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Cabinet door styles and finishes that are trending

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Very similar kitchen cabinet door styles and finishes have accounted for the vast majority of kitchen sales for the past 15 years.

75% of home owners chose shaker and simple recessed panel door styles in white and off-white finishes in our region from 2010 to 2024. Interestingly, this year, we are seeing some new and unusual door style selections. Plus, a full palette of colors are being selected in nearly half the kitchens we design. At last, kitchen cabinet door styles and finishes have become diverse!

Below is a typical kitchen with the most popular color and style choices from the last decade:

Cubitac kitchen. A good value for flipping a home. Typical kitchen design and color selection.

Even very complex and detailed kitchens featured similar kitchen cabinet door styles and finishes like the one below:

All-white kitchen designed in Brighton beaded inset cabinetry with oversize pendant lights above a large island and a slab backsplash behind a gas range.

Compare these kitchens to some of the new door styles and finishes featured by the cabinet brands that Main Line Kitchen Design carries.

Cubitac, one of the brands that Main Line Kitchen Design carries, just released the door style and finish below. Cubitac is a very reasonably priced well made brand. The door style is a creative take on the skinny shaker door style that has also become popular of late. The Moss color hasn’t been popular for some time – it’s good to see it growing in popularity.  

Artisan Door style a hot new trending style
Artisan door style is popular in both inexpensive and custom brands

Below is a 22 color palette of the colors available from Fabuwood. Fabuwood is another high quality and very affordable brand Main Line Kitchen Design carries.

 

Alternatively, Plain & Fancy a top tiered full custom cabinet brand Main Line Kitchen Design designs in and sells. Some of the unusual door styles they offer are below.

Notice that the grain continues between the cabinet door and drawer front. 

The center panel is a rounded vertical reed

Plain & Fancy’s Chatham style, below, is very similar to the Cubitac Artisan door style. Often similar styles are available in less expensive cabinet lines with no compromise in quality.  The higher end cabinet lines do offer many options not available in the less expensive ones.  

Contemporary styling is also becoming more popular, particularly in Plain & Fancy. See two representative Plain & Fancy contemporary kitchens below. European frameless full access cabinetry is as popular as framed cabinetry in the Plain & Fancy brand.

Fabuwood offers a range of these increasingly asked for cutting edge colors and durable construction at affordable prices. For example, a new Fabuwood color Desert Oak on the Fabuwood shaker Galaxy door style is below. 

It is more important than ever to work with knowledgeable kitchen designers and cabinet dealers. We’re excited to help you with your upcoming remodel.  

HERE are some of the recent kitchen projects completed by Main Line Kitchen Design:

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Paul McAlary

Bio from Kitchen and Bath Design News: Paul McAlary possesses a voice that resonates far beyond the boundaries of Philadelphia’s western suburbs and the city’s prestigious Main Line – the location of his well-established Delaware Valley design firm. McAlary, president and senior designer of Bala Cynwyd, PA-based Main Line Kitchen Design, is an internationally recognized kitchen design authority who has won more than a dozen local and national design awards, including being named a 2017 Viking Appliances Designer of Distinction. Beyond his achievements as a designer, McAlary has also forged a burgeoning reputation as the creative force behind the “Main Line Kitchen Design Blog,” a unique online forum and social media resource that is read by more than 40,000 people each month and has been honored as one of the top kitchen design blogs in the world. Main Line Kitchen Design’s videos and blogs address a wide range of kitchen/bath-related topics aimed at sparking a constructive exchange of ideas among both consumers and design professionals. McAlary, whose kitchens and comments often appear in trade magazines and on social media sites, is sometimes at odds with the kitchen design establishment, but he maintains a distinct sense of humor and is known as a fierce advocate for design standards, ethics and transparency in the kitchen design trade.

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2 Replies to “Cabinet door styles and finishes that are trending”

  1. Ricardo Moraes

    I’m Ricardo Moraes from L’Atelier Paris Haute Design, where we design custom French ranges and luxury kitchens made in America. I really enjoyed your post—your insights on trending cabinet door styles and finishes are both stylish and informative. Great inspiration for anyone updating their kitchen. Thanks for sharing!

    1. pmcalary[ Post Author ]

      Thanks Ricardo,
      It’s funny but often the highest end luxury kitchens will be very impractical due to the selections the customers insist on. For example, often they use marble countertops that damage almost instantly if they are actually used. Or, I once had a $300,000 kitchen where the only wall cabinets in the home were located in the butlers pantry 50 feet away from the primary sink. We also had a customer that spent $165,000 on their European appliances and all the ovens in their kitchen were too small to fit a Pizza or a Thanksgiving turkey.

      Hopefully your luxury kitchens aren’t as impractical as the kitchens our customers without budget restrictions often insist on.

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