You have three distinct colors on the roster so far: SW Divine White - tint of pink Palace White - tint of golden yellow Sandy White is the green one I'd pick Palace White to sample first. You can use any hue, any color in a north facing room as long as it has the right pitch of nuance. And that's where the feeling of "warmth" is going to come from -- when you are able to partner the right pitch of nuance to the inherent light sources, it naturally feels comfortable and warm. You can use light and pale colors in low-light rooms. You can use white in a north room. As long as it's the right color, the right nuance. I've referred to north light as "blue" and "bluish" before and I wish I could take it back because now all of the sudden "north light is blue" according to about a zillion and half websites. Not saying it's all my fault, but I probably didn't help the cause. North exposure isn't really "blue", it's actually the most balanced light of all geographic exposures. But it's not direct. It hangs back and spills into your house, it doesn't really ***beam*** in like south or west light. And that's part of the reason why north light tends to be dim. Dim is the verge of shadow. When light fades, so does the range of colors we can see *in* that light. There are more *colors* than blue, it's just as that fading out happens it's the "cooler" colors of the spectrum that end up taking precedence and the other warmer colors either fade out completely or hang out in the background at varying degrees. We can make general assumptions about north exposures, but each north exposure, each bundle of wavelengths of light beaming in windows and doors (fenestration), will be unique to each room/space. So to say that north light is blue or bluish isn't repeatable 100% of the time - can't count on it workin' out that way every single time, every single room. You have a nice range of colors picked out. Maybe get all three in the big sized chips, then narrow it down to the one(s) you want to wet sample. Like I said before, I'd want to sample Palace White first. And not because it's the "warmest". But because it is the clearest and its nuance is such that works - on average - really well in north exposures. You'll have to take a look & see what you think.

Ellen's Classic Cream and Mushroom are in my opinion the two most fabulous paint colors ever created. I find them magical in that they have ended up being the color solution to many, many difficult color conundrums - especially the ones rooted in inherent light issues. They put an end to the color search madness (and many know exactly what that feels like) and work in a chameleon-like fashion morphing to fit and work in a space. I put Mushroom in an era-correct bathroom (Foursquare house) with black and white octo tiles. Everyone thought I was crazy but I talked them into 'letting go' and letting the light do its thing. It turned out absolutely blissful.

boxer, thanks, those pics are very helpful. Bleeker looks just like what I have on my walls now (in the day, -- the "good" time of day for it.) susan, that sounds really promising because peach is one of my colors and I was secretly hoping for a peachy tan. mythreesons -- thank you soooo much! I just ordered a Capistrano corbel. A million thanks for going the extra mile and contacting your cabinetmaker. Can't wait to go out and get all these paints, and after all this wonderful help, I can see I'm going to have to finally learn how to post photos in case anyone wants to see the results.

So.... I am posting swatches but only because I know you guys are smart enough to know that it's a completely worthless endeavor to try to evaluate paint colors on any kind of illuminated device, like a monitor. Since they rely on the very small RGB color space to render colors, they literally are not able to render color like we see it in real life. The swatches are for reference only - everybody knows you have to get in real life chips. Spanish Sand has Delta E difference of 1.4 from Manchester Tan - which means it's a relatively small difference, but you're going to see a difference when comparing. HC-81 MANCHESTER TAN Benjamin Moore Classic Colors OR-W7U SPANISH SAND Behr Color Collection Lentil has a Delta E difference of 1.2 from Softer Tan - again, means you'll be able to tell the difference between the two colors. SW 6141 SOFTER TAN Sherwin Williams Color N270-2U LENTIL Behr Color Collection Those are the closest colors from Behr. Everything else in the Behr collection is a ways off with Delta E differences of 2 or more - which is a lot and not in the ballpark of being a decent match and therefore not really worth mentioning.