Your kitchen is beautiful.

What don't you like? I like your kitchen.

Switching the fridge and oven would improve function, and boxing in the fridge would improve the aesthetics. The fridge would be on the perimeter of the kitchen, easier to access without someone walking through the clean-up and prep zones. Switching and building in the fridge would add a few inches on the left, but filler could be used in the former fridge space to make the ovens fit.

If that's more than you want to do, then place some darker accessories on the counters. The kitchen really is beautiful!

I LOVE your table!

Add splashes of color here and there, and you'll be good to go.

I think your kitchen is very nice just the way it is. What it needs is some brighter color in accents.

IMO the kitchen would look better with pendants of either bronze or pewter that directed the light down to the counter top

The existing bulbs are creating way too much glare in the room.

You have a nice kitchen but I think it could look better - less vanilla. Add some lights similar to what Beverly suggested, add hardware knobs and pulls to the cabinetry and consider painting the hood and possibly the island a soft black. A few simple changes without a lot of money spent.

Below are a few examples of a contrasting range hood.

Looks pretty nice and nearly new to me! My only quibble is the staggered height cabinets, but it's not worth it to level them out.

Thanks everyone! I really like my kitchen too, but yes I want to make it less vanilla, I like the idea of possibly contrasting the hood and island to a soft black and adding in accessories or new pendants.

i also want hardware but do not know what color would make the kitchen look more modern?

lastly, I was planning on painting my home / kitchen walls included a shade of white, but I have a fear that won’t work because my cabinets are cream and not white and changing the paint to white might make them look more dated?

I don’t know where your kitchen is in reference to the rest of the house but for the kitchen I think if you got a color matched to the cabinetry for the walls in a eggshell sheen so there’s not that contrast between the wall and the cabinets it will make the cabinets look more white and less creamy. What is the color of the trim in the rest of the house? If you paint the hood black I think a combination of these pulls in black would look nice and keep with the traditional style of your kitchen.

@likewhatyoudo are you suggesting a color for the wall that closely matches my cabinets? my trim color is SW alabaster and I did try getting a color matched that would work in my kitchen and the home and the color suggested was SW ivory lace which was an off white shade I would say white with a hint of yellow, but personally I wanted something a bit more clean and modern while this kitchen is giving me the traditional vibes.

My kitchen opens up to the living room and the breakfast room, it’s quite an open floor plan.

I guess I want to do something that makes the kitchen brighter and a bit more modern than traditional .