You have a beautiful kitchen. Are these photos showing it as it was staged for sale, or now that you've moved in?

You have a lovely kitchen. I think the biggest improvement would be to paint the whole kitchen as you mentioned in a light blue or green. Add some decor pieces above your top shelves and a plant or two on the counters for greenery. Best wishes!

Another way to introduce color would be with glass or crystal knobs on the cabinets. It is a very bright and open space, and I can see what you mean about wanting to inject some spark in there.

Any reason there are no hanging light fixtures?

Paint a bold wall color. Glad I did it, get many compliments.

Its' beautiful. I'd paint, change hardware and maybe add a chandelier over the table. I have crystal knobs on my cabinets and they are pretty "jewelry" in my kitchen.

What do the double doors go to? I would find (or go to Pinot's Palette with your spouse and paint) a diptych and hang one canvas on each door. You can probably use Command Hooks and avoid even putting holes in the doors. Since the placement of the doors is so visible from the dining room and living room, I think this would have a big impact.

replace the double doors with solid wood doors. Paint the wall cabinets w arch at the window position a bolder/ probably darker color like a nautical blue. Then one or two lantern shaped pendants if you feel like it for the island.

I love this kitchen. Not a lot of color, but a few bold splashes makes the whole room come alive.

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Before painting anything or adding color anywhere I would pick my color pallet.

Figure out everything in the house that has to stay. (Not changing the flooring/countertops/ tile in bathrooms . . .)

Figure out what you are bringing into the home that you love and will not change for a long time.

Look at everything you own, art, clothing, jewlery, makeup, bed linens . What are the colors that you love? Everyone has a few favorites. You want your home to reflect your personality. Are you a jeans and tshirt gal or a pearls and lace kind of girl? Do you love bright, bold colors, or pastels or deep sultry colors? Which colors?

Now examine your home. When are you going to use each room and how will you use it? What kind of energy do you want to experience in that room. Do you throw formal cocktail parties or football bbqs or simple family gatherings? Do you like to relax in the tub at the end of a long day or grab a quick shower to wake you up in the morning. Do you want a sultry sexy bedroom or a relaxing retreat?

Now you can put all the pieces together. Lay out the colors that have to stay, lay out the colors that you want to stay. Lay then out in the order that you will see each room. If you can see your dining room from the kitchen you want these next to each other and the colors you pick will need to work together, but the colors you pick for the master bath don't have to work well with the kitchen, but need to work with the master bedroom, which has to work with the hall, witch has to work with the stairs, which have to work with the living room, which has to work with the dining room which we already established, has to work with the kitchen.

Add the colors that you love. If you pick purple and lime for the kitchen you will want to bring those colors into the dining room, but maybe just a touch of the lime and more concentrated on the purple, then the livingroom needs to have purple, but doesn't have to have lime, and you may decide to introduce some red. Move from room to room, bringing colors that you love into the pallet, sometimes in a deep or bright version and other times in softer forms, making sure that the shades and versions of the colors make you feel the way you need to feel in each room.

My colors are teal, purple and burgundy and my foyer happens to have red/purple/green slate flooring. I am using those 3 colors with taupe as my neutral throughout the main part of my home. Teal walls in my guest bedroom, guest bath and master bath and a deep smokey purple in my bedroom. I have a lot of the deep reds in my upholstry and art and things. I also happen to love lime green, but it won't work with teal, so I am continuing the taupe and purple into the basement where I will be doing a deep purple taupe and lime green accents. Basement will mainly be used as a game room, and it will be a place to hang some of the art that I have from a trip to Costa Rica that is brighter and greener than the decor I have elsewhere.

I really think that every woman should feel like a 10 in every room of her home. The colors that make you feel wonderful about yourself and about life should surround you.

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I'm not sure what is fun to you but here are some ideas:

1. Paint the room white and have a fun accent backsplash on the sink wall. (Don't wallpaper a wet area of the kitchen.)

2. Paint the whole kitchen white and just the island mint. Then accessorize with mint or navy.

3. Ditch the mantle piece and get a large piece of artwork you like to hang there.

4. Ditch the cabinet to the right of fridge and hang artwork or huge colorful plate there.

5. Is that your dining room set? If so, get some cushion pads for the seats made from colorful fabric.

6. Easiest and cheapest - go on a colorful accessories buying binge, put it all together in your current space and see if it is enough fun color pop for you - a colorful fruit bowl, cool potholders, dish towels, colorful tea pot, canisters.

Here is some inspiration:

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Love your home and kitchen just the way it is, soft and elegant! For a pop of color in your kitchen why not paint the bar stools a bright color, as they peak over the bar maybe that's all you need. Maybe one of the pro's could suggest a color and or do a mock up :-)

beadboard the ceiling!!!! or paint it. I would consider doing the wall with the arches a wall paper-maybe chalkboard?

I love all white and the ability to change the feel with accent colors.

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Hi decker 1018-

Congratulations on your beautiful new home and your kitchen is lovely!

I agree with Jan Moyer about not rushing into any major changes.

And speaking of changes, how often do you like change ?

If you paint the walls (or chairs, or island) a color, will you want to change any of it in a couple of years?

Well, that is a lot of work, and these days, paint costs more than it used to since now it is all non-VOC, and for a kitchen you would additionally want to use a high quality paint.

First think of your dishes, you do want whatever color you accent with to go with your dishes!

Perhaps you can get your color craving satiated with smaller items, such as:

plants,

dishtowels, and

floor mats/runners,

artwork over the fireplace and on the wall

valance or roman shade at the top of the window

cushions on the counter stools and the breakfast area chairs.

The above are all inexpensive, and the advantage of the above smalls is that you can change them seasonally like using warmer colors in the fall/winter and cooler colors in the spring/summer.

You can even change the slipcovers on the chairs in front of the fireplace and the throw on the chair with the season.

Another reason your kitchen looks so bland is that other than the forsythia (which is marvelous!) and the brick over the fireplace it is devoid of natural elements.

Please think about setting out a beautiful cutting board, or a basket with different fruits, a flowering plant, or a plant with variegated foliage.

Those would do wonders for your kitchen and make you not so desperate for an immediate color fix.

By the way, there are indoor plants with red or purple foliage.