Personalized Cabinets-Warm Color and Texture

Cabinet Design Tips, News

As we look back on trends that shaped this past year, two things stand out: buyers don’t want a cookie cutter solution and they don’t want a space that feels cold.

The early 2020s were shaped by a clean, white blank-slate look. This year cabinet orders became more personalized, moving away from neutral, monochromatic safe zones, to spaces with personality and character, both in colors and materials and in customization options.

White will always have a major place in interior design due to its versatility, but color and depth made big moves in the cabinet space this year.

Rich Color and Texture

Color choices overall were warmer and darker with more texture in 2025. Kitchen cabinets with more than one color became the norm vs. the exception.

Popular choices included:

Reveur – medium, warm walnut tone

Roxen – beautiful cherry grain pattern and a soft, light-neutral wood color.

Bali and Levanzo (shown far left and far right in the door photo above) up-and-coming picks for a more traditional, classic aesthetic that is beginning to grow in popularity.

Light woodgrains remained strong favorites as well. Maple Savaii continues to be a popular, versatile light wood finish, pairing beautifully with paint colors from Saba green and Naval blue to Breu muted black and Bistre a warm graphite-espresso.

Slim Shaker Stands Out

Shaker again dominated door style selection and Burrows Cabinets’ new Slim Shaker style proved incredibly popular. Featuring a 1″ frame and durable 90 degree joint construction, it offers a clean updated take on the classic Shaker door.

55 Years of Craftsmanship – One Singular Focus

For over five decades, Burrows Cabinets has stood as a trusted partner to Texas home builders and a hallmark of excellence, handcrafting built-to-order cabinets that bring buyers dreams homes to life across the state.

In an industry where some suppliers chase breadth, offering a little of everything, we remain laser-focused on one thing: cabinets. This focus helps builders avoid inconsistency, divided attention and generic solutions that fall short.

Instead, our customers get what matters most: consistent quality, dependable schedules and the flexibility to tailor cabinet programs and products to regional needs.

Our experts pour ingenuity into cabinet designs, creating hundreds of customization options from durable, beautiful finishes, innovative materials and door styles, to functional cabinet accessories, giving builders the tools to create homes buyers love.

How Burrows Cabinets Serves Builders Better

Built in Texas: All cabinets and parts are manufactured in-house at our Texas facility by skilled woodworkers, many with decades of experience, providing better oversight, better quality and better outcomes for builders.
Reliable and Responsive: Local manufacturing means faster turnaround, dependable delivery and support that’s close by. Advanced manufacturing systems provide reliable schedules that support builders’ timelines and keep projects on track.
Focused, Proven Craftsmanship: We specialize in one thing: cabinets. That singular focus delivers unmatched precision, consistency and finish quality in every home.
Builder Direct: We work exclusively with Texas home builders, offering turn-key solutions designed to support your timelines, communities and buyers.

THANK YOU for 55 years of business and for the trust you place in us with every order. We are honored to serve you and look forward to many more decades building cabinets for Texas homes.

Texas homebuilders, contact us today for information on custom products and programs to fit your buyers and communities.

Shift Toward Light Woodgrain and Engineered Material in Kitchen and Bath Cabinets

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As home buyers and designers continue to seek out clean, calming interiors, a distinct trend toward light woodgrain cabinetry has emerged in the kitchen and bath industry.

Soft natural tones, like rift white oak, maple, beech and other pale wood looks, bring warmth and texture without overpowering or darkening the space.

Light woodgrains compliment a wide range of design styles, from modern and minimalist to organic and transitional, making them a smart, flexible choice for homebuilders looking to appeal to today’s buyers.

Burrows Cabinets’ Biscay cabinets (shown below with Slim Shaker doors) are a perfect light, neutral with the texture and warm look of woodgrain.

But it’s not just about aesthetics. Alongside the shift toward lighter tones, buyers and builders are also prioritizing sustainable, high-performance materials that offer long term durability as well as visual consistency. That’s where engineered wood products are gaining serious traction.

