My kitchen walls are the exact shade of blue as the background color ^ up there where it says “THE STRAIGHT DOPE”. Except with a lighter blue sponged on top. I have white cabinets and appliances. There’s a ceramic tile mural above my stove of a basket of fruit, and there’s other fruity things in there, but it’s not over done.
Apples.
Red ones.
At the moment my kitchen is done in plastic sheeting with earth-toned construction dust and natural concrete floors. We just tore out the floor, cabinets and counters this week.
In a few weeks (fingers are crossed), my kitchen will have black granite counters, stainless steel appliances, golden-reddish-brownish cabinets and maple-colored laminate floors. I haven’t chosen the backsplash tile yet, or the paint color for the walls.
Walls are sponge-painted - base coat is a reddish-rust color, with a salmon-ish light orange and “putty” beige-tan sponging. After we did it, we’ve had more than one visitor ask where we found such amazing wallpaper. Ceiling is painted bright white, and backsplash areas are the red-rust color directly over the sink and range, and the salmon color over the counters. We did the sponge painting with three cans of “oops!” mis-mixes from Home Depot, and as it worked out, the red-rest was a semigloss, so it cleans well. The other colors are flats. People just don’t believe we spent only $15 for that paint job. 
Cabinets are dark wanut-esque brown wood. Appliances (fridge, freezer, range) are white. The range and dishwasher have black fronts.
Floor is foot-square ceramic tile - light gray with wafts of pale blue streaks floating through.
Counters are a granite-style laminate.
This is an apartment, so we were powerless to do anything about the appliances, cabinets, counters or floor.
The walls are painted Ralph Lauren “Harrier Yellow” but it’s not the actual RL paint. It’s Home Depot’s paint tinted to match the RL shade. The RL paint was something like $40 a gallon and I got mine for much, much less.
It’s a pretty color, a light medium yellow (but not pastel-y), and I have navy blue accents and navy blue curtains.
No real “theme,” but I collect old glass milk bottles, the little half-pint size, and I have some of those out on display.
My kitchen and dining room are pretty much one room as only an archway separates them.The walls have a faux finish accomplished by putting a light tan glaze over cream painted walls and then taking off most of the glaze with those plastic bags from the grocery store. There is a hand stamped ivy vine that winds around the room near the ceiling. The floor is a faux flagstone vinyl sheeting. The curtains are tiers of Battenburg lace with the valance being a silk ivy vine. The overall look is Italinate and I am very pleased with it. I just put new cabinet hardware on this week. That was much, much cheaper than I thought it would be and looks so nice.
IT’s not really very themey but:
The tiles are called barely beige, the accent tiles are a dark green sometimes called spruce, hunter or forest.
The wallpaper has light and lighter beige vertical stripes that are about 4 inches wide. The border paper has a saying about seasons with a garden scene of each of the four seasons, it also has the dark green on the edges of the border and the beiges in the main wall paper.
The breakfast area curtains are dark green as well but the drop is only about two feet of the 8 ft windows, with plantation blinds behind. The cabinets in the kitchen and the table and chair set in the breakfast area are all blond/honey oak.
On of the in-laws has a yellow fruity theme and another has a watermelon everywhere theme.
My walls are done in *What the Fuck was I Thinking * blue, with Oh Yeah, That Was Fucking Brilliant countertops. The floors are a pale shade of off white with *How in the Hell Are You Going to Match That? * blue grout. We have natural shellac on the beadboard, but that will change.
Hmm. When I moved into my apartment, I declared myself transient and therefore not a candidate for any painting or wallpapering. Two years later, I’m starting to think it would be fun…
My dishes are blue-and-white Asiatic Pheasant pattern. So, I have lots of cobalt blue things–my mugs, drinking glasses, serving bowls, even trivets. On the walls I have Spode Blue Room plates (scored at TJ Maxx), evenly spaced in a grid so that it looks sort of like wallpaper. I also have a watercolor of oranges set in a blue toile matte, which ties together the blue stuff and the flamboyant fruit-and-flower-covered chintz of the seat cushions–the same fabric as the drapes and throw pillows and bar back in my living room, which is open to the kitchen. My dinette set came from a used furniture store, and is Georgian reproduction with a sort of light mahogany finish. My silverware is Godinger’s American Repousse. I have white linen hemstitch napkins. My placemats are unbleached linen with a sari trim. I’m trying to do Late Georgian on a budget, I guess… sort of like, the grand days of ocean trade. I have a lot of blue-and-white porcelain in my living room too, and more Georgian reproductions, and basket-woven boxes, and Japanese watercolors. And an oriental rug.
Natural maple cabinets
Stainless steel and black appliances
Medium-toned granite countertop
Yellow walls with white trim
LOTS of natural light there are windows everywhere
Our walls are white (damn apartment living!), but we have a red apple theme in our dishes and accessories.
