13 Designer-Approved Yellow Kitchen Ideas

Take a page from this kitchen, crafted by Suzanne Rheinstein, and mix yellow with a rich, punchy color. With its cottagecore feel, the pale yellow shiplap walls contrast flawlessly with the unexpected sea-blue cabinets, making for a one-of-a-kind cook space.

Textile designer Sandra Jordan swathed her California kitchen in three different shades of yellow-green (and one light green for the ceiling) to reflect the wine country landscape outside.

This English countryside kitchen-meets-dining room, belonging to the parents of Soane Britain co-founder Lulu Lytle, is the definition of warm and inviting. Here, creamy yellow cabinetry—early 19th-century Scottish painted pine, yellow striped pendant lights, and sunny floral chairs and drapes mingle for a convivial effect.

Although yellow is a prominent hue in this Austin home designed by Angie Hranowsky, it’s treated as an accessory color for the kitchen. The kitchen itself is primarily a soft blue, but the neighboring yellow acts an ideal partner, seen on the bar and the accompanying walls.

A soft yellow can hum quietly in the background, especially when it appears with bombastic, fanciful elements in a kitchen. For instance, in the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, the pale yellow seen in the wallpaper acts as a subtle anchor amid green cabinets and golden vines that reach skyward.

In designer Summer Thornton’s vacation home in Sayulita, Mexico, a yellow kitchen takes a tropical turn, with palm trees painted on the yellow plaster walls.

For a yellow kitchen that doesn’t go all-in to the hue, you can always opt for yellow appliances, which is the case for designer Richard Smith’s English countryside kitchen, which features an AGA stove and wallpaper designed by Smith consisting of a colorful assemblage of French stripes.

Garrow Kedigian’s Manhattan apartment is a study in getting yellow just right. Exhibit A: the living room’s daring mustard-yellow walls. But in the kitchen, the hue is pulled back a bit, gracing only the ceiling of the space, which Kedigian admits is more bar than cook space.

In this Wiltshire estate, a dining area that’s housed within the kitchen confidently displays a lemon-lime hue, one that acts as an ideal backdrop for collected china and raspberry accents.