If you had honey oak cabinets you had arrived.
Updating kitchen with honey oak cabinets.
But now that orangey look is a bit outdated.
We could relax enjoy the lake and embrace the charm.
When you are trying to pick a wall color to update the look of honey oak cabinets what you want to do is to downplay the honey the yellow tone of the cabinets.
The more colours and metal finishes you add the more cluttered it can make the room look.
Using unified decor with a consistent colour palette can really help update a kitchen or bathroom with oak cabinets.
This is hands down the single best article i ve read for updating my kitchen.
One way to really update your kitchen even with those honey oak cabinets is to paint it.
Unlike paint liming cabinets using something like this liming wax from briwax lets some of the wood grain show through but tones down the honey color you see on so much 80s oak cabinetry.
When we purchased the lake cottage i told myself that we didn t have to decorate it all at once.
So the tip for the wax and adding dark hardware is worth its weight in gold.
You just saved me countless hours and dollars for my kitchen update.
The only reason we are leaning away from painting is that the kitchen and the rest of the house has the same honey oak wood trim.
And if you are interested in a farmhouse look you know white is the wall color of choice.
After living with it for a year i couldn t t take it anymore.
We bought our house 3 years ago and the kitchen was oak cabinets oak floors oak trim cream granite.
Honey oak cabinets were so popular in the 90s.
Honey oak cabinets from 1972.
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Replace antique brass pulls with something stainless and you ve got yourself an update.
I have no hardware on mine either.
Black white cream and gray home decor neutrals and simple classic colours are a great way to update wood cabinets.
Updating a kitchen with oak cabinets.
You had to see this one coming painting your oak cabinets is a great way to update and modernize them.
My cabinets are high quality but i hate the honey oak finish.