And Pure White would be the coordinating white for Frosty and Thunderous

What color is your trim in your living room? Do you like the trim color next to the Frosty White?

Pure White or Extra White would be better with Frosty White. Alabaster is too yellow with the cooler blue gray undertones of Frosty White.

Evergreen Fog is beautiful with Frosty White.

Thanks for your reply! I just realized that my kitchen is tiled. Here's a photo. The trim color is Chantilly white by BM.

I'm thinking of using Frosty White (SW) for the walls, Chantilly White (BM) for the trim, Pure White (SW) for the top of the cabinets, and Evergreen fog, Clary sage, or soft sage for the bottom. Compared to the photo I have in mind, I think Thunderous is a little too dark but I want to try it! Do you think my colors are fine with my tiles being this color?

I see your inspiration and agree that it is quite pretty, but you are entering a dangerous territory.

Whites have very subtle undertones and we often don't see them until we have a large area painted and two clashing undertones.

Pure White won't work with Frosty and Chantilly Lace. It will look too yellow.

Most people will tell you to stick with Chantilly Lace for both Trim and Cabinets or some may say to use Frosty White on the cabinets as it will look lighter than the walls due to the sheen.

You already have Frosty White as your off white and Chantilly Lace as your White, getting an off white that is lighter than Frosty and darker than Chantilly Lace that have the same undertones and not too much color is going to be difficult.

I have looked for some whites that are between Chantilly Lace and Frosty White in Light, Chroma and Hue. Another Option is to get Frosty White lightened by 25% and by 50% and test those colors.

This is no guarantee that they will work, it is the best guess. You will need to test the colors.

The best way to test the colors is in natural daylight. Take samples outside on a clear day around 2:00 in the afternoon.

Include a sample of your tile if you have any spare tiles.

The colors will also need to work with your backsplash and countertops.

Can you post a pic of these actual rooms. I bet there are some good minds on here that will think of additional considerations that you might not be thinking of. One of them is your lighting situation, which changes everything about how color looks.

It will be helpful to see the size of your kitchen. In your post you stated all cabinets upper and lower white and island sage. But in you comment, it sounds like you are considering island and lowers sage and just upper white. Smaller kitchens, onces with narrow aisles can look pretty choppy with different paint colors. This may or may not be your case.

Pictures will also show just how open the kitchen is to the living room.

Thank you for your previous advice!! I apologize in advance for my choppy English as I am not a native speaker.

I learned that there are subtle undertones in white when I painted with Frost White. White is really difficult to paint with. I would prefer if I don’t have to change the Frosty White I painted my living room in. Although I am completely fine with changing the trim from Chantilly White to another white color. I can still change the color of the dining and the kitchen walls. However, from looking at various pictures, I would like it if I could paint the dining and kitchen walls into a white color so that it can transition from my connected living room’s Frosty White color. In addition, I would like it to be a white color that matches with the Sage Green of the islands bottom part. For Sage Green I am planning to try Evergreen Fog, Acasia Haze (cool green blue, so it might be better for my kitchen?), Retreat, Fresh eucalyptus,…. But I am beginning to think that I should choose the white color on the cabinet and wall before choosing the shade of Sage Green would be better for my kitchen.

Currently it is nighttime, so I don’t have any pictures of my house, but here are a floor plan and a same floor plan house with the same cabinet as mine. Is this helpful?

The 3rd picture is how I would like to paint my kitchen island!

Are you getting new counters and backsplash or just painting the cabinets?

I will get new counters and back splash.

Okay, This is kind of like picking an outfit. You can't randomly pick a shirt and pants and socks and shoes and a jacket and a tie - you have to thing of them as one unit.

For your kitchen you need to coordinate

• flooring
• cabinets
• countertops
• backsplash
• appliances
• wall color
• trim

The flooring has already been selected.

If you have stainless appliances and are not changing them you are okay with appliances. If you have white appliances you need to consider that white when selecting countertops.

Countertops should be next since you are going with some shade of white for the cabinets and will be painting. (Don't worry too much about the green yet - mother nature uses green with everything and she is great at color coordination).

The countertop and flooring will drive the selection of the cabinet color and the backsplash. Pick those next.

Use the white that you are using for the cabinets as your trim color.

Use a color from the countertops as the wall color.

If you really want to keep frosty white as your wall color you will need to have a sample of that color with you while you select each of the other items.

Your flooring is warmer than Frosty which is cool.

You can mix warm and cool colors, but warm and cool whites don't play well together.

The warm floor in your living room works with the cool off white walls. Chantilly Lace is pretty neutral, but has the slightest bit of warmth.

Again mother nature will use warm and cool colors together (Often with green eyes). You just need to be careful that all the whites work together and one doesn't make another look yellow or pink or blue or dirty/dingy. They have to coordinate.

To learn what not to do look for some design dilemmas where people say "Help, my cabinets look ..." We see them every day. The counter is too yellow, the cabinets look blue. . . Something is wrong!

cabinets (white and green)

countertops (white)

backsplash (white)

appliances (black or silver)

wall color (white)

trim (white)

I'm going to replace them. I learned a lot from learning the order in which to choose. Thank you, Jennifer! It's a difficult problem, but I'll try to solve it.