If changing the floor is an option, do that. Then consider a new backsplash

You could put glass in as many of the upper cabinet doors as possible - to break up all the grey. Switch out the hardware to gold or black. You could keep a large wooden cutting board or two on the counters. Keep the floor, the brown tones are helpful.

Live with it all as is for a minimum of 6 months to determine what you truly cannot live with. You would hate to spend the dollars on something and then be hamstrung in a year when you end up hating the entire kitchen.

The floor is killing it for sure. What other rooms is this floor in? What is your budget for changing it?

I'd get new floors and then a new splash after the floors are in. The order of operations is floor, then splash. The cabinets and counters look fine.

But first, live with this for 6 months. Let everything else that is expensive and broken in a new home come to the surface and get budgeted for. Then come back to the kitchen in 6 months and rethink the situation. If you can't get through 6 months of this grey, then temporarily paint the backsplash - presuming you will be ripping it out anyway. Go with a lighter color that will be ok with the floors and counter.

Waht are the floors in the rest of the spaces ? I always suggest you live there for at least 3-6 months before doing anything . Not sure what we are seeing since the bottom pic looks nothing like the other 2 as even to cabinet color . As you see when you give us no direction you get no real help only everyone's ideas . So some clue as to what your style is and what bothers you most about this space .

Are the kitchen cabinets gray? What material is the wood look flooring? It seems to extend to the other rooms. The bottom photo shows dark gray cabinets and more intense backsplash pattern.

As others have said, live with it for 6-12 months, but add the following at very low cost:

--handmade wood accents to visually link to floor and warm the space. Get a butcher block piece to cover the black countertop to the right of the stove. Accents will make the space less "blended" looking.

Same palette as yours. Note just a few useful wood pieces warm things up:

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Kitchen rug that harmonizes with the floors and art work.

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--Add undercabinet lighting, which gives a cozy glow to a kitchen and will contrast with black countertops. Patricia Colwell can advise you on lightbulbs to install to warm up the space.

I just want to add that many Design Dilemma posters come on Houzz with things that don't blend well. The fixes are much harder to do when things are a mish mosh. Yours is a bit monochromatic, plus gray can be a downer. But lighting and warm accessory choices will make a big difference in the look and feel of your kitchen. No need to do big changes now.

I guess it depends on what you like design-wise, but that fridge & range placement would drive me insane so I would cook in there for a bit before you make any changes. You might find that you really dislike the layout, so spending a lot of money now to only want to change things later would be a bummer.

The floor doesn't go with the rest of the kitchen if your last picture is true to color. But painting cabinets isn't cheap, nor is changing the floor.

Your kitchen foot print needs to change. See altered photo below. Your fridge is in the wrong location and also stove and microwave.

Is it in the budget to redo the Kitchen? There are some few layout issues with the current layout. If it's not, I suggest living with it until you can fix the layout issues. I would not spend $$$ to paint cabinets or add an expensive backsplash. In the meantime, try:

• Adding a rug to the floor
• Adding some color on the counters and/or walls
• Maybe using peel & stick for backsplash if not too expensive -- or leave the backsplash as-is. Your pictures are much too small to see the details, like the backsplash (initially, I thought it was bare walls, no backsplash, until I spent time staring at the pics to try to make out the details)

I would not do anything else at this point. That refrigerator, for example, really needs to be moved and space re-allocated around the range! See Beverly's example.

Also, since this is appears to be a relatively open floorplan (at least 2 rooms are involved from what I see), I would wait to change flooring until you have a plan in place for what you want to do for the house overall. You don't want a home chopped up with a lot of different floors.

(I actually like the black countertop, but that's a personal opinion!)

Came here to say what Beverly and Buel did -- the kitchen colors are inoffensive, but the layout is insane. Maybe there's a reason, or maybe there was no intelligent kitchen designer involved. Maybe you can live with it, or maybe you will hate walking past the fridge to go from sink to stove.

Pick a fun color and get a rug for in front of the sink, some bright hand towels, and some other accents -- art for the fourth wall, a bowl for the pass through, whatever. Once you live there, a kitchen becomes busy and full pretty quickly, and the cabinets fade into the background, so just a little sunshine will go a long way. Once you've lived there and gotten through the hundred rounds of unpacking and arranging all the other spaces, you will know more about how you use this space and be better prepared to decide how to proceed.