Wall Color

We are planning to repair, sand and primer the kitchen walls before installing freshly painted (white) baseboards. This is very exciting for me because it is technically the first home project since we've moved in. We've been talking a little about color and I think we are on on the same page as far as tastes go so I'm looking forward to picking out the paint with W.

I'm kinda torn between a hint of gray and a nude color. The floors are a dark walnut so I'm thinking too dark on the walls will be over bearing and anything but white please. The house was freshly painted - poorly, I might add - by the bank before we moved in so paint wasn't a high priority. The current color isn't bad but it is throughout the house which is a little redundant in my opinion.

The kitchen walls are a little quirky. Meaning, one wall is shared with the dining room and the others are covered with cabinets so there is only a foot of wall exposed above or beside the cabinets. There is a low wall that splits the dining room and the kitchen a the ceiling is lowered as well that match the opposite lowered ceiling above the cabinets. This area will get weird if we try to do different colors so one color it is. We want to eventually do a back splash but not until the counter tops are replaced so we won't even worry about that now. 

Painting will be fun and seeing the rooms with fresh paint and new baseboards will be a dream. I can't wait. We will finish out the house with baseboards in the weeks to come but the other rooms will not receive paint at this point. The projects to follow will be counter tops then bathrooms.