It’s hard for me to choose one over the other. I’ve seen white kitchens often on shows on HGTV and Magnolia (Chip and Joanna Gaines, for example) and they can be very nice and luxurious looking. I follow a lady on FB who does a lot of rehab in her barn house with things she picks up at tag sales and discarded stuff, and she has black cabinets with a lot of rustic decor, and it looks really charming. My parents used to rent a house in Cape Cod that had red cabinets from IKEA and they were great looking. We stayed at a time share once in VA, which had light tan cabinets with a light colored countertop, and it worked in the space it was in. My cousin and her husband in the city has white cabinets with white quartz countertops that has green and copper veins running through, and it’s gorgeous. In their previous co-op, they had white cabinets with a gorgeous, dramatic blue marble with silver veining, from Brazil – really gorgeous and unusual looking. I’ve seen colored painted cabinets on Instagram which are often really nice, too, blues or dark teals (like a piney-teal). I follow some paint companies and English kitchen companies (deVOL Kitchens, for example) on Instagram and they showcase incredible painted cabinets, some glamorous, some homey and charming, and it all works.
For me, if it’s white with a white backsplash it can be boring looking, but depending on other things (countertop, backsplash, space it’s in) it can be nice, and other colors can be just as nice.
Here’s deVOL Kitchens – you’ll see all sorts of colors and they all work beautifully. I love green (the “Crouch Kitchen” on the site), too.
https://www.devolkitchens.com/kitchens/classic-bespoke-kitchen