The Best Paint Colors for Kitchen Islands

It only feels appropriate this serenely green kitchen is located in Watercolor, Florida. Designers Allison Smith and Anne Scott Shelley of Maison Studios used Sherwin-Williams Austere Gray (SW 6184) to achieve a laid-back coastal style. See more here.

In Holly Williams' Nashville kitchen, Sherwin-Williams Tricorn Black (SW 6258) provides the perfect backdrop for brass accents and vintage-meets-modern style. See more here.

If you can't choose between two good blues...don't! Designer Amie Corley proves two shades are better one in this Missouri kitchen makeover, in which Benjamin Moore Bermuda Turquoise (728) transforms the island into the center of attention. See more here.

Designer Heather Chadduck Hillegas infused our 2019 Idea House, located in Crane Island, Florida, with a sense of coastal calm using a palette of neutral paints. In the kitchen, Sherwin-Williams Tinsmith (SW 7657) evokes the ocean at dusk. See more here.

Interior designer Lindsey Herod uses Benjamin Moore Newburyport Blue (HC-155) to transform this kitchen from blah to bold. See the full makeover here.

Give "island time" new meaning with this breezy blue. Olivia Brock of Torrance Mitchell Designs coated this South Carolina kitchen in Farrow & Ball's Parma Gray (No. 27). See more here.

Chelsea Meissner used the sandy shade Benjamin Moore Seapearl (OC-19) to ground the kitchen in her Low Country surf shack. See it all here.

Gray gets a bad rap, but Natasha Lawler's colorful Charlottesville, Virginia, kitchen uses Benjamin Moore Chelsea Gray (HC-168) to prove it can have just as much personality as any other hue. See the full tour here.

For our 2018 Idea House, designer Meredith Ellis wanted to create a kitchen "that would look just as good in 20 years," so she coated the kitchen cabinets and island in a classic, Sherwin-Williams Repose Gray (SW 7015).

Homeowner Ginny Stimpson coated everything but the floor and counters in her Fairhope, Alabama, kitchen in Farrow & Ball Borrowed Light (No. 235) to brighten and lighten the space. See more here.

Designer Melanie Pounds designed this Birmingham, Alabama, kitchen to have a European flair, and a coating of Benjamin Moore's Cromwell Gray (HC-103) on the oversized island was just the ticket. Read more here.

Benjamin Moore Cream Froth (2158-70) adds to a palette that's light and bright but not too stark for this Alabama lake house. See the full tour here.