Unless your kitchen is huge (most apartment kitchens are fairly small) paint as much white as you can. If you want some colorful accents, you could paint a color around the edges of the doors and drawers...that's IF you're allowed to paint the cabinets. A couple of colorful terry kitchen towels would help too.
I like white ceilings for lightness in the room.........but after that go get some flowers from a floral shop of the colors "you" like and start matching it up with what's happening in your kitchen. Have fun.