We are nearing the end of a kitchen renovation and need to finalize all our paint colors. Our dining room is now open to our kitchen. Our island is BM Wolf Gray while rest of our cabinets are BM Super White. There is not a ton of open wall in the kitchen but where there is it will be SW Grey Screen. Our dining room is going to be BM Kensington Blue. Would you suggest painting the back of the built in Kensington Blue or leaving it white?

My next question is a little more difficult. All of our trim throughout the house is SW Alabaster but now we have these BM Super White cabinets. The trim only comes close to the cabinets in a few spots but I think it’s close enough that the trim is going to look really yellow if we keep it Alabaster. So my thought is that we repaint all the trim on the dining room and kitchen to be the BM Super White to match the cabinets. I just have a really tricky transition from the dining room to front hallway that I’m not sure how to handle. I can paint the trim on one side Super White and the other side Alabaster but what do I do with this threshold? Can I paint it the hallway color which will be Gray Screen? Then I have the same threshold on the other side of the hallway that leads to the living room so assume I need to do the same. I have to keep the hallway Alabaster because of how it feeds into all the other rooms.