This Renter-Friendly Redo Proves That Reddish-Brown Kitchen Cabinets Work

When DIYer and content creator Megan Zietz and her family moved from their old apartment into a new one that had cherry reddish-brown kitchen cabinets, Megan learned an important lesson: Sometimes it’s best to work with brown cabinets, not against them.

She Fully Embraced the Cabinet Color After Trial and Error

“I finally — after months of fighting the idea — decided to lean into the cabinet color,” she says. She initially painted the kitchen lilac and wanted to use a plum-colored contact paper on the cabinets, but things got a lot better once she decided to “completely color-drench the kitchen to match” her red-toned cabinets.

The Colorful Kitchen Is Renter-Friendly

“Before even moving in, I knew I didn’t love the rental’s auburn-cherry cabinets with the taupe wall color and bright white backsplash,” Megan says. “It was a lot of cool/neutral and warm competing against each other.…