Welcome to the boards. I would take this over to the decorating forum and post some pictures of the spaces you want to paint. IMO you should stay away from gray/taupey colors. Concord Ivory has a lot of gold/yellow in it and it doesn't go well with grays & taupe. Here is some great advise posted by bluemoon14. From Kelly Hoppen decorating books. Taupe Loves: *Pure white paint *Dark stained wood *Purple undertoned natural linens *Stones that contain gray or blue, such as blue limestone *The companionship of gray or brown *Metals such as silver or chrome *Dramatic accents of green, purple or red *Clear glass Taupe Hates: *Anything that contains yellow such as buttery paint *Golden woods, such as oak *Yellow-hued linens *Tan leathers *Stones that contain beige *Accessories that hint at yellow, such as dark cream porcelain IMO you should look at colors like greens, reds (wf yellow undertones, blues or purple. If you do go with a gray you should make sure it has a lot of blue in it. Or just stick with Concord Ivory for a continuous flow throughout your home. Good Luck!

Let's see, I sampled 6 more colors today at the new home. Can't remember them all, but did try rich cream, philadelphia cream, barley, bronzed beige, and concord ivory at 75% strength. I forgot the other one?! So we are trying something to look great with concord ivory. This is where we are... rich cream is a very nice color---very tempting, but we wanted something more bold & to contrast more with our painted (acadia) trim. Philadelphia cream was one of my favorites, definitely less yellow and gold in this one, more of the beige family. We nixed it feeling we wanted to carry the golds. Barley looks very good with the concord ivory. It is very similar in terms of belonging to the same color family. It is a very nice warm, yellow/gold. Bronzed beige was very nice too. I thought it was too close to concord ivory and I do want the two colors to be noticed as different. The concord ivory at 25% was a very nice shade, just a little brighter yellow than the barley. We are trying to stear from too yellow, bright in hope to get more mustardy, yellow, warm golden. If that makes sense?! So as it stands I'm back to the paint store to try one more thing...barley at either 50% or 75%. I'm just curious as to how it will look lighter with more contrast. So it should definitely be barley for our winner, with a possibility of taking it to 50% or so. Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions. I will keep you posted on our progress:)

Here is my kitchen in Putnam Ivory, with light oak cabinets. I liked it so much I painted my living room the same color. I painted the ceiling Elephant Tusk, which looks like a white next to the walls, but is a lot warmer. In progress, in natural light - you can see the ceiling color against the white light fixture. I was running out of paint, so I didn't paint behind all the cabinets. Looking at the two photos together, obviously the color is different with and without flash. The top one looks yellow; the bottom one is more accurate, at least on my monitor. This post was edited by annkh on Wed, Dec 11, 13 at 18:09

I would LOVE to see a picture of BM Natural Wicker since I was going to use that color for my family room and kitchen until I found out it was a 99.7% match for BM Bone White so I might as well use Bone White that is in a ready mix can. I wonder what the .3% difference is? It appears golden and very neutral and beautiful in my rooms. I was going to paint my bedroom with that color but the painter started to paint a wall and then called me upstairs to tell me it was coming out with a lot of orange in it. Little did he know it was reflecting off of the Oak I then had in the room and I wish he would have just painted the room since I am sure I would have been so happy with that color and my Antique White furniture. But now I am not sure what I want. The Natural Cream is very pretty in Melissa's bathroom. I have Bone White now in several rooms and it does change color depending on what is around it and it does have a tiny bit of red in it.