Engineered materials resist warping and cracking, and are not prone to material defects and color variations. Consistency and reliable quality are key benefits for builders looking to reduce service calls and deliver a premium finish that stands up to high use areas like kitchens, laundry rooms and bathrooms (Biscay cabinets with Slim Shaker doors shown below).

When engineered materials are produced with advanced techniques, like 3-D, grain matched texture and nature inspired grain, they deliver the look of wood along with added stability and durability. (Biscay base cabinets and Luxe uppers shown below)

Burrows Cabinets’ EVRGRN materials are to cabinets what engineered stone is to countertops and engineered wood is to flooring – the next generation in materials that are durable, sustainable and beautiful!

EVRGRN materials are available in a range of light, warm woodgrains with the visual appeal of wood and the durability of advance engineered material, helping home builders meet design expectations and delivering dependable, builder-direct value.

View Burrows Cabinets engineered wood EVRGRN material options here and view our cabinet inspiration photo gallery here.

Burrow Cabinets' Slim Shaker door in Biscay

Slim Shaker Biscay

Burrow Cabinets' Slim Shaker door in Portaria

Slim Shaker Portaria

Texas home builders, contact Burrows Cabinets today for more information on our products and service.

We look forward to serving you!

Elevating Home Design with Innovation and Style

Cabinet Design Tips, Cabinet Door Styles, News

Burrows Cabinets’ Year In Review: Elevating Home Design with Innovation and Style

It was a banner year for Burrows Cabinets, filled with exciting new product introductions and hundreds of stunning kitchen designs, created by our new home builder customers’ talented in-house designers. These collaborations showcased the versatility and beauty of Burrows Cabinets’ cabinet options, elevating so many rooms to magazine cover worthy status!

Designers showcased their creativity, designing unforgettable spaces with beautiful combinations of wood and paint. Kitchens featuring pairings like Maple Savaii with Breu black paint or Maple Savaii with Saba green were excellent examples of the stunning use of multiple cabinet colors throughout the home. By blending lighter tones to create bright, open spaces and deeper hues for a moody, elegant feel, home buyers embraced a more personalized approach to their interiors.

One standout combination was the pairing of Reveur EVRGRN woodgrain cabinets with the soft black elegance of Breu paint, creating dream-home worthy rooms like the one shown below, that exude warmth and sophistication.

Many designs featured cabinets built to the ceiling, adding a touch of grandeur and functionality. The buffet cabinet in Laurent below is a prime example of how cabinets can transform a space into a luxurious and inviting focal point with maximum storage and organization space.

Embracing Nature with Biophilic Design

This year saw the rise of biophilic design, which brings nature indoors through the use of natural colors and materials. Shades of green, sand and wood dominated palettes, reflecting a growing desire to create homes that feel like sanctuaries. Woodgrain finishes in light and medium tones also surged in popularity, a trend we anticipate will continue to grow in the coming year.

Introducing the Slim Shaker Door Style

In 2024 Burrows Cabinets launched the Slim Shaker door style, shown below, available in a full range of paint and EVRGRN color options on our Full Overlay Frameless cabinets. With its sleek 1-inch Shaker frame and flat panel design, the Slim Shaker is quickly becoming a customer favorite. Its timeless versatility works seamlessly with modern, transitional and traditional interior design themes, making it a standout choice for home buyers and designers.

Looking Ahead

As we reflect on 2024, we’re proud of the partnerships and innovations that have defined this year. Burrows Cabinets remains committed to providing exceptional products that reflect the preferences of home buyers and designers, and transform houses into homes.

Burrows Cabinets is a new home builder direct cabinetmaker. Contact Burrows Cabinets today for more information.

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Drawers vs Doors in Kitchen Base Cabinets

Cabinet Design Tips, Universal Design

Kitchen and bathroom base cabinets with drawers instead of doors have become an increasingly popular option.

Drawers allow easier access to items in the back of the cabinet, especially when full extension drawers are used.

