Using unified decor with a consistent colour palette can really help update a kitchen or bathroom with oak cabinets.
Updating kitchen with honey oak cabinets.
Make your oak cabinets feel modern and fresh with these easy diy ideas.
Black white cream and gray home decor neutrals and simple classic colours are a great way to update wood cabinets.
We completely made over the space for pennies by painting the cabinets adding crown under cabinet molding.
This is hands down the single best article i ve read for updating my kitchen.
Honey oak cabinets from 1972.
Replace antique brass pulls with something stainless and you ve got yourself an update.
When we purchased the lake cottage i told myself that we didn t have to decorate it all at once.
You just saved me countless hours and dollars for my kitchen update.
After living with it for a year i couldn t t take it anymore.
The more colours and metal finishes you add the more cluttered it can make the room look.
If you had honey oak cabinets you had arrived.
My cabinets are high quality but i hate the honey oak finish.
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.
So the tip for the wax and adding dark hardware is worth its weight in gold.
I have no hardware on mine either.
Updating a kitchen with oak cabinets.
One way to really update your kitchen even with those honey oak cabinets is to paint it.
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.
But now that orangey look is a bit outdated.
Oak cabinet update idea.
We bought our house 3 years ago and the kitchen was oak cabinets oak floors oak trim cream granite.
The room nearly glowed orange.
How to update your kitchen on a budget.
Tips and tricks to update dated oak kitchen cabinets without painting them.
And if you are interested in a farmhouse look you know white is the wall color of choice.