Well, maybe not that far. But still. I'm moving to a new apartment one state over. The landlord is great and is very willing to repaint the rooms to any color I want! (This is a very rare trait in landlords, in my experience.) The apartment is half a 1900 duplex, which is pretty much unchanged except for the kitchen and the bathroom sink. (There's still a clawfoot tub in the bathroom.)

But I need help!

I'm going to have to pick paint colors--I have spent about 30 minutes in the apartment and have only a vague idea which rooms get sun when, and no good idea of the lighting at night, and no idea of the many other factors that I would usually take into consideration when choosing a paint color. And I can't get back into the place until I move in, as there are tenants in there right now. I'm thinking that if the dining room, kitchen and bathroom get painted before I move in, I can wait on the other rooms, which were mostly white, until later.

All the rooms will have white trim--the landlord doesn't want to change the existing color of the trim.

I know I want the dining room repainted--it is a very dark brown and I'm not fond of dark wall colors in general. The dining room has a lot of trim--crown molding, wide baseboards, chair rail and built-in china cabinet with drawers.

What's a pretty good neutral tan sort of color that doesn't have a lot of pink undertones in it? I've looked at a lot of paint chips and I seem to like tans with a lot of pink when I'm looking at chips in a store, but hate them once I get home and tape them up on my current walls.

And does anyone have any suggestions for a pale, pale cotton-candy pink? Blue-based, with no yellow or orange or peachy tones. That would be for the bathroom--it's got beadboard wainscotting that will be white, with the pink on the upper walls. I had this color in a bathroom once before, with white, white trim and accessories and pale grey towels and it looked lovely. But Lowes doesn't carry that same color paint any more.