The kitchen trends for 2027 that the data actually supports are wood cabinets overtaking white, green and muted blue cabinets, two tone kitchens with wood lowers, slab backsplashes in quartz and quartzite, matte finishes, and kitchens that hide their appliances behind panels and pantry doors. Gray is the clearest loser. Curved islands and sculptural range hoods are coming too, but so far the evidence for them is mostly a trade show in Milan, not American kitchens.
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A note on the date, because most “2027 trends” articles skip it. We are writing this on October 8, 2026. The two big American kitchen surveys for 2027, the NKBA Kitchen Trends Report and the Houzz Kitchen Trends Study, have not been published yet. So nobody can honestly tell you what 2027 kitchens look like from a 2027 survey. What we can do is read the most recent hard data (the 2026 editions, surveying people renovating now), the 2027 colors the paint brands have already announced, and what the cabinet makers showed at EuroCucina 2026, and tell you how strong each signal is. That is what this guide does, and we will update it when the 2027 reports land.
The short version
- Wood is now the most chosen cabinet color. 29% of renovating homeowners picked it in the 2026 Houzz study, edging white at 28%.
- Green is the 2027 paint color. Sherwin-Williams picked Celery, Behr picked the olive Grounded; blues from Valspar and Glidden follow.
- Two tone has flipped. Wood (37%) now leads for contrasting lower cabinets, ahead of blue (19%) and green (14%).
- Stone goes up the wall. Slab backsplashes rose from 24% to 28% of kitchens, mostly quartz and quartzite.
- The kitchen is learning to hide. 72% to 85% of kitchen pros see panel faced fridges and dishwashers gaining popularity; pantries and beverage stations keep growing.
- Fading: gray cabinets (5%), cool gray neutrals, high gloss fronts, and the all white kitchen as a default.
What Are the Biggest Kitchen Trends for 2027?
Twelve trends have real evidence behind them, and they are not equally strong. The table ranks each one by how much independent evidence supports it. “Strong” means a homeowner survey and a professional survey point the same way; “moderate” means one solid source plus brand or trade show signals; “early” means it is mostly trade show and color forecasting so far, and may not reach the average American kitchen in 2027.
The pattern underneath all twelve is the same one the NKBA put in a sentence a year ago: the kitchen keeps growing into the rest of the house. Its 2026 report found that 76% of kitchen professionals expect the kitchen footprint to increase over the next three years, even as American homes get smaller. A kitchen that is also the living room has to look like furniture, not like an appliance showroom, and that one idea explains the wood, the hidden appliances, the matte finishes and the curves.
Are Wood Kitchen Cabinets Still in Style in 2027?
Yes, wood is the single best supported kitchen trend going into 2027. In the 2026 U.S. Houzz Kitchen Trends Study, a survey of 1,780 homeowners in the middle of a kitchen project, wood was the most chosen cabinet color at 29%, up 6 points in a year, edging out white at 28%. Medium wood led at 15%, light wood followed at 11%, and dark wood was a niche 3%.
The professionals agree. The NKBA’s 2026 Kitchen Trends Report says it plainly: “Wood grain surpasses painted cabinets,” with 59% of the 634 designers, dealers and remodelers it surveyed identifying wood grain as growing in popularity, and white oak the most popular wood at 51%. Two surveys, two different groups of people, one direction. Our own small sample points the same way: wood was the material most often mentioned by people describing a kitchen in our tool (see our data below).
Our take: medium and light wood is the lowest risk “trend” in this guide, because wood kitchens have come back before and the people choosing them now are spending real money on cabinets that will stay for fifteen years. If you are only changing finishes, a wood island or wood lower cabinets under a lighter top run gets you most of the look for a fraction of the cost.
What Are the Kitchen Cabinet Color Trends for 2027?
After wood, the 2027 kitchen cabinet colors with the strongest signals are greens (from pale celery to olive), then muted blues, with warm whites still the safest painted choice. That is where the professionals, the homeowners and the paint companies agree. Almost every major American paint brand has already announced its 2027 color of the year, and for the first time in years they cluster tightly: two greens, two blues and an earthy orange.
Two cautions before you paint anything. A color of the year is a marketing choice as much as a forecast; each brand picks a color to sell paint. And the paint companies are ahead of the kitchens: in the Houzz study, green was on only 6% of renovated kitchen cabinets and blue was rarer still as a full kitchen color. The trend is real, but in 2027 it will mostly show up on islands, lower cabinets and pantries, not on every door.
