Decorating and Design - where to use colors in kitchen

What to do with the colors!!! I feel silly for asking this question, but any thoughts would be appreciated.

I have a kitchen that I will be re-doing from top to bottom. I have the fabric for my curtains, and have picked out two beautiful greens that go with some of the colors in the fabric.

I will be putting wainscoating (?wp) on my walls from the ground to 4ft, and top the wainscoating with some kind of trim. Above the wainscoating will be regular painted wall. I have 8ft ceilings which I will paint white. The room itself if 13ft by 15 ft - and I will be making it an eat in kitchen.

Here is my delima. I was thinking of painting the wainscoating, and the kitchen cabinets white, the regular wall (above the wainscoating) a light green (a main color in the fabric), and the trim (window sills, door frames, and trim above the wainscoating) a dark green (an accent color in the fabric). I haven't seen much in the way of trim work that is darker than the rest of the room - do you think it will look funny - I think the greens are a perfect color match, but I am just wondering if the locations I have in mind for the colors will be strange.

Also, I wonder if the white will be too much (I have white appliances too) or perhaps should I see if I can find another color in the fabric to do either the cabinets, wainscoating or both? I want to keep the room fresh and bright as it doesn't have too much natural light (it is also a very casual house).

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Rae

paint the wainscotting dark green, the wall in the light green, and the trims white.

the kitchen cabinets would be fine white also if that's what you want, with these colourways.

what you're proposing will be fine. i personally don't like colored trim, so i'd do the trim in white. i also like for all the trim in a house to be the same, so that's just not an option for me. and i'd put the dark green on the cabinets.


since you like all the colors, but just can't decide where to use each of them, do a line drawing of your kitchen. just very basic. draw the corner with the wainscoting detail, and maybe a window, so you'll have that trim visible, and then a bank of cabinets. then make a bunch of copies of it. then color each of them in a different variation and you'll get a better idea of what the differences will be.

ooh btw, use a creamy shade of white...or you'll have too much contrast :).

ooh btw, use a creamy shade of white...or you'll have too much contrast .


sorry, but i think since the appliances are white, the "white" paint should be white-white, too, not creamy-white. keep it all fresh & clean.

I have a slightly off white white that I have used in the rest of the house that I was going to use - it is so slightly off white that you cant even tell, it is White Dove by Sherwin and Williams --- and I have several gallons of it already.

Thanks for all your input - it has helped me tremendously -

yes, White Dove is, for all intents & purposes, "white-white". you just don't want your white appliances to make your "white" paint seem dingy. or vice versa.

be sure to let us know what you decide on & how it turns out!!!! :D