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[quote=Anonymous]I need some help!  My kitchen is fugly, but we don't have the budget to redo it completely.  The countertop is dark and I want to lighten things up in the kitchen.  The room gets indirect light but it's not a super bright space.  It's open to the family room, which has lots of windows, but both rooms face north.  We aren't going to replace the cabinets or paint them, and we're going with tile instead of wood for the kitchen floor.  So, given that the cabinets are staying the same, I'm looking for ideas for the countertops and the tile.  I'm afraid that going with white countertops will give it the look of a laundry room, so I'm thinking that's out.

I have light/honey-colored maple cabinets in the Shaker style.  They aren't anything special in the least; they look sort of like this:
[img]http://www.coopwb.org/kitchen/Light-Honey-Natural-American-Maple-Shaker-Kitchen-Cabinets.jpg[/img]

The countertop is dark and looks like this, and there's a lot of it.  I dislike it but other people don't seem to have as strong a negative reaction as I do:
[img]https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/3a1526a4-8e1f-44b9-9315-c13f2ca92b8e/svn/baltic-brown-stonemark-granite-countertop-samples-dt-g704-64_1000.jpg[/img]

The tile looks like what you'd find on the floors of a hospital.  It's what I hate the most about the kitchen.  It's the same as in this picture:
[img]https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/235/bigphoto/398/MDMC619398_5_1.jpg[/img]

The color of the walls of the kitchen and family room are like this:
[img]http://www.lamaisongourmet.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/living-room-decorating-ideas-light-blue-blue-living-room-house-light-blue-living-room-home-decor.jpg[/img]

Help me, DCUM!   How can I bring this space forward 20 years and make it look fresh and updated?  
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