A coastal kitchen should feel like morning light off the water — soft, warm, never stark. This palette leans on a muted sea-glass green for the cabinets, the kind of color that reads gray on a cloudy day and green when the sun comes in. It never tips into mint.
Around it sits a warm cream on the walls and a slightly cleaner white on the trim and ceiling, so the green has room to breathe. Driftwood taupe grounds the scheme through wood floors, open shelving, or a butcher-block counter. And a single deep harbor anchor — on an island or a run of lower cabinets — gives the eye somewhere to land.
Use the deepest color sparingly: one surface, no more. The whole scheme is built so the green leads, the neutrals support, and the navy punctuates.