If you like blue check out BM Sterling; I used it on a powder room that is literally too small to photograph! But it's a light grayish blue that reads perfectly in a room w/o much natural light. I'm not sure I'd like Silken Pine next to your Saybrook Sage room, unless you really love green. I'd like to see a little contrast, with a blue or maybe a cream/tan that is not at all yellowy. Dunmore Cream and ***something? Silk (someone here will know the one I'm thinking of) come to mind as creams with greenish undertones. Good luck! Mary

One way to paint with resale in mind and still have color in rooms is to paint the most difficult ones in colors considered "acceptable" for your market and to reserve the color you want for easier-to-paint rooms. As an example, our master bedroom has a beamed ceiling, with the beams set into the walls. That means that there are three wall surfaces per beam requiring cutting in. Sixteen long beams, including one at each end of the room running across the length. This room had been an uninteresting white, and I redid it in a neutral mushroom color. For the cutting in required around the beams -- white to mushroom means two coats, so that worked out to the equivalent of 64 beams to meticulously paint around. Part of the wall in which five or six beams were set was on the other side of an open stairwell. So, regardless of what other colors I might conceivably have envisioned this room, there was no way it was going to be anything other than a classic, warm neutral! I do agree with posters who argue for painting for yourself. I knew within weeks of moving into our former house that it was a huge, huge mistake. Roughly 18 years later, we moved. The whole time, I lived with neutrals that weren't particularly interesting because every year I thought: THIS is the year in which we move. But are neutral rooms always necessary for resale? Someone bought an 18th C. stone house on the river with the intention of reselling. I saw it under its previous owner and was charmed by its quirks and character. The new owner has certainly improved it both structurally and mechanically, and floors are new, as is the paint job. Alas, there is absolutely no charm left. Every wall is an off white, all the trim is white...the owner may have thought potential buyers would easily envision their own things in these spaces, but I thought that every room required a new paint job. Isn't that back to square one? By contrast, one of the best real estate agents in the area lived near our former house. She sold her house very quickly. The outside was purple, with deep lavender trim. I recall a dark red room, or maybe it was orange. Another room was a bright green or bright blue....Granted, the town is one in which people want to live, not too many places come on the market, and the market itself was very different. But still...orange...blue...in fact, there may not have been a single neutral room in the place. I think the sunroom was a dark green. If you crave color but think you might want to move, just remember, too: with some exceptions, painting doesn't take very long.

Wow, that paint color is really not working with that tile. I can see the strange blue tone in the paint. I like the first shower curtain and I like the idea of wall paper. Side tracking...about 5-6 years ago I was one of those people who were told, and believed, browns were all neutral. Then I learned to see undertones (thank you GW) and can't believe I didn't notice before. I knew how to detect undertones in makeup! Seriously, I'm baffled I never noticed such things in decorating. I'm so thankful I didn't buy brown/mushroom color furniture. Picture that with pinky brown carpet. Eww.

Actually, the opposite is true. A deeper color is going to feel warmer and brighter in winter months and lighting, while light colors will feel cold and washed out. For example, I live in NE, also a cold, snowy climate in winter. When I first bought my house, I painted the "winter living room" (LR used in winter, versus the porch used in the warm months) BM White Sand. It was blah and cold. I got cabin fever. Last fall I repainted that room using BM Lenox Tan. What a transformation!!! I never wanted to leave the LR. NO cabin fever. It was warm and cozy and just wonderful (BM White Dove trim). The LRV of Nantucket Gray is very close to the LRV of Lenox Tan, so the light play would be similar. This is all especially true if the room you are painting doesn't get a lot of natural sunlight.