Side technical note...I hear monitors with IPS (In Plane Switching) will represent colors most accurately. Occasionally I will see a 24 inch IPS monitor at Dell for $300...check Slickdeals to find one on sale. OK...back to my quest.... I picked up a gallon of BM Manchester Tan this afternoon and put it on the walls near the window. I think this may be the winner... I also have some gold/yellow in my ottoman (large for the kids) and a couple pillows. Check this pic and let me know what you think.

Oh, take your time, we've spent the past 2 and half years painting our house and can promise you, they have that sale a lot!!! At least every 4-6 weeks for one reason or another. The Stable Hay is a really nice color, although I bet it will be darker on your walls and maybe even yellow. That's what happened when I put Behr's Warm Muffin on my livingroom walls. On the swatch it's a soft carmelly brown color. Put it on my walls...it's yellow...golden yellow. So I put Raffia Cream on one wall to help soften and tone it down a little. I like it so much I'm thinking of painting two more walls with it and using the Warm Muffin as an accent wall. It's a beautiful creamy ivory off white. I hope you don't mind, but here's a couple of suggestions, first, you can find something in your home with a color that you like and have HD match the color for you, or what I did which was to purchase a color fan from Sherwin Williams (it was only 15-20 dollars and much cheaper than Behrs). I find a paint color in it I can use and then have the folks at HD duplicate it for me. Use a little caution when doing this, sometimes it doesn't match exactly after the first time so you may have to get them to tweek it. Sherwin Williams also color matches and sells miniture samples for 4-5 dollars that you can test on your walls before buying a gallon, big time saver and hugh help. I hope you'll let us know what you end up picking! Good Luck!

Will post some pictures when I can, can't find the cord to the camera at the moment - everything a mess from moving stuff to paint. This was a semi-gloss job, being in the kitchen I wanted a tough finish. Been about a week now I guess since the color has been on the walls and love it - as the light shifts it looks more golden buff, other times a creamy lemon. Read on the Internet that a STRONG yellow color, while warm and appealing, can also be intensely irritating to people (more people fight in yellow rooms and restaurants use bright yellow on the walls to encourage people to eat and go!) But I could happily sit in my kitchen now for hours.

I narrowed it down (with your help) to Cancun Sand, Raffia Cream, Cozy Cottage. I made my husband pick----------and he chose Cozy Cottage. (Raffia Cream was quite similar to Cozy Cottage- and Cancun Sand though very nice was a tad too yellow). I love blue of all sorts, but that' s me personally and our basement is a true basement - underground and no windows to shed light much less walk out. (Palladian Blue sounds heavenly) So it's Cozy Cottage!! Thank you- you have no idea how helpful you are. as I said, I can usually drag a decision such as this into weeks if not months and here it's done and settled in a matter of hours.