We’re really digging cobalt blue and stainless steel lately. We have a few pieces of a cobalt blue/stainless steel combo, like creamer and sugar container, salt and pepper shakers. My husband got a blue Alton Brown apron for Christmas. So now we have to get plates, towels, potholders, etc.
Actually we’re in the process of remodeling. I have a white stove, refrigerator, and walls, and am leaning toward white laminate cabinets because they’re cheap! I’m thinking I could go with a really clean, modern feel.
I’m also thinking that if there were anywhere in a house I could do a color, it would be the kitchen, so I’m trying to consider what I could live with as far as floor and countertops. I recently helped a friend decorate, and he wound up with a light wood/beigey/chocolately kitchen, because when it comes down to brass tacks, I seem to choose the “safe”, natural colors. Still thinking.
This is a very timely thread!
Ours is very “English Country Cottagey” The wallpaper is cream with (In my humble opinion) very tasteful pictures of herbs on it apart from a small area where there’s alternate black and white tiles. The cupboards are all pine and the appliances are all black and stainless steel.
I’d be lying if I said it was anything other than cosy. (I like it anyway) 
Our house was built in the '60s and still had the original kitchen when we moved in at Christmas. Many of the ostensibley white areas (baseboards; plaster around the light fixtures, etc) were tobacco-spit brown. We spent a couple of weeks removing the orginal wallpaper from the wallboard, then washed and primed everything. The cabinets were pained white, but chipped and stained. We painted the walls yellow, the woodwork, including the cabinet bases orange, and the doors and drawer fronts red. The ceiing took three coats of white paint before the tobacco stain quit bleeding through. We intended to replace the cabinet hardware, but it turned out to be an off size, and we weren’t up for trying to redrill all the holes, so we spray-painted them yellow. This got my husband on a roll, and he spray-pained all the new electrical outlets yellow and the baseplates orange. Our dishwasher was brown (the other appliances were white), so he pulled the panel out and painted it orange, too. For a while I kept expecting to come into the kitchen and discover that he had painted the refrigerator and stove to match.
The floor is still the og-awful pale yellow vinyl sheeting, and it’s on our to-do list. We haven’t decided how to update it yet. But I find my red-yellow-orange kitchen to be so cheerful, it lifts my spirits just to walk in.
White cabinets
White wall tiles
Dark grey floor tiles
I inherited all of the above, and they are too inoffensive to justify the expense of changing them. My input has been:
Aqua wall paint, and a vague leaning towards blue and/or orange in crockery and accessories, white marble topped bistro table and black wrought iron chairs.
What I really want:
Very simple art deco type pale wooden or white cabinets, pale terracotta tiled floor, jewel-colored splashback.
Hunter green vinyl floor (which hides just about all crudola- I like that!) with aged long leaf pine wainscotting and green on green striped wallpaper above. Crisp white cabinets, black double oven, range tops and dishwasher front. Accent colors in deep, earthy reds and golds picked up in the bench cushions and counter top pretties. Crisp white ceiling with white ceiling fans and an antique, tiffany style light fixture centered over the table.
Speaking of our table, it’s a one of a kind that Mr. Adoptamom built for me for our anniversary years ago. 7’x4’ of wide cypress boards which he routed all of our children’s handprints in. Bench seats that my father in law made seat up to 8 at a time, which makes it a favorite gathering place for meals, homework and family games.
One of the reasons we bought this house is because the kitchen is huge (18’x20’) with plenty of room for our table, cabinets on three walls, and a fourth wall which my computer/desk/file cabinet resides on. The kitchen is centrally located, so it’s easy to be aware of what’s going on throughout the house. Even though I don’t like to cook much, I love our kitchen
My walls are the same What the Fuck was I thinking Blue? as Kalhoon’s must be. The rest of the kitchen is decorated in cows. I like cows.
Can I borrow your husband for a few weeks? I have a really long Honey-Do list that my husband likes to ignore.
White walls, dark brown cabinets, and avocado surfaces. I really don’t like it but living in an apartment, I have to live with it. Bleh.
I redid my kitchen by accident sorta, chasing bad wiring. My friends and family leapt for joy, however, since ripping the walls out meant I finally had to do something about the harvest gold/dark paneled/wagon wheel light fixture 70s nightmare.
I now have maple cabinets and table, faux granite countertops, black and white vinyl flooring, and the walls are I bought grey but the shit looks light blue. The range, hood, microwave and fridge are black or black and white, and there are lights Everywhere! I have bad enough vision already, I don’t need to lose a digit chopping celery, so every foot or so there’s an under the counter type light, as well as two ceiling fixtures.
I bought the same dish design in plain black and another in plain white, sometimes we use just one but most often mix and match. I just got a groovy black and silver wall clock for my birthday, sort of looks like a tire wheeling it’s way across the wall. 