Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Polling the Audience: White or Antique White Cabinets?

It has been awhile since we've posted. Our lack of commentary is in no way indicative of lack of progress. Quite the contrary, in fact! It's more that we've been blown away by progress to the point that we don't know what to focus our posts on and, more accurately, we've been (read: I've been) paralyzed by indecision to the point where I can't decide if I even want to get others to weigh in or not. It's a sickness, really.

The decision that has caused me the most angst thus far has been cabinet color (master bathroom layout and lighting fixtures/placement are a close second). As you know we are getting our cabinets refaced by an awesome company called Affordable Refacing. (God love Shawn, the owner, for putting up with me.) We are to decide between white and antique white. First, we chose white because I love the look of the all-white cararra marble kitchens. Very clean, very chic, very en vogue. But then we chose antique white because I feared the white would be to stark/sterile. But is the antique white too creamy? I flip flop daily and thought that I'd use a lifeline and poll the audience.

Below is a photo of the two color options. We're going with the door style on the left no matter what.


As a reminder, here's our backsplash and granite.


Because I am a big loser, I took the liberty of creating a PowerPoint slide that puts all of the pieces together. Here's a screenshot of it. The two cabinets on the left are antique white and the two on the right are white white.


So which color?

Shawn is so awesome that he actually told me he could custom spray each of the cabinets ANY Sherwin Williams white that I liked, but, before I put him and his guys through that, I want to make sure I can't live with one of these choices. (Because if I go with that option, you do realize there are about 100 Sherwin William whites!)

I'm not cut out for this...

Suggestions welcome :)

2 comments:

  1. OK, I'll go first. WHITE. The white in the counter and the back splash isn't creamy, so I'd go with regular white to match that. Plus, I think the brightness of the white of the cabinets will bring out the white of the counter top. But, that's just me, they could both work!

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