Urbane Bronze is a very dark green, so the choice of Ancient Ivory does harmonize with it. But given the terra cottas that you are dealing with, and the darkness of the UB, you probably do need a much stronger wall color. You also need to get an electrician in to add additional lighting, especially under cabinet lighting. Either pick something in the green family, or terracotta family. Both of your colors a very strong, and something pale just washes out. Also orange and green are opposite on the color wheel, so your colors intensify each other.

Cooks Kitchen, technically red is opposite green on the color wheel but because orange is made up of yellow and red, it too will help to intensify the green.

That cabinet color has to go. It‘s way too dark doesn’t work at all with all of the orange you have. And that is a lot of orange. Keep the floors. Get new counters. Pick a creamy white with some warmth for the cabinets.

thanks for your advice, green designs. We are not keeping the tile floor or the matching kitchen counter top. They will be the first to go. Under the tile is a pine floor that was covered up by previous owners. We are going to restore it first chance we get. for now, we are keeping the tile and making it work the best we can. I'm sorry you don't like gray.

For something a bit deeper, you might look at SW Relaxed Khaki. I have it in my master bath and really love it.

Do you currently have any furniture/furnishings in the adjoining room? If not, then you are asking the paint color to do all the heavy lifting. Paint is only one part of a room.

I think BM Manchester Tan would work well with the Urbane Bronze and the tile and granite counter. It's a neutral greige, that can look a little more khaki or more gray depending on the light. It solves a lot of problems in rooms with disparate elements. But you still need to supplement with accessories, additional lighting, etc., especially is you are saying that your back room is dark.

Thank you, everyone, for the guidance! I am sorry for the late response. Work slowed my progress here at home! I'm back and willing to look into these colors.

I've thought a lot about what feeling I would ike when we walk into these rooms and I think my biggest fear is that anything too gray will be very blah - it also is very shadowy and dingy on our walls most of the day b/c of the lighting from the North and West. I want a warm cheery kitchen - rustic and farmhouse - but not modern gray/white farmhouse. that's definitely not us! I am having trouble finding pictures online that have gray cabinets and darker/non-white walls.

To answer your question, Open House Home Staging and Redesign, yes, we have some old/not permanent furniture in the back room. Mostly to see if we could get a feel for what it will look like in the future - just a old dog couch. I'll put a photo below - we haven't added the base molding b/c we are waiting to figure out the trim color and painting before we put on. Even with the random pieces of furniture, the room feels too light for us. We want a deeper color. I think the LRV of ancient ivory is 80 something. Just a little too washed out and with a greenish tinge - I would rather go more green or not at all b/c the ancient ivory looks dirty about 80% of the day and then during the evening, there's a warm glow to the walls that is still too light for my tastes but it's cozy! We were going for warm/cozy feel since we are setting up a wood stove and it's going to be a den for reading and hanging out, esp in the winter. The window look into the yard and woods, so we wanted a grounded/naturey feel but we missed the target with the ancient ivory. I will definitely check out manchester tan!

I went to a BM store and spot with a color consultant. She showed me some beautiful colors that worked well with the Urbane Bronze and even the countertop but, unfortunately, they are too gray. Against my better judgement, I listened and got samples of Balboa Mist and Wind's Breath. In the store they looked pretty with the Urbane Bonze and I understood why the consultant felt tans or other colors were too yellow (b/c of the tile) but I don't know if she really heard me when I said that any gray in these rooms looks VERY gray. I tried both and while they are nice with the urbane bronze, they are not the right color for us. Balboa Mist is too purple and too gray. On the wall in the kitchen it looks dreary and blah. It seems very violet in the back room too - I tried in two spots. The Wind's breath is nicer - in that seems to be browner with less gray but it's still very light. In the kitchen, it seems to have a pinkish hue to it with the counter - again, I'm not a fan. I wish I was. The LRV of WB is 70 or so. A lot of the colors I like seem to be a little lower than that - mid 60s. Not that is our only guideline but it seems to be the one consistent thing my husband and I agree on - more color and less gray! Maybe more of a transition color so the cabinets do not look like the are floating

I can't remember if I mentioned but the color "skipping stone" by BM was recommended to us by someone on houzz. The BM color consultant talked me out of it but I can't remember why - I think she said it didn't look good with the counter tops? I din't know. I'm going to stop listening to hear and go back to listening to Houzz b/c Manchester Tan looks beautiful. I'll probably try a sample of SS too.

Thank you in advance. In case this helps at all...here is a pic of the back room. This is with Ancient Ivory on the walls and the spare furniture. Here, I like the yellow-y feel but the real life view was more green tinged and even more washed out.

Just as an example - when we first started the journey. Here is our *before* pic. We've come a long way...the paint color is killing me though..

Also, before we decided to re-do the cabinets, we tried a dark gray on the wall in the back. I think that is BM dovetail (or something along those lines). We also tried SW Repose gray in the kitchen with the yellow cabinets. It looks really pretty but b/c we wanted one color to unify the two rooms (since we have two diff floors, weird granite, tile countertops, there was so much going on) we ended up changing everything.

thanks in advance for listing to our saga! I'll get a sample of Manchester Tan!

katinparadise - thanks for the relaxed khaki suggestion. My mom gave me a sample card of that the other day - she thought it might look nice too. I wasn't sure if it was too brown - but after this weekend of trying balboa mist, which was too purple, I'm willing to try it. I'll get a sample. Thanks!!

Question - I do not understand too much about the color wheel - I'm trying but my head spins a bit. Can someone help me break it down. I thought I understood what I was saying above and now I'm not so sure :)

If we don't want gray on the walls - can we go with a greenish color or will that intensify the tile too much? I do want a cheerful country kitchen - not dreary. What I liked about the Ancient Ivory is that it was warm and cheerful but soft for certain times of the day. Other times it was washed out and dingy. I was wondering if something like a clean but soft green/brown would work?

Nuhouse10, how did your projects turn out? Would love to see photos.

Oh my goodness I read your whole thread and I totally understand what you’re saying! I am in the process of redoing my kitchen and my cabinets are also urban bronze. I have very yellow/orange pine half log panelling throughout the rest of the kitchen and in the adjoining living room. People really don’t understand this colour way! I love it, and I love where you’re headed with yours. I would love to see pictures of your completed project! Here we are in the midst of ours. I read somewhere that some kitchens are just born to be moody. I feel like that is this kitchen for sure! I am going to be using galvanized corrugated tin as backsplash behind the range and on the fridge wall. I am also using black matte light fixtures making sure to add lots of light! Including under counter lighting. My floors are going to be a one by two slate luxury vinyl tile. Also pulling in those warm orange and yellow colours along with gray and cream. It has been a hugely difficult project to plan because there is so little in the way of inspiration pictures out there. I guess we are just going to be trailblazers!