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For laundry, I have 3 wastebaskets in my closet. One gray (holds light colors), one black (hold dark colors) and one red (holds bright colors). When one of them gets full, I do a load of laundry. So essentially, I'm sorting them as I go. Found this totally changed my opinion of laundry. I used to hate it but now it's no biggie.

I purchased some extremely cheap frames at Walmart. 6 frames for $19 for size 11x14. Not the highest quality but for art displays like this where you want visual impact, they do the job. I just bought another set of 3 11x17 frames for $11. Found Poster Revolution web site where I bought some Franz Marc 11x17 posters for $2.80 each. Am going to frame them and put them on the patio. Can't beat that price to brighten a patio.

I've had those colors as living room/patio colors for a few years now. I threw in gray walls with a bronze accent wall and I have a white fireplace. The paintings, pillows and accessories are all in turquoise, red/coral and white. Haven't tired of it yet; and I'm known for changing colors every year.

I'd consider 3 colors to really give it pizzazz:
house color (love your red idea)
peak color - triangle section (maybe a medium shade of gray or even a medium/lightish blue?)
trim color - including the corbels (maybe white)

Personally, I'm loving a rich red/light blue (sky/turquoise)/gray/white/bronze combo vibe for the past few years so I'm a bit partial.

Can you beef up thosed columns by wrapping in wood before painting? I think that will help the feel a lot.

Love your chandelier! Perhaps check ebay for a midcentury modern "space age" or orbit pendant. Then spray paint it matt black. They have some that spike out all over.

I like the open feel now and the butcher block? counters. Also the new pantry. They probably have more usable storage space now having lost some of the uppers but replacing with deeper and taller pantry.

Knocking down that wall let the light from the windows flood both spaces making the room feel bigger just with that one change.

I have the golden bamboo which shows the dirt and also dents and scratches easily. I've also go medium dark tile that doesn't show any dirt with dark furniture and medium gray walls. The artwork is vibrant and I have accent pillows. The tile reflects light and the room does not look or feel too dark; just cozy.

Also loved it! Fabulous!

Growing up, my Mom had a turquoise bathroom. White with turquoise tub, toilet, sink and floor. In the 70's, she recovered the floor in harvet gold shag carpet (in a bathroom - shudder now but it was cool then) and did a gold mirror above the sink. Still love that color combo.

I disagree. I think the paint above the cabinets should match the cabinet colors as close as possible or the room will feel shorter. Personal experience with soffets and dark cabinets. Room felt "wrong" until I painted the soffets the same color as the cabinets; then it felt like the cabinets weren't just hanging in the air.

I think the issue is a problem with contrasts. You have the same quantity of light (counters), medium (cabinets) and darks (floors) so there's nothing leading your eye around the room. The only contrasts are the tiny dark knobs on medium wood so my eye was first drawn to the knobs. Then it was drawn to the hanging pots (light clump against medium). And then the it went to the coffee pot. So, where exactly do you want the eye to go? What do you want it to see?

I think you should change the knobs to stainless so your eye doesn't register them. And then pick an accent color (maybe complementary color like turquoise?). Find some vases, cannisters in the color and even some small pictures with your accent color in them and use command adhesive picture tape to tape them to the backsplash. I'd use a white frame so your eye just registers the picture.

Also hang a larger picture on the refrigerator wall and paint the window wall the same color as cabinets to widen the room. It looks like the kitchen is a small corner and not a full room.

So if you add a utensil canister by the stove in your color, your eye would go first there. Then add a colorful picture by the knives and then add some of the color by your cannisters - a plant in a pot of that color? Move the coffee pot so it's near something else that your eye wants to rest on first.....

That's my humble opinion.