BM Barley, it's a light gold but looks light yellow in bright sun. Stole the idea from a finished kitchen on here. ;) I like the look of white woodwork, trim and cabients with sunny yellow walls.

Mine is Ralph Lauren Lincolnshire Olive. It has a little more life to it than I wanted (I wanted something that was natural/outdoorsy fresh but very neutral/almost not reading any particular color, because there's enough going on in the kitchen)...but it's a pretty color and very pleasant.

Oops...Guess I should have said the Lincolnshire Olive is a light, grayed, olive green.

This is the photo that I think shows it best. You can see above the cabinets in the corner how it compares to the white...where the molding is not yet there to cover our sloppiness!

Oh, the walls. Those are a burnt orange from Fine Paints of Europe.

The rest of the color is blond bamboo, green, white, and rainbow barf.

Thyme green...a very rich dark green . c

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Gray green walls, Dove white cabinets, black soapstone counters, white subway and herringbone marble backsplash. Very calming and soft palette. We love it! Here is the link.

Also posted the pantry, LR and Conservatory - click on title of page to see the rest.

Good luck and Happy holidays!!

Here is a link that might be useful: Willow's Kitchen

BM Lancaster Whitewash on walls, BM White Dove on cabinets and trim/doors/windows - thought the walls might be too pale and hospital-like, but it has really grown on me since it was painted two weeks ago. It's a very creamy neutral color a few shades darker than the White Dove, just enough contrast. Love it.

Pillog - if you are going to describe one of your colors as "rainbow barf" you should at least post a photo. LOL! You crack me up.

Chartreuse

I LOVE it. My dining room [which is actually where we havea our meals] is also this color. It looks yellow beige to green depending on the lighting.

Trish

BM Oat Straw

marcy I'd love to see a pic of your kitchen with the Oat Straw. I love that color.

Cakelady, it's from a quote by Vern Yip who said that a contestant's design looked like a rainbow threw up on a room. Mine is just on the tile, but still... Unfortunately, there are no pictures yet, but things are looking up, and while the end isn't in sight yet, it's beginning to look finite. Pictures will come in due time...

Wow.

Lots of gray-greens.

Same here. EK Khaki. Recently painted over BM Victorian Garden.

off-white stucco walls, ceiling, soffits, et al.
counters white subway tiles; backsplash, white subway tiles with black accents.
black appliances
oak cabinets, floor, baseboard.
why? what difference does it make to anyone but us?

Willow, what's your wall paint color name and brand? It's really pretty, thanks!

Pllog, Rainbow barf, very funny. You do make me laugh! In Cal, is Chinese food a tradition on Christmas?

I'm pretty sure I'll continue using BM Super white. I see that it's out of vogue. Oh well, I've been out of vogue once or twice in my life.
For the last 20-25 years in our 32 years in this 50 year old house, we have used Super White. I like it and I can't screw up any touch up. Every room is the same color.
I like cool, and a background for art. My own drummer.

BM Cornsilk (yellow)

Very modern palette: pure white, grays, blacks and metals; all lighting at 6500K:

Ikea Abstrakt foil (gloss) 100% white cabinets.
Silestone gray quartz countertops.
100% pure white latex on walls.
Gray laminate on cooking-side wall.
Aluminum.
Black glass cooktop.
Black anthricite Siligranit sink.
Selected surfaces: bright, "recycle green" accents (matched to H&R Block logo).

Note that most retail paint swatches in the grays and blacks contain small amounts of yellow. You need to delete the yellow from the formula if you want a true neutral gray or black-hued paint.

We went with warmer colors using Restoration Hardware's "Saffron" gold for the primary color and then used "Currant Jam" burgundy as an accent around our window areas.

We are SW muslin with bright white trim to match our cinnamon spice cabinets and pick up flecks of the St Cecilia light granite.

My paint color is Ben Moore 1559 Artic Shadows. Hope that helps!

Walls are a slightly golden cream. Floors are honey-colored pine, wood counters very similar, and the view out lots of windows green in summer gray/blue/brown now, so my color scheme is whatever I choose to add in with art, pottery, curtains, etc., or nothing at all when that feels good. Really like the look and love the flexibility.

DH had his heart set on a white kitchen. We have panelling that was painted a dirty cream color. It is now BM White Heron. Our kitchen cabinets are BM Chantilly Lace. Our granite is blue pearl, our backsplash is blue mosaic tile, and our floor is blue ceramic tile.

