I LOVE my Baby Turtle too, in my kitchen and piano room. Within view of it I have a BM Sulpher (Sulfer?) Yellow livingroom at 75%, and Palladian Blue ceilings, and a wall of floor to ceiling cabinets in Copley green which looks exactly like when I mixed half Baby Turtle and Half Palladian. So, while I really like it with cool colors ((My in-progress backsplash mosaic features the very same color tile with lots of other greens and turquoises, and I'm re-upholstering a 1950's loveseat in turquoise duck)) - BT also looks good with reds, so the hallway WAY across the room (going into DH's doorless office) is BM Cognac Snifter, which is a rich terra cotta. The 75% Sulphur Yellow works well with the Baby Turtle in my light. Sometimes they look very similar. They change in a passageway, so I can take a pic of them side by side if you like.

Thank you, voila, for coming out of lurkdom to help me! This HAS been painful in the sense that I really dislike being in limbo, uncertain, and indecisive, which has also been time-consuming since I have been looking at paint colors off and on for 2 or 3 years, and stewing around about them trying to figure this out. To clarify regarding the Carlisle Cream with the hint of pink: this is not the trim color. I will try to see if I can find the name somewhere in my files, but the color of the trim for all of the house and most of the ceilings has a yellowish cast. The Carlisle Cream is only on the ceiling in the DR & MBR (and the paint chosen for the DR will also be used in the MBR which faces NW), as well as the walls of the mudroom, laundry, powder room, and MBath. You are correct that it fights with yellow, because the tiles have hints of yellow tones, and it does not look good there. Except for the 2 ceilings, the Carlisle Cream will be changed to something that goes better with all of the tiles and countertops that probably need a color with some yellow, rather than pink, in it. When we painted our former N facing foyer with Pittsfield Buff, it really pulled together the colors of the 2 small rugs and tile, which are almost the same as what we have now. But that is a whole nuther story. Wythe & Palladian Blues are on my "possible" list, so I will give them further consideration. The HC 139-141 at first glance under kitchen lighting seemed minty, but the lighting in the LR is halogen, so they look different in there. I will need to see them on a sunny day. Another vote for HC 146, 147, and Gray Wisp is good! And I really like your suggestion of Quiet Moments. It is interesting that you say, "all greens seem to go together", which I had heard before. The reason I got a new LR rug was that my old one had multiple colors of green and greenish gold on a cream field, and to me it clashed with the fireplace in daylight. I moved it into the kitchen eating area that has the same slate tile on the other side of the 2-way FP where it only gets light from the NW which is not directly on it as it is in the LR, and it looks perfect in the different light! Also, if I turned the LR rug around, it would look much better upon entering the room, but to me the green from that direction looks awful with the FP green. I think it will be a lot easier to choose the DR paint than that for the LR. I will definitely pursue looking at grayed colors for both rooms, but I would still like to try maybe a rich tan that does not lean to red or yellow and see if that could work in the LR to pull out those colors in the rug, but maybe nothing will do this? I suppose that would only add to the blendy feeling that I am so good at achieving. I had originally imagined having a sort of rich, dark cream, but I guess that would mean yellow, so it is out. A correction regarding the "drapes." They are actually 4 drapery panels on each side of a 7 ft triple casement that help to set off the piano and a small chest near the creamy beige rug, and at each end of a 4 window bank (each 42" wide) next to the chest and behind the mauve wing-back near the FP. They are not directly next to the 9 x 12 "green" rug. The 2 rugs are separated by the sofa, so you do not see much of the Bokhara when entering the LR. I know that all the detail causes many people not to read this, but I welcome comments from anyone who has the patience to work through them to give me additional guidance. Anne

I think white is a good choice, but not the only choice. Taking the sample door and going by eye is a good place to start for narrowing down your options, but you will still want to actually view paint samples in your kitchen to make a final decision. That's true even (maybe especially) with whites, since there are a zillion different whites and how they look can be affected dramatically by the lighting. As far as not wanting to look at blank white walls, I was going to suggest artwork, but it sounds like you are already thinking in that direction.

houssaon I saw that combination but I already have the teal green from the booths, mint green in the table tops and then a green in the backsplash tile. so that color would have clashed. I am actually trying to tone down all the teal and green by using the Boca Raton and Assessible Beige color. I appreciate the thought though! everdebz I do like the red accents and agree it would look great with the teal color. Unfortunately we already have stools screwed into the tile floor that are the same teal fabric that are on the bottom of the booths. How would some pictures framed in red look? Also because the booth table tops are speckled mintish green with a teal border I am not sure the red cloth patterns would work for inside the wood squares above the seating but I do love that pattern. Oh how I wish I could change everything. This is an old fashioned diner people come to , lots of locals, who come to eat and chat, etc. It isn't what you would call a pretty restaurant. lol We serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. We are not far from the ocean (3-5 miles) so serve a lot of seafood. The girls (waitstaff) had actually over the years started putting up tacky signs all above the backsplash which we are not putting back up.