Green kitchen cabinets: celery to olive
Green is the clearest color signal for 2027 kitchens. In the NKBA survey, 86% of kitchen professionals named greens as popular, second only to neutrals at 96%. Then two of the biggest paint brands chose greens for 2027. Sherwin-Williams’ Ashley Banbury said “Celery was chosen as the 2027 Color of the Year because it reflects today’s priorities: wellness, balance and connection,” and Behr’s head of color, Kayla Kratz, said “Grounded is a reminder that the most meaningful spaces are the ones that help us connect with the rhythms of everyday life.” Behr’s own release names kitchens as a place where Grounded “creates a warm, calming backdrop for everyday living.”
The two greens are very different on cabinets. Celery is pale: Sherwin-Williams lists a light reflectance value of 71.3, against 86.5 for White Flour, the white it pairs Celery with, so it can cover a whole small kitchen without making it dark. Grounded is a deep olive with brown in it, closer to the kitchen below, and it reads best on lower cabinets or an island with wood above.
An earthy olive close to Behr’s Grounded, under a band of walnut wall cabinets: the green and wood trends in one room. The speckled stone backsplash and the woven pendants keep it from feeling cold. Render from our gallery.
Muted, smoky blues
Blue is the second color story, and it is a soft one. Valspar’s Sue Kim called Cottage Door “a mid-tone neutral blue” that is “reflective and warm, with timeless appeal that feels personal and grounding,” and Valspar sells it in its cabinet and furniture enamel. Glidden describes Artifact as “a warm, smoky blue,” and its color marketing manager Ashley McCollum called it “that perfect ‘hit reset’ color.” In the NKBA survey, 78% of pros called blues popular, and in the Houzz study blue was the second most popular color for contrasting lower cabinets at 19%.
This navy is darker and colder than either 2027 blue. Cottage Door and Artifact are softer, grayed blues; the brass and pale wood here are what keep a blue kitchen warm either way. Render from our gallery.
Earthy browns, clay and terracotta accents
This is the earliest and least proven of the color signals. Behr built its 2027 palette around Grounded with “warm neutrals, earthy tones, muted pinks, clay hues, and airy blues,” and Dutch Boy chose Deep Rooted, a terracotta orange. Against that, the same NKBA survey that loves greens lists bright orange (7%) and bright red (6%) among the least popular kitchen colors. Our reading: the earthy, muddied versions belong on a backsplash, a range alcove or shelving in 2027; bright orange or red cabinets are still a bet.
Is the All White Kitchen Going Out of Style?
No, but it lost its place as the default. White cabinets fell 5 points to 28% in the 2026 Houzz study and slipped behind wood by a single point. Off-white held 15%. Add them up and painted whites are still on more than four in ten renovated kitchens, more than any other single color.
What is fading is the cold, all white box: bright white cabinets, white quartz, white subway tile, gray floor. The white kitchens that look current in 2027 are warmer whites and creams, with a wood island or wood lowers, a stone or textured backsplash, and brass or bronze instead of chrome. If you already have a white kitchen, those are the cheap upgrades. If you are picking a white, our guides to Sherwin-Williams Alabaster and Agreeable Gray cover the warm end and what not to pair them with.
Which Two Tone Kitchen Combinations Are Trending for 2027?
The trending two tone kitchen in 2027 pairs light uppers with wood or colored lowers. In the 2026 Houzz study, 24% of renovating homeowners chose contrasting upper and lower cabinets. White is still the most common upper color (40%, then off-white 19% and wood 17%), but for the lower cabinets wood now leads at 37%, ahead of blue (19%), green (14%), black (7%) and gray (6%).
Two tone is also the cheapest way to try a 2027 color. Painting only the island or only the lower run is one weekend and a gallon of cabinet enamel; our step by step guide on how to paint kitchen cabinets covers the primer each surface needs.
What Countertops and Backsplashes Are Trending for 2027?
Quartz and quartzite lead the countertops, and the real change is that the same stone now runs up the wall as a slab backsplash. In the NKBA survey, quartz was the top countertop material at 62%, with natural quartzite “right behind” it.
