Martha Stewart Credits Cabinet Color For Making 20-Year-Old Kitchen Look Good As New

Martha Stewart is the leading lady when it comes to home care and hospitality, so you can expect her home designs to be well-thought-out. She told Home and Gardens of her favorite kitchen color, which beyond the hue, helps her 20-year-old kitchen look as good as new.

“I designed my kitchen 20 years ago. I bought an old farm and I redid the kitchen, and it looks brand new. It looks like it was made yesterday,” she shared. “That’s how nice and well-made it is.” She also recommended “nice, small hardware” for better efficiency.

Staying in style

Martha plays it elegant but simple with her kitchen, going for gray and natural wood with flush surfaces that never go out of vogue. “In my kitchen, everything’s flush. So if you have a spill off a counter, it’s not going to go into the drawers and get stuck into all the fancy moldings and stuff,” she said. “It’s elegant but simple.”

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She prefers gray for her home for the perfect space to cook, relax, or enjoy a glass of her favorite Pure Leaf iced tea. “The cabinets are made with gray frames, a beautiful Bedford gray, as I call it,” Martha added. “All the buildings are painted the same color gray, and the panels in the cabinets, flat-paneled cabinets, sort of in the American shaker style, are beautiful tiger maple. And they look pretty in the gray cabinet.”

Martha prefers small hardware

Martha’s timeless kitchen choices also involve smaller cabinets and hardware that “make your life easier.”  “I like small knobs that are efficient and pull out so you don’t catch anything on the cabinets. My drawers have small knobs on them,” she told the outlet.

The blending of gray natural colors, small hardware, and flush surfaces come together to create the right place for Martha to cook and serve. With a kitchen like hers, changing trends do not stand a chance.