That is a lot of wood! White wash would be nice.

Yes. A lot of wood. And almost none of it is my style. lol. None of the furniture shown is mine or will be staying either.

I like the ceiling as it is but I love the look and warmth of wood! If it's not your style and you do not like it, paint it.

Marci4 I don't know! lol. My current house has travertine and light carpet, light Greigey walls, dark wood furniture with lots of blues and greys current kitchen is darker cherry. I love all those colors. We'll be starting over in this house. I'm liking white kitchens, but I'm not sure it can hold up to my family. My kids are rough on light colored things. :)

A suggestion, keep the ceiling and paint the cabinets... then a rug in the table area.

None of the furniture is mine. This is the listing photo. :)

It'll probably be easier to whitewash the ceiling if you leave the house on its side, but since I would keep the ceiling as is, I went ahead and turned the house right side up.

So much easier to paint on its side! ;-)

I agree!

Leave it

Leave the ceiling, paint the cabinets creamy white (prof or BM advance-very durable), and replace light fixtures. And if the budget permits, replace counters.

I would paint it. Will feel so much airier.

Leave it...put your effort into painting the cabinets.

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what, shouldn't you do is the answer.

what you should do is address the lighting, so it complement the style of the space, and will give you something pretty to look at!

Thanks for all the advice. We don't close for a few more weeks. We will be redoing the kitchen, not sure about the floors yet.

Granted this is a barn conversion, but lots of wood. Adding cool updates like hey a concrete floor? This is not blue or travertine! no.

Rasmussen / Su Architects: "The floor is a smooth-troweled (and heated!) concrete slab. We believe the color was hand-applied during the troweling process."

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You only mentioned floors, but this is another concrete option, stained:

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Not this green, but your island could become bigger [is there room?] and brighter:

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The more wood, the more I'd bring in amounts of modern or industrial, like this black. Shapes of item and/ or its bulbs could look good against that wall:

http://www.lampsplus.com/products/portersville-rusty-urban-multi-light-pendant__4n577.html

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Has Sophie shown up and ordered the OP to tear it out entirely yet? ;)

I agree that the ceiling is great and the cabinets and fixtures are the problem, there's a new story on houzz you may want to see for ideas:

https://www.houzz.com/magazine/houzz-tour-budget-remodel-for-a-midcentury-oregon-rancho-stsetivw-vs~68020968

they not only restored their knotty pine ceilings but added more, and looks fab.

Many methods -- this is brainstorming time. It's probable that the move-in and pondering/ investigating will bring it all about. Course some threads are more involved in every decision. I think our OP [hi!] is in the first method idk - but great to have the time!! Good 'luck'!!

Stephanie, I found you a television.

hahaha how silly

You told us you'll update - don't paint cabinets if you'll be changing them -- What do you think you'll tear out?