41 Stunning Kitchens with Wood Cabinets

Add timeless elegance to your cooking space with gorgeous kitchen cabinets that fit any design style.

Wood cabinets add natural warmth to kitchens of every size and style. Appliances, backsplashes, and countertops certainly make an impact, but they play a supporting role to cabinets—which are often the first thing you notice when you enter a kitchen.

When choosing kitchen cabinets, consider hardware, wood type, color, trim, style, and storage capabilities. With so many options and possible combinations, so it can be hard to select the right kitchen cabinets for your space and design style. Get inspired by our favorite dark, medium, and light wood kitchen cabinets that work for any design preference.

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Pine Wood Cabinets

Pine cabinets bring a cozy, casual aesthetic to a kitchen. Black hardware in a retro style contrasts with the soft yellow hue of the wood, and a black and white backsplash adds a contemporary touch.

Minimalist Kitchen with Wood Cabinets

Choose no-frills cabinets in a warm but light hue to create a minimalist kitchen design. Open shelves over the stove instead of cabinets add to the room’s open and airy look.

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Use Shelves, Not Doors

Break up a wall of cabinets with open shelves. You’ll have a spot to keep cookbooks within easy reach and to display plants and accessories.

Hide the Refrigerator

In this kitchen, the refrigerator is tucked behind a custom wood cabinet that gives the room an elevated look. Double doors stained to match the cabinets add to the high-end look.

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Sleek Wood Kitchen Cabinets

If you have a kitchen with big windows and lots of natural light, ground the space with a dark color on the lower cabinets, like the brown on these cabinets. Use white paint on the upper cabinets and forego hardware to accentuate the openness of the kitchen.

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Kitchen with Wood Cabinets and Island Storage

Get more use out of a kitchen island by incorporating drawers and cabinets. This kitchen cabinet idea allows you to put fewer cabinets on the wall and gives the room an airier, more open look.

Pair Wood With White

White cabinets on a kitchen island contrast nicely with brown wood cabinets in the rest of the room. White walls and a white ceiling make the kitchen look open and airy and tie to the white cabinets.

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Extra Tall Wood Kitchen Cabinets

Dedicate one corner of a kitchen to ceiling-high cabinets to free up wall space for a large window and a tile backsplash. The room will feel open and airier.

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Mix Dark Stain With Paint

Dark-stained wood cabinets counterbalance the bright white surrounding cabinets, adding a lived-in look to an otherwise contemporary kitchen. The hardware ties the different cabinet finishes together.

Kitchen with Wood Cabinets and Shelves

Instead of hanging cabinets on the wall above your countertops, install shelves. You’ll open the space and make your kitchen look roomier and more contemporary.

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Country-Inspired Wood Kitchen Cabinets

The warm brown hue of these cabinets and their simple lines create a timeless country kitchen look. The built-in cupboard with glass doors and Windsor chairs paired with a marble-top dining table with an iron base pair perfectly with the view of hay bales out the window or your kitchen’s view of a suburban lawn.

Casual and Classic Wood Cabinets

Pickling highlights the wood grain and brightens its natural color, making for a casual, classic feel. This kitchen full of cabinets in a pickled oak stain with simple lines and hardware has a timeless warmth and simplicity.

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Urban Farmhouse Style

Wood cabinets with simple lines and a pale stain and minimalist hardware are the backbone of this urban farmhouse kitchen. White subway tile, Tolix-style barstools, shiplap ceilings and exposed rafters complete the look.

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Earthy and Rustic

Defy the all-white kitchen trend with dark-stained wood cabinets that have a rough, visible grain. Golden marble countertops and yellow accessories paired with blue barstools and decorative plates add a simple jolt of color to the room.

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Kitchen with Wood Cabinets in Various Textures

Add sophisticated layers to your kitchen by using different colors and textures for upper and lower cabinets. Here, the top cabinets are a warm, yellow hue with vertical grooved panels while the lower cabinets have gray-yellow stain and horizontal lines and hardware.

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Neutral Wood Kitchen Cabinets

Choose neutral-colored cabinets with minimalist lines, like these warm-hued ones. Then add whimsy and brightness with a bold backsplash, furniture, and accessories.

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Minimalist Wood Kitchen Cabinet Idea

Wood cabinets with simple lines and no hardware make a small galley kitchen open and uncluttered. Cladding the sloped ceiling with wood stained the same pale color as the cabinets ties the space together visually and draws the eye upwards to create the illusion of a larger space.

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Dark-Stained Wood Cabinets

Dark stain gives cabinets an appealing ancient vibe and makes a room feel as comfortable as grandma’s house. Wood floors with planks nearly a foot wide add to the feeling that this kitchen has been here forever.

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Custom Kitchen with Wood Cabinets

Customize your cabinets to show off your kitchen’s best features, like this gorgeous and gigantic stove. The vent is custom, as are the cabinets on either side of the stove. The cream color of the cabinets adds a modern touch to the rustic details of the cabinet.

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Mix Wood Cabinet Styles

Who says cabinets have to match? In this kitchen, white cabinets surround the refrigerator, lower cabinets are a cherry finish and the upper cabinets are pickled oak.  The key to making this work is using the same cabinet style and the same hardware throughout the room.

