These Are the Prettiest Kitchen Cabinet Designs We've Ever Seen (2024)

When you're designing a kitchen, it's likely the cabinets will set the tone for the entire style of your space. In this gallery of our favorite classic kitchen designs, you'll find everything you need to cook up the kitchen of your dreams, starting with photographs that incorporate simple kitchen cabinet design, modern kitchen cabinet ideas, and every gorgeous cabinet style in between.

One thing to keep in mind when designing cabinets for a kitchen is how the space will echo the overall architectural design of your home. If you live in a traditional historic residence, a white timeless kitchen design might feel age appropriate and fresh all at once. Cabinets coated in an energizing paint color could feel at right in a number of home styles, from cottages to city apartments. Other important considerations when choosing kitchen cabinets: uppers versus lowers, deep drawers versus swinging doors, natural wood versus painted. Kitchen cabinet ideas for storage, like cabinets that reach the ceiling to utilize vertical space, might be a mix of solid doors versus glass-front ones to display prized collections and pretty dishware.

To inspire your kitchen materials selection for a renovation or a new build, we rounded up these 60 brilliant kitchen cabinet ideas, pulled from our extensive VERANDA house tour archives. Scroll through to discover smart kitchen island inspiration, countertops, and kitchen backsplash ideas to elevate your kitchen to luxury status.

White oak cabinetry, plaster-finished walls, and earthy ceramic lamps (Gregorius Pineo) radiate organic beauty in designer Jane Schwab's light-as-air Charlotte penthouse. Tall doors, some topped with transoms designed by the architects with delicate scrolled muntins, create height and light without heaviness. This same application is seen elsewhere throughout the residence. Chair fabric, Fabricut

A treasured collection of Wedgwood plates crowns open kitchen shelving in Mia Reay's Jacobean castle that was designed by George Webster in the early 19th century. In this all white kitchen, save the graphic checkered floor tiles that are Victorian, lower cabinet fronts with a vertical paneling detail, simple white square backsplash tile, a painted wood table, and white wicker seating provide plenty of textural diversity.

Gil Schafer and the late Suzanne Rheinstein channeled the blue of the nearby sea in the paneled cabinets of the casual kitchen of this Newport Beach home.

Statuario marble clads kitchen walls in earthen opulence, as a large white island and cabinets with gold hardware provide a clean palette for pops of blue and yellow. Upper cabinets reach the ceiling, providing maximum vertical storage. The adjoining breakfast room features hand-painted floor tiles inspired by the bar at Le Sirenuse in Positano, Italy, seen here in the foreground. The formal cook space matches the grandeur of this Atlanta estate.

Portuguese tiles form a kitchen backsplash mural akin to classical artwork in this 1920s Tudor in Houston designed by Charlotte Moss. Upper and lower cabinets in a calming neutral leave room for the show-stopping tilework.

The absence of upper cabinets provides the perfect spot for Kenneth Noland’s Mexican Camino to bathe the kitchen in serene color. This kitchen space is open to the great room, clad in simple bleached walnut planks, as the rest of the Michael S. Smith-designed Los Angeles home. Range, Wolf. Pen­dant fixtures, Philippe Anthonioz

The owners’ Australian shepherd, Bear, lounges on the kitchen’s wide plank flooring, smoothed over from centuries of use, in this historic Charleston residence. A lantern from Charleston’s Urban Electric Co. in sunny yellow hangs above the seafoam-hued island, anchoring the kitchen in unexpected color. Cushion fabric, Perennials. Painting, Margaret Kennedy.

Geometric stained oak floors and bleached oak cabinetry bring warmth to the kitchen’s marble countertops and plaster walls. The backsplash and countertop’s wispy veining (Calacatta Lasa gold marble) and custom cube flooring design bring movement to the kitchen in this Palm Beach estate by Mary McDonald. Stools, Holly Hunt

A custom oak-​topped island, leafy Italian tiles, and a subtle taupe scheme bring serene balance to the kitchen. The minimalist mood in the kitchen is a visual respite from the riotous pattern and color found throughout this English country home.

A pretty and functional cabinet door feature, vents provide airflow as well as subtle pattern in this Timothy Whealon-designed butler's pantry. The countertops are a refined Calacatta Oro (Marmi Natural Stone). The backsplash tiles were handmade in Morocco. Slender library lights (Ann-Morris) illuminate the utilitarian workspace. Artwork, Donald Baechler. Paint, Classic Gray by Benjamin Moore

In this Nantucket cottage's custom Plain English kitchen, light celadon cabinets are topped with rustic wood counters. Pearly Moroccan wall tiles, similar in color to the cabinetry, are laid to the ceiling without grout to give the walls more rhythm. A slate backsplash contrasts the warm white. The work table base is painted a pretty green and looks like a piece of furniture. Pendant lighting, Hector Finch

In the kitchen of this 1926 Buckhead residence, a French bistro-inspired brass hood from François & Co.’s new line shines against existing gray tilework and cabinets in a similar hue. A mix of drawers in various sizes make up lower cabinets, while glass-front doors above show off pretty tableware. Lighting, Visual Comfort & Co.. Stools, Bradley