IMO- While I agree with 82mainstreet about painting cabinets white and not expresso, I also believe you won't be happy unless the color combo pleases you. - First, what do you want to accomplish? Are you intending to live in the home for a long time? Or are you painting for resale? - If you are painting for resale, then classic white for your cabinets is your best choice. It has wider appeal. A future owner will find it easier to change the wall color than the cabinets. - If you are planning to stay in the house, you can be more personal in your color choices. - But be wary of fads, especially when painting cabinets. It is much easier to paint walls. From your photo, it looks like your cabinets are nicely finished wood. Personally, I wouldn't change that unless they are damaged. I would just update the wall color, but that is just my opinion. If you do paint the cabinets, don't be swayed by fad colors. I would still recommend white or maybe a pale cream. That way, if you get tired of your color combo in the future, you only have to change the walls to update the room. - Unless you are changing your appliances and flooring, very dark cabinets will probably make your kitchen feel overwhelmingly dark and warm. - Consider your lighting and how you want your kitchen to feel. Does your kitchen feel too warm or too cool when your work in it? - White will give your room a light and airy feel especially if paired with cool blues and greens. If that seems to make the room feel too cold, white or cream can be warmed up with a bright wall color like apricot, lime green or turquoise. Try looking through magazines for color combos you like...or look inside your own closet for colors that make you feel good.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions so far. But let me try to explain my real issue. We'll have painted kitchen cabinets (going into the "green" room) and also two painted corner cabinets in the dining room with the "gentle cream" walls (you can see the marks from the old corner cabinets on the picture, the new cabinets are going into the same place). The two rooms are connecting and there are only a few feet from the right dining cabinet to the kitchen cabinets. The trim runs non-stop throughout the house. I know it would look beautiful if we used the same color for all cabinets and for the trim. In that case it would be a very light color. But we are a busy family with a teen and a pre-teen in the house and some of us don't always clean things up right away in the kitchen :) So for practical reasons, I want creamy cabinets with a light glaze. But what do I do about the dining room cabinets and the trim? Should the the dining cabinets be the same color and with the same glazing as the kitchen? Or should they match the trim since they are hugging the window so tightly? and, should the trim color be close to the kitchen base color or close to what it will look like with the glaze on? If the trim is lighter, will it make glazed cabinets look dirty?

My cabinets are a good match for BM linen White. I went with Benjamin Moore Crown Point Sand for wall color. It photographs a lot greener than it is. I would describe it as a neutral tan with hints of green and gold. com.apple.mail.drag-T0x101423700.tmp.q55D3D From Positano's Finished Kitchen

Thank you all! For some reason the deep sea blue makes me happy (even though my daughter said it won't match my new kitchen or great room)... :( Here it is with some plates I found that I could put on my new plate rack. The blue one is Pioneer Woman.