With full extension drawers, kneeling or crouching to see items in the back of the drawer or removing items at the front to access things stored at the back of the cabinet is not necessary. The drawer is simply pulled to full extension, and items at the back of the drawer are easily visible and accessible.

When adding drawers instead of doors, drawer height can be customized to the items you plan to store in the drawer. Instead of 2 equal height shelves, a bank of drawers can consist of 2 large, deep drawers to hold pots and pans, or a bank of 3 or 4 drawers to organize smaller items like cutlery, spices, utensils, towels, measuring cups, makeup, or makeup, towels and grooming tools in the bathroom.

Small drawer height is an excellent choice for organizing items like spices, utensils, makeup, brushes and combs, etc.

Taking inventory and pre-planning for the items you need to store in your cabinets and designing your door and drawer setup to accommodate the way you cook, bake and get ready at your bathroom vanity can go a long way towards making your space organized and make it easy to find items you’re looking for.

Items lost in the abyss at the back of the cabinet becomes a thing of the past when you can easily pull out the drawer and see everything stored there.

When designing kitchen and bathrooms, there are a wide variety of configurations for base cabinets, from drawer over door, bank of 2 to 4 drawers, pull out trash drawers that looks like a cabinet door, tilt down door for a hamper or narrow space like a small powder room, single drawer knee space cabinets that serve as a makeup vanity or desk and paper towel drawers that accommodate extra paper towel storage as well as an easy under-counter access for paper towels.

Burrows Cabinets also offers pull out shelves as an alternative to drawers. Pull out shelves have sides that are typically not as tall as drawer sides, creating easier visibility to items on the shelf. The shallow height can also make it easier to remove items like pans, serving dishes and canned goods.

Burrows Cabinets offers all of these customizable door and drawer configurations to create the perfect space for the way home buyers use their home.

Texas new home builders, contact Burrows Cabinets today for more information.

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Maple Savaii Natural Wood

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The look of light, natural wood is a popular choice for kitchen cabinets due to the versatility of the neutral color, and options for pairing with a wide variety of countertop materials and different wall colors and design themes. Natural materials and neutral colors also create a calming effect visually, which makes the space inviting and relaxing.

Burrows Cabinets Maple Savaii option combines the beauty and durability of Maple wood with a light, clove-hued stain. This neutral stain color is subtle and pairs as well with white, cream, gray and black as well as pops of bright accent colors like orange, blue, green and pink.

The durability of maple makes it a great choice for cabinets in high use rooms like kitchens, bathrooms, laundry and dining rooms. Wood cabinet doors speak to the quality of the cabinet and create a high end look and feel.

Burrows Cabinets’ Maple Savaii pairs as well with light colored walls and countertops as it does with more moody, dramatic dark colors as shown below with the high-contrast black herringbone tile walls in this primary bath.

Burrows Cabinets offers stain and paint colors in a wide variety of options, to fit any interior design theme. Visit our finishes page to view all our paint, stain and beautiful, EVRGRN 3-D grain matched engineered material options.

Popular Paint and Stain Cabinet Combinations

Cabinet Design Tips

While a single color kitchen remains a classic look, we’re seeing a large number of kitchens built with more than one paint or stain color.

Some of Burrows Cabinets’ most popular cabinet combinations right now include our warm white Bone paint on perimeter cabinets and a complimentary stained wood on the island.

We’re also seeing more pairings of painted uppers and stained base cabinets, or painted base and stained uppers. Typically the darker color is used on the base to ground the space and a lighter color is used on the upper.

Bone white is a great neutral and pairs well with most of our stain and paint colors. Extra White, our pure, bright White paint color is another popular upper color, paired with darker paint or stained base cabinets.

Below are a few cabinet door examples to show you how Bone looks with complimentary paint and stain colors:

Other popular cabinet combinations include Extra White with our Naval, Saba, Bistre and Brue paint colors for contrast and visual interest.

In our EVRGRN materials, popular combinations include Luxe white paired with Bistre, Reveur or Laurent.

Our Saba deep green paint option pairs beautifully with Maple Savaii as shown below.

