Reader Project: California Kitchen Joins the Dark Side (5 photos)

AFTER: These days you don’t hear too often about a homeowner’s remodeling an all-white kitchen to have dark cabinets and countertops instead. But that’s exactly what White wanted. “I wanted that slightly industrial look with clean lines and just a more sleek look,” he says. In fact, he wanted things so sleek to go with the dark features that he even chose a refrigerator without ice and faucet dispensers and a visible brand logo on the door.

He then used Houzz to find photos for inspiration for the dark wood cabinets and dark countertop he was after. The cabinets are 2 inches shorter than the previous ones, a choice White made to help visually open things up, something he swears the darker colors do as well. “People have this fear that darker cabinets make things look smaller, but it makes it look bigger to me,” he says.


White added a larger oven and range but wanted to keep the counter space, so the cabinets and counter were extended about 9 inches and now sit flush with the window — near White’s dogs, Apollo and Eva.

Refrigerator: Bosch; microwave: GE

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