Is the kitchen open to other parts of your home so you would notice if the trim in the kitchen was not the same color as the rest of the house?

I do not have my sample of natural wicker in front of me. Don't remember how 'off' white it is. Not sure this helps, but in my family room, the trim is Vanilla Ice Cream, which is a creamy white, and the room is painted Manchester Tan. All the other rooms on my 1st floor are more intense color (Baby Turtle, Moroccon Red, and others) with the same trim. I love the lighter color with the trim.

I had the same situation between which white to choose. I completely agree with everyone that says you can't really choose a color until you see the sample in your new kitchen. I picked during the framing stage by putting all the samples next to each other in what was to be the kitchen and looking at them at different times of the day over several days. I hung a tarp over the exterior wall to try and simulate the lighting of the kitchen after sheet rock. I have a hard time with creamy whites because they go yellow in the evening here (Seattle) so I picked BM White Dove, which was the middle of the road in my samples. Of course I was second guessing myself right up until the end, but I'm glad I went with the the mid-white of the samples as it does tend to go a little yellow at night and it's not too stark during the day. The grey undertone helps keep the yellowing minimal. Here's what I came up against that others should know...my cabinets were site finished and they were sprayed with a primer of bright white. Talk about operating room! I was glad I didn't go with the brightest white of my samples. Then the first coat of BM White Dove Satin Impervo went on. Each time I had to shut down the job site for three days and crank the heat while the paint cured. I hated waiting three days to see the cabinets and all the built-ins! Anyway, after the first coat of White Dove I snuck in the house at night. The cabinets were the dingyest yellow of all yellows! Yikes! Of course I cried because I had picked the wrong color when I was hoping I had picked the perfect color. Back to square one. Ugh. But then the next day as I moped around the job site I noticed that the cabinets didn't match my sample from the store. Here's what happened...I went to my local BM store and bought several quarts of tinted Satin Impervo paint mixed at the store. After I chose the White Dove, my painter went to his BM wholesaler and bought White Dove Satin Impervo off the shelf as it is one of BM's stock colors. Although most say the formulas are the same, they aren't! The difference was horrifying! Luckily it was the first coat, I was able to figure out the problem and the final coat went on perfectly in store mixed White Dove paint. Sadly, we had already finished all 40 shelves and 74 doors when the carcasses were painted and the mistake was discovered so we had to go back and redo all of them. My point? No matter what you choose, always go with the exact same formulation as your sample!

I went with a creamier white out of not wanting it to be too stark for my space. I agree with above posters saying you need to figure out what works in your particular light and space. NEW QUESTION THOUGH - this came up this week as the painters are starting and someone above mentioned trim. For trim and molding I am not sure. The trim or molding above the cabinets is already done and of course matches the cabinets. We will also have an area of built in bookcases in the adjoining family room also in the same off=white as the kitchen cabs. We are painting the trim which is now honeyed oak. Should we match the trim to the rest of the house which is a different white than the new cabinets or to the cabinets (which is a little greyer than the house trim, neither really white white but creamy in different ways)? These rooms are set off from the others, i.e., their molding will not touch or meet EXCEPT for two doorways. I think I had decided with the painter to go with the trim color of the rest of the house - and by trim I mean windows and crown molding, with the exception of the crown above all cabinets (kitched and fam room) and also the two windows right in the kitchen smack between the cabinets. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Don't mean to hijack the post and perhaps I'll need to post independently??