According to our real estate person, earth tones are fairly in right now. She liked our light yellow bathroom, loved the greens in the basement, said the existing off-mud shade in the living room was fine, and told us to repaint the red kitchen cream.
Cream is a good wall color for a kitchen, especially if you have med. to dark wood cabinets. I’m painting our cabinets a cream color, so I’m going a little darker on the walls for contrast. Paint stores now sell those little bottles, or packets, of paint for you to try out on the walls. They’re great, because you just never know how the color will look until it finally dries on the wall.