1920's yellow. The rest is copper with some dark cherry red and green accents. The walls are BM Cambridge Heights to match the tile wainscot. It's not chartreuse but has the tiniest tiniest hint of that in it.

I am glad you posted this topic.I need help with my kitchen colors. Okay I am hijacking. Please Help me...

The wall area (not much of it) is painted
Camel Coat by Ralph Lauren.
BUT.... I am changing this after Christmas into the
New Year when I have more time.

The kitchen opens to this great room.
I currently have a color called Baked Scone by Behr in Great room, hallways,...
The rug has a tiny bit of sage green along with all the
colors you see.

These are the colors I maybe switching...I am open to any ideas.

Light Blue Farrow and Ball paint

Glass Slipper Ben Moore

Silver Fox Benjamin Moore (another gw pic)

Soft Fern

Maybe you can all help me? Tell me what do you
recommend for that kitchen above.

Oh, Plllog, My brother's wife is from China so we have
Chinese food every year the week of Christmas.
Shark fin soup is a little scary at first. ; )
We go to China town in Boston. It has turned into the
most wonderful holiday tradition.

Kitchen opens to DR and LR. DH is a painting contractor so he chooses the paint. I bow to his "expertise." Wanted to pick up undertone color from granite. He picked Behr Cornerstone which is a soft cream. Cabinets are oak- stained Provincial which is a medium shade of brown which is another color in the granite. Rest of the house is Behr Linen which is from the white family of colors. Very neutral. Accents are in the window treatments, area rugs, furniture, and paintings/wall art. Floor in DR and LR white oak. Kitchen will have a gray porcelin tile yet to be picked which will go with another color in the granite.

Boxerpups-love the soft fern but then I like green.

Last kitchen was SW Optimistic Yellow -- white cabinets with golden glaze, denim colored countertops. Very cheery and bright, perfect for that lakeside house. I still miss that house!

The kitchen in the new house is SW Evening Shadow -- white cabinets with pewter glaze, Zodiaq countertops in Eclipse Blue, Charcoal island with Venezian brushed granite (Polo). We used Evening Shadow as our base neutral. I was worried that it might be cold but it works well as a nice, soft background for our very colorful art work and accessories.

I'm one of the few with blue paint/backsplash in the kitchen (Dunn-Edwards Peace River). White cabinets (BM - Simply White), black soapstone counters, and medium wood floor.

Old photo:

Here is a link that might be useful: Peace River

I just used BM Nantucket Gray, but I also really like these Ellen Kennon greens (see link), especially the ashen green. Not pictured, but for a lighter green you might want to try her Clay; it can read green, and it's very nice. Actually it's probably closest to my nantucket gray.

In general it seems to me that painting rooms in very greyed-out colors is getting hot. Neutrals have always been in style, but this grey-neutral and grey with a hint of leaning toward a color thing seems to be in. Of course, I'm so slow to figure out trends, it's probably on it's way out. Anyway, I wish my kitchen was even grayer, but still with a hint of green. My lr is painted Farrow and ball's mouses' back, and it looks perfect to me.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ellen Kennon greens

BM Wild Mushroom

We ended up with Bianco Antico granite. It has areas of taupe and cinnamon, so I brought out the latter color with BM Lenape Trail---a deep russet/cinnamony color that we love. It photographs more orangey than it really is. The other walls downstairs (leading into our kitchen) are a butterscotch gold, so I needed a color that would go well with that. Down the road, I may want to bring in the dark taupe color, though.

Becktheeng,
I also went with blue walls - BM nantucket fog. What is your backsplash? I have a quartz countertop with blues and greys and your tile might work great with it!

For those of you into the greens I just used BM october mist in another room. It's very pretty and it complements almost anything you put next to it.

Rainbow barf! LOL, plllog! I've used a similar phrase - clown barf - to describe the thankfully now dead and buried habit of landscapers to do chaotic mass plantings of every color of pansies in their display gardens at the annual garden show in Portland. This was to instill creativity in the public? Puh-leeze!

My kitchen is currently Rodda Dove's Wing (at least I think that's the color, painted it years ago) with an end wall in a rusty red. The red will stay in the remodel but the rest of the walls will be painted BM Hush, a quiet beige with ever so slight hints of gray and not a bit of pink. Our upper cabinets will be painted a half shade lighter.

I love color - I've got walls painted soft caramel, deep red, warm blue, and mossy green - but I'm keeping the kitchen walls fairly neutral so that I can have fun with furnishings and accents.

So, Annie, is it helping?