Visit our kitchen photo gallery for more design inspiration.

A new trend that is starting to emerge is pairing black painted cabinets with wood stained cabinets in combinations like Burrows Cabinets Breu and Clear Alder Bali shown below.

Burrows Cabinets is a Texas builder-direct cabinet manufacturer.

If you are a homeowner, please contact your home builder or visit their design center for information on the door styles, wood species and finish options specific to your community. Some options are available only in select communities.

Power Rooms Showcase Design Personality

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Powder rooms have become homeowners’ design playground, with bold color and material choices giving a fun, moody or elegant appearance to small spaces. The painted deep green Saba floating vanity cabinets below brings personality and a pop of color to this powder room with black herringbone tile wall, white countertop and natural woodgrain floating shelves.

Burrows Cabinets’ Saba and Greystone paint colors create a dark backdrop for bright white walls and countertops, or vibrant and fun tile colors and wall patterns.

Our warm, natural color rift-white-oak-look Biscay floating vanity cabinet pairs well with soothing blue-green wall tiles in a herringbone pattern, and playful black and white check flooring for an updated, nature-inspired powder bath.

This floating vanity in EVRGRN Portaria below pairs perfectly with a unique mosaic tile wall in moody blues and black, and under cabinet lighting brightens the room and highlights the beautiful tile work.

In the small powder room below, a pull down cabinet door on the powder vanity is the perfect solution to access cabinet space without having to maneuver around the door. Burrows Cabinets Laurent EVRGRN material warms up the cool colors in the room.

Beautiful work by the homebuilders’ design teams!

Combining Paint and Stain Kitchen Cabinets

Cabinet Design Tips

Combining painted cabinets with stained, natural wood cabinets is an excellent way to visually break up the space, add a second color, and infuse personality into the room. This kitchen grounds the room with dark green, Saba paint on the base and island cabinets, paired with beautiful, barely there Savaii stain on Maple upper cabinets.

New Laurent EVRGRN Color – Beautiful Rift White Oak Look

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Burrows Cabinets new Laurent EVRGRN color has a straight-grain, rift-sawn, white oak look that is timeless and seen frequently in high-end homes.

Laurent is a light, neutral woodgrain color that pairs well with everything from farmhouse interiors and pared-down Scandinavian aesthetics, to transitional and edgy, modern designs with contrasting, dark accents.

Laurent’s woodgrain color flecks include creamy white, light grey, dark grey, black, tan and taupe, creating endless possibilities for design pairings. The 3-D matched woodgrain texture creates a true wood look and feel.

Laurent is available in 1-piece, 3-piece and 5-piece door styles in our Frameless, Full-Overlay cabinets. Contact Burrows Cabinets today to see and feel a sample for yourself. Pictures don’t do this one justice!

Burrows Cabinets is a builder-direct cabinet manufacturer. If you are a homeowner, please contact your home builder or visit their design center for specific information on the cabinet options, door styles, wood species and finish options specific to your community. Some options are available only in select communities.

Driftwood Gray Stained Cabinets

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Driftwood gray combines the beauty of natural wood with a perfect gray stain, and is available on Alder, Maple and Beech. The differences in the underlying wood color and grain change the look of the finished cabinets, from the warmth of Driftwood on Alder and cool gray of Driftwood on Maple to the rustic look of Driftwood on Hickory.

Check out the Driftwood photo gallery to see our Driftwood gray stain on a wide variety of cabinets for interior design inspiration.

Kona Stain Color Is a Popular Choice

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After being introduced, our new, rich-brown Kona color has become a very popular choice for homeowners, and we’ve gotten great feedback on the finished product! Below is a gallery of different cabinet door styles and wood species in Kona as well as several photos that show the end product in the home for design inspiration.

Should cabinets match throughout house?

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White Kitchen Cabinets

Cabinet Design Tips

According to Google search trends, online searches for white kitchen cabinets have increased 200% over the past 5 years (July 2009 to July 2014). All white kitchens with white cabinets and white countertops but usually a contrasting floor such as medium or dark hardwood, have become increasingly popular as well. White kitchen cabinets are a classic design that has been popular off and on for over 100 years, with short periods of decline when colors or dark finishes took the spotlight.

