My Gray Kitchen!

Oh my goodness, the weather and light were not cooperating with me today! It has been dreary and dark here all day long, but I was finally able to take a few halfway-decent pictures to share with you for now :) As I mentioned, last weekend Benny and I painted our basement on Saturday…and then on Sunday B’s sister and Dad came over and helped paint our kitchen! Let’s see if you recall the color it was before:

Now, while I have nothing against this color, it just wasn’t doing it for me. I wanted something that would tie in the colors of the granite counters, and look crisp with the white trim. After testing dozens of colors we settled on Quahog from C2 Paint, which is a warm, putty-like gray. Would you like to see how it turned out?

I love it. It is very easy to live with, not too cool or too warm, but just right ;) And do you see the picture hanging on the wall in the stairwell above? That is an elevation and floor plan of our house that my soon-to-be brother in-law made for us this Christmas (he’s an architect), and I think the gray makes a perfect backdrop for it! Yay! Now I would just like to swap out a few small items like dish towels and add an art print, a small chalkboard, and potted herbs in the windowsill.

What do you think? What would you go with as an accent color in this kitchen? And would you change the drawer pulls and things, or leave it as is? Do tell!

{images: Laura Gaskill}

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