We’re pleased to introduce these two beautiful finishes and show you how they can create a kitchen or other room that’s full of style and personality. From the rich, moody Currant to the light, airy Coastline, these finishes are sure to make a statement, so be ready to get inspired by the future of kitchen design!

Currant, a Deep Red

In the world of design, color has the power to transform any space. MasterBrand Cabinets recognizes the transformative power of color and has introduced a bold red, known as Currant. A rich and luxurious red, it’s full of drama and energy. The deep and alluring hue is warm with charcoal undertones and is sure to add a pop of life to any space. This bold red is perfect for homeowners who want a show-stopping piece that’ll command attention and serve as the focal point of their design.

Coastline, an On-trend Light-Tone Stain

In contrast, Coastline is a light tone stain that brings the calm of a coastal breeze to the kitchen. Its soft, neutral tones create a peaceful, relaxed atmosphere, ideal for those who prefer a more timeliness look. This stain also highlights the natural beauty of the wood grain, allowing the wood’s character to take center stage.

Currant and Coastline, part of the 2025 collection from MasterBrand Cabinets, are the latest in kitchen design trends. These finishes are a reflection of MasterBrand’s commitment to innovation and understanding the needs of homeowners. Whether you are looking to make a bold statement or create a peaceful retreat, Currant and Coastline offer the perfect solutions for your kitchen.

Visit your local MasterBrand Cabinets dealer today to experience these finishes in person. Coastline is now available at Homecrest as “Churro”, and Diamond, Schrock, Kemper, Mid Continent, Diamond Vibe, Schrock Entra, Kemper Echo, Diamond Edge, Schrock Boutique, Kemper Emerge as “Coastline”. Currant is available at Omega as “Ruby”, Decora as “Frillseeker”, and Diamond Edge, Schrock Boutique, Kemper Emerge as “Rosewood.”

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A true neutral grounded by nature, this mellow, grayed-out deep green is bold, elegant, and remarkably versatile, proving its place as a staple in contemporary interior design.

This finish is an iconic part of our finish offering that can take on a variety of personas while bringing bold color to the forefront of design!

Versatile and Complementary

This dark, earthy green, most commonly known as Foxhall Green, is a fresh and energetic tone that embraces deep, rich, and moody shades of green. The deep hues instantly infuse any space with character and charm, creating a captivating and inviting atmosphere.

Foxhall Green’s ability to complement a variety of finishes marries up nicely to the resurgence of stained wood tones that many are incorporating into home design today. The versatility of our Color of the Year brings much more to the table than expected from the first impression. It can be a classic choice when paired with gold hardware but also moody when paired with black.

A Timeless Elegance

One of the most compelling aspects of the dark green kitchen trend is its timeless elegance. Unlike some passing fads, this trend has a classic quality that transcends generations. Whether you have a traditional, modern, or eclectic home, dark green cabinetry and accents can effortlessly blend in while making a statement!

Our Color of the Year is most commonly known as Foxhall Green in our Diamond, Kemper, Schrock, and Decora cabinet lines. It is available as Endive in our Omega line. The finish is also available through our custom color program for our premium brands as Foxhall Green SW9184.

Find a MasterBrand kitchen and bath designer near you by visiting masterbrandcabinets.com/dealer-locator.

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In recent years, paints have pushed aside wood stains, shining through with colors like whites, blues, greens, and grays. While these color tones have shifted over the past five to seven years, we are now seeing wood-stained cabinetry make its official comeback! In fact, in a recent designer survey conducted by MasterBrand, light stains have made their way into the top three trending finishes!

Understanding that yellow, orange, and red stains have made their exit is important. The newest stains to consider using in your next project have gray, brown, and blonde undertones, making them suitable for blending with modern finishes. These new stains can take on a traditional role, but pairing them with painted cabinetry is now a more modern approach with traditional elements.

Now, let that wood grain shine through and dive into what’s trending!

Trending Wood-Stained Kitchen Cabinetry

The trending stains that are making their way back into the kitchen are natural, white oak and light to medium tones. We’ve removed the yellow, orange, and red hues from the undertones to bring wood-stained cabinetry into the 21st century!

