69 Creative Kitchen Cabinet Ideas to Refresh Your Space

In this wet bar, storage is swapped for hidden appliances with brass cabinet fronts. Adult and kid beverages can be stored separately in convertible undercounter refrigerator drawers from Signature Kitchen Suite. Plus, a hidden, smaller drawer on top is perfect for stashing away treats.

While it may seem weird to store all of your tableware in drawers, it's becoming increasingly common as people are choosing to forego upper cabinets all together. This system by Urbanology utilizes pegs to customize each drawer's interior.

In Reena Ravi's studio kitchen in Seattle, brass lattice cabinet fronts are used to tie in the room's gilded hardware and fixtures. The brass also helps to reflect light and offset the moody navy cabinetry.

In House Beautiful's 2023 Whole Home kitchen, this cabinet interior utilizes every square inch by shuffling around shelf heights to fit each book and container exactly. No wasted space here.

There's nothing worse than walking into the kitchen only to find every cabinet door left open. In this family home's pantry, designer Meta Coleman decided to make that problem a thing of the past by avoiding doors completely. Now, everyday items are within easy reach, and matching baskets keep clutter to a minimum.

“Stained glass cabinets were once a popular choice but fell out of favor in recent years,” says designer Margarita Bravo. “However, they are making a comeback as homeowners seek to add a touch of elegance to their kitchens.”

Take it from this soft, monochromatic pink kitchen by Baxt Ingui Architects, which was designed for the 2022 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse and features cabinetry with stained glass.

"It works as a counterbalance to all the saturated colors in our interiors right now, lends a 'been here forever' vibe, and aligns with our yearnings for the comfort of our grandparents' home," says Studio Dearborn founder Sarah Robertson of dark stained wood cabinetry. This kitchen by the designer is a prime example.

To match the floors of this home in Leeds, New York, Shapeless Studio stained the new white oak cabinetry. “It keeps with the home’s warmth and makes everything feel a part of the building,” says designer Jess Hinshaw.

If you have open cabinets and don't love the way they look, a simple hack is to DIY a curtain to cover them. Opt for café curtains or measure and cut your chosen fabric accordingly and then hang it from the bottom of the counter with a rod. In this kitchen, designer Phoebe Howard matched the curtain pattern to the ceiling wallpaper for high impact.

For a colorful but not overwhelming look, paint your cabinetry in two pastels. In this 1940s bungalow, designer Laura Jenkins chose Stone Blue and Teresa's Green by Farrow & Ball. A peachy Fireclay Tile backsplash makes it extra playful.

Bright green cabinetry adds a much-needed pop of color to this kitchen by designer Elizabeth Hay. Potted flowers and patterned rugs enliven the space. The white walls and ceiling beams make it feel more airy and open.

Sneak extra storage into your kitchen by not only installing cabinets above the counters but also snaking the cupboards around the room, like over the fridge. (Just don't forget the step stool.) Take a cue from this tiny kitchen designed by Anthony Dunning.

Display cabinets with metal grate fronts instead of traditional glass enclosures are a happy medium between closed and open storage. "With glass, everything lining the cabinet shelves needs to be just so because you can see straight through. But with metal grates, you don't have to worry about packaging your essentials in a pretty way since you can only get a peek inside," explains Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful's director of editorial special projects.

Get more usable space out of your kitchen island by customizing it with extra cabinets and drawers. This can help keep walls clear and elongate high ceilings, as exemplified in this kitchen designed by Andrea Pietragallo of Britt Design Studio.

Want to hide your dishwasher? Add a cabinet front, so it doesn't break up the line of cabinetry under the counter. Even better, hide it with something as gorgeous as hardware-free cabinets in blush pink paint.

Instead of spending on built-ins, invest in furniture you can move around and take with you as Romanek Design Studio did here. A shelving unit or china display cabinet will do the trick.

Karen Swanson of New England Design Works chose alternating hardware to accentuate certain shapes and play with details. The upper cabinets and drawers feature smaller, understated brass knobs while the larger ones feature handle pulls. If you look closely, you can see she flipped the same handles vertically for the cabinets in the corner to play up their height and complement the proportions.

If your kitchen bleeds into your living, dining room, mudroom, and/or home office, create consistency by using the same paint color and hardware on the cabinets throughout. This black paint and gold hardware combination in a kitchen designed by Fitz Pullins strikes the right balance between approachable and glam.

Designed by Emil Dervish, this minimal kitchen is both highly functional and style-forward. The stainless steel cabinets are resilient and durable as are the wooden worktops (that's why they're so popular in professional kitchens), but they also add an industrial edge while the modern lighting and pop of red paint feel fresh.

Display cabinets are a smart way to lighten up a black kitchen. Not only will you be able to showcase your tableware and decorative objects, but the glass fronts also make the room feel more open and spacious, as seen in this kitchen designed by Ariene Bethea. Mix display cabinets with enclosed ones to hide any items you don't want to show off.