Where Love is Home: The Kitchen Overhaul: Part Two

So after I finishing giving my cabinets some Benjamin Moore lovin, I decided I had to do something with the drab walls. I was so unhappy with the wall color against the cabinets that I didn't even take any photographs of it, so you'll just have to trust me that it didn't look good.

I went back and forth for a few days about what color I wanted, going from gray to blue to yellow and back again. I was concerned with how any color would look against the floors:

They're definitely a warm color, so I was afraid to go cool 'cause I thought it would clash. But, on the other hand, I love the look of crisp, white cabinets against a cooler color on the walls. Finally, I returned to my original inspiration kitchen.

Three_Daisies Kitchen

I was really diggin' this color on the walls - it seemed to warm up the space, without being plain yellow. So, I figured since I loved everything about Three_Daisies kitchen, I might as well yoink her wall color too. So back to Benjamin Moore I went, and purchased myself a quart of Lancaster Whitewash in a semi-gloss finish. Two coats later, I stepped back and took in my new and improved kitchen:

And the before-after:

I relaxed and enjoyed it for about three days. And then I decided I didn't like it. It read very yellow in our kitchen, unlike how it looked in my inspiration kitchen. But, at the insistence of the Mister, I lived with it for a few months to see if my feelings about it changed.

They didn't.

I decided the walls had to be painted a different color. Which left me with another conundrum altogether. The family room flows directly into the kitchen, which then flows into the dining room. The kitchen/dining room contrast is not as direct as the kitchen/family room (which literally butt right up against each other), but I still wanted a color that would tie the three spaces together. What I didn't want was to pick a kitchen wall color, and then be stuck trying to find a complimentary color for the family room and dining room down the road.

So, I decided to go all out. If I was going to repaint the kitchen walls, I figured I might as well paint the others as well. That way, I would be sure to have a kitchen color that looked good with the other rooms, instead of having to plan my other rooms around the kitchen.

I picked the family room color first (more on that later), and then I found a color for the dining room that I fell in love with (more on that later, too). So the mission was to find a color for the kitchen walls that looked good with the cabinets, AND flowed with both the family room and dining room color, AND served as a transition between the two. I was starting to doubt that such a magical color even existed.

And then...

Behold: Glidden Stone White.

The Mister and I agree that it's perfect - it ties it all together, and it works with the floor, the countertops and, most importantly, the cabinets.

So here's the before, middle, and after.