I didn't get any other responses, but wanted to post what I went with. I tried Kelly Moore Navajo White (because we have that in my home and I really like it). Looked so blah in the rental house! I think it looked like what you'd find to color a wall near the side of a busy street or freeway that covers graffiti. I went with Benjamin Moore in Himalayan Trek. It was much darker than I would have guessed I would like, but it turned out to be a "real", though neutral, color. I was very pleased with how it turned out and don't even "pay attention" to the color of the floor.

Thinking of primer as necessary to cover existing color is incorrect. Primer doesn't cover up color. Primer goes on 'sketchy' because it's primer and not a final coat. Many people think a coat of primer is supposed to be totally opaque, solid, and even. That's not how primer works nor is it what it is for. Tinted/gray primer creates an ideal substrate for the NEW color. If you need a tinted/gray primer for the new paint color, you're going to need it no matter what the existing color happens to be. If the color you've chosen does not require a tinted/gray primer, then it's going to cover with the same opacity whatever color is on the walls - doesn't matter if it's off white or sunshine yellow. Coverage will be the same provided it's applied at the appropriate thickness and the recommended two full coats are applied. Changing your mind about a color after the walls have been professionally prepped is actually no big deal. Might have to pay to apply two additional coats but you've already paid for the prep. All the hard work has been done. If you don't like the color that went up, now is the perfect time to change it. It's like ripping off a band aid. Just do it and get it over with and once it's done, you'll feel better.

Look at SW Evening Shadow (SW 7662) it is a nice light grey. The problem is if you are looking at a sample in a room that still has that some of that yellow/orange paint on the walls it will reflect the color and make the grey look different that what it will look like when the entire room is painted. Your floors will look better when all that yellow and orange are gone.

If, however, this is a DIY project and you do NOT want to refinish the wood with poly, you'd still need to clean any part of the cabinets you are going to paint -- and clean it thoroughly -- before painting the cabinets -- otherwise your paint job will not look good at all.. If the dark wood is the problem for you, then lightening up the upper half of the room above the cabinets could well change the vibe and likely make this "beachy" color a better fit within the room. Unless you're changing the floor to a very light floor (I wouldn't) , my inclination would be to NOT paint the lower cabinets at all and paint only the part of the upper cabinets: Paint all of the upper cabinets and doors on the end wall above the stove top the same white as the wall. You could leave the oven cabinet a natural wood as a balance to the glass front cabinet and, if you can replace the doors over the oven with glass doors, consider doing that ... or ... if you decide to paint the solid doors over the oven and its cabinet the same white color, stop at countertop level. For the cabinets with the glass fronts, paint only the interior of the cabinets using that same color that you paint the walls. Once the upper half of the room over the stove top and sink is lighter, would pause before deciding about painting the ceiling.