Westsider and Boxerpups, Chinese food isn't the kind of tradition in California that it is in the East. It has been de rigeur in small towns in the Southwest, however, being the only thing available on Christmas. ;)

Lisa A, the trick with using all colors together (i.e., rainbow barf) is to choose carefully, have a plan, and keep them contained.

Studio, your kitchen sounds beautiful but 6500K? Is it gray light? How bright is it? Mine is 2700K. Very sunshiny.

See, Annie, what color your kitchen really is depends on the color temperature of your lighting as well!

Mine was a silver green but I just repainted Monday and used Favorite Tan from Behr. I didn't want to change out my border and it matched beautifully--plus, I had a whole unopened gallon in the attic. Off white cabinets, slate flooring, uba tuba granite countertops, and tumbled noche backsplash.

Pillog said, "Studio, your kitchen sounds beautiful but 6500K? Is it gray light? How bright is it? Mine is 2700K. Very sunshiny."

Thanks! Planning to post pictures here as soon as I can remember the password to my FTP account. A color temperature of 6500-degrees Kelvin is closest to natural daylight (which can be anywhere between 5,000K-10,000K). Everything in the house is lamped at 6500K. It's a very bright, very white light. T5 fixtures are much brighter (and much smaller) than the bulkier, old-fashioned, T12 strip lights.

Work-in-progress . . .

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Ikea Abstrakt gloss-white cabinets.
Silestone Expo Grey Leather quartz countertop.
Wilsonart laminate.

(Image not representative of actual lighting.)

my last kitchen was lliberty bm. newest remodel might be rapture (i think that's what it's called) by sw. it is an aqua-y color.

Here is a link that might be useful: kitchen color

plllog, you got it right. The key is to "choose carefully, have a plan, and keep them contained." Unfortunately, their "plan" was to plop in one pot of each color willy nilly so that orange pansies ended up next to pink next to red next to yellow and so on resulting in clown barf, chaotic to mind and spirit with no place to rest the eye from the chaos.

The pansies were donated so I'm not faulting the landscapers for using the free color but they could have, should have been more creative. I can still tell which plants are donated because they are in every display but the mix has gone beyond pansies and the designs are much more inspiring and eye-pleasing. There may still be pink and orange flowers in the same display garden but there are plants, usually colored foliage such bronze-leaved New Zealand flax, between them that makes it work.

Looking forward to seeing your kitchen!

Lisa brings up a good point about color usage: You can be a great gardener, as in grower of plants, or a great cook, and not have a great color sense. The clown barf pansies sound like "guy design" to me. The term is not a put down of male designers, many of whom are excellent. It's an acknowledgment that things that are appealing to non-designer guys (some of whom are female) can give the rest of us nightmares. And there are also the "differently-sighted". There are a few different versions of what eye conformation that alter color perception. People who don't see like the majority put together some things that look frightful to people who don't have the same perceptual rules.

Ellen Kennon Gustavian Grey in our kitchen, which faces northeast. Also used it in our guest bathroom, which faces southwest. The color looks different in each setting and also looks different depending on what time of day it is. But I love it always! : )

My kitchen has Dove White cabs, black soapstone counters, red range and hood and red/cream dining chairs. The walls are BM Soleil (buttery light yellow); adjoining hall and pantry are BM Ylang Ylang (an even lighter yellow than Soleil).

skyedog- the backsplash is Rixi 2.5x5 crackle tile in the Reef color. I love it...it has variations in shade across the tile and from tile to tile.

Here is a link that might be useful: Rixi Reef

Masada, by BM (AURA).

I love the EK paint colors.

Our kitchen is BM Pittsfield Buff. I have black appliances, honey colored oak cabinets (soon to be white), oak floor (reddish color) and Venetian Gold Granite. It goes well with our color scheme.

lmalm53, I love your cabinets and windows! What type of wood and/or stain are your cabinets? Also, are your windows the French swing windows?

Just looked for this thread - finally choosing paint, and it's really helpful to get a feel for what colors y'all are choosing.

Right now I'm looking at BM aura - jicama or safari. Oat Straw is a darker shade of the safari I think.

And also looking at Restoration Hardware's Butter - a shade lighter than the saffron.

I need to coordinate a color with the living room/stairs since they are open to eachother. They're currently Ralph Lauren pearl. I can't decide if the kitchen/dining area should be the lighter or darker color...

SW Pavillion Beige--love it!

My kitchen isn't finished yet, but I have painted the walls SW Blonde with one wall accented SW Restrained Gold.