The short question is - do you think a different colored kitchen island is a timeless look in general, and do you think it limits the decor options too much? Any color recommendations for a neutral green color that goes well with light turquoise? (This color: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80281242/)

The long explanation:

I need to paint my kitchen cabinets as they are getting a bit worn. They're golden oak, and I still like that color, I don't care if it's dated, but I have to paint because they are just too worn and they were super cheap to begin with - the sides were stickers(!!!) and the wood and stickers have changed colors as they age, and they are not the same color anymore. UGLY!!!! Plus the sticker and cheaply stickered cabinet molding on the floor have bubbled and peeled in places. I've GOT to paint. I'm going to cover the sticker sides with beadboard and add real wooden molding.

I plan to paint them white, probably Benjamin Moore's Cotton Balls, which I also plan to use for all the trim in my house. I hope it's not a mistake to paint the cabinets the same color as the trim, it sounds reasonable to me and the color should work in my house. My walls are Behr's Gobi Desert. I have gone back and forth on glazing the cabinets but I think I want to not glaze, I don't want another dated look, even if I like it. On the other hand, glaze would always look dirty, so I wouldn't have to worry about cleaning it as often.

I would like to paint the kitchen island a different color than white. I was thinking green, but I have seen a very dark (possibly black) color used that looked good.

This is more or less the general look I had in mind, but the Cotton Balls color is whiter, not as cream as the cabinets in this photo. The overall warmth of the room is close to mine (my house is not quite so warm), but my house is a basic builder cheapy. My kitchen counter is a light sandy beige, and my floors are a medium-dark gunstock oak.

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Most of that floor of my house has a "new country" kind of look, with black painted furniture legs/vertical surfaces, and wooden horizontal surfaces. I still love this look and I'm not changing it. The black kitchen island would fit in with that, but I don't really want a big black boulder in the middle of my kitchen. White would look good, a friend of mine has almost the exact same kitchen (ahh, the perks of cookie cutter suburbia), and she painted everything white and it looks great. I still like the look of the colored island, and I like the green in the photo. A lot of my house's fabric accents are that soft "sea blue" turquoise color that's been all over Target for the last year or two. It's just like this pillow at Ikea: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80281242/

I don't want green to clash with that color, but I also don't want to give up that color as it's been one of my favorite colors since I had my first big box of crayola's.