Can you add a picture of your floors?

Great point! The floors will be changing (eventually) and we will do a lighter oak wood most likely. For now - it looks like this!

Thank you so much!!! All great points. Any thoughts on wall color? Right now as you may see it is a creamy beige color, which I think is making the cabinets appear even cooler. I’d like to paint the walls sooner than later to see how big of an impact that has. Thanks again.

I'm going to suggest you sample Greek Villa and/or Alabaster. The floors you have now clash with the cabinets, so if you're going to replace the floors soon you should focus on paint matching your cabinets and countertop, so you should install the counter before sampling. Those two colors are warm whites. They may not work with your counter. You'll have to see how they look in your lighting conditions. It is possible to have a warm white with gray, but as always with color we have to say - it depends. :-)

kitchen shown with your tones. note the details.....2nd pic shows black/white counter is not out of style....leave your counter.....the cash register would get locked up and Hold put on the expensive things. the older cabs remain, so expensive "things" creates diminishing returns . I'd find mats in grays/tans for marrying floor with other shades...find a backsplash. you've done fine....it looks good

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Try spreading a white sheet across over the floor in front of the cabinets.

They are shifting colour due to the quality of your available lighting but that can be further exagerrated by flooring from the Yellow-Red Hue Family.

I would wait until the flooring and counter tops are in before deciding on a paint color. Kitchens normally do not have much wall space due to the built-in cabinets and appliances, so it's not a major factor. Although it's not easy to determine from your photos what the adjoining spaces look like.

Keep in mind that the color of your cabinets is the color. You can't change it unless you repaint. A wall color that has more blue in it will make the cabinets look less blue by contrast. A neutral with any orange in it will make the cabinets look more blue, since orange is blue's complement. So depending on what you want the cabinets to look like, you need to select a wall color appropriately. My advice is to embrace the slight blue cast and design around it.

Here is a video about repose gray you might find helpful.

Thank you so much! Very interesting.

I hope it helps @Kimberly I would definitely stay away from anything with a yellow undertone.

Cabinets and backsplash

I happened across the above and it reminded me of your kitchen cab color.

Here are repose gray cabinets with chantilly lace by BM for the wall color.

Yesss! This was literally my inspo pic that I looked at every single day leading up to the start of renovations. It’s so good 😍

It’s just hard with filters and photos to tell what the real color of the cabinets look like. Maybe I just have to embrace the blue hue. On an overcast/ gloomy day the color is perfect. But when it’s sunny out it’s like a baby blue. Crazy how paint color can change so drastically based off various factors.

I think some ways to help with the cabinet color is warmer lighting and maybe some warmer wood toned roman shades on your window as in the picture. Changing your lighting will really help the color.

Do you have other photos of the space and what is around it to share? That would help greatly in making suggestions!

Yes of course!! Here are some more angles of the kitchen space.

We started playing around with the look of different crown molding on top that’s why only one has that topper. It’s just temporary. 😊

Not a pro, but I’d change the floors to pale oak (hardwood or engineered) before changing the countertops; I do hope you choose real wood, and not “wood-look” anything. I actually like the cabinet color, although I understand it’s not what you planned. The countertops work better with the cabinets, and are less dated than the flooring, to my eye. Enjoy your new kitchen!

I think your cabs are gorgeous. You just need to change what is around them. I would definitely pick up some samples of chantilly lace and take a sample of your repose gray and see what compliments it. I think you will want to also paint your ceiling. When you get around to changing your flooring make sure to find a wood stain that compliments the undertones in your walls and cabs etc.

Thank you so much!! Yes- wood floors is on the list to do 😊
It’s something we want to do for the whole house and will be quite time consuming and expensive (not that a kitchen renovation isn’t!)
But I agree, wood floors will really elevate the look.

Your inspiration pic is cold colors. Not warm ones. So there’s that disconnect.

The biggest current issue is that you need a massive amount of added lighting. Youre seeing it through virtual candle light, and it needs to be lit like the workroom with the dangerous fire and sharp things in it that it really is. The pendants are virtually useless as actual lightng, and are only creating weird shadows. Add more recessed and different, cooler, Kelvin cabinet lighting. A lot more lumens.

Added lighting is great for the evening. But not everyone enjoys all lights on, all day,,,

The walls and floors currently are kinda yellow-peachy. I would get a tester of two of the whites mentioned above and paint near the little cabinet off by itself beside the range. When it's ready, throw your white towel over the little piece of counter and look at them.

Do enough so you have a section without the current wall color.

I wonder if it looks bluer due to the warm color on the walls. I have Repose Gray in my kitchen in western Washington, where it looks soft white. Having trouble getting the photo uploaded from my iPad. White paper held up to it shows the very soft, light gray in the cabinets. No icy blue.

https://www.houzz.com/hznb/photos/kitchen-phvw-vp~184363890

So interesting how it looks vastly different in your home than mine! What color did you paint your walls?

To match some color in my counters, I started to use a color called Marilyn’s Dress (I think), but it wasn’t right. Took the counter sample and the paint back to BM and their colorist corrected it and it’s just right. Let’s call it Marilyn’s Altered Dress? ;). Looks way better than the beige that was here before I painted the cabinets.

I know exactly what you mean about the icy tones of repose gray! I used it on my kitchen cabinets and the Repose Gray color changes multiple times throughout the day and yet, throws a greenish tone in some of my yellow light. It definitely leans more towards blue than warm in my house natural lighting. For a do-over, I would go with Revere pewter or agreeable gray just to add that slight touch of warmth I was actually aiming for to go along with my countertops and hardwood floors.