Here's in a medium gray, BM Amherst Gray

To do this particular type of mock ups I use AI.

With the beige/greige paint colours I tried, they all look off with the floor colour taken from your photo.

Do you think dovetail? I agree a greige is all wrong, amherst looks a bit army greenesque to me, no?

Michele. Try to do AI as lisedv did with your colors and make sure to sample paint at least one lower cabinet door before you decide.

What ever colour you'll be considering must be looked at and tested on a large sample board in your room before proceeding as colours look different from one computer scree to the other. Here's the kitchen in SW Dovetail

Yes, its so true, just because you like a color scheme doesnt mean your elements will like it….ive picked ”the perfect wall color” only to put it in the space and absolutely hate it with everything else, the light throughout tge day can turn your ”dream color” into your ”household nightmare” even my spaces look so different in photographs in this forum, trying to envision things as they appear digitally can be challenging; i greatly appreciate your input

In that mock up dovetail looks purplely

As I said, you need to look at all colours in your room + do a large sample on a board. ,Dovetail doesn't look purplely on my screen.

thank you i will

My thoughts are still with one of your lighter grays that you already have in the space and or nearby. Either the dining room color or the wall color in your kitchen.

Lets ask @ lisevd to put Peppercorn SW on the cabinets, change the appliances to STAINLESS when she does that. Please?

I understand you've said an appliance change was OOTQ....But. They are the "pig" in most kitchens unless that kitchen is white cabinetry.

They are the loud and off key singer in a lovely choir.

The same level features/functions you have needs 3500.00 to replace and if you sold yours for as little as a GRAND all three? You are free of the offender, for 2500.00 making whatever gray on the cabinets look better

A white cabinet is OOTQ with the floor and counters.... so? You're stuck : )

So when you look up SW Dovetail you can see a photo from a customers home that used it with Giallo Ornamental granite. I attached it here in this collage (so ignore the backsplash they have - you would just keep your granite splash)…just make sure your wall paint coordinates so if you went the route of Dovetail you’d want to look at Mindful gray walls for your kitchen and adjoining living space. If staying with the white appliances then you wouldn’t want to go much darker than Dorian for the cabinets.
If you plan to keep the same wall paint you have then you’d want to know what it is exactly and then look at the darker shade of it for the cabinet color.

Oh gosh just read back and saw you have Functional Gray walls - why not look at Elephant Ear for the cabinets? That goes perfectly with your wall colors throughout. That's a no brainer.

Yes was thinking that too but not sure how the undertones would work with bith the watm counters and the cool appliances , cool white color that is

This will be a true exercise in trial and error

I think dovetail is on the same strip as functional grey?

Jan, greatly appreciate the suggestion to rid the space of the applisnces which clearly are NOT an asset to the overall look of the space BUT, aside from my budget, i think this is an importsnt exercise for us in this community/forum to see how (if its posdible) to work around the things we wish we could get rid of, not sure anyone would want the white appliances and while i will ultimately upgrade to stainless, my focus needs to he on the cabinet situation that is no longer ”livable”; doing something better on the cabinets is going to be expensive and time consuming so that is sadly where my money needs to be allocated; if i win the lottery, ill be upgrading to stainless steel lol and probably ripping out the entire kitchen and starring over (with your help, and houzz, hopefully)

Dovetail is not on the same strip as Functional Gray. Elephant Ear is.

My vote is do the same Functional Gray on the cabinets OR the Elephant Ear. Order large samples of each on line to try out.

I think thats the way….only one way to truly find out how it will look with the counters and appliances, it might be ok with the white appliances as all of our trim is white in other areas of the house and it looks ok BUT, it will be all about how the counters play their role in the balancing act, worst case, we csn still pivot and go toward a much darker cabinet color that will sadly make the white applisnces stand out EVEN MORE but….also wondering if too much functional grey is going to be too much of a good thing, once its ”everywhere”, thank you, as always, for helping me try to decide

I feel the pain, I do. I REALLY do !

It just doesn't have a good solution. They're the elephants in the room. Is what it is:) It's a first world problem when you're safe and healthy.

Its funny, but not, when our first appliance needed to be replaced, we didnt go stainless because it wouldnt have matched the still working white ones, since then, the other two needed replacements and we went in the same direction so here we are. i agree if white appliances in a mismatched kitchen is my biggest problem, I am grateful! next time around im going to upgrade all at once, with my luck, my new cabinet finish will work best with white appliances and then itll start all over again….

Michele don’t feel bad, all of mine are black lol. The stove was here, we had a black microwave, so our new fridge was ordered in black, every spec of dust shows, but I just wipe wipe :). I know it’s clean! Google kitchens with white appliances. There are hundreds. Most are lighter grays and whites I see, a few in the darker colors. Just order samples from samplize, they come in a fairly large sheet and are more budget friendly than a sample pot of each color paint. Get several of the ones mentioned above and you’ll start getting an idea of which way you want to go.

This site, practically any and all colors you could think of. You already have paint leftover from your other walls, so that saves a bit. Paint some on a board two to three coats and lean it up in there and set on counter. It’s an experiment :)

Alice, thsnks just curious what color cabinets do you have? we will order some samples after we prime thrn the real experimentation will start

I ran across this

The color is called khaki instead of beige you could pick up that sample and see what you want

Michele my home is a old craftsman, vintage maybe a bit of cottage (?) not sure how to describe lol. The cabinets in the kitchen are a green tea leaf paint color. 90% of the floors are very dark brown hardwood color. The only original flooring from the 30’s is in the living room.

