What kind of lighting is in the kitchen?
Daylight?
Tungsten?
Halogen?
CFL?

The 'color' of the light used can greatly effect the color perception.

I spent weeks looking at color swatches for most of the rooms in our house. I picked a caramel/palomino color. Somehow I missed that it turns pink when exposed to the right kind of artificial light. This is especially evident in my laundry room. I got some bulbs in the coolest spectrum I could find. The room feels pretty sterile (even when it's dirty!) but the pink is gone.

If you're getting gold, I'd try cooling the spectrum down a wee bit.

I'd try cooling the spectrum down a wee bit.

That is (confusingly), look for a bulb with a *higher* color temperature. I'd try something around 5600K, which is close to daylight. You'll need to get this in a compact fluorescent.

If that's too bluish, try 3600K or 4200K. Be sure the CRI rating is at least 80.