Ballet White looks good. I like Edgecomb Gray as well. Look at Sea Salt if you want a touch of color. Also take a look at colors in the BM off white collection.

Thanks I was just looking at Ballet White. SeaSalt Sherwin Williams or BM?

Get a color consultant or you'll drive yourself crazy. I like the current color with the cabinets and countertops, though less well paired with the floors.. If the walls were newly painted, consider keeping the current color for now until your furniture, rugs, drapes, etc. are in. That will change the color dynamic.

There are a few fixes that might get you in a direction you want:

--The honking TV over the fireplace should be relocated elsewhere. It's a giant mass of black that brings the room down.

--Consider much more modern lighting fixtures that echo each other but aren't necessarily matched.

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--The counter seating looks comfortable, but something more open and modern might take up less visual space. Find something with legs in the same finish and stain as the floor:

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Here is sea salt SW, but its much better in person!

Seapearl is nice too, but I don't know how it will go with your cabinets.

Thank you for input. The TV...yes a I think you are right. Will be contentious getting that moved. And the counter stools which fit so well at our last kitchen are little big...but oh so comfortable. Will keep my eye out for a good replacement.

I like the pendants you pulled out too. They would make a heap of improvement immediately.

Just painted our kitchen ballet white. A soft barely there greige. Love it. In a previous home, sea salt looked very minty, and not in a good way.

Thanks, can I ask what your cabinets are painted? Can you believe that creamy orangey yellow board, which you see in the pic above w/ the paper sample of Ballet White on it, is painted w/ "Ballet White?" Obviously mixed wrong, but I will go back to get it remixed.

We actually have cherry cabinets, Kraftmaid with honey stain. The ballet white is just "enough" color without taking star billing.

Nice combination.

I guess that TV WILL have to be moved. Thanks for your honest feedback..I can use this as my proof that it needs to move! :)

The living area is pretty small for such a large TV. If you had a smaller one, you could als do something like this--off to the side over a console table.

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Ask your BM store to give you a color match sample of Devine Moss and Devine Latte. (Devine color was bought out by Valspar and eliminated when Sherwin Williams bought Valspar, but BM has the color formulas to match most of the devine colors), The wall color above the cabinets is Devine Moss - the next picture is devine moss next to devine Latte. The Whtie trim is devine Icing. I think Devine Moss pulls just the right amount of blue green to contrast well with your cabinets and pull the blue green gray from the countertops.

I love gray/ greens like Sea Salt SW and find them much more neutral than any gray or beige.

Thanks for the Devine color ideas, Jennifer. I can see what you're thinking. That's a very sophisticated and warm palette...hmmm...like how this opens up a new look.

And Patricia I'm with you on the sea grey greens. Reviewing my saved Houzz pics and see the common theme is teals and soft sea green colors.

We may have to change the pendants first. Right now we have all energy saving bulbs that are very blue. Throws everything very blue and the SeaSalt SW chip I picked up looks very cold blue. In the daylight here though the SeaSalt appears super fresh and serene.

The Moss has a blue green hue, but it is so subtle that you don't see it as blue green.

I think I own almost ever fan deck out there, BM, Valspar, SW, F&B, Behr and C2 and I am still using my devine color pallets because I can't get the truly subtle color anywhere else. It is either dead neutral or too vivid. Devine had some really nice muted colors.

BTW - that is not my house - it is the home of someone who asked me to help them pick colors. I'm not a pro, but paint color is one of my passions.

I personally think Sea Salt will be too green for your space.

I wanted to love Sea Salt so much because it gets a lot of love on this site. In my house and lighting, there was no grey at all - it was solid mint green. So disappointed!

Jennifer, i learned that Miller Paint, the Pacific NW company that originally mixed the Devine paints, has launched their own line called "Evolution." I don't know anything about the quality but can see that the colors are similar to Devine. Boutique style offerings. That said, my BM dealer will match the Devine Latte and Devine Moss for me. i like lots of possibilities and that is part of the problem. You can't have all choices! Have to pick one.

Such is life :)

Here is the problem - you are looking for a paint color based on 2 inch square swatches compared to huge expanses of the colors already in your home.

If you have a sample of the countertop that you can take outside - that it the ideal answer. If not you will need to make do with a gerry rigged method using the counter top in place.

