What color is your floor? Drapes? Counters? I just had a color consult for my cream w/brown glazed cabinets, hazelnut (dark) hardwood, and granite (greys, blacks & browns), cream trim, brown, turquise & gold drapery treatment, and they suggested a milk chocolate paint color. I'm waiting for the sample to see if it will work.

Chiming in late, but wanted to say after reading the posts, gsciencechick, you never have to be embarrassed with us. We're are all here to help each other. Whether you have a big kitchen or small kitchen, old or new, we want to see it be the best it can be within each person's budget constraints. That said, I think your kitchen is very cute and has huge potential! alex's link to that white kitchen with the blue backsplash can give you the inspiration to take your kitchen in a direction without breaking the bank. As you search through the kitchen forum, you will see many people who have done amazing things to their kitchens all by themselves with paint and tile and light fixtures, knobs and pulls etc and are very pleased with the result. You'll get lots of good ideas here. Some you will like, others you won't. No one is offended if you don't take them and do them. Just keep posting and eventually you will have a kitchen you and DH are very proud of.

thank you so much for your response! The floors are quarter sawn white oak that will be stained a warm med tone walnut color. nothing too dark. I did realize when i posted this that my cabinets will touch the ceiling so I decided to go with the same white throughout most of the house on the ceilings, Decorators White. On the top floor, which is our master bedroom suite I think I'm going to use the Chantilly lace. It's a bit darker up there and I'm trying to make it as bright as possible. Thats the color of our vanity in the masterbath, so I may just do all the trim and ceilings that color. That floor is a clean break from all the other walls and trim, so it won't look like a mistake! Truthfully the place was a mess before renovation (we bought it that way) so I really just want everything clean and white!! I may end up doing what you suggested with the walls...still wishing for white, but don't I can steer away from the Decorators white without making the cabinets look dingy.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5078746/white-cabinets-white-walls#n=8 https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2748579/white-cabinets-with-white-walls#n=1 https://www.houzz.com/discussions/768269/new-home-white-kitchen-cabinets-white-walls-satin-or-eggshell#n=2 https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2677139/same-white-paint-on-cabinets-and-walls#n=23 https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2701437/undertones-and-combining-neutrals-in-a-white-kitchen#n=16 https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5817599/help-did-i-make-a-mistake-buying-simply-white-with-chantilly-lace#n=12 I'm no good with color but here's a few previous discussions that might be helpful. There are many more in older discussions that might be helpful.