If it were my house, I would match the trim to the cabinets. The ceiling color would depend on the wall color, height of the room, amount of natural light, and maybe some other factors. I like to see a colored ceiling when there is crown molding.

We used SW Natural Choice on walls, and BM Cloud White on trim (a warm white) but use what you love or paint a small area and see what you think. In our house the natural choice leans very slightly green.....we used 2/3 strength in the rest of the house, except for the dining room.....we live in high desert and low humidity....which can affect how colors look! Here is 2/3 strength of natural choice with cloud white trim Here is full strength natural choice with cloud white trim.

RHM, I will admit that I am fussier than most about my whites. You say you want to brighten up the walls, so my first question would be "what color are your walls now?" Your trim is Alabaster - a light white that is slightly dirty with a little gray green cast, Your cabinets are somewhere between Alabaster and Dover White. If you measure the light, chroma and hue of Dover White vs Alabaster the biggest difference is the Chroma - how gray is it vs how colorful is it. Dover White is less gray so the so the color looks like it is a bit darker and does not have that slight green cast. The first number is light - So Simply white is the lightest color The second number is the chroma - the lower the chroma the more gray , the higher the chroma the more color. The third number is the hue 90 is yellow, 182 is green - this comparison gets tricky because yellow gets kind of olivish green as it goes to gray and when the chroma is really low, like in alabaster I can see that hint of green. Dover White CIE-L*Ch(ab) = 93.765 8.230 99.280° Alabaster CIE-L*Ch(ab) = 93.002 5.636 99.953° Simply White CIE-L*Ch(ab) = 95.648 4.657 106.615° Personally, the first two colors I would test are Dover White and Neutral Ground. I think Neutral Ground is a bit too dark, but I like a little contrast between the wall color and trim color, so I may do 3/4 Dover white and 1/4 Neutral Ground. How I test and blend colors to get exactly what I want is really simple. I own a box of oral medicine syringes - you can buy them from Amazon. When I find two colors that I like, but really want the color to be something in between I mix several variations of the two colors and paint them on 8 1/2 x 11 240lb water color paper. 1 cc of color A + 3 cc of color B 1 cc of color A + 2 cc of color B 2 cc of color A + 2 cc of color B 2 cc of color A + 1 cc of color B 3 cc of color A + 1 cc of color B I mark each sheet with the "recipe" and then test the colors against the colors I already have in my space.

We just change our trim and doors color to SW Alabaster. We love it....the dilemma now is that we need to update the blinds. Currently they are "Alabaster", they go well with the "Wool Skin" color trim, but not so much with Alabaster. Anyone out there found the perfect faux wood blinds' color for their Alabaster trim? Thank you.