Your color palate is great, you can literally do anything! We are also doing white/grey/wood, and our walls will be BM camouflage, a soft green/beige color. I'm a green person.

I also think the butter yellow you are doing would look great. I've seen it done and its gorgeous. What colors are you drawn to?

Hi euphorbia, not sure what depth of gray your countertop will be, but I think cream/yellow looks fabulous with gray. My bathroom has a mid-gray tile tub/shower (with glass surround, so it shows), with creamy ivory walls (hint of yellow, but doesn't read yellow) and white trim, tub, etc. I love the look, and there's just enough contrast for the trim to pop. I also love green in a kitchen and had originally planned to do my bathroom in a soft sage, but wasn't crazy about the tones of the tile with it. I do like a sagey green with dark gray.

Ooh ebse, BM Camouflage is going on my bedroom walls tomorrow! If I love it, it's going into my white/wood kitchen.

I would like a grayish blue. I would get it all done, including countertops and then address the question, though. It will be much easier to choose then.

Ebse-

I'm so glad you are using green! We are doing a white/gray kitchen too. I thought green would be great, but the DH thought it would look silly. I'm also a green person, and the whole house would be green if I had the choice.

I hope it doesn't look silly! I had an interior designer friend help me choose it and she's always steered me in the right direction. That's the nice thing about white/grey... you can do anything with it! If, down the road, we want to change the look of the kitchen we can paint a dramatically different color on the wall for minimal expense.

SF-- how did it work out with your virginia/jet mist? Or did you select something else?

I'll post pictures when there is anything to see. So far all that's been accomplished is demo, tear down of two load-bearing walls, install beams, a window and rough electric (this has taken about 3 weeks!). It's a total and complete mess.

Hi Euphorbia,

What color grey? Dark or light?
Does your kitchen open to other rooms?
You said Buttery Yellow. Yellow would look great.

I have jet mist counters that are a dark charcoal grey
color. I am in a similar situation. I love my tan camel
coat paint by RL but I wonder if it really goes. My floor
guy is coming in this week to change the stain on the
floors so this is going to be a key factor for me in choosing the right color.
I will be curious to see what
others suggest as it may help me too.

Here are some ideas from my favorites, maybe they can
help you.

~boxerpups

cystal kitchen
{{!gwi}}

Country home magazine Creamy and gray

something's gotta give kitchen

House to Home UK

Britcolonial kitchen by Mark Timothy
{{!gwi}}

Bungalo Bliss
{{!gwi}}

This one is not white but notice the gray countertop
and the buttery yellow. I think it will look lovely.

Boston Magazine
{{!gwi}}

Kitchen Concepts
{{!gwi}}

This is my kitchen with the first photo depicting the
true color on my walls. I have a red sofa I need to match.

This photo shows the color to be organgy it is not.
It is more gray than what is below. You get the idea I hope.

I have a similar color scheme-- I haven't picked my counters, but they will be a grey color, and I also have a butter yellow room next to the kitchen. My current color choice is either sag harbor gray (pretty dark, but I like it) or Richmond Gray. They are yellower grey greens, kind of muddy on the strip but I painted a large area on the wall and they were very warm and very pretty with the blue in the grey counter-top sample I had, and with stainless steel. They are colors that have to be sampled to be appreciated, I think.

When I sampled bluer greens or gray-greens they looked weird with the yellow in the next room-- too nursery or something. Also, the coldness of white and grey and stainless steel needs something contrasting to warm it up, at least in my small kitchen. So that's my two cents! I do think the bluer colors are beautiful in principle.

Hey, Boxerpups--

That camel is beautiful, but it isn't anything like your inspiration photos, so I wonder if you would like a grey-green color (just the right one would look terrific with red-- it might take a lot of sampling), a warm grey-taupe (perfect with red), or a yellow (also great with red)? Those inspiration pictures are beautiful. I loved that kitchen in something's gotta give.

One thing a decorator told me once was to find a piece of fabric I loved (a pattern) and to use it to formulate colors for a room (the fabric doesn't go in the room, it just guides it). Another told me to do the same with a rug. Maybe everyone knows this trick, but anyway it's been really useful to me in at least getting started, which is the hardest part. Some color combinations really speak to me, but I would have never known it (like greenish-olive and blue).

Thanks everyone for the input and gorgeous pictures!

I think I'm going to try to go with the buttery yellow and see how it goes.

Hi Nesting 12
Thank you so much for those kind words. I love the advice.
I will try that. I have a rug I love. I don't have a picture but I will try to take one later and post it.
Maybe you can help me again.
Thanks,
Boxerpups

A lot of persian rugs have a similar red to your couch, and a particular blue that's a little bit green. Maybe that color will work!

COLOR is back in kitchens, so maybe think of something stronger than all of your choices. Eggplant with yellow accents to tie into the yellow elsewhere. Marine blue, also with yellow accents. Kiwi green with red accents. Traffic sign yellow with dark grey accents. Aquamarine with lime green accents. Valencia orange with grape green accents.

There is usually such a small amount of wall space in a kitchen that using a strong color doesn't overwhelm like it can in other rooms. It can be a fun thing!