Slab backsplashes
Houzz found 28% of renovating homeowners now choose a slab backsplash instead of tile, up from 24% a year earlier, and 75% of the NKBA’s pros see slab or solid surface backsplashes growing. Among slab backsplashes, engineered quartz leads (39%) ahead of quartzite (33%). Tile is not dead: it is still on 72% of kitchens, and 10% of homeowners take the backsplash all the way to the ceiling.
One veined slab for the counter, the backsplash and the island sides, with the light hidden in a recess above it. This is the look the slab backsplash numbers describe. Render from our gallery.
Wood and butcher block island tops
The other countertop shift is on the island. Only 21% of Houzz homeowners give the island a different surface from the perimeter, but among those who do, butcher block or wood is now the top choice at 44%, up 13 points, ahead of engineered quartz at 18%. It is a cheap, warm way to bring wood into a white or painted kitchen, and the easiest one to replace later.
What Finishes Are Replacing High Gloss in 2027 Kitchens?
Matte and textured finishes are replacing gloss, led by Europe. At EuroCucina 2026, the kitchen fair held every two years alongside Milan’s Salone del Mobile, Houzz’s reporter summed up the finishes in one line: “Soft, velvety textures eliminate reflections and enhance the geometry of the appliances.” Neolith showed Colosseo, a surface reinterpreting travertine in beige tones, and Siemens marked its centenary with a “Matt Edition” of appliances. The fair’s own summary asked for “real surfaces, deep textures, materials it is a pleasure to touch.”
Matte fronts, warm wood, concealed lighting and appliances that disappear into the cabinet wall: the European version of the 2027 kitchen. Render from our gallery.
The range hood as the focal point
With the appliances hidden, the hood is what is left to look at. EuroCucina’s exhibitors treated hoods as “furnishings in their own right,” with integrated lighting and sculptural shapes. American kitchens are getting there for a practical reason first: 85% of the NKBA’s pros named powerful vent hoods as a popular wellness feature. A plaster or wood clad hood, or a simple black box like the one in the walnut kitchen above, is the American version.
Are Curved Kitchen Islands a Trend or a Fad?
Curved islands are a real design trend in Europe and an early signal in the U.S. EuroCucina 2026 was full of them: Aran showed Virgola, an island by Massimo Iosa Ghini with no straight lines, Ernestomeda showed Sign Round, and Snaidero updated Ola, designed with Pininfarina. Houzz’s Milan report linked the soft geometry to 1970s influences. We found no American survey that measures curved islands yet, which is why we rate this one “early.”
Our take: a rounded island end or a curved banquette is a safe way to follow this. Fully curved cabinetry is expensive, wastes storage in the corners, and is the trend on this list most likely to date a kitchen. Arched pantry or doorway openings sit in between, and they are cheap to do in a remodel that is moving walls anyway.
How Are 2027 Kitchens Hiding Appliances and Clutter?
With panel faced appliances, tall cabinets and pantries, so the kitchen reads as part of the living room. In the NKBA survey, pros identified panel faced dishwashers (85%) and refrigerators (72%) as gaining popularity, along with flat slab cabinet doors (69%), and the report called out floor to ceiling cabinetry with drawers and walk-in or butler’s pantries. Homeowners are doing it: in the Houzz study 47% installed pantry cabinets, 16% added a walk-in pantry and 7% a butler’s pantry or prep kitchen, and 94% of renovated kitchens included specialty storage such as pullouts for trash and recycling (64%) and drawers for trays (55%).
Beverage and coffee stations
The dedicated drinks corner is the most agreed on feature in either survey. The NKBA’s respondents were “in 100% agreement that lifestyle enhancements will be a popular kitchen layout feature,” with dedicated beverage areas named by 85% of pros, and 24% of Houzz homeowners included a beverage station in their remodel. In practice that is a coffee machine, a small fridge or wine column and a sink or water tap behind doors, out of the way of the cooking zone.
If you are planning where those zones go, our guide to kitchen layout design covers clearances and work zones, and a kitchen remodel from a photo shows how to test a layout change before paying for it.
Which Kitchen Trends Are Fading in 2027?
Gray cabinets, cool gray neutrals, high gloss fronts and the all white kitchen as an automatic choice are the clearest losers. Here is what the evidence says about each, including where it is weaker than the headlines.
