I've been surfing, and another contender for the wall color is SW "Divine White". Any thoughts? It looks a little pink in the swatch, but maybe that's just the bit of warming the room needs.

Take a look at BM pale almond. Nice warm tan.

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.

Thank you very much, Funcolors! (and yayagal, I think I already have a swatch of Pale Almond, so I'll take a look at that). I'll try the Divine White first. My husband doesn't like a greenish tinge, and I don't like gold or orangey tones, so a pinkish hue may be my best bet. That room is such a challenge--I've never painted it a color I really liked. Years ago I tried a pale blue-gray, which turned out to look boring powder blue. Then I tried a true gray, which looked grim. For years it's been a deepened Linen White, which looks orangey to my eye. I'd love to get it right this time!

I'm getting myself confused, Funcolors--I was thinking you were recommending the pinkish one first, when it was actually the yellow-hued one (Palace White). As you point out, though, it's the colors you can *see* in the available light that matters. I'll give that one a try.