Its up to you, if you want to paint it. I wouldnt, because, I think it takes away from the cabin look. For me, if I had a lake cabin, I would want it to look like one, not some place in the suburbs.

Leave the cedar and do the cabinets in a similar color. Use white for counters. Love this kitchen...it is cozy, very cottage.

Check out the marble backsplash. Love.

Cabinets are new a light maple. Elba white quartz new as countertop. Mallorca white will be new tile backsplash

I personally would not paint the cedar. It will require too much primer and paint to make a clean finish, and would just look like a painted/plastic finish wall paneling.

I am tagging on a related question. This is the entrance from the garage. It gets no natural light. I am also considering painting these cedar planks a snowboard white. While there is white in other parts of the house, the kitchen, the bedrooms, the family room cabinets, the walls are the cedar plank a solid ft beige or grieve. Is it a design flaw to go with snow in the entry while the walls in the rest of the downstairs are the beige color?

It needs painting in this room because it is really dirty and dingy looking. At this point , on painting the dining room but this room needs pasted. Just not sure if white will class with rest of walls

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Why white at all? Maybe BM Healing Aloe cut 50% for a hint of color then no issue with other whites. I would paint the cedar in a heart beat .

Am thinking the cedar might look best left unpainted especially if it is rough cut. Rough cut never looks quite right painted in my opinion.

If you want light and bright as a change from beige, here is a popular white and turquoise blue combination. The rug adds the zing.

Using the same accent colors in your kitchen and living room will give a unified look.

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Is your first photo the current color of the dining room walls or is it an AI version of what you want the paint to look like.

We need a new rule on here that people need to label pics IRL or AI.

Can you post a photo of the new cabinet color? Then we can give better ideas on how to make the two rooms more cohesive..

The first picture is not AI. It is the new natural maple.

Thanks for clarifying. So both pics are of the new natural maple and you are wondering if you should paint the new natural maple?

In the first pic, the dining room walls look nice with your kitchen. In the second pic they look really brown and kind of dingy next to the ceiling and perhaps next to the kitchen too. Hard to believe they are the same walls - cameras can really make things look different from pic to pic.

Have you played with the light bulbs to see if they change the dining room wall color at all? Have you thought about painting the ceiling a less intensely cool white?

It looks like you have already primed and sample painted some rough cut in your vestibule. Do you mind how paint looks on the textured wood? If not, then I'd say paint everything any color you wish to get the right shades of white.

Look at these pics for inspiration on painted wood in a modernized cottage: https://schaferco.com/portfolio/in-the-country/new-house-in-mill-valley

Perhaps they are smooth planks and not rough cedar, but I think they are fine inspiration for painting old-looking cottage wood as you wish.

I would get samples of various whites for the walls. Some lean towards ivory-yellow, others lean gray, etc. I think there are different types of rollers for better application to more textured walls. Ask at your paint store.

I see a nice red door at what I assume is the front entry? What if your back entry is painted another fun color (deep peacock, mustard yellow, or navy, etc?).

Life is too short to spend time trying to maintain dingy walls in colors you don't like.

If the new kitchen wall paint is white, consider carrying that white through the dining room as well. Use the same color paint for ceiling as walls.

For the garage entrance, you have already started putting test whites on the wall. Try the kitchen wall white.

By the way, skylights like small round Solatubes can add a huge amount of bright sunlight. If your house is a single story, consider adding one to the entry way from the garage to add natural light.

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Please post an update when you are ready.

Is the kitchen being updated with Snowbound Cabinets or are you painting the walls Snowbound?

Why Snowbound? It has violet undertones that generally don't work well with the yellow tones in the floor.