OP here. Went to yet another Sherwin Williams paint store today and picked up a bunch of creams and 2 gallons of Koi Pond, which is this color:



or it's this color, these photos always confuse me:



Don't those look like two different colors? Anyway, if my kitchen ends up looking anywhere near the top photo, I will be pleased as punch.

I would paint a big splotch of each on different walls and see how you like them in the varying light through the day. Green in particular can really look like many different shades depending on the light.

I recommend painting swatches of each on as many walls as you can and then studying them at different times of days (esp early evening, when you are probably mostly likely to spend the most time in your kitchen, right?) That what I did at our new place.

I choose my paints samples badly...was looking for a soft grey with a hint of lavender (kitchen is black and white...no $$ to redo so stuck with it, but not the horrid yellow walls!). I was amazed at how different paints can look from the swatch to in the can to on the wall and at different times of day. Finally found one that worked after much deliberation.

I love the teal but agree it might be too dark. Had always heard that you should avoid green in kitchens (not sure why, I recall some association with how you look green when you're nauseated...not good around food). But I have a friend with sage green in her kitchen and it looks very nice.

I like the sage in the room you posted.

I would do the light green color. The buff is too monochromatic and I really dislike blue kitchens. To me, blue and brown is just not an attractive combination.

Anonymous wrote:I like that teal, but it's a little dark. How much natural light does the room get? I think the blue might be a better alternative.

Upon looking again, the teal is pretty light, lighter than the picture I have up there, although the same shade. I would prefer sage green. I'm considering it more seriously with each passing day!

I like that teal, but it's a little dark. How much natural light does the room get? I think the blue might be a better alternative.

If the green you have is a sage green, that would look really good with the maple cabinets.

Anonymous wrote:Oh, and I think the blue may be like this but just a teeny weeny bit lighter:

love this!

Oh, and I think the blue may be like this but just a teeny weeny bit lighter:

The teal is something like this:


Here is a kitchen very similar to mine, but with believable buff as the wall color:


The green is not quite seafoam, it's darker and more green. I don't remember exactly and I'm a little too lazy to get it out of the car.

My kitchen is brown brown brown. Maple cabinets, oak floors, brown silestone with flecks of red. To top it off, the previous owner put up brown wallpaper. It gave the space a major "glob of poop" look, but it's gone now. I might try the teal, but I was really hoping to find this color, which I thought might be very nice:



I might bite the bullet and buy it anyway!

My kitchen is green, so I would choose teal. "Very light green" can easily tend toward seafoam and other colors that look like the walls of institutions in the 1950s.

The buff sounds like it will match the maple too much. Describe the blue better and I can make a useful assessment.

Also - what are the floors? The countertops? The backsplash?

Your choices (courtesy of the mistints at Sherwin Williams) are:

blue
teal
very light green
believable buff (a cream with some yellow to it)

Please don't tell me "all those colors sound bad," I bought them already, and I'm not buying any more.