We've bought and are moving into an older house, that the seller remodeled down to the studs and back again in 2013. The seller painted all the walls a very sterile white, that reminds me more of apartments (which my husband loves, but he lets me paint "my" work spaces!) It looks nice, but for someone like me, who loves some kind of color in a room, it's a little bleak to think of myself cooking and cleaning in a white room. The more energy I need to expend in any given room, the more I like to play with colors, to put it simply.

Because of the new, better quality cabinetry, we don't want to alter the kitchen cabinets or current cabinet layout. So we're happily stuck with cabinets that appear to be a reddish cherry shade. Due to the lack of period features in the 1940s cottage, I'd like to give a nod to the historical origins of the house here and there.

I want to have a color on the two walls with cabinetry in the kitchen, but I never, ever thought I'd be working with "Cherry"-ish cabinet colors, let alone brown vinyl flooring, so I need help figuring the kitchen out! There is a direct line of sight from the kitchen to the laundry, and from the kitchen to the dining room. So the problem is, I've already fallen for shades that work with the laundry, but now I of course need help figuring out what to do with the kitchen. I've thought of a few options, white or greenish glass subway tiles for a backsplash are a maybe, but until budget allows, I'm sticking to wall colors. Which ones will still work, even with the wall color in the laundry visible, though? Any and all ideas will be welcome.

So with sight lines, some of the shades that have to go with the cabinetry, are the ones I'm vying for the laundry room. My laundry room is probably going to be a shade like Sherwin Williams' shade "Optimistic Yellow" SW6900. I am tempted to paint the ceiling in the laundry with SW6219, "Rain", which I'm painting in the master, too, so I could as well order extra... I'm attaching a pic from the SW paint visualizer with the shades I've shortlisted, the way they may end up applied to the laundry.

The one shade I'm not budging on, is that my "neutral" pick for walls to offset the pops of color, is currently Sherwin Williams' shade SW2833 "Roycroft Vellum". The shade will be painted throughout the house to bring some cohesiveness to the open concept areas, as it matches both the carpeting and the brownish vinyl.





(I've used a similar shade to Roycroft Vellum in rooms that would have otherwise been visually busy with color before. A beige looks almost off-white in a north-facing room like the laundry, so that's why I'm sticking with it).

Thanks to everyone for the help.
- Pen