It's going to depend upon your lighting. Why don't you do a search on "white kitchens" to get 100s of recommendations. Plus, you can look at the great kitchens. People seem to stick with a few BM colors, but there are obviously more. Whatever you do, I strongly suggest using Cabinet Coat, which is now owned by BM. It's clean-up is water, but this stuff is designed for trim and cabinetry. It dries HARD as a ROCK. When the prep is done well, it goes on like butter. I also recommend Stix, which is an adhesive primer, also now owned by BM. Both used to be by Inslx, but BM buys a good thing.

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It is real wood. The shelves I will still decide on based on what I do with the cupboards. I originally wanted all of it white, but if I keep the cupboard plain, I will use plain wood for the shelves. Branson4020, I definitely want to change the base. It is thick and unrefined, but the width is seen quite often in this area due to several floods that have overtaken the lower level floors in the rainy seasons. The ocean gets quite testy. So contractor's standard sizes tend to overcompensate. So using standard measurements for the attic included that, or they charge me more. I am saving up for the kitchen that I will build from scratch. I was thinking of maybe just getting a solid base to fit the cupboards, but I am open to suggestions? This is my first house revamp. The attached picture is just to show what it looked like vs where it is now (the above pic). So any further advise will be great. As a new house revamper I predict I will learn a few more lessons the hard way. This house is quite a challenge as it feels like the previous owners took every shortcut they could find. There was one wall light at the stairs of the attic, the rest had no lights. I have removed the light that did nothing to assist with lighting the room, and will decide on proper lighting once the cupboard is done. Their electric cables were protruding in loops from the floor, and peaking out at the bottom of the floor in the lower room. They ducttaped open electricity "holes" in the wall where a box or coverplate should have been. Beyond the wall at the back in the lower picture (where the cupboards are now) they had loose planks of different lengths, woodtypes and widths collectively forming some type of table and the orange wall in the before photo ended a foot below the sliding door. The rest of the wall was pure white and the holes next to the hidden geyser in the middle that guides its pipes outwards was a foot wide and stuffed with newspapers and ducttape. So I learned. But this makes me very open to advise for future traps I might not see.

Match the white in the wood blinds and the trim. If you want it much brighter, you can add more lighting such as undercabinet lighting. Check the rating of the ceiling fixture to see if old bulbs can be changed out for new LEDs.