What color to paint like 8 feet?

There is not going to be a lot of wall space in the newly updated kitchen. But I want something that stands out, but not in a weird way. Something that still appeals to the general public. With a somewhat wide tile back splash of white subway tiles, there will only be a bit of wall by the window, and then maybe a third of two walls in the opposite corner of the kitchen to paint. White tiled back splash, neutral counter, and warm almost mahogany colored cabinets - I was stuck, color wise.

So we took a trip to go return items....yup a whole $18 was returned...but it all counts. (Just need to returned 2 WHOLE sheets of drywall - sorry honey, thought we would need 3 sheets for sure.) As well as stand at walls of paint chips and pick colors. Oh wait, that is me and 3 kids in one of those floats of a cart- standing in the whole paint chip aisle. I think I was able to grab 2 chip cards to their one Mickey Mouse chip card....sort of worked. (We had a shopping bag full of chip cards by the time our trip ended - and they weren't all mickey mouse colors. Phew.)

Christopher hauled in a huge kitchen tile to set out - hey did you know that 24x23 tiles - aren't 24x24 when they are coming from overseas? They are 23.75x23.75. Metric system, schmetric system. Out came our sample cabinet door. On went the new stadium lights. And I was a deer in headlights.

Good to know that there are 4 colors I pick out every time we need a paint color- over and over again, have we painted anything with those colors - nope- but every time. (Maybe the dining room will get a coat from one of those 4 colors). I narrowed it down to oh, 30 colors. Christopher narrowed it down to something close to 15. The kids - R just wants 'dar bu', M and N - they wanted the same color. *lol* So we went with the shade below theirs - hey its our room not theirs *wink*. Bermuda - hmm...how to describe you...other than the name invokes thoughts of a real vacation. Teal, blue, turquoise deep water....someday I will see that in the wild. *grin*