Kitchens

2022 Kitchen Design Tip 6: Up your cabinet game with three different finishes

Can you pull off three different cabinet finishes? Stephanie Brown Inc. and Peter Rose Architects can.

By Alyssa Hirose /
Janis Nicolay

€œThree cabinet finishes is a lot,€ admits Stephanie Brown, principal of her eponymous design studio. She credits the trio of cabinets in this kitchen to Peter Rose Architects, who collaborated with Brown and her team on this modern farmhouse-style home in Vancouver.

But thanks to a consistent palette, the three different finishes are incorporated seamlessly: the white cabinets match the white countertops, the black cabinets suit the graphic stone backsplash and the warm wood cabinets complement the saddle-leather bar stools. €œRepetition is the reason that it works,€ says Brown.

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Alyssa Hirose

Alyssa Hirose

Alyssa Hirose is a Vancouver-based writer, editor, illustrator and comic artist. Her work has been featured in Vancouver magazine, Western Living, BCBusiness, Avenue, Serviette, Geist, BCLiving, Nuvo, Montecristo, The Georgia Straight and more. Her beats are food, travel, arts and culture, style, interior design and anything dog-related. She publishes a daily autobiographical comic on Instagram at @hialyssacomics.