Natural wood-stained cabinets have the potential to turn your space into a new-age rustic retreat. Mid-tone stains with browns or grays give a soft, modern feel. If an all-wood look is something you crave, try using a mid-tone stain with a blonde undertone. It provides dimension and richness, but be sure that the space has plenty of natural light. You want the space to be warm and inviting, not dark and dull. Make use of natural materials and finishes to complete the space and bring it to the trendy world of modern elegance!

Mixing Finishes in the Kitchen

A trend that is here to stay is mixing finishes in the kitchen! Why settle for one finish when you can have two or maybe three? If you’re really feeling confident in your style, there are many different ways you can mix color or even other stains with your stained cabinetry.

An option that is always safe is to add a finish to your island that contrasts with the perimeter cabinets. The island is a great area to pop color, texture, or a subtle finish to add personality to the space.

If you’re feeling confident, other areas to play around with contrasting finishes include a stand-alone wood hood/island combination, shelving, base cabinets, a separate hutch, or cabinets that vary in depth.

When choosing a complementary finish, be mindful of the undertones that your stain is showing off. Most of the trendy stains now have gray undertones. You want to choose something with the same undertones otherwise you risk a clash of finishes.

Under the Masterbrand portfolio, there is an abundance of stains to accomplish any style trend. If we’ve convinced you that stains are right for you or if you are ready to start your new kitchen journey, visit our website and inspiration gallery to get started! We also recommended searching for a designer near you!

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To fully understand the excitement coming in 2023, we made it easy and compiled a list of the top forecasted colors provided by industry-leading paint manufacturers. Let these colors inspire you to put the past couple of years behind us and embrace a more fulfilling and joyful home experience.

Under the MasterBrand portfolio, we offer a variety of these on-trend shades that can be utilized in any area of the home. If your heart is set on one of these paints, we proudly offer custom color capabilities in our Urban Effects, UltraCraft, Decora, KitchenCraft, Omega, StarMark, and Fieldstone cabinetry lines.

The Evolution of Neutral Paints

Taking center stage is the all-encompassing neutral palette. This spectrum of minimal chromatic hues ranges from buff to fawn to oatmeal and sets up a perfect backdrop that is a current and future interior staple.

In 2022, we saw all variations of white take precedence, but check out the color guide above. Cream has taken over and darker, moody neutral colors with brown undertones are stepping in. Sherwin-Williams has named their color of the year, Redend Point, and it blends perfectly with natural wood materials.

Adding Bold Colors in the Kitchen

The added, playful colors like berry and raspberry tones are mostly meant to be used as accents in your home, but take a look at this stunning statement kitchen! This small, cozy eclectic kitchen knows no boundaries. It’s an amazing display of a truly authentic space that is loved and worked in and surely creates memories for a lifetime.

We can’t deny the beloved shades of blues and greens! Safe to use anywhere in the home, especially in kitchen and bath interiors. Depending on the shade of the hue, it can create a moody space, or a light and airy aesthetic. You can’t go wrong with blues and greens and our experts are showing us just that!

The Colors of the Year Evoke Positive Emotion

Evoking a positive, emotional response in interiors is this year’s trend. Creating a space that makes you feel inspired, happy, and refreshed should always be the end goal. It’s truly amazing how a room can control your mood and mindset. Embrace design and it won’t let you down!

Pantone Color of the Year | Viva Magenta

MasterBrand’s very own Director of Design & Trends feels that Pantone’s Color of the Year announcement was a bold and energized choice and is thrilled to see how variations of this color will come to light!

“Masterbrand Cabinets is excited to see Pantone’s 2023 Color of the Year announcement of Viva Magenta. Our trend team has been tracking color trend shifts for our industry and is seeing reds and yellows on the horizon for cabinetry. This announcement is the bold color statement we have been hoping for and are completely energized by the vibrancy of this color and the excitement it represents. The warm tone color family isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but for those with color confidence, we are here for you with our custom color capability and a stunning array of reddish hues to choose from.” -Stephanie Pierce

MasterBrand is Excited to Introduce Our 2023 Finish of the Year!

For the third consecutive year, MasterBrand proudly introduces our very own Finish of the Year!

This finish was chosen because of its ability to stimulate your senses when you enter the spaces where it is used. It’s an experience – a color that presents tranquility and relaxation. Most importantly, it’s meant to re-center your mood.

