What color are the walls in the adjacent living area? That would be helpful to know.

Yes, that is a good thought...and both of them are changing!

The house is a mid-1800s Cape in Maine, the kitchen an added room off the back with a doorway leading into the living room of the main house (so you can't see much of that room). You enter the kitchen from a mudroom which is presently painted blue.

I'm planning on changing the colors in both of those rooms (and the remainder of the rooms) to be more in the palette of the colors I mentioned.

Why not use one of the colors you already love? I think a neutral will look fine with cherry (I'm biased, I have SW Basket Beige with my natural cherry cabs).

If you don't want a beige, a sage green seems as if it would look fantastic with the granite & cherry combo.

Did you intend to post a pic?

whenicit: love that name, that's me too! Yes, neutral is definitely right, but which one?! So many choices. I do love green but had thought that that would compete with the green on the island...what the heck do I know :) that's why I asked.

I can post a picture (although it's bedeviled me in the past) but I really don't have anything to show yet. The cabinets aren't up but you could see the general layout of the room and the the floor.

Try a subtle gray green like BM Gray Mirage?

sueb20: I love the names of paint, that sounds beautiful and, interestingly enough, it was the kind of color that I wanted to find for the siding of our home; we finally went vinyl to my husband's delight.

I found the color on BM's virtual fan and I'll be pulling that color when I go to the store next week. It's overwhelming when I go there and to think that I'm going to need to find the right colors for five other rooms; OMG!

Thank you for your suggestion.