Happyleg, that is pretty; i like the style and warmth of that space, ours is architecturally basic, tract home from mid 90s; i think weve used finishes to spruce it up but it is a never ending project, is that your kitchen? what is the countertop?

Alice, i love craftsmen style! the kitchen colors sound perfect with the black appliances! if i ever move, ill be searching for a craftsmen style build

This was my first craftsman home like a bungalow type style. I really had not explored them before but we love the style here. It’s old and a very sturdy build. The green does look nice with the appliances, I think. I painted the old cabinets in the kitchen. I paint a lot of old furniture! I guess that’s the thing to do bc we could not afford new. One day one day :).

No that's not my kitchen I wish I wish!

I haven't checked this thread for a few days and just saw all the gray, gray, gray of your living room --too much and pretty dreary. So I'm taking back my suggestion to have gray cabinets. Have you considered repainting those gray walls in a soft creamy white that harmonizes with the gray floors then doing the same with the kitchen cabinets and wall paint in there? Your current "givens" are gray flooring, kitchen flooring in gold tones, kitchen countertops also gold tones with flecks of black and gray, white appliances you don't plan to replace, so they can be called temporary "givens."

So what paint? Standard advice for kitchen cabinets is to take the background color of countertops (if they're light and go many, many shades lighter.) If you do that, you will also harmonize with kitchen floor since countertops harmonize with kitchen flooring. Here are two photos with gold-ish floors with some gray elements. First one has gold tone backsplash tiles.

You could regrout your kitchen floors in light gray for transition to gray flooring as above.

Welcome back, youve been missed! thank you, i did consider all derivatves of cream, off white, light beige, swiss coffee, etc but i think next tovthe ehite appliances, it could be awful, i notice NO One has white applisnces anymore so finding images with thrm is tough, the color is contention is functional grey or a shade darker

Let us know what you decide to do. You're in a color bind. Have you thought about hiring a color consultant to help you tie things together? We're not there at different times of day and night when lighting conditions change. How do you feel about the all gray living room? Do you want more of that all gray look?

Just to help others, your Dilemma is something many people have when they make decisions piecemeal instead of having an overall palette for a space that opens to other spaces. Also a lot of people who got on the gray bandwagon find that too much gray, or the wrong gray, is a downer.

Yes, it was not really an intentional mis-match, we had our flooring damaged and couldnt get the material to fix it as it had been discontinued, knowing that we would need to refinish the cabinets eventually (aka when we could afford it) we didnt want to opt for another brown floor since the bedrooms were all being done with the same (finally a cohesive floor in all dry areas) flooring and the grey was most neutral for master and the kids’ rooms, this is why we are searching for a better finish. we were thinking of a fresh application of a brown stain with a better clearcoat but then realized the brown goes with ABSOLUTELY nothing in our house anymore so here we are….i would love to do a whole remodel or appliance swap but that would be a long wait….i agree grey can be ”overwhemingly boring” but I thought it looked ok in the living space and a lighter side in kichen and dining area, until now….we will definitely consider hiring a color consultant oncecthe cabinets are primed if we are still not able to determine what would look best in all of the spaces considering the light and all of the other elements as it is very hard to do so from a few pictures but houzz has been a fun, helpful resource to brain-storm with others

Michele, I’m with some of the other posters here about the gray, until you decide if you’re changing the wall color in the adjacent rooms, then the cabinet color will be decided. Flooring is already there, white appliances can be dealt with as is, budget for later down the road. I saw many images with white appliances. Like I mentioned earlier, either have a dark color on cabinets and appliances gleam or go with a subtle and they hide a bit. Not a deal breaker at all. When we need or want a change, there is always a solution :).

Try sample in Bone China.

That’s a good one Happy, or I suggested Alabaster. It’s an off white with a undertone of gray, but barely depending on the lighting or lack there of. Those cabinets don’t get much light there looks to be? Michele?

Don’t want creamy, that could go yellow!

Yes, im not going to try to think about painting any other rooms over; im pretty sure after this huge project with all of the prep work, itll be quite a while before anything else gets painted in this house unless i hire someone aside from my husband to do it, lol

Ok so at least we’ve got that thought process out of the way. I wasn’t sure if it was a possibility. It’s good to help narrow things down :).

With his job, its always a possibility wink wink but i need his focus to be on the cabinets (for now) i think it can be very hard to find the right color that is light to try to balance the other elements I am leaning more toward a dark color and can have the appliances stand out if need be but as i type this im thinking of the cleaning of those with the pet hair and dust factor so im just going to have to see once the brown is gone and they are primed; actually im lucky, the kitchen is full of natural light, its a small space but the window and sliding door get sun from dawn until 4 pm

I vote for a greige or a stone white.

Michele when is he going to start working on the cabinets, any idea?

Miss rae, thanks for joining this on-going debate! are you able to elaborate a bit on your suggestion? ive found hundreds of greiges and stone whites in the fan decks of sw, behr, and ppg that have become my newest best friends….lol, alice he has ordered the primer so stay tuned for a start date and some photos once the brown is gone; i think it might give us a better sense of the space

and its potential

Sounds good Michele, thank you for keeping us posted!

Sherman Williams Revere Pewter or Edgecomb Grey.

Thank you, those colors have been strong contenders, someone else suggested city loft

I can almost guarantee once you get a few colors in the space on your sample boards, you’ll know, just have to go through the process of elimination :). It will guide you. Pick some light, some dark, whites, greige, gray? You’ll see! Stand back, walk around 😂 look at different times of day.

Yes! thats my plan, most of this back and forth and round and round is speculative albeit fun and interesting, with all of the ”fixed” elements, the process of elimination of the ”must go” cabinet finish will (fingers crossed) make the right direction much more clear