Fabuwood Forest Green Kitchen Cabinets

Forest Green sits in the middle of the value scale, around the same depth as a mid gray, with very little chroma behind it. The hue leans yellow-green, which is what gives it the olive character. There is no blue in it at all, so it never reads as a pine or an emerald. In practice it behaves like a warm gray that happens to have green in it, and that is how most people describe it once it is installed.

North light strips most of the green out and leaves a warm gray. It is the least green this color ever looks, and it is worth seeing before you commit to it. Under south or west light the olive is clear, particularly in the afternoon when the yellow side of the hue comes forward. Warm bulbs at night have a similar effect. If your kitchen faces north and you want the green to be obvious, this may be too muted a choice.

The most common surprise is that Forest Green is not dark. People hear the name and picture a deep, saturated green, and this is a mid-tone, closer in weight to a greige cabinet than to a dark one. It is painted opaque and low in sheen, with no grain and no glaze, so the color sits flat and consistent across the flat faces. The bevels and the panel shadow supply the door’s only tonal variation.

Forest Green is a Fabuwood Allure finish. It is available on Galaxy, Luna, Fusion, Nexus, Luxe and Echo doors, all built on plywood cabinet boxes with solid-wood drawer boxes assembled with dovetail joints.

On the framed panel doors, the door frames are joined with mortise-and-tenon joinery. Every Fabuwood cabinet is fitted with Blum soft-close hinges and drawer systems. Fabuwood backs its cabinetry with a lifetime warranty, with a separate Blum warranty on the hardware, and lists CARB2 compliance and ICC-ES and AWI/QCP certification.

Fabuwood groups its colors in tiers. Forest Green is a Designer color, which is made to order rather than stocked, so it is worth allowing for that in the schedule.

Because it holds a mid value rather than a dark one, Forest Green can run through a whole kitchen without making the room heavy. That is its main advantage over the darker greens. It suits transitional and traditional kitchens, and it has a slightly vintage, utilitarian quality that works well with plain door styles and simple hardware. In a room short on daylight, keeping it below the counter and running something light above still helps.

It is a natural fit for the working rooms. Mudroom lockers and benches in a muted olive hide dirt and still look intentional. Laundry cabinets in it are more interesting than white without being a decision anyone has to labour over. In a bath it makes a good vanity under a cream or white top, and in a study or a bar it gives built-ins a quiet, slightly older character.