What a great house! It certainly has 'good bones' about it. It looks like the PO neutralized it for the sale.

Even if you wish for a neutral color on all the walls you have to decide if you want a cool neutral or a warm neutral and the decision depends on your furnishings. Have you installed any furniture yet?

I would not start painting accent walls just yet. Not until you have your furniture in. What if you get a sofa and when it is placed against the fiery accent wall it clashes?? Then 'ya gotta repaint. Its gonna be a lot easier to paint a color to match your furnishing than it is going to be to shop for furnishing to match accent walls.

Also, are you planning on doing any remodeling? Is the fireplace room going to be used as a family TV room or a dining room? You are not limited to defining and using the rooms exactly as the PO did.

Try doing a search here for neutral paint colors. I have seen some beautiful pics here of neutrals that would great with your red dining room.

Your home looks beautiful

@dilly_dally & Homebodymom - Thanks for the compliments. According to the neighbors, the house used to be cranberry red with green furniture and the kitchen had an Elvis theme - wood counters with glass overlay on an Elvis decoupage!

The fireplace is in our current family room and the television is over the fireplace. I get a lot of compliments on my orange wall but I think it doesn't mesh well with my couches:

This is the Olympic Antique Red in the dining room:

This is my wall when it was Pumpkin Butter (Christmas time with my niece):

In a perfect world, my couches would look like this:

I'm not crazy about the wall color in that photo. My sofa is a sleeper sofa so I don't want to use a slip cover on it. I have thought about covering the loveseat though. Hubby has ruled out painting the living room blue.

If you can ignore the mess, this is the family room view from the sunroom:

The bookshelf normally isn't there. I've thought about moving the sleeper sofa to other side of the wall and bringing this one into the family room with the loveseat:

I also have this picture that was on the Pumpkin Butter wall behind my niece:

Another goal of mine is to use whatever trim color from the living rooms in the kitchen on the ultra white cabinets. They were not painted well (someone just ran a paintbrush over the doors so when they're open, you can see the original off-white color the cabinets use to be) and I'd like to tie rooms together that way. The black granite countertops are kind of throwing me off though since there isn't black anywhere else in the house - just the countertop and the appliances. We're also hoping to get rid of the awful cherry laminate in the kitchen. I will also be redoing the ugly white and maroon backsplash. Maybe a white tile with some black accents - something along these lines:

Sorry if I've rambled. When I try to talk to my husband about all of this, his eyes kind of glaze over. :)

OK, I might be confused here..........The PO had the place painted in red and orange and then neutralized for sale. Then you painted rooms red and orange. Currently it has all been primed in off-white ready for new paint. Is that it?

Food for thought:

*Since you are going to paint the kitchen cabinets anyway have you considered a muted color for them? This could make all the black recede. You could also do a color on the base cabinets and keep the top ones Ivory.

*I would not bother wasting money on a new backsplash. What you have is pretty neutral and does not have any distracting flower designs or anything like that in the tile. Going with a black and white tile in a black and white kitchen will seem too harsh and boring. That dash of maroon adds 'something'. Once there is stuff on the counters it will be even less noticeable.

*I would not mix disparate furniture styles in the same room. Keep matching pieces together like you have it now.

*The kitchen flooring looks great. No reason to change it unless you hate laminate.