This soft gray-green is available in Kitchen Craft as “Aberdeen”, Decora as “Retreat” and all our custom color lines as “Retreat SW 6207”.

Find a MasterBrand kitchen and bath designer near you by visiting https://www.masterbrand.com/dealer-locator.

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These hand-picked paints come from color experts in the field. More often than not, they influence kitchen and bath trends. Designers love when homeowners gravitate towards new colors for a fresh perspective on their space.

To make it easy, we’ve compiled a list of the top forecasted colors for 2022 to help inspire your home interior journey!

Under the MasterBrand portfolio, we offer a variety of these on-trend shades that can be utilized in any area of the home. If your heart is set on one of these paints, we proudly offer custom color capabilities in our MidContinent, Urban Effects, UltraCraft, Decora, KitchenCraft, Omega, StarMark, and Fieldstone cabinetry lines.

Colors of the Year

In recent years, Colors of the Year have been heavily influenced by blue-grays. Considering recent color trends in cabinets, we’re not surprised to see that greens are now making a big splash. By grouping these colors into categories, we can more easily talk about them in-depth.   

Fresh Shades of Green

The strong influence of greens – like Breezeway, October Mist, Olive Sprig, and Evergreen Fog – are cool and fresh. These greens are usable as long-term, neutral colors anywhere in the home. They are also stunning choices for cabinetry. If shades of white or cream are in your home’s overall color palette, these greens will work great to add a pop of color.

When choosing to add color to your cabinetry, look for colors that have a bit of complexity in their undertones. These colors tend to blend well with others and this means your color choice will essentially have a longer life cycle.  

Bold Shades of Green

Blanched Thyme, Guacamole, and Breakfast Room Green are more energetic, bold, vibrant, and warmer colors with yellowish undertones. These are wonderful colors to bring nature into the home. They’re not quite as neutral and they will definitely make a statement, so we recommend using these in a room you want to add energy and warmth.   

Spectrum of Blues

Some of the colors of the year still do fall into the blue family, which we know has been very popular in cabinetry for the last five years. Orchid Ash, Bright Skies, Stone Blue and, Mountain River show how the blue tones are evolving into 2022. This broader spectrum of blues is very useable and showcases why blue has become a mainstream staple in the home.

MasterBrand Introduces Finish of the Year

For the second consecutive year, MasterBrand proudly introduces our very own Finish of the Year!

This neutral paint is a pale, off-white color that makes an excellent foundation for most palettes. It’s not too white and not too gray. This finish has the ability to make a statement on its own or be paired with other accents. It purposely blends with any stain, dark to light, as well as most opaques because of its light gray undertones. Start using shades of this trendy off-white color today, which goes by the name Crushed Ice with our Decora cabinets, Nordic with our KitchenCraft cabinets and Icy Avalanche with our Diamond cabinets.

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Tips to Introduce Nature to Your Home

Nature sets the pace for these interior awakenings, but recent shifts in behaviors have helped to re-energize this kitchen trend through key design elements such as:

– Nature based colors like blues, greens and even yellow

– Open spaces with views to the outdoors and large picture windows that bring the exterior landscape inside

– Commingling of the outdoors with the indoors where joint accessibility allows functional spaces to spill into one another

– Organic textures brought inside mimic the warmth and serenity found in nature

People are craving nurturing environments. Initiating this practice within the kitchen and bath space is nothing new, but certainly lends itself well to blending current or kitchen design trends with elements of biophilic influence to establish that harmony and balance we all seek in our busy lives. A natural place to start is to bring a world of color indoors. Current kitchen trends for color meet those needs with ocean or sky blues that have covered the popular color spectrum for a while now or even the latest trends with an array of landscape inspired greens.

