He Spray Painted the Natural Wood Cabinets Green and the Kitchen Took on a Custom-Built Look
Many kitchen remodels start with demolition. This one started with paint. In a transformation shared by Instagram creator @italvenpainting, the natural wood cabinets in this kitchen in The Villages, Florida, received a green finish that changed the look of the room without replacing the cabinetry.
The kitchen still has the same layout, countertops, flooring, appliances, cabinet doors, and silver hardware, but the green cabinetry creates a much stronger contrast against the beige surfaces and white appliances.
Natural Wood Cabinets Dominated the Original Kitchen
The original kitchen featured rows of natural wood cabinets across the perimeter, with raised-panel doors extending above and below the countertops.
The wood finish covered much of the room and became the dominant surface around the sink, range, and refrigerator. Beige countertops, square beige floor tile, and white appliances completed a palette built around tan, cream, and light wood tones.
The space already offered extensive cabinet storage, so the project focused on changing the finish rather than rebuilding the layout.
A closer view of the range shows how much cabinet surface surrounded the white appliances. Tall doors sit on both sides of the microwave, with smaller cabinets above it and base cabinets filling the spaces beside the oven.
The existing door profiles were kept for the makeover, including their raised center panels and molded borders. Painting them changed the color without removing the details built into each front.
Wood Cabinetry Wrapped Around the Work Area
From the opposite side of the room, the original wood finish can be seen extending from the refrigerator wall around the range and across the sink area.
Rather than limiting the new color to one section, the project involved the full cabinet run. That gave the green finish enough surface area to change the room while the countertops, floor, appliances, and wall color remained.
Spray Painting Created a Smooth Finish
The cabinets were prepared for spraying while the kitchen remained intact.
Plastic sheeting, masking material, and painter’s tape protected the ceiling, walls, countertops, backsplash area, and cabinet openings. The progress images show paint being sprayed across the cabinet frames and exposed surfaces while the surrounding kitchen remained covered.
Using a spray application also preserved the raised-panel profiles without leaving the brush marks associated with painting cabinet doors by hand.
Sherwin-Williams Green Sprout Gave the Cabinets a New Identity
The biggest change came from the cabinet color.
Sherwin-Williams Green Sprout SW 7728 replaced the natural wood finish with a muted green that covers both the upper and lower cabinets. Instead of dividing the cabinetry into two colors, the same green extends throughout the kitchen and connects each cabinet run.
The same raised-panel doors remained in place, but the solid painted surface makes their borders and recessed details stand apart from the wood-grain finish they had before.
Existing Silver Hardware Stayed With the Green Cabinets
The cabinet hardware was kept rather than replaced during the makeover.
Silver pulls remain on the doors and drawers, creating contrast against the green paint. The white microwave, range, refrigerator, and dishwasher were also left in place, breaking up the green cabinet runs without introducing another major color.
Keeping those existing elements puts most of the visual change on the cabinet finish itself.
Green Continues Across the Kitchen
The new color extends across the upper and lower cabinets, from the sink wall through the corner and around the range.
Beige countertops, square floor tile, white appliances, and the existing wall color remain from the original kitchen. Against those unchanged surfaces, the green cabinets now become the strongest color in the room.
The cabinet construction stayed the same, but covering the wood grain with one solid color gives the separate sections a more consistent finish.
Before and After Shows the Full Transformation
The side-by-side comparison shows how much the cabinet color changed the room.
The layout, countertops, flooring, appliances, recessed lighting, hardware, and cabinet configuration all remained in the same positions. Green paint accounts for the main visual difference between the two versions.
Instead of natural wood cabinetry surrounding the work area, the finished kitchen has a continuous green backdrop broken up by beige counters, white appliances, and silver hardware.
Every Finish Now Works Together
The cabinets were not replaced, and the kitchen layout remained intact.
Sherwin-Williams Green Sprout SW 7728 established the new direction while the existing raised-panel doors, silver hardware, countertops, flooring, and appliances stayed. The project turned a kitchen dominated by natural wood into one where the cabinetry reads more like a deliberate custom finish.
What do you think of this makeover? Would you have painted the natural wood cabinets green, or would you have kept the wood finish?
All credits go to Instagram creator @italvenpainting.
