Woohoo! Looks great! The thing wanted us to sign in to see it enlarged, though, and I didn't want to do that. I can just feel your excitement! What could be more exciting than a brand new house?

Years ago there was a paint color that was all the rage on this board and others -- I suppose it is dated now that gray is all the trend because you never hear about it anymore, but it was called Tobacco Road and was produced by several smaller paint companies that shared the same color deck (California, Duron, Graham were 3 I know of). I'm sure you can still get it mixed by BM or SW because they should have the formula in their system. Anyhow, if you google, you might find that it is exactly what you want. There are lots of images of it -- as I said, it was quite the trendy color for a while. (And personally, as you can probably tell from my living room, I never got on the gray bandwagon -- so I'll proudly fly my mid-2000s-paint-colors-flag! There is enough gray outside all winter to give me a very strong dislike of any kind of cool/gray paint color in my house, though I think it can look good in other people's homes.) anyhow, here's a sample of tobacco road, though on my monitor it looks a little browner here than it does in real life. from here: Blog where I got that photo

Thanks Design Interior South for your comments and reference to “boob lights”. Ha haha ... I am definitely replacing them now! Yes I’ll keep the tile floors but will likely put rugs on them. Staircase...yes needs to be updated for sure. I got a few quotes and it’s nearly 4000 to paint. I can get new spindles and posts for this much which I think would make a bigger impact than just painting. Happy to hear if you disagree. Re the kitchen, I’ll be getting a white/cream quartz countertop with an overhang plus changing the backsplash to match/complement the countertop. Hopefully that will lighten up the very dark kitchen nook. The other option is to paint the cabinets white which I am still thinking about.

Nice white trim....stair carpet looks good...go with a paint color through out the first floor...thinking B.M. Edgecomb Gray may work. Doesn't this photo look a lot like your entry>