Landscape Greens

• Fleeting Green: A neutral pastel with just the slightest whisper of green tint. This tone is definitely a stand-alone color that can be intensified with color compliments like grays or desert tones but will also ground a space with its refreshingly neutral hint of color.
• Coastal Plains: A modern twist to a classic hue, this dusky green is reminiscent of historical colors that carry enough pigmentation with just enough of the smoky undertones to look well-aged and mix perfectly with whites so as not to have too much contrast.
• Maho Bay: Can’t decide between gray, green or blue and don’t want any of them to be too overpowering? This chameleon color has great color flexibility and mimics surrounding tones to help pull the preferred dominant tone with sophistication and longevity.
• Retreat: A succulent-inspired, soft-yet-saturated green that is harmoniously neutral to any landscape-based pallet. With flexible gray undertones, this green pairs perfectly with wood tones.
• Endive: Synonymous with nature, this bold evergreen hue looks beautiful in kitchens, creating a deeply moody backdrop capable of blending seamlessly into the surrounding home interior.
• Sweet Pea: Olive toned but without too much yellow or brown. This green is a long-running favorite. No wonder it stands the test of time with its ability to compliment the ever-changing home color trends of brown, beige, gray and white. Its not overpowering and always feels like the perfect fit in kitchens.

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Organic Textures and Tones

Beyond colorful hues, textural, organic wood tones connect our interiors with a grounding presence of beauty, movement and warmth. A building block provided by nature and highlighted with mid-to-light tints, these wood tones still allow the natural splendor of the wood to come through. This trend is making a comeback after many years of sterile painted interiors and just in time to compliment the emergence of biophilic preferences. Wood finishes can come in complimentary colors anywhere from sand to milk chocolate as well as grays and bleached whites with varying degrees of color overlay. Some great examples are colors such as Cliff Relic or Gunny Fresco.

The key in selecting the right woody compliment is maintaining transparency so that the grain movement and visual texture provide added depth to your cabinets. Considerations of these kitchen trends are all great ways to start reconnecting with nature while benefiting from the comforts of indoors.

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Better Homes & Gardens Shines A Spotlight on This Year’s Most Popular Shade of Green with MasterBrand Cabinets

Soft and serene, sage green can add a subtle pop of color and transform any interior space.

It’s official: green is in and here to stay. To help guide homeowners as they incorporate the new hue in their space, Better Homes & Gardens created an article including unique ideas for every room with help from Stephanie Pierce, director of design and trends at MasterBrand Cabinets.

Aptly titled “Sage Is This Year’s Most Popular Shade of Green: Here’s How to Decorate With It,” the article outlines the best ways to incorporate this trending shade throughout your home, as well as how to enhance its look with complementary tones.

On the topic of sage green’s versatility, Stephanie says, “how the color is paired with other colors, textures, and finishes will impact the mood that you create.” For a touch of sophistication, Stephanie suggests pairing the color with bright whites and a hint of gold. Or opt for a cozier feel when pairing sage green with darker tones.

Stephanie also highlights one of her favorite spots to integrate the trending hue – the bathroom. Reminiscent of eucalyptus leaves, introducing sage green can help create a relaxing, spa-like feel, especially when paired with fresh greenery.

With a wide variety of available colors and finishes, MasterBrand Cabinets provides on-trend cabinetry options for every design aesthetic. To view all available colors and styles, visit masterbrand.com/get-started.

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PureWow Says Green Kitchens Are Trending: What You Need To Know

Green is one of the most popular kitchen colors of the year and Stephanie Pierce, director of design and trends at MasterBrand Cabinets, is giving homeowners the green light on incorporating the trending hue – starting with cabinets.

When it comes to kitchen design in 2021, we’re seeing green. To celebrate the trending color in all its shades, PureWow sat down with Stephanie Pierce, director of design and trends at MasterBrand Cabinets, to discuss how to best implement the color throughout the kitchen in the article, This is the Hottest Color to Paint Your Kitchen Right Now.

When asked about incorporating green into the home Stephanie said, “Green is quickly gaining color confidence with homeowners who are realizing how well this color complements others and changes easily with the seasons just like in nature… when a color speaks to you as an individual, it will definitely enhance your love of your space.”

For homeowners considering green cabinets, Stephanie has a recommended color. “Foxhall Green is a bold and sophisticated evergreen hue that looks beautiful on cabinets or as an accent on a kitchen island. It’s a nice base color that others can build off of,” she says.

MasterBrand Cabinets design experts bring in new trends and colors through their product offerings to spark ideas with designers and consumers of all different tastes. To view all available colors and styles, visit masterbrand.com/get-started.

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