Greyish green imo. Look at sw sea salt or comfort grey

is this the wall color you are looking for? can you post a photo?

I agree a gray/ green as mentioned

I thought I read somewhere that because green is opposite red on the color wheel, that green would make the orange/red cabinets stick out even more. Maybe I have it wrong? So many decisions to be made in this reno that I am getting overwhelmed.

If you pick kermit the frog GREEN its going to stand out

If you do a neutral grey'ish green / sage it will tone it down but still go well.

It's confusing, because what you probably really want to do is make the room look nicer, not so much make the cabinets look less red. You will make the cabinets look less red by sticking them next to a true red but the room itself will look a whole lot more red in process.

You want a neutral color to tone things down, but I'd suggest a "neutral" that goes well with the existing components. So the grey tones it down, but the green looks good with the cabinets.

IMO at least.

I think they would look pretty with a light cream color.

I'd look at neutrals. Sherwin Williams Sedate Grey or Accessible Beige.

I just looked at Sedate Grey - that might work - according to the SW website, it coordinates with a terra cotta color which resembles my cabinets. I think my accent color will be Waterloo.

I think your cabinets are beautiful. One of my favorite combos with cabinets that read a bit orange is dark blue walls, but dark blue is my favorite color.

It seems best to choose a color that relates to all of your fixed elements including the floor. I'd start with Ben Moore's Powell Buff.

eta: I missed that you're putting in dark grey floors, but I'd probably still go with a neutral yellow beige. Grays have undertones to be mindful of. My sister in law has dark gray floor tiles in her kitchen, but they looked really purple next to walls with a slight green undertone. It's all relative.

I'd say you need a neutral- something that ties the gray floors into the cherry cabinets and black accents- I'm thinking Ben Moore's Revere Pewter. It's a nice neutral that reads a bit beige and a bit gray. Powell Buff as suggested above always looks nice as well. Get a few samples and put a piece of your granite, floor tile and cabinet next to each other to see how they look with each other. I wouldn't go with a color. You can add some accessories or artwork for a pop of color if needed.

What color will help tone down the orange?

Any color from the same hue family neighborhood will make it look less orange.

Any color from any other hue family will make it look more orange. The farther away a hue family is from orange on the color wheel, the more that hue family will intensify your perception of orange. For example, the hue family directly opposite orange on the color wheel will make it look the most orange.

That's just how color works.

Flooring will be a dark grey tile,

Don't do anything until the floor is done. Every color of gray belongs to a hue family - has nothing to do with undertones.

The million dollar question is what hue family does the gray tile belong to, red, orange, yellow, green, blue-green, blue or purple.

You're going to have exactly two choices once the floor is in. Choose a wall color from the same yellow-red (orange) hue family as the cabinets OR choose a wall color from the same hue family as the new gray tile.

If, by chance, the gray tile also belongs to the yellow-red (orange) hue family, then you'll have more options for wall color.

If, for example, the gray tile belongs to the blue hue family, then you can't have any tint, tone or shade of green on the walls. Doesn't matter how great green looks with cherry cabinets (and it certainly does), you can't have that with blue-gray tile.

Lori - thank you so much. Makes a lot of sense. I was also watching some YouTube videos today about color, hue and light. Million dollar question - how do you determine the color hue of the grey tile? I know the tile we have chosen is grey but definitely has brown in it as well. If my grey is in the orange hue family, what colors are an option? Why would blue hued grey not work with green? Hope you see this and have a chance to advise. I'm finding that I am facinated with color as I am going through this renovation process.

Million dollar question - how do you determine the color hue of the grey tile?

This is where a lot of people go off the deep end with the undertones nonsense. As in those undertones are sneaky and you have to watch out because they are hard to see and only people with a "trained eye" can see them blah, blah, blah.

Hue family and undertones are distinctly different. Detailing the difference is long so I'll skip it, but trust me they are not the same thing.

There are two ways to determine hue family. The most accurate is to measure the color with a device like a spectrophotometer or a colorimeter like a Color Muse. The resulting spectral data defines the hue family for you. This is how color experts do it. I never go anywhere without a Color Muse or a NIX sensor.

If you don't know how to measure color with a device and use the resulting data to determine hue family, then you have to eyeball it. And you do that by comparing colors.

Compare the uncategorized color to a big chip of red, blue, green, yellow, etc. and the hue family should be obvious. Color responds to its context. Comparing one color to another is basic context.

It is no different from human kids and parents. See a kid running around at the playground and he looks like any other kid. Put him in context with his family and suddenly you are able to recognize similar features and compare attributes, and it quickly becomes apparent that junior is a chip off the old block.

Same thing happens with color. Through the process of comparison, you will see the hue family to which a color belongs.

More info on this link with a cheat-sheet of hue parents to use for comparison from Ben Moore and SW.

Choose a neutral floor tile instead of the trendy gray.

If my grey is in the orange hue family, what colors are an option?

If the floor and cabinets end up being from the same hue family, you will have a cohesive envelope of color. At which point you then move on and consider other elements in the overall palette like the counter top colors.

Are the colors in the counter top consistent with the cabinets and the floor? Any tiny specks of green or purple or blue? If yes, then those colors provide direction for the wall color - you'll want to pick up on those color details and use them to inform the paint color choice.

If no, if the counter top colors are consistent with the tile and cabinets, then you can start playing a little. Is there a rug or textiles in the space? If so, you can use the colorways in those items to inform your paint color choice.

The goal is to tie the colors together to create one complete color story in the space.

Why would blue hued grey not work with green?

It's more like why would a green wall color work with gray-blue tile?

Hypothetically let's say the floor tile is a blue-gray and the cabinets are orange. Where does the green come from - what does green have to do with anything you've got going on in the space? The answer is nothing. In this hypothetical, green relates to nothing in the space so there's no reason to choose a green paint color.

Something in the space has to inform the wall color choice. The wall color has to relate to something in the space. Floor, counter top, cabinets, rug, fabric, something big-ish.

Lori - when I mentioned I was watching YouTube videos on color, I had no idea that I was watching you until now! I have to say, I really enjoyed watching your videos and I learned quite a bit. I am looking forward to discovering what hue my flooring is.

My granite is cohesive with the cabinets and flooring. I'll post a picture soon.

i wish I knew of you and your videos prior to picking out a front door color. I had agonized over trying to find a color that looked right with my stonework out front. I have a White House, but finding the right color that worked with the stone was a process! I'm fairly certain I did ok in the end but I had a lot of yellows, reds, purples, oranges before I found the right green!

thank you!

For what it is worth I talked to a Sherwin-Williams color consultant for the best wall paint color for my reddish tone maple cabinets

She suggested either the comfort gray that would pull the gray from my river bordeaux countertops or Maison Blanche - a khaki undertone colored beige To pull together the colors of the cabinet and my cream-ish beige floor tile

I agree with the earlier poster who talked about pulling colors from other elements in your kitchen that would also go with your cabinets and not focus just on the cabinet color .

We went with the Maison Blanche since the kitchen is north east facing and does not get a lot of sunlight so We wanted a color that would brighten up the space more

HTH