I just finished painting my entryway, hallway, and the wall going up the stairs Cambelback. Upstairs in the gameroom and the ceilings we used Whole Wheat at it is beautiful. I have a lot of natural light on the walls with the camel back, and not as much in the gameroom, so they really look the same. I would use Camelback and believeable buff together if you want a noticeable contrast, as that is what I plan to use in the kitchen area. Good luck. They are beautiful colors...... Haven't learned how to post pics yet, but if I do, I will try to do so Friday.....

If you're painting to sell, I'd go very neutral. When people are looking at houses, they are thinking in terms of what color they'll paint a room, so neutral colors allow them to do that w/o turning them off. Some people will love a green room, others will cringe at it. Neutral is just that: Neutral, i.e.: safe. However, the color of a room really isn't a deterrent for a buyer, unless it's a deep, dark color, in a large room, that they'll have have to prime before being able to paint. Turnoffs are things that will incur high costs or heavy labor. When I looked at my house, one of the bedrooms looked like someone had painted it while on LSD in the 1970s: neon colors with huge flowers on one wall, different geometric designs on another. I bought the house anyway. That room is now painted in Nantucket Fog. But I did have to prime over all that other stuff first.

Oh, when it comes to paint and color, vent away! Please allow me to use your post not only to commiserate but to add my own vent. A little over two years ago I painted my kitchen what was supposed to be (well, it looked like it on the card, anyway) a nice lighter version of TerraCotta. I even used poster board to get an idea what I would be getting. For the next three weeks I tried, really tried to fall in love with what I called my "living inside a cantaloupe" kitchen. I couldn't, no matter how much I tried, get used to the paint color. Three weeks later I tried again, again using a very large poster board for almost a week, placing it in different areas of the kitchen to check for variations in lighting....day, night, natural, direct sun, dusk, shadow. I tried...Oh, how I tried to love my new color in my kitchen. I put back all the decor knowing that would bring me the look I wanted. Uh....nope, it didn't. This time it reminded me of a very elderly woman who put way too much dark, rosey blush on her cheeks. By this time the budget was gone and being inside a cantaloupe was a lot better than being reminded daily of very rosy red cheeks on a very elderly lady, so I repainted with the 'light terracotta', which wasn't, but it was going to have to make do. That was two years ago....no decorations have been put back up because I've used those areas for painting sample colors on the walls. Two years and my kitchen still looks like 'an experiment in orange' at a paint factory. *sigh* My apologies for my vent on your post but I SO SO SO Understand where you are coming from!

Try Benjamin moore white dove paint. One of the most popular paint colors ever and it goes well with greys, taupes and browns And many other colors. You can go to the Benjamin Moore store and ask them to make up small sample cans of paint and also pick up some color cards. Take the the sample paint home and paint some largish poster boards with the various colors and move them around the room to see if you like the color in your own environment, light, and shadow, etc. You can paint your walls one color of white in a matte finish and your woodwork in a satin or semi gloss or switch to a different but complementary white for the woodwork). Also, if you don’t like the effect of your lightbulbs on your surfaces, you might try lightbulbs with a higher Kelvin whiter light like K 4000. Changing your lightbulbs might make the room seem fresher against the brown carpet. Good luck.