Funny you should mention Cloud White and Simply White. Those are the two finalists for my cabinets paint. I currently have two sample doors painted in those colors propped up on my counter as I try to decide. Yes, SW is a hair lighter and brighter, but with variations of light even on two doors sitting next to one another, there's not a whole lot of difference. I daresay I could paint some doors a different color and most people wouldn't notice. I have no trim in my kitchen. The only place my cabs will come close to trim is where they abut baseboard from other areas. There is a visible difference (my baseboard is much whiter) but not enough to change either my cab or trim color. I wouldn't worry AT ALL if your cabs are one color and the trim is another, they look that much alike. JMHO

I always use an extender with Aura. It gives you more time before drying. If you're painting a bathroom, research "surfactant leaching." This happens when the paint in a bathroom isn't fully cured, and you use the shower. Google photos of surfactant leaching. Most paint stores will say latex cures in a few days, but I had this problem in two homes and did extensive research. You get ugly drips down the walls, and they are yellow or brown. You can wash it off, but it comes back. Now, when I paint a bathroom, I wait 30 days before using the shower. That may be overkill, and if you only have one shower, that would not be possible.

Sheila, it's just paint! It's easy to change. If you get new sofas you can change the paint. As you've already figured out, you can go in several directions with this. My advice: Invest in a quart (or sample pot if they have them) of each of the paints that really appeal to you. Paint a 3'x3' square of each of them with at least 6" in between. Paint it in the family room, breakfast area and next to the kitchen cabinets. Live with it awhile. Yes, spend at least a week with splotches on your walls. Look at them in the morning. Look at them at noon. Look at them while the sun is going down. And with the lights on at night. And without. See if you can catch them when it's cloudy and when it's bright, and in as many different lights as you can. You'll see which color you like best. I thought I was going to paint my living and dining rooms (which are open to each other) this amazing butterscotchy heritage color that was warm, sophisticated, gracious, happy, etc. Until I saw it on the walls on an overcast day. It made me want to cry it was so dreary!!! I ended up with BM Morning Mist (I think that's what it's called). It's a kind of greeny-grayish-bluish color. Very hard to pin down. Looks good in all lights and weathers. People still admire it. Also, if your big problem is uniting the two rooms, maybe you should consider alternatives. You can, for instance, choosing the most divergent ones for illustration, paint the kitchen/eating Van C, and the family room Bradstreet, and have about 6' where they meet make an ombre pattern (using layering, sponging, etc.) so that there isn't a hard line, but it just kind of drifts from one to the other. Or you can do Brookline in the family room, the chair rail and top of pony wall Van C, and a stripe of the Van C. the width of the pony wall going up the ceiling, and Wedgewood in the kitchen proper. I'm not suggesting these particular tones. Less stark contrast would probably work better, but there are all kinds of things you could do. If you want to get really fancy, and this might actually look amazing, you could do Van C on all of the walls, with really large panels of your beige. Do the Van C below the chair rail and narrow beige rectangles between cupboards and slider, slider and window, above it as a frame for your pictures. Then in the family room, do a 9' wide box with a foot margin at top and bottom, of the beige on the short end(s) and two of them on the long side(s). Adjust the actual dimensions for centering of your wall unit, etc. That would give you your beige backdrops, with the punch of rich color that the Van C provides. What it will also do is tie in the beige blocks of kitchen cabinets with the beige blocks in the family room. Be brave!! If you really hate whatever you choose, you can always paint over it.

@Priya You just have to test. Acadia looks great in my Hawaii house and terrible in my Idaho house because Northern light is more yellow than at the equator. (I had to switch to Simply White in Idaho, which looks like Acadia in Hawaii.) When I needed a "white" for the exterior of my recent house I tested at least 10 colors to come up with the right one. Remember you really don't want a white outside because colors look way lighter outside. A white will be blinding. I ended up using BM Ancient Oak 940 which is is pretty close to the "almond" metal soffits, and on the house it looks white most of the time, at sunset caan look slightly yellow.