32 Beautiful Blue Kitchen Ideas to Try in 2025

Give your cooking space some serious star power with this surprising hue.

If your kitchen sparks about as much joy as a bag of frozen pizza rolls, it might be time to switch things up in 2025. And fortunately, you don’t have to break the bank on a gut reno to spruce up your space. In fact, simply giving your cabinets a fresh lick of paint can completely transform your cooking space. Before you reach for that bucket of white paint, have you considered a blue kitchen? Hear us out: Unlike trendy kitchen cabinet colors, blue has long been viewed as a classic. “Blue can really be a neutral,” affirms Jessica Davis, founder of the Atlanta- and South Orange, New Jersey–based firm Atelier Davis. “Think of it like a pair of jeans.”

“The cooler undertones of a blue palette are the perfect foil for the variety of metals used in cooking equipment, from pots and pans to appliances,” adds Toronto designer Sam Sacks.

But before you make a beeline to your nearest hardware store, consider the unique light, style, and size of your space, Sacks cautions. “A seaside traditional home is the perfect place for a Shaker-style kitchen in robin’s egg blue,” she says. “Conversely, electric blue flat front cabinetry makes a striking statement in a modern envelope.”

Want proof? We’ve selected 32 beautiful blue kitchen ideas to inspire a culinary redo in 2025.

Designer Bachman Clem worked with three different tones of blue in this New York kitchen. Here, the cabinets got a coat of Benjamin Moore’s Athenian Blue while the walls were painted in the brand's slightly paler Mystical Blue. The trim, meanwhile, is in Benjamin Moore’s electric Brilliant Blue.

When in doubt, work with complementary colors. Blue's bedfellow is orange and, in this Texas home, design firm Ashe Leandro showcases how well the two hues work together. Here, cabinetry in Farrow & Ball’s Parma Gray pairs perfectly with rustic terra-cotta tiles.

The blue in this gorgeous Aspen home designed by Caroline Sarkozy was inspired by the weathered colors of American barns. Here, the pine kitchen island and cabinets got a similarly rustic treatment with a classic blue paint job. But our favorite detail is the matching blue stove from Viking.

ELLE DECOR readers are smitten with this high-gloss galley kitchen in the California home of design insiders Joe Lucas and David Heikka—and it’s easy to see why with its cheerful blue paint job. “Before, the cabinets were all white, and I follow a golden rule—no white kitchens—so we immediately painted them,” explains Lucas.

This Toronto home features tall ceilings and elegant historic details such as ornate moldings, but designer Sam Sacks’s goal was to create a dwelling that was “loose and cool and livable” for the young homeowner. Key to her strategy was contrasting all that period fanciness with electrifying hits of blue—Sacks’s favorite color. In the kitchen, Yves Klein Blue upper and lower kitchen cabinets stand out against a white exposed-brick wall. Black countertops and a few bare plywood cabinet doors give the look a hit of De Stijl flair.

Jean-Louis Deniot incorporated the whimsy of Tintin into his vacation home off the coast of France. No space is as charming as his kitchen, with its custom blue cabinets—accented in neat, cream trim to play up the windows—and old-timey checkerboard floor.

Landscape designer Jenny Graham cites orange as her favorite color, but here in her minimal Argentinian kitchen, she contrasted her beloved tangerine with a bold, custom cobalt on the kitchen cabinets.

As this kitchen designed by all-star decorator Thom Filicia proves, a gray-tinged blue can behave as a lovely neutral in a more traditional decor scheme. Here, the kitchens are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Brewster Grey. Nickel hardware accentuates the cool palette.

Designer Jessica Davis and architect Gustave Carlson breathed new life into a classic California home first designed by Joseph Eichler in the 1970s. Their intervention included fun jolts of color, including the bright blue island and cabinets in the kitchen.

Emily Todhunter designed this Manhattan home to be “nearer to the sky” so a pale blue, of course, was the color of choice throughout the home—and particularly in the kitchen, where she doused the entire room in Benjamin Moore’s Van Courtland Blue.

If you’re on the fence about painting your cabinets blue or green, why not combine them? Budding design firm Perifio painted their own kitchen cabinets a deep teal from C2 Paint, a shade that helps draw in the green of the surrounding countryside.

The beauty of blue cabinets is that the hue also complements a surprising spectrum of materials, from timber to terrazzo, the material of choice here in a sleek vacation home designed by architect Blaze Makoid and interior designer Joe Nahem.

Duck-egg blue is a total classic when it comes to kitchen cabinetry, and this is one of the most elegant examples out there. Here, in a Washington, D.C., residence, designer Zoe Feldman opted for Farrow & Ball’s Card Room Green, a shade inspired by Victorian homes.

Not ready to embrace an all-blue kitchen? Try it in smaller doses, like in this happy Portuguese cooking space designed by Jacques Grange. In lieu of entirely blue cabinets, Grange deployed it just on the outer edges.

It’s only fitting that a home in the clouds would have equally vertiginous cabinetry. This Richard Mishaan–designed apartment, in Herzog & de Meuron’s Jenga-like 56 Leonard skyscraper in New York City, includes floor-to-ceiling blue cabinetry in a shade that matches the blue of the sky and the Hudson River far below.

If you have stainless steel appliances, a pale blue with gray undertones is the route for you. Here, designer Alison Palevsky picked a barely there blue shade (one that makes appearances throughout this sprawling California home) to contrast with the Viking stove and hanging pot rack.

OK, this technically isn’t a kitchen—it’s actually a bar area in a Hamptons home—but there are plenty of lessons to be learned here, courtesy of designer Poonam Khanna. She incorporated floor-to-ceiling vibrant blue cabinets (in Philipsburg Blue by Benjamin Moore) and leaned into their Crayola brightness with a set of sunny yellow chairs.

You don’t necessarily have to have all-white-everything in a kitchen to create a space that feels fresh and airy. Case in point: For this kitchen in a Hamptons home, designer Daun Curry chose the faintest of sky blues for the cabinets and a soft, pale gray marble for the island and backsplashes. It’s a bright idea to us!

Conversely, if you are intrigued by black kitchen cabinets but aren’t quite ready to move to the dark side, navy can be a chic intermediary. In this David Netto–designed kitchen, high-gloss cabinets and a poppy orange tile exude plenty of drama.

In a Canadian lake house, the kitchen is painted in Benjamin Moore’s Van Deusen Blue, the pendant lights are by Urban Electric Co., the backsplash is in Saltillo Tile, and the counters are Caesarstone in London Grey.

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