The first thing you should decide is your budget., Financial planning comes before aesthetics.
You almost always spend more than you get back on a renovation. https://www.remodeling.hw.net/cost-vs-value/2020/
The money you spend can only be spent once and you have to decide where to put your dollars. Should they go toward new granite countertops or your retirement fund or a college fund for your kids or toward a life experience, furthering your education or paying down your mortgage? How long you are staying in this house is another factor. If you are going to stay for 5 years you are gifting money to the next owner and have that much less to spend toward your next home. If you are staying for 20 years you will have a long time to enjoy your new counters and the joy they bring you may be worth working an extra year or two before you can afford to retire.
A 25-year-old who invests $5,000 a year with an 8% average annual return for 43 years should have approximately $1.65 million. If you started saving 10 years later and invested $5,000 per year with the same 8% average annual return, after 33 years the result is approximately $729,750. Not magic, just the time value of money. The 35-year-old would have to invest approximately $11,290 a year to achieve the same amount as the 25-year-old under the same time and averages.
Once you decide on the best use of your money you make decisions on how to best spend the money you have to make things nicer. You have to weigh how much joy a new countertop will bring you over x number of years and decide if it is a good investment.
When planning a home color palette I always start with what must stay - then work from there to pick the colors for the rest of the home.
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