I suggest cream curtains in the living room to downplay the yellow.

I did not want the post to convey its all peaches and cream, its not. 

Many people in our industry got absolutely creamed in 07/08.

Perhaps you have a mom and pop ice-cream shop in your commercial unit such that you get emotional when they realize their business idea was a flop in the winter time and you're forced to evict them on their 5-year-lease.

I was fortunate in this aspect.. my daughter graduated from UC Davis 2002 so the shock of 911 was 9 months behind her.. but your right it was a very difficult hiring time for Collage kids.the big tech companies were creaming the graduating class's if you were not 3.5 or 3.6 you had a tough time My daughter bless her heart was top 10 in her finance class and got offers from Intel Microsoft Apple etc. and took no time off and went to work ..

I think you have too many colors (gray/blue walls, brown cabinets, steel refrigerator, black/steel stove, gold/cream floor and door, white subway tile with a dark grout, and what appears to be a white and blue or gray countertop) competing with each other.

With threads of beige, brown and black or beige gray black and cream?

Don't move to Alaska and set up an ice cream business.Determine demand exists.

The landscaping business allowed me to make high dollar per hour rates that i wouldnt have been able to make if i had worked more at the ice cream shop i worked as a busboy.

It's like saying "how much is an scoop of ice cream?"