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How's this for a way to give a rather off-the-rack kitchen a jolt? Without that eye-opening wall treatment [click the photo to better appreciate the color scheme], this room would be just another middling, modernish design. Too bad about those white switch plates right above the low-rise backsplash—they always ruin everything, don't they?