Love the ideas above. I'm like you love the natural and not so into colour. I've got herbs bamboo blinds and a Big end grain cutting board in our black and white kitchen. I've also got a small wool rug on the floor with deep reds and blues. The Dutch put these rugs on their tables and mine is probably too valuable to go on the floor but it sure looks nice.

@hollybar i will be removing that table and replacing it with a bench probably.do you have any ideas wht to do with the space when i remove that table?the china/rea cup cabinet will stay there i dont have any place to put it around my house.id like to have a farmstlye decor ..:-)

@everdebz the washer and dryer are some random white that a family friend is giving her now that they've bought new ones. She's really putting this all together on a tight budget. The walls were cool gray with blue-ish undertones, which I know is popular but she doesn't care for. So painting is a high budget priority. @Jennifer Hogan I don't think shadows are the problem. It's basically a little 7x8 room with a comparitively big window the size of a standard door. But I've got some 4800K lights that were in the living room that we changed out after closing so that I can try those. But when you guys talk about "gray" without some descriptors you start to lose me a little. "Gray" is really only something I understand as a generic or as it relates to light--white is all the light, black is the absence of light and "gray" is a scale without chroma between the two. In paint, white is no chroma and black is all the chroma and the way you get "gray" is to mix complimentary colors, but all the grays when talking about paint are really just muted colors that have been lighted. And when you start adding color in light wave lengths over top of chroma my head starts spinning! ;-) Here's something that might be helpful to someone who is trying to learn to see and work with subtle colors from a non-decorator perspective as well as explain myself better: If I'm trying to mix a puddle of paint on my palette to match a color that's "gray" I start trying to name the color I see using a primary or secondary color: "Very light baby vomit green." I found a color in the description: green. Start with bright full chroma green, add white until I match the value. Now use a the compliment to mute it (red) then push and pull the temperature by using the yellow on the warm side of red or blue on the cool side of red. When someone taught me that process it completely opened up how I saw neutral colors and my ability to make, match and combine them. Chroma, then value, then muting, then temperature. I'm sure you pros here have a way to do it, but sometimes hearing things outside your exact disciple can kindle up something good. Thank you every one again. I can't wait to get over there tomorrow and try some of your suggestions.

We are in the same boat - working and busy - and in our recent kitchen remodel while we picked out nearly everything based on samples beforehand, I did wait to pick paint until we had most everything in. I asked our contractor to let me know when he was a couple days out from needing the final decision. Since you can source paint onsite in most places, this worked out. It was also a real help because I did not end up using the wall paint I’d been planning from the outset based on samples next to the cabinets in the actual space. But as a person who installed off-white warm white cabs and a mostly white countertop, I’d say don’t add a cool white into the mix in the wall. It can make your warm whites look too yellow. Our wall paint is slightly lighter than our cabinets, but still warm white and it seems to work.