What colors are in your kitchen? (added a couple more pics)
I'm thinking about changing my wall color and am looking for some inspiration!
Those are picture from just before we moved in. I can't find my camera or I would shoot it today. The modern chrome handles are missing, but it gives you a sense of the room. The floors are stained black concrete. And it's really easy to change the feel of the room depending on what photography and artwork I use, so I don't really want a patterned wall. I'd basically just like to change from the red. I have floral paintings and photography up right now.
The wall to the right is all built-ins, fridge, and the pull out pantrys. Most of my counter top appliances are white or stainless/chrome. And the room opens out into the great room with a view of the woods so it has a "warmer" vibe than shows in the photos. And my african violets are on the island, which is bigger than it looks. 
What colors are in your kitchen? And do you do anything to change it up?
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and one over the fridge on the built-in wall. My dishes are all stored in drawers, which I love. I can stand in front of the dishwasher and put everything away without much effort at all.
art work on it. Bill may get around to it before we decide to sell the house. I love having the walls cabinet free.
The major appliances are black and stainless steel. It has faux granite black/almond color counters, almond walls and IKEA birch cabinetry with stainless pulls. And the floor matches the cabinets. My counter appliances are black, stainless or chrome or combinations. My dishes, cups and tea pot are black as well.
The stainless sink has chrome controls and is set at an angle, forming a triangle in a corner and is more decorative than useful. I got a lamp with a stainless base and stem and a white linen shade. The only other color is the dark green pots for a fern and a fuchsia plant on eacb side of the lamp behind the sink.
The rain has made it rough for me the past few days.
I didn't notice an increase in pain last spring or summer when it rained, but this winter I am definitely seeing more pain on cold rainy days. My tart cherry stuff is helping though, so it's bearable without making me too crazed. I am really taking it easy though.
Taupe cabinets, brown counter and taupe backspash.
Would love to change the backsplash to a glass tile but it's not in the budget anytime soon. 
homey kitchen - it looks very welcoming! Love your cook-top island. We used to have a Jenn-Aire grill in an island. Oh, how I miss that!
(My sis has a set-up kind like yours that I've always loved.)
lot of space to spread out.
but it gives me a bit of exercise. 
In my last house here in Houston, I used red color very similar in my family room that was adjacent to my kitchen. Most of my accent colors are either red or bright green.
I hope the picture will post:
Or look at the blog page: http://woodswell.blogspot.com/2007/12/kitchen-is-basically-finished.html
This was from close to the end of finishing the house. By the time it was done, I was too burned out to update my blog or my photo page.
Turned out great - good job, csziggy!
You did REALLY good!
It truely is a beautiful Kitchen that you can tell is not only user friendly but efficient and warm all at the same time! 
bathroom, everything else is textured white walls, and we have lots of glass, so we see a lot of blue sky and greenery from all the trees, so it's a modern house, but with a strong sense of the outdoors. I use lights on dimmers at night, or candles, and the walls just glow. So pretty and it warms the white walls up. Bill LOVES the red but I'm ready for a change.
I'm envious of your light floors! I despise my black floors. I have three indoor/outdoor cats, and Bill, 
so they are always messy. Bill wanted a really black floor so he stained them heavily and they ARE gorgeous when freshly mopped. In the guest room he went much lighter, and it is a warm beautiful tortoise shell color. I wish it was all done that way.
would be my choice, but then I always like ocean color schemes. I think a person's palette should showcase their most flattering colors and we should look good in our homes. I also like it when every color in my house works with every other color in my house room to room. On the North side I do warmer colors and on the South side cooler. For me it is all about the interaction of the color and the daily light that hits the room.
Are you a Brunette with a jewel tone palette? The color choices in that kitchen would be a good background for that coloring, also for a dramatic blond.
But I use my artwork and paintings, plants, and the view through the windows to change the colors up for the most part in the house. My lighting is great for my skin tone though! There is a tall wall of windows in the great room that the kitchen opens into, and all but two rooms in the house have a lot of windows. There isn't a single window in the master loft, or in the kitchen. So the view, and play of light work change the feel a lot throughout the day...
A couple of bad pics of the wall across from my kitchen:
right next to the national park, and between that permanent stand of trees that you can see out of the windows and the bear and deer we get in the neighborhood, it feels very little like a tourist town. Until we hit the main streets anyway.
But it is a beautiful place to live once you know how to get around the back roads. Lime green for the walls!
Bright lemon yellow for the racing stripes! LOL!
With Chili pepper red accents
And black and White checked foor and back splash! 
I do not have near enough Cuboard or counter space !!!!
lime green, yellow and red. I use them as accents in my house but not brave enough to go all the way.
for my new house(well new for me, just moved in last Feb).
I'm going to try to be fearless with color as the whole house is beige, white, taupe, etc. I have lots of moldings and built-ins that are white and probably will keep them that way for now but I'm working on my palette for the rest of the rooms.
I would keep the Moldings and built ins white too! That way you can jump wherever you want to go with color!
Oh look at all that fabulous natural LIGHT !!!!! Woot!!!!!
Those chairs are soooooo HAPPY!!!!!!1 I also like the darker stool with the chairs I LOVE contast colors its very pleasing to the eyes!!!!
Bless your heart Your kitchen has all the best amenities and is so user friendly . My kitchen would seem cramped and very primative to try and create in for you.
I myself am aspireing one day to have a User friendly kitchen too lOL! with all the bells and whistles. (Hug) But thank you for saying so.
My first kitchen was pretty wild like that in 1970's. Upstairs apartment. Lime green trim with bright yellow walls and a B&W checkered floor. The teeny tiny toilet room (water closet) was off one side of the kitchen and the bathtub/sink room was off in another side of the kitchen. That house was extremely old and been renovated many times. I decorated that place like the crazy hippy newlywed I was. Much fun.
We also had material (stapled on the walls) for wallpaper in the living room in a crazy wild pattern and I made the drapes to match!
It was something like this.
Now I live with another who likes it totally boring and our entire house is blah with no color.
I feel your pain LOL! I would wilt in a bland or colorless House.
Sounds like you yourself provide all the color Your better half needs in thier life! Thats not a bad place to be.
Island like that!!!!! Wow youve got lottsa room for cupboards!
Love The Sinks and counter tops1!!!!
I really love red and use it throughout my house but I use it accents to pop the eyes! LOL!
OMG! You are so Lucky to have pull out pantries!!!! I would LOVE to have much more storage space Like you have Lucinda!!!!!
makes so much more user friendly!
It houses everything I need to work on the island... all my basic prep tools, slide out appliance shelves, my glassware and flatware, mixing bowls etc. The pull out pantries hold a ton... so even though I have no uppers, I still have a bunch of storage.
ago. The house was a mess when we move in so I had to redo all the rooms. The kitchen I tore down to the studs.
Here it is when we moved in:
Here is my remodel:
Our new kitchen is much bigger and has beautiful cherry cabinets. Even though our new kitchen is much bigger and has several times the storage space for my kitchen gadgets I do sort of miss the kitchen I built myself.
