All I can say is wow, thanks for all the ideas and help. So, the new window went in and it is taller, so my GC made sure to carefully remove and store the extra tiles for me. We'll see this weekend how many I have extra now. I thought I'd maybe send one to Chippy to see if they have a match in NJ. Also, I can use one for our re-glazer, if I need to still go that route. I have the pedestal sink in hand at the house, so for now we are good. I'll let you know how the tiles end up. Please keep sending the suggestions!!

What a pleasant design problem to have. It's so nice and so rare to hear even a mention of a pretty yellow tile. And it sounds like a cute space. Yellow looks great and is a good blender with just about all its fellow yellows, creams, and golds, and goes well with wood with gold tones. Woods with pinkish tones, no. Really, it usually looks horrible with the pinkish-mauvish range but a soft yellow goes with almost everything else. Something really simple and blending, like a painted cream/white, or a light golden wood, (or really most colors in the same lightness range as the tile), would give them a calm but cheery background for various purchases they they might make. Keeping the contrast mostly to accent items would also make the space look larger, or at least not break the picture up into a bunch of different blocks, and let them focus attention on whatever they specifically chose for focal points, like the dining table in the bay at one end and ?? at the other? Kim, looking forward to seeing yours too!

Rosie, thanks for the vote for yellow. I am not color blind but I don't have an eye for color shades or tones so I'm not sure if there is gray in the white. The cabs are KM Dove White and they look pretty white to me. Do you know how I can tell if there is gray in it? I am going to try and take a picture of the 9 in base cab I put in the kitchen so I could see how it looks next to the yellow. Maybe that will help. I too like calming color. I'm not one for contrast and that's why I am a bit undecided on the dark green granite. Green, yes, my fear is that while I don't love contrast, I don't want none at all and I feel that the pale yellow may be too pale! The same can be said for a light green v. a dark green. I have a friend with dark colors in her home (well, dark to me) and I would have to say that her home is "warm". I have light colors all throughout and while it is "cool", I don't consider it cold because I have lace curtains, touches of black, floral fabrics and pillows but I know, I like light colors which is funny because I wear a lot of black. Yes, Steph2000, that's the same color in the kitchen now as the dining room. I don't know if I can still get this paint. HD stopped the FreshAire line and the PO painted the house before we bought it and most of the rooms are this pale yellow. I fell in love with this house the second I saw it but I was living in a flood ravaged apartment so anything was better than the apt. They had painted the living a soft pale blue (I think because we have the original 1940 yellow/blue bath). I love blue skies but I prefer green in the house so I repainted the living room a nice sage green which appears mint sometimes but dark in the evening. It's crazy how colors change with the time of day. Cawaps, you are correct! You have a very good eye. That is Behr's Restful and I really like that color. I grew up in a house that was all white with dark wood trim, all of my apartments were all white and now I live in a house that has pale yellow or sage green. I guess you could say I am really color challenged. I just love yellow for the kitchen but I don't think that tan sink works and I'm just not sure with the white cabs. The green looks a lot better next to the white cabs but then if I get the green granite, too much of a good thing? I didn't think of yellow as energizing . . my yellow is pale and I don't see any gold in it but I do think green is more calming. That Turtle Dove sounds lovely - I will have to check it out. I think if I go with green, I will have more options as far as BS, sink color and countertop. Lavender, thank you for joining in my chant to finish the kitchen. Will it ever be done? I wanted to pick the paint last but DH is getting someone to help him fix the plaster walls since he had to move plumbing and electric and he wants to paint at the same time. At this point, I don't have my heart set on anything. I had my heart set on a farm sink and marble countertop and well that just didn't happen. I didn't give up and I'm not really disappointed but let's just say I'm open to other things now. I will checkout the leaf green suggestion. Again, I am challenged with tones but at least I have a direction to move in. Thank you! Fori, yes, cats look better in green for sure! The paint will probably happen just like the door style, I just picked the one I liked best! And, I can just adjust the counter, sink and BS accordingly based on whether I go with the green or the yellow. Thank you. Christine, I hope you are feeling better! Yes, I don't like tan and yellow together but I like yellow and green together! While both DH and I love that tan sink, it's not going to work unless I go with the green. That tan sink might be one of those things that I love but just won't work in my space. I really wanted a shiny white sink but maybe I will just get the SS sink - SS goes with everything but wait I have a chrome faucet. Argh! Angie, did you choose one of those colors for your space? The kitchen is tiny and I guess my dilemma is really that yellow will make it larger and brighter and green will be more smoothing and give me more choices for the countertop although I am sure I could probably find one of each that would do it all! Thank you all for posting!

Flo Mangan -- I hear ya. back when people were switching off incandescent, I did a bunch of comparisons to figure out what is so awful about CFLs and LEDs. I realized a big difference is the shadows! incandescents give a soft diffused edge to a shadow. there's something about the hard edge CFL and LED shadow that really kills a room. so nearly every fixture in my house has some kind of cover to diffuse it -- whether that's paper, white acrylic, frosted or white glass, etc. it helps a lot. that, and appropriate color temp. I feel like LEDs have come a really long way though. when I first bought them, they were so warm and dim. practically orange. they've improved a lot! Jennifer Hogan I agree that 4,000K isn't truly neutral. but I personally think a room needs just a tinge of warmth to feel good. just like how most people don't go for true white paint. it's just a personal preference. it's kind of like the difference between the sunlight coming in from north vs south facing windows. I'm always going to prefer south!