One honest caveat: “out of style” lists tend to overstate how fast kitchens change. A well built gray or white kitchen from 2018 is not a problem to fix in 2027, and swapping hardware, lighting and the island color does more for it than tearing anything out. For the wider picture beyond kitchens, see what is out of style in 2026 and the interior design trends of 2026.
Should You Remodel Your Kitchen Around a 2027 Trend?
Put the trends in the parts that are cheap to change, and keep the expensive parts timeless. Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies expects remodeling spending growth to slow to 0.5% a year by the second quarter of 2027, reaching about $519 billion. “Growth in remodeling permitting and retail spending on building products have flattened recently, suggesting that renovation activity is cooling,” said Rachel Bogardus Drew, who directs its Remodeling Futures Program. A cooling market can make contractors easier to book, but it is not a market that rewards risky choices you may want to undo.
Painting cabinets in a 2027 color is the cheapest real change: Fixr puts a professional cabinet painting job at about $4,000 on average and DIY materials at around $400, which we cover in detail in how to paint kitchen cabinets. For the full price picture of a remodel, see our kitchen remodel cost guide.
What Kitchen Colors Do People Actually Ask AI For?
In our own tool, wood is the color people ask for most in a kitchen, then white and cream, with green ahead of blue. We build MeltFlex, an AI interior design tool, so we can see what people type when they describe the kitchen they want. We counted every typed prompt containing the word “kitchen” between August 4 and October 8, 2026: 627 distinct prompts from 210 people. For each color we counted how many of those people mentioned it at least once.
Read this as a direction, not a survey. The people are worldwide, not only American; a prompt can mention several colors; “wood” can mean a floor or a table as well as cabinets; and 210 people is a small sample. Still, the order matches the Houzz study closely, wood first and white second, and gray is no longer near the top. Marble (10% of people) was mentioned far more than quartz (5%) or quartzite (under 1%), which tells you how people picture a luxury kitchen, even if the pros are specifying quartzite.
How Do You See a 2027 Trend in Your Own Kitchen?
Photograph your kitchen and try the trend on that photo before you buy paint or stone. Our AI kitchen design tool repaints the cabinets, swaps the countertop and backsplash, and restyles the room while keeping your layout, windows and light where they are. It has sage, navy, cream, walnut and oak finishes among its presets, so a green island or wood lowers takes one try. It gives you the direction, not an exact paint chip, so match the result to a real color with the paint color finder.
Our own video (June 2026, 5 minutes): one kitchen photo uploaded, a style picked, and the before and after compared. It is a product walkthrough, not a trend forecast, and it does not use the 2027 colors above, but the steps are the same for trying a green island or wood lowers on your own kitchen.
If you would rather describe the kitchen in words, our AI kitchen design prompts work in ChatGPT and Gemini too, and we compared the AI kitchen design tools we tested. For walls, the same idea is in our guide to how to change wall color in a photo and our test of the best paint color visualizer apps. The color story continues across the house in color drenching, warm minimalism and the Japandi palette, and last year’s picks are in our 2026 colors of the year comparison.
How We Wrote This, and When We Will Update It
We read every source ourselves on October 8, 2026, and quotes are verbatim. The homeowner data is the 2026 U.S. Houzz Kitchen Trends Study (1,780 homeowners surveyed July 6 to 30, 2025, published January 2026) and Houzz Pro’s write up of the same study. The professional data is the NKBA 2026 Kitchen Trends Report (634 kitchen professionals, released September 18, 2025). The 2027 colors come from each brand’s own announcement: Sherwin-Williams, Behr, Valspar, Glidden and Dutch Boy, with Celery’s light reflectance value from Sherwin-Williams’ own color data. The European signals come from the Salone del Mobile’s EuroCucina 2026 report and Houzz’s report from Milan. The spending outlook is the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies release of July 23, 2026.
What we left out on purpose: a Minwax 2027 color that appears in some lists but that we could not find on Minwax’s own site; Dunn-Edwards and C2 picks we saw in only one secondary list; and a widely repeated “quartz at 32% of countertops” figure that we found only in articles about the Houzz study, not in Houzz’s own write ups. The strength ratings, the advice on where to put each trend, and the reading of our own prompt data are our synthesis, not the surveys’. The images are renders from our gallery, chosen to show the cabinets, colors and materials discussed; they are not photographs of real kitchens.
