Hlove - you're sweet for saying so. The gray will always be a tad darker than I'd hoped in such a small, North-facing room...although there are times of the day/year when it looks more soft and powdery which I love. :) I think you're right about the ceiling. They're painting the cabs today and I think/hope will put them back up tomorrow, they re-paint the ceiling the Friday before Easter so by then I'll know what sort of change would be appropriate if any. The cream color that's presently on the walls/ceiling is BM's White Linen. Since I don't love that color in my kitchen, I just assume re-paint the walls along with the ceiling since the ceiling has to be re-painted anyway. So something less dingy-yellow than the white linen without being white-white since the upper cabs will now be a whiter-white and they don't need any competition! :) I appreciated your advice and did in fact find a white with gray-green undertones! I hope I like it and too late if not cause they're painting now. It's BM's Cotton Balls. I'd held it up along with 5 other whites, at our local Benjamin Moore store, and held it up next to a Fieldstone sample (like our cabs) as well as the Linen White sample and the 3 colors together looked really nice. Thanks again! Michelle16 - thanks! Before I had just Miller Paint's "white-white" (an older color) on all my cabs, and a beige-avocado color on the walls/ceiling. It was pretty but I'd had it for 11 years and really needed a break. Little did I know white kitchens would become all the rage - haha. The Fieldstone was inspired by Sally Wheat's kitchen which another GW member suggested I check out. I loved it immediately and liked how painting the woodwork a darker color with lighter color on the walls was a nice change from the norm (more so at that time anyway, compared to now). I liked how it reminded me of how homes used to be a hundred years ago only then it was unpainted wood vs. a lighter color on the walls. So something very period-appropriate about it but with a twist. ;) In my kitchen, it's a bit darker than I like at times - because of the lack of white since my cabs aren't open as Sally's are, and also cause my room has a LOT of cabinetry and faces North so it's a dark room - but I still love it more than not! And the darkness of it at times (when the room's all cleaned up and there's a pop of color e.g. a black bowl filled with tangerines or something like that!) can look sophisticated. Once my in-ceiling speakers are installed I'm going to feel very cool, having deep, bassy jazz playing in there at the same time as in the living room during a party. With the under-cab lights on dim and a few candles lit, I'll be scattin'! Eandhl - me too! :) Do you have it in your house? I love your short little comment - I wish I could keep things that short but alas...... Daisychain01 - Hi! :) In your picture it's PERFECT (and of course may have turned out perfect in my kitchen) but when I had it fanned out along with the other whites in my hand at the store, the Cotton Balls - much to my surprise - seemed to blend better with the Fieldstone gray color of my cabinets. I can't remember now if the Cloud White was too white or too creamy but it would have been one way or the other, although I seem to recall it was my second choice, then my first, then my second, then my first - haha. I think she told me Pottery Barn uses it too (?). Anyway they painted the cab doors today and then a fresh coat tomorrow morning (Fri.) so as soon as they're up I'll take pics and post. Wish me luck! And thanks so much for including the pic! That bathroom is very sweet.

Thanks ckinkopf for your ideas and thoughts. Glad you think it will look okay when we are all done. I think you are the first poster to mention we should have done darker windows, although I have thought that. Ignoring the windows for now is likely what we will do as I am out of ideas for repeating the white. Most of our windows are fiberglass which can certainly be painted. The basement windows and two others on the house are vinyl which I would be more reluctant to paint. The vinyl windows were bought 5 years ago and won't last as long as the fiberglass, so maybe in 10-15 years if they need replacing, we will swap them out for fiberglass and then paint them all a grey to match the window trim. At that point we would need to repaint the siding anyway so we would need scaffolding. Yikes, I hope we finish this reno by the time we need to repaint it all!!!

@jn3344...your post is so helpful! Thank you!! And I love your home. Gorgeous!!! I'm down to black on black Anderson100 or Marvin Integrity all Ultrex with black exterior and white interior, painted black. But I want to see a painted Ultrex product. It's hard for me to believe I won't be able to take a fingernail across it and scrape it off?. I'm probably borrowing trouble even considering this. I'm not sure if I was quoted incorrectly, but I my Marvin Integrity quote is actually less than the A100 quote (from different seller), which is why I'm considering the paint option. Why are windows so difficult? (And so many more decisions to make)

My house from the 70's came with dark stained pine trim and windows. Taking my time, I painted all the trim, windows and grills. We did eventually get new windows. We also replaced hollow core doors with paneled doors similar to the ones you have, and as we did most of this in the 90s, we chose natural oak. The white trim looks fine with wood paneled doors - so you do not need to paint the doors. Wood moves with changes in temp and humidity which can cause hairline cracks in the paint at the joints - why white doors are usually made of more stable MDF. White doors are also harder to keep clean looking. My kitchen cabinets also remain wood. White trim with wood doors. Natural tones are returning in popularity - though trying to keep up with the most popular wood tone is impossible: I saw a season of This Old House in which a kitchen / family room addition had white trim while the older part of the home - with beautiful woodwork - was left unpainted. My grandmother's craftsman also had stained trim in some areas and white in others. I agree to get your addition done and then worry about the rest of the home - it doesn't all have to be the same and it doesn't have to be done tomorrow:)