Deep Wood Kitchen Cabinets

Walnut-toned cabinets paired with black hardware, a black marble backsplash, and a dark wood floor make a timeless space. A white wall around the door and the view out the windows contrast with the layers of rich, deep hues.

Knotty Pine Wood Kitchen Cabinets

Knotty pine cabinets with a clear finish and retro hardware give this kitchen a casual 1950s look. The stainless-steel prep table and stainless appliances add a contemporary edge.

Old World Elegance

Baroque trim and oversized scale give these kitchen cabinets a Tuscan vibe, but the cream color and glass panels make them feel 2024 instead of 2004. A backsplash of subway tile paired with tile in a Mediterranean pattern adds sophisticated layers of pattern and texture.

Contemporary Wood Kitchen Cabinets

Warm red-hued wood cabinets with simple black hardware and glass doors are a classic arts and crafts look. Stainless steel appliances bring a contemporary edge to this classic early 20th-century style.

Midcentury Wood Kitchen Cabinets

Sleek wooden cabinets with no hardware and minimal lines are the perfect choice for this midcentury modern kitchen. They’re stained to match the wall in the room beyond the kitchen and the wooden ceiling.

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Dark-Stained Oak

White subway tile and gray-veined granite keep rich dark-stained oak cabinets from weighing down this elegant kitchen. The wood cabinetry is a nod to the home’s 1930s roots. Its old-world charm juxtaposed with lighter hardwood floors and window frames creates a charming contrast.

Updated Cherry Cabinets

Transition traditional cherry cabinets into the present day with frosted-glass doors, which adds a contemporary attitude and reflect light. Dark granite and a gray mosaic tile backsplash make a sleek and stylish statement.

Light Contemporary Wood

Italian-made modular cabinetry brings furniture-quality styling to this modern kitchen. Slab-front, full-overlay cabinet doors, including on the refrigerator, give a clean look to the storage wall. Beneath the cabinets, a toe-kick features a metal lining for durability and easy cleaning.

Mixed Materials

A dark walnut wood kitchen cabinet color on base cabinetry combats marks from heavy use, but upper cabinets with a white-painted finish keep this kitchen light and bright. The custom wood cabinets feature classic paneling and are grounded by stained oak floors.

Fresh Fir Cabinets

Oil-rubbed bronze hardware adds the look of worn brass on these Shaker-style cabinets made of Douglas fir. Selected upper wood cabinets have ribbed-glass inserts that enhance the vintage look while lightening the visual weight of cabinetry and partially obscuring contents.

Traditional Touches

Custom millwork and cabinet doors with a decorative leaded glass design combine traditional and antique styles. Windows that extend down to the countertop lighten up the dark wood cabinetry.

High Gloss Finish

Lacquered zebrawood cabinets bring a hint of glam to this small but sophisticated space. The wood cabinets cover most appliances for a streamlined look and contrast with rustic elements like oak floors and ceiling beams.

Light Natural Wood

Purchased cabinet boxes get an inexpensive rustic update from century-old barnwood. The reclaimed planks used on the drawer fronts run horizontally, while the grain runs vertically on the cabinet doors. Although planed and sanded to prevent splinters, the barnwood has a natural, untreated appearance for a casual wood kitchen cabinet color and finish.

Medium-Tone Wood

Custom hickory cabinets add an artisan touch to this farmhouse-style kitchen. The naturally finished wood cabinets boast full-inset doors and drawer fronts, making them look more like fine antique furnishings than classic kitchen decor. A vintage-style rolling ladder reaches up toward a plate rack, open shelving, and curtained cabinets that stretch to the ceiling.

Contemporary Dark Wood

Riftsawn oak cabinetry sports a rich espresso finish in this modern kitchen. Frosted-glass cabinet doors offer a visual break and juxtapose the dark finish for standout style.

Light Modern Oak

For a bright, timeless look, try riftsawn oak cabinets. This custom look features smooth wood doors and nearly invisible hardware in brushed nickel. A single wall cabinet with a frosted-glass front showcases the shapes and tones of a colorful wineglass collection when lit.

Warm Walnut

An armoire-style walnut cabinet lends warm balance to gray-painted base cabinets made from plywood and maple. The oversized glass-front doors and tall shelves allow colorful dishware in many different sizes to be showcased.

Textured Wood

A simple subway tile backsplash allows the distinctive dark wood kitchen cabinet color to shine in this small space. A cabinet finish that lets the wood grain show through picks up on the colors of polished-marble countertops and distressed pewter pulls.

Gray Wood Kitchen Cabinets

Perimeter cabinets made from alder wood get a thin coat of gray stain to warm up this transitional kitchen. The light wood cabinetry and open shelves contrast a riftsawn oak island stained a similar gray for subtle texture.

Custom Wood Cabinets

These inexpensive custom-made alder cabinets combine handmade cabinet boxes with ready-to-assemble face frames, doors, and drawer fronts. Corbels beneath the upper cabinets were crafted out of scraps of alder.

Rustic Exterior

Large, deep nails were used to texture these stylish custom-built oak cabinets, complete with decorative drop pulls. The storage tower features a cascading top and replaces traditional upper cabinets while providing plenty of storage.

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