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Bobby Flay’s Bold Kitchen Cabinet Paint Color Is an Instant Classic (and a Buyer Favorite for 2025!)

Lizzy Francis
Lizzy FrancisLifestyle Editor at Apartment Therapy
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published Sep 22, 2024
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Chef Bobby Flay has already given fans a sneak peek into his unexpectedly bright and colorful Hamptons home kitchen in Instagram videos. While I’m obviously jealous of his stunning kitchen space, I couldn’t help but notice that his kitchen cabinets are sporting a shade of blue that aligns with one of the 2025 colors of the year that buyers should expect to see everywhere.

No, it’s not Behr’s dynamic ruby shade called “Rumors,” but instead, Flay’s Amagansett kitchen cabinet color. It’s a little off the beaten path — a bright, breezy, almost mint-green-like blue that perfectly complements his home’s beachy location but has been on a few lists of the trendiest home paint colors of 2025.

While I don’t know what exact shade or brand of blue paint Flay has on his kitchen cabinets, I do know that it’s super similar to two colors of 2025 — one of which is “Mapped Blue,” by Dutch Boy Paints, which is described as a “versatile medium blue” with “yellow undertones, allowing the shade to complement a wide range of colors and aesthetics.” 

The Dutch Boys definitely see “Mapped Blue” as more than just a trend — speaking to MarthaStewart.com, the color marketing manager at the brand, Lisbeth Parada, said “it’s a reflection of changing consumer values,” and that the paint is “classic yet modern” and will “stand the test of time.”

HGTV Home also tapped a similar color, “Quietude,” by HGTV Home by Sherwin Williams, as its 2025 color of the year. The description of this gorgeous color says that Quietude “finds its power in its transcendent tranquility,” and that the color is an “emerging” one for its “enduring design.”

While many real estate agents and experts say that neutral is the best paint color anywhere when you’re trying to sell a house, some experts think that the all-white kitchens and neutral-color trends of the old days are changing. 

“More and more, we are getting away from white and neutral colors and open-floor concepts, which have been so popular for an extraordinarily long time,” Chadwick Boyd, home and lifestyle expert, real estate agent, and owner of Chadwick Boyd Lifestyle, said to Apartment Therapy. 

“Colors are becoming more the norm, as are functional rooms, in renovations and new construction. Homeowners and buyers are attracted to very tastefully used colors to up-level spaces. I just went to the 2024 Real Simple Home in Crown Heights last week. There was not one room that didn’t have color with some whimsy, yet the colors were anchored in purpose for the person or use of the rooms. I also just received a sample of Valspar’s Color of the Year. It is “Renew Blue,” so clearly color is driving how we create our spaces now. I think post-pandemic, people want spaces that make them feel alive,” he said.

And if you’re a little too scared to paint your cabinets blue, you can still find other ways to bring pops of the gorgeous color into your home (whether you’re selling it or not.) 

One Apartment Therapy writer, Heather Bien, used a similar blue on her kitchen door — it’s a gorgeous touch on a classically designed kitchen! And if that wasn’t enough of a motivator, one 2022 study from Zillow found that buyers were likely to spend $1,537 more on homes with slate blue front doors. So, live a little! 

There is a caveat, though. “Of course, if colors are too garish or strong, some buyers will be turned off. However, if the space is well done, simple cosmetic changes like new coats of paint or switching out wallpaper are easily done and not expensive or time-consuming, so buyers don’t see that as a deal-breaker,” Boyd added.

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