When this will change. The NKBA’s 2027 report, the 2027 Houzz study and the KBIS 2027 show in Las Vegas (February 2 to 4, 2027) are the three sources that can confirm or overturn this guide, and Benjamin Moore (October) and Pantone (usually early December) still have to name their 2027 colors. We will update this page as each one is published, and the “Updated” date at the top will tell you when we last did.
Kitchen Trends 2027: FAQ
What are the kitchen trends for 2027?
The trends with the most evidence behind them are wood cabinets (Houzz found wood overtook white as the most chosen cabinet color in 2026, 29% to 28%), green and blue cabinets (Sherwin-Williams named Celery and Behr named the olive green Grounded as their 2027 colors of the year), two tone kitchens with wood or colored lower cabinets, slab backsplashes in quartz and quartzite, matte and textured finishes, panel faced appliances, pantries and beverage stations. Curved islands and statement range hoods are earlier signals, mostly from the EuroCucina 2026 show in Milan.
What color kitchen cabinets are in style for 2027?
Wood tones lead, especially medium wood and white oak. After wood, the strongest color signal is green, from pale yellow greens like Sherwin-Williams Celery (SW 6421) to olive like Behr Grounded (T27-01), followed by muted blues such as Valspar Cottage Door and Glidden Artifact. Warm whites and off-whites are still the safest painted choice. Gray is the color losing ground: Houzz recorded gray on only 5% of renovated kitchen cabinets.
Are white kitchens going out of style in 2027?
No, but they are no longer the default. White cabinets fell 5 points to 28% in the 2026 Houzz Kitchen Trends Study and lost first place to wood by one point, while off-white held 15%. A white kitchen still sells and still works; the shift is toward warmer whites, a wood island or wood lower cabinets, and textured or stone backsplashes instead of an all-white box.
Are gray kitchens out of style?
Gray is the clearest loser in the data. Houzz found gray on only 5% of renovated kitchen cabinets in its 2026 study, and Glidden framed its 2027 color, the smoky blue Artifact, as part of a move away from cool grays as neutrals. A gray kitchen does not need to be ripped out, but if you are choosing a color today, warm neutrals, wood, green or blue are where the market is heading.
What is the 2027 color of the year?
Each brand picks its own. Sherwin-Williams and HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams chose Celery (SW 6421), a pale yellow green. Behr chose Grounded (T27-01), an earthy olive. Valspar chose Cottage Door (8004-38E), a mid tone blue. Glidden chose Artifact (PPG10-16), a warm smoky blue. Dutch Boy chose Deep Rooted, a terracotta orange. As of October 8, 2026, Benjamin Moore had not announced its 2027 color, and Pantone usually announces in early December.
Are two tone kitchens still in style?
Yes. In the 2026 Houzz study, 24% of renovating homeowners chose contrasting upper and lower cabinets. The popular version has changed: white is still the most common upper color (40%), but wood now leads for lower cabinets at 37%, ahead of blue at 19% and green at 14%. A painted or wood island against lighter perimeter cabinets is the lowest risk way to do it.
What countertop is trending for 2027?
Quartz and quartzite. In the NKBA 2026 Kitchen Trends Report, quartz led countertop materials at 62% of kitchen professionals, with natural quartzite right behind it. The bigger change is where the stone goes: Houzz found 28% of homeowners now run a slab backsplash up the wall, up from 24%, mostly in engineered quartz (39%) or quartzite (33%). For islands with a different top, butcher block or wood rose 13 points to 44%.
Is it worth remodeling a kitchen for a trend?
Only for the parts that are cheap to change. Put trend colors and finishes in paint, hardware, lighting, stools and the island, and keep the layout, cabinet boxes and countertops timeless, because those are the expensive things to redo. Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies also expects remodeling spending to grow only 0.5% a year by mid 2027, so contractors may be easier to book, but this is not a market rewarding risky choices.
The summary, if you read nothing else: wood is the strongest kitchen trend going into 2027, green is the color the paint brands are betting on, blue follows, and gray is fading. Put the trend in paint, the island and the hardware, keep the layout and countertops timeless, and look at the change on a photo of your own kitchen before you commit.
Try it on your kitchen first: upload a photo to the AI kitchen design tool and test a celery island or wood lowers in a minute.
