My Kitchen Paint Color Combination – SW Alabaster and BM Hale Navy

If you’re on the search for a great white and navy kitchen paint color combination this post is for you! 

 

We’ve been in the very slow process of updating every painted surface in our kitchen for the past 2 or 3 or 10 years!! And I do mean EVERY surface (minus the brown granite, which, believe me, if I thought paint would work it’s magic on them they wouldn’t be safe either!!)

 

 

When we first moved in 13 years ago, our kitchen was an olive green and the cabinets were orangey brown. We lived with this color scheme for about five years and then our living room, dining room, and kitchen got a paint makeover. 

We painted the kitchen SW Comfort Gray at that time, which I have loved. The cabinets were still orangey-brown, and of course, we still had the brown granite.

Three years ago we painted the cabinets SW Alabaster. If you want a warm off-white, Alabaster is a great color choice. It’s not a stark, cool white, but it isn’t yellow either. It’s a beautiful livable white. You can read about our kitchen cabinet painting project here.

 

 

If you are deciding on a white for your kitchen, make sure you consider all of the other fixed elements in the room — like brown granite countertops, for example. A cool white would have been way too stark against our brown, so we went with Sherwin Williams Alabaster, a warm off-white. 

After we painted the cabinets, we sanded and re-stained our hardwood floors Provincial to tone down the orange in the flooring.

This fall we painted our kitchen walls SW Alabaster, as well, and I love how much larger and open it makes the kitchen feel, especially the breakfast area. 

 

 

Then, a couple of weeks ago, I decided we needed navy doors in the kitchen! 

 

 

Because every kitchen needs navy doors, right?

 

 

Navy paint can be little tricky. I didn’t want it to be too bright, or too purple for the interior doors.

 

 

 

My sweet husband happily painted the door to the garage and the door to the screened-in porch Benjamin Moore Hale Navy for me, and they are the perfect navy! I just knew we needed navy doors!!

The BM Hale Navy doors introduce beautiful understated color in the kitchen, and I love how well the color works with all of my blue and white pieces. It’s crisp and clean against the SW Alabaster walls and cabinets — the perfect blue and white kitchen paint color combination!

 

 

 

 

By the way, we still have those brown granite countertops.

Maybe someday …

 

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