If you love the bright, clean look of white kitchens, we have some design inspiration for you. We put together a gallery of kitchen cabinets by Burrows Cabinets featuring white cabinets so you can look at how different flooring, paint colors, kitchen decor, cabinet configurations, countertops, appliances and backsplashes look with white cabinets.

Choose flooring that compliments cabinet color

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Choosing flooring that compliments your kitchen cabinets is key to achieving an appealing design, and the nearly endless color combinations make the decision time consuming. Below are some tips on choosing flooring colors that will compliment your cabinet paint or stain color choice, with kitchen photo examples for inspiration:

1. Contrast or Compliment – don’t match. Generally, flooring in a contrasting but complimentary color to cabinets is more appealing than a large visual area where cabinets and floors are made up of the same color. If cabinets and flooring blend together, the effect can be visually flat, without depth or interest. Notice the kitchen photos above have woodgrain cabinets and woodgrain floors, but the floor color is in contrast to the cabinets which are darker or lighter tones. Darker flooring grounds the space and is visually appealing when paired with lighter cabinets, and the darker parts of the woodgrain flooring pick up the color from the darkest parts of the cabinetry. In a small room or a room without much natural light, lighter flooring can open up the space and make it feel larger, as in the photo below.

2. Choose a cool or warm color family and stick with it throughout the room. Same color family undertones tie the room together. The gray kitchen cabinets below have wood flooring with grey/brown hues that complement the neutral grey cabinet color. The warm woodgrain kitchen cabinets shown below compliment the by the warm red-brown wood tones in the woodgrain tile floor.

3. When matching flooring to the cabinets makes sense. There are exceptions to every rule and while typically you wouldn’t want to exactly match flooring to cabinets because it can make the room feel flat, in some instances matching the color values makes sense. The kitchen below has different cabinet and flooring material but the color matches. The white upper cabinets, backsplash and countertops break up the sea of color and create needed contrast so the room doesn’t feel boring. The lighter uppers also open up the room and make it feel larger. While the flooring and base cabinet color is the same, there is contrast in grain pattern, with straight, rift white oak grain pattern cabinets and cathedrals and knots, along with straight grain in the flooring.

4. Take it easy on the pattern combinations. While these days we are seeing people pair different patterns like plaids and florals or stripes and florals in clothing, a shirt and shorts or skirt are inexpensive and quick to change. Kitchen materials, on the other hand cannot be easily changed out. So before you commit to the checkerboard flooring or herringbone pattern wood floor, mosaic tile back splash and knotty hickory cabinet combination, try to pick just one detailed element so the eye isn’t overwhelmed. If you want more texture on the cabinets and in the floors without looking too busy, a great combination is wood cabinets in a stain that evens out some of the heavy grain pattern, paired with wood flooring that has a lot of color variation such as natural red or white oak or hickory. The stained wood has texture and subtle color differences due to the wood grain and characteristic, but it is monochromatic enough to pair with a busy floor.

5. Look at product samples next to each other. Look at a sample of your flooring, cabinet material/color, counter top and wall color next to each other in similar lighting to what you will have in your kitchen, and make sure you like how the colors and textures work together. Lay the flooring flat with the cabinet material at a 90 degree angle to the flooring as it will be in the finished room, and stand back to look at it. You may want to pick a few cabinet and flooring color options to look at next to each other in case your first choices don’t compliment each other.

6. Find online or magazine photos of kitchens or bathrooms using a similar color, material or pattern combination to give you an idea of the overall final look without making your home and your budget the Guinea pig. Burrows Cabinets website and Houzz pages have dozens of recent kitchen, bath, study and other room cabinet photos and are a great place to start.

Texas home builders, contact Burrows Cabinets today to find out about our turn-key, builder-direct cabinets in the materials and colors homeowners want for their new homes.