I'm hoping someone with similar kitchen colors will see this and post. In the interim, I wondered if you are hooked on the wood shutters? My first thought was that I might either paint them in a cream white color and do the trim the same, or I might just use fabric to tie everything together and do a curtain, plus the off white trim. It might be good if you could post a full-room view of your kitchen for perspective?

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Thanks for your reply. We are keeping the shutters. They are the best solution for the intense west sun that comes in through those windows in summer. In winter they stop the drafts too. We tried several solutions there (both curtains and miniblinds) before finding the shutters. IÂm not up for painting them. Staining and varnishing them in the first place was a nightmare with the tiny moveable slats.

Here is another picture from further back, though this was taken before the backsplash went up. Mentally plug in the dark green?

I think you need a color in there that is not dark, but is not glaringly white. I wonder if a soft khaki or taupe for the shutters and trim would work.

Linnea, that white is horrible in your very rich and wonderful kitchen. Honey...once you go to the dark side, you'll never return my young Jedi friend...oh wait that was another life. Umm where was I? Dark trim.

This is a mix of half black and half dark chocolate brown...we have it EVERYWHERE in our home...it's fabulous with rich copper reds, burgundy's, greens, yellow, pumpkin...any rich earth color rocks with this trim color. I will never (ok maybe not never, but not soon) do light trim again :)

Don't focus on what's in this room, just focus on the fact that it's mostly a green base color with accents of green:
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Window trim and paneled wall are both dark with amber gold walls
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Bad pic, but copper colored walls, leaning towards that red tone in your counters, with the same trim color:
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Hopefully it will help you think about shifting to the dark side...believe me...we have better parties at Darth's house than we ever did with that boring old Luke :oP

Yes, the white IS horrible, isnÂt it? I notice it a lot more in these pictures. Hard to believe IÂve let it go so long. In another room we painted the trim dark a long time ago, but it didnÂt come off as well as I had hoped. We used semigloss there and it came out really drippy looking and too shiny. Dark colors seem to show the shine more. It took a lot of coats to cover the white semigloss too. I think that is part of what has stopped me from doing any more. Based on that experience I will not use semigloss for any dark color in the future. Thanks very much for the pictures, igloochic! The dark trim really looks nice in your rooms.