If you put Palladian Blue in Google search, click images, you will see it used with golds and reds and greens, and a warm Whole Wheat looking color. The photo you show from a Hal Williamson bedroom is a small part of the wall above the bed that I've saved because I love the way he useds greens and reds with this blue wall color. Did you see the whole bedroom photo? Your questions... #1. It won't clash with Whole Wheat. You may not want that much contrast, but again, if you view the images as I outlined before, you can even see a PB room coming off a yellow room. 2#. It won't clash with the other colors either. And they are DOWNSTAIRS. Your bedroom is UPSTAIRS. I realize that you will see into the bedroom as you climb the stairs, but I think it will be a wonderful surprise...... 3#. No. You are not overthinking. Painting a big bedroom is a big undertaking and you also plan to buy new bedding, which is more money. You NEED to think about it. But you may be worrying about the wrong thing. If you want to walk into one of those lovely blue bedrooms like I see in the pictures and you find a toile that you love, I don't think you will be looking over your shoulder to see how the Whole Wheat feels about the Whole Thing. Get a sample already. (I'm hoping you can get one of those sample quarts that are cheap. If not, buy the cheapest BM qt. you can get. You don't need nuance, you need a sample big enough to put on some walls as high as you can reach and as low as near baseboard) Get your painting tray and roller out. Paint the entry to your bedroom. You're gonna be painting something in there anyway, so go for it. Then, walk into it for a few days. Let it surround you. If you have bedding, see how it looks on the wall color. That's not over-thinking, that's working on your problem. And FWIW, I like the idea of a red toile, or a soft blue toile, or a soft gold toile, or cream bedding, or anything else that produces an Ahhhhhhhh.... Red

I am going to check all these out. No, I am not doing it a lodge theme, I meant that if I wanted to use a red flannel comforter and decorate with lodge items, that it would not clash with the paint......so i need a neutral color that is LIGHT but contrasts with my cream colored furniture -. i dont want green or blue undertones and do not want it to look like a specific color. i think a cappucino color that is warm based maybe???

Thanks for the comments everyone. I have been so busy with painting my trim that I haven't had the chance to come and check the forum out. I am considering painting the walls BM Estruscan. It would blend the walls to the sofa rather than contrast them. The problem is that the ceilings are about 20 feet high and are on a slope. The PO put a molding (too thin in my opinion) about 10' up from the floor. This makes it so that you can paint the room without painting the 20' high ceiling. Above the molding and the entire ceiling in the family room is painted SW Camelback (one shade lighter than the Whole Wheat that I painted. Because of this, the color below the molding needs to complement the Camelback making my choices more limited. The problem with the Whole Wheat is that it gives off a green tint at night that I don't care for and that it's just not very exciting, not to mention that it's a big room and it's not very welcoming. I also don't have any artwork for the walls yet or drapery, which I know makes all the difference but I just don't think that I'm going to ever love this room with the current colors on the wall. I have considered green but I don't think I'd like it in this big of a space.

A sincere thank you for everyone's suggestions. The update is that I am settled on the Intense White (a light gray color) and am now trying to figure out the yellow. This is the latest one I tried is Creme Brulee, but the family agrees it is too pale or something: Still having trouble with my photos so it looks the yellow looks like a distant haze here, but hopefully it gives the idea. So the new ones we are thinking of trying are: Lemon Sorbet, Windham Cream and Weston Flax. They all seem more on the yellow side. Any thoughts on these? Might these go too yellow this time, rather than too orange like the Antique Yellow I first tried? I also still need to look at Linen White and Summer White. It looks like Lemon Sorbet might look nice with gray, which hasn't been an easy combo so far: Lemon Sorbet and Gray photo. I'll be glad to wrap up this yellow decision :).