Get a large white sheet. Gather samples of the colors that must stay ( a drawer front, a sample of flooring that closely matches if an actual sample isn't available, a sample of the granite.

Gather as many colors as you can from the neutral and heavily muted colors at the paint store. The lighting in the paint store will confuse your brain - pick up everything even if it doesn't seem good in the store - you may be suprised by what works when you get them home.

If possible, take all the colors outside and cover a table with the white sheet. Lay the samples of the colors that must stay on the sheet and place one color sample at a time next to the colors that have to stay. If it works in natural daylight it will work anywhere.

If it is not possible to take a sample outside cut a hole in the sheet and let a small section of the counter show through the hole in an area near a window. If that is not possible get a good lamp with a 5000k lightbulb and place the lamp so it shines on the hole in your sheet. You can limit the amount of any sample of the things that must stay by doing cutouts on the sheet.

Typically one or two colors will feel right. This is going to be the hue you want. More than likely when you purchase a sample and paint a large section of wall it will read more vivid than the color you picked from a tiny sample. More space- more color. But you will know that you are in the right ball park and can use tools like EasyRGB to discover similar colors that are slighly less saturated.

I worked with Miller Paint when I first discovered Devine. They were amazing. Don't know how they are today, as it has been 20 ish years ago. If I were in their service area I would work with them again in a heartbeat.

Hope this helps narrow your choices :-)

C2 has a nice fandeck with a good selection of colors that isn't overwhelming. May be a good place to start with color samples. If Miller paint has a fandeck of Evolution you could start with those colors.

Behr, BM, Valspar etc have too many colors, most of which will never work anywhere accept as an accent. Your botique paints have a more limited selection, but they are colors that will work on a wall. Better to have 150 colors that work than weeding through 10,000 colors that are mostly useless.

Just wanted to chime in that we tried Balboa Mist in our house. It looked OK in very bright rooms, but in the darker ones, it had a distinct lavender tint to it. We opted for Classic Gray instead, which is one shade lighter on the color strip. I like it but it's very light and house needs lots of colorful furniture and accents to warm up the space. I have Restoration Hardware Silver Sage in our master bedroom and guest bathroom. It's my favorite color ever. Reads blue or green depending on the light. Had it in our previous house in our master and guest bedroom. I may end up painting over our Classic Gray with Silver Sage at some point because I love it so much. Hard to tell in your pics if it would go with your cabinets and counters. I'd get a large sample.

Are you keeping your cabinets as is or if you are going to have them painted?

If keeping your current cabinets and you want a neutral "blank canvas" type of color that can handle any color accents or seasonal decor....you can investigate:

BM Pale Oak. It's a gorgeous soft creamy griege ,

BM London Fog which is an underrated soft neutral greige,

BM Baby Fawn is a greige-cream that is pretty forgiving,

BM Elmira White or Maritime White are also "bright" soft creams that would maybe work with your current cabinets but will make them stand out.

If you want to add some color but Silver Sage is too much: ,

BM Northern Cliffs is a really pretty slightly green-blue/khaki greige that could work well with cabinets like yours and your countertop.

BM Sandy Hook Gray is another green-blue/khaki greige that could work

If you end up painting your cabinets:

BM Nimbus is a really pretty color that is a soft warm but light greige (just used it in a white and 'marble' bathroom and it's absolutely lovely!!).

BM Light Pewter is soft and fresh at the same time, and lighter than Nimbus....but may or may not work with your countertops

Any of the aforementioned colors :)

It really all depends on if:

You paint cabinets.... or not

You want "blank canvas" walls to let other accents make statements .... or paint that makes its own statement and want to adapt the accents to it

Most importantly, ask your paint store for their "LARGE" swatches.

At that point, you can bring those larger swatches into the kitchen at different times of day, with and without lights on, and on different walls, etc

Narrow down a few, and then get some sample pints so you can paint some posterboards to move around the space the exact same way

I just painted walls in my kitchen gray owl at 50% strength. Its a small area on this wall but in case it helps, it's in between the two tall glass cabinets (excuse the painting that hasn't been hung yet). If your cabinets will be painted some kind of white I think it's enough of a contrast but full gray owl may be better if it's off white. I don't think it's too cool but I would paint a swatch and put it next to your counters.

Classic Gray is always a safe bet for a beautiful warm gray.