Have you thought of more of a sagey green maybe? The colors you painted swatches of seem to blend and almost be the same color as the living room with such little light. Not sure if you wanted it to flow with a subtle difference or for the green to stand out a little more? I just painted my kitchen louisburg Green by BM. It's a sagey green that goes nicely with any taupe colors, also there's another by BM called paris rain I think...it's a more muted color. Here's a pic a member of the kitchen forum had provided me of her kitchen, which I loved the color and went with the same! It's the Louisburg! My kitchen is still in progress otherwise I'd show you pics of it. My granite has black, greys, reds, and creams in it with white cabs. This color does a good job of being a neutral but pulling in other colors. My accent color is a deep red which is in my very upper display cabs near the ceiling. I think it would work nicely with the orange in your living room, and from the pic seems to match the green in your rug! Here's the Paris Rain (wall color) This one may be a little too minty though for your space! Not sure...just some ideas!

Thank you for the additional photos and descriptions. I feel better about giving this stain a whirl now. The coverage with two coats looks great; with all of the cabinetry pieces involved, each additional coat that is needed multiplies the task considerably, and some other stain examples used three. ------------------ Yes, Anne, someone did give me name long ago. But it has never really been a comfortable fit. So on forums, one of the few places I can get away with not using "Linda", I prefer to use Gyr. Funny about your kitchen for a broken stove. Hmmm. After my cabinets are done, I think there might be some broken tiles aka tiles broken, in our master shower. ;-)

Thank you for all the input. The consensus seems to be that the darker stain or more weathered look is more desired. The table will not be outdoors. I just took those pictures immediately after I finished building it. The table's style just doesn't fit my current home. It needs a more open/industrial or farmhouse style home with non carpeted floors in my opinion. I'm house shopping for my perfect home and I hope that at some point all the stuff I build will finally be able to fit in. For now I have such a collection of furniture that I've built that I'm going to try setting up a booth and selling some of them at a local flea market here in SoCal in October. I'm not sure what the interest level will be in my creations as I build everything to my personal liking and it typically includes wood, metal and epoxy resin :)

Not sure if you have already committed but I know a lot of people want an all white kitchen. In fact, I had one in our old home and would NEVER make that decision again if I could go back in time. The problem, they are EXTREMELY difficult to keep clean. Yes, they look so pretty but are you ready to put in the work to maintain that pristine look. For me, with children, it was and is a nightmare. Currently in our home being built, we did go with a white island and got dark grey blue uppers and lowers(so two toned). I would go with a with island and black for uppers/lowers...OR black island with black lowers and have white uppers(if you still want the white cabinets). This would go really nicely with black backsplash and whit counter top OR cement grey counter tops with white backsplash(you can play around with style of them). I am not a fan of white oak but that's just me. Hope everything is going well with your home building process! :)