I agree with everyone here - the neutrals seem to clash. Easy fix - Paint your walls a DARK Forest green and splurge on wide cherry trim for that window - the white trim comes from out of left-field in the room. Take a cabinet door to the paint store and get a TON of chips that look good, then bring them home and tape them to the walls (get 2 of each and place them in different light) and look at them at different times of day / night. Then select the 3-4 that look the best and go to the store and buy those mini paint samples and try them in large patches on your wall. Here's a tip - go TWO full shades darker than you think you should (trust me, even that may not be dark enough). The walls must be at least 2 shades deeper than your cabinets so that they recede into the background and the cabinets become the focalpoint and the glass tiles the sparkly accent. A tip on greens - "green" is one of the hardest colors to properly choose (ok, beige is as well). Greens have either yellow or blue or grey undertones. Your tiles seem to be more yellow (olive), but that actually clashes with your cabinets. You need a real, deep FOREST green, a true dark green with the slightest hint of blue/grey - that is the compliment to your cabinets. Luckily your green tiles have a very translucent, watery effect, so I would ignore that shade of green altogether - focus on what works with the cabinets. Paint your walls and live with it for a few weeks. You will probably want to paint your ceiling a very pale shade of the same green (probably on a different chip altogether - ask at the paint store if you don't know how to match the chips). You will NOT be happy until that window trim matches your cabinets though. Get that trim replaced ASAP! Then you can see how the tiles look with the dark green walls without that white trim trying to reach out and grab you! If the tiles really seem to clash (I don't think they will), you can always get 1x6 cherry stock and run it along the top of the tiles to separate them from the walls. Then get some lengths of tubing or even towel bars to match your hardware (brushed nickel?) and mount them to the cherry rail, add s-hooks and hang large spoons and other utensils so that the rail looks like a deliberate design detail and not a flaw. That should solve all your problems without having to worry about the red vs. yellow beiges going on. Oh yeah, replace that blue dish towel with a green one, and replace the blue scrubby with a green one too!

Wow this is just beautiful! Love the way you laid the wood down in different angles, really gives the deck an extra interesting element. Great porch fire place! What kind of patio furniture are you thinking about using? I think wicker would compliment this patio very well! Good luck on the rest of your project!

Well, this is dropping and so it's time to take a moment and thank everyone for their feedback. I got a big kick out of everyone's comments. It's interesting to look at the photos through someone else's eyes (in a manner of speaking). I appreciate all the kind words and compliments. I can't wait to have our shelves in. Then the pendant and hood will both look better and less "stranded". I can also then get things put in their "right places" and get some additional color into the room with displays of my pottery collection (a growing thing). I really appreciate all the help BEFORE the big reveal. If I had been left to my own devices I would have had stools at the end of the stove run out in the way of the aisle. I would have missed out on soapstone. I would have never heard of NeverMT. I would have lower cabs instead of drawers and pull outs everywhere I could. I would have done uppers instead of open shelves. I never would have shopped around for cork flooring. I probably would not have heard of Schoolhouse Electric (this impacts my front and back porches and my carport as well). I would have never driven all the way across the state to get my Domsjo and Numerar from IKEA. I would not have ZONES. I would never have dared to sink my fridge in the wall so it was flush with the counters. I would undoubtedly have a 4x4 square backsplash (but I hear those are coming back "in"). :) I have learned a ton here. I have seen a lot of really cool ideas. I will have some more of them before I am done. I will have a charging station and a pet center in my back entry way if it kills me. This forum is filled with great people. While we don't ALWAYS get along, who does? I don't get along with my family all the time. I don't see eye to eye with my coworkers all the time. This community has been very helpful and welcoming. I hope to pay some of the kindness back with DIY knowledge in the future. Got a DIY question? Hit me. Thanks again to everyone! Ne

Thanks everyone! Since I last posted I put some brighter bulbs in the light fixture and replaced one that was burned out. World of difference in the light! I'm really enjoying having the granite over the W/D for folding and the extra cabinet space. The whole thing just works better now. Thanks for the kind words about the wallpaper. It's much more palatable in person and also knowing that you all don't think it is so bad. It's cheery and rich and hides all manner of doggie paw prints and mishaps.