Originally Posted by nt250

It's amazing what a little paint will do.

The kitchen part of my great room/kitchen addition is fairly small. I have a wall and a half of cabinets and a pretty huge island which has room for two counter stools. The fridge sits to the side. I painted the kitchen part a deep burgandy color before the cabinets went up. It really came out great. It was a lot of work because it was all new drywall and plaster skim coat. It took two gallons of paint to do that one small area. Painting any room a dark color always takes several coats to get the rich look you're going after, but the new plaster just sucked it right up. It took 8 coats of paint, but boy, it really came out great.

I painted the living area part of the great room a sand color. That only took two coats. What a difference it made.

The day I painted the kitchen Lenny, the crew boss, came back to install the cabinets. He had this young guy with him. I never knew when they would show up, but once the drywall crew and plasterers were done, I wanted to paint the room. I knew it would be a hell of a lot easier to do it before they hung the cabinets. They thought I was nuts. When they showed up I had only the first coat of paint up.

It was red. It was awful. It was like this bright, reddish pinkish hideous color. But I've painted rooms a dark color before, so I knew the first coat would look awful. I had faith. They made cracks the whole time.

But even they admitted that it looked really cool when it was done. It was the perfect color as a backdrop for the maple cabinets and black granite counters. I couldn't have picked a better color.

Too many people are afraid of dark paint, or putting any kind of color on the walls, but what a difference it makes in a room.

White cabinets against an olive green wall must look really great.