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Help me throw a Hail Mary for kitchen wall paint! It'll be fun!

8 years ago
Kitchen paint decision has to be made in the morning. I was leaning toward white because some of our walls are wood paneling (and I love white wood paneling), but with white cabinets and backsplash I don't know what I was thinking. It's nearly impossible to coordinate. I want the cabinets to pop, and the trim will match the cabinets and I want it to pop too.

Pics show swatches, all SW:

1 Toque (more beige than I like, with some pink undertones which I don't hate... maybe the only one that could actually work.)
2 Westhighland White (too yellow)
3 alabaster (darker than 2 but still too yellow
4 pure white ( too white)
5 snowbound (a lot lighter than I thought it would be, and too close to the color of the cabinets

I threw passive gray to the right of these samples bc I had some laying around and honestly it looks green and muddy and actually makes the cabinets look muddier.

Contractor suggested Repose, maybe lightened 50% but the Repose chip looks greener to me than Passive so I'm worried it would look worse.

And then of course there is the paneling, which is currently a crisp white that I love but that won't work with these cabinets.

Part of me things I should lean into whatever is working with this Toque White, but I don't know what it is that is working (do YOU?) And then I'm like... well maybe I should try Hush White or Gorgeous White cause would a pinkish white really be that bad?

Paint is easy to change, I'm trying to tell myself. SO, help me throw this Hail Mary because I'm literally at a loss.

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