my kitchen and recently fell in love with Valspar Bermuda Sand. I pick up old cabinet doors from Habitat and use them as sample boards. You are so right about seeing your paint choices in the area you will be using it.
Kristi
Thanks Kim. Picking a paint color is never easy for me and whites are especially hard. Glad I found something that works in our house. Thanks again for sharing your kitchen reno regrets.
K.
Kim
Wow, those kitchens are truly stunning and I adore all the whites. I think I would have a really hard time choosing a color. I bet your cabinets are beautiful, can’t wait to check them out!
Kristi
I haven’t had a white room in so long. I’ve debated whether or not to paint the walls white in the kitchen but that’s not something I’m going to worry about right now. I think white walls would look great with your beautifully painted hutch. 🙂
K.
Kristi
Too many choices if you ask me. Isn’t life hard enough? 😉
K.
Kristi
Yellow sounds lovely with pure white trim. Our home redo is slow going at times too, I kind of burned myself out by going gun-ho in the beginning. Live and learn I guess. 😉
Thanks for stopping by today Deborah.
K.
Kristi
It’s great when you find a color that your happy with, isn’t it Barbara? Glad that it works so well for you.
K.
Kristi
I have painted almost all of the trim in my house and it is a huge job. I hope I don’t ever have to do it again. 😉 Thanks so much for sharing info on Chantilly Lace.
K.
MaryJean
Kristi, the only room that is white is my living/dining room and I don’t remember what name was it’s been so long. I’ve been thinking the room(s) could use a sprucing up. If I can’t remember the name it definitely DOES needs a new paint job! I’m fond of Behr paints so it will probably be repainted one of their whites, although I did like the BM Swiss Coffee in your post.
Havok
I never knew there were so many different shades of white! I mean, I kinda figured, since there’s multiple shades of “greige” but it’s still crazy at the variety of these somewhat basic colors!
Deborah Halcomb
Kitchen White in my kitchen. I like the crisp look of pure white with beach colors. If I every get the energy to strip the wall paper that came in my home I will paint the walls a soft yellow. The cabinets are a grey white but I will probably leave them since I can’t afford a painter and I refuse to paint cabinets again. LOL Been very slow progress on getting my condo done, I am not as young as I used to be.
Barbara (WA)
All the white in my home is Snowfall White (BM) which is actually on a card of green shades. I don’t see any green but I liked it with our white vinyl windows, carpet and favorite fabrics way back when we built the house in 1988, It still works well.
Kim
All my trim in my house is Chantilly Lace. It has a squirt of black in it and is a cold stark white. So if you want something warmer don’t use Chantilly Lace. If you want a stark white do. I really would love to change all my trim to something softer, but it would be so much work. If I can ever afford to hire someone to repaint all my trim I will.