The homes in our area that are from the end of the Victorian age are usually done in dark green, gold, rose, deep red and maybe some dark blue. Eastern Washington didn't see any big money until the late 1800's. Many have early Craftsman elements, too, with a return of the dark timbers and earth tones. If you like earth tones, what about dark green in the library? It's a beautiful color with most woodwork (think english pub green) and would look nice with the tiles around the fireplace. The music room would be beautiful in gold/mustard, very much like the tiles around the library fireplace. In both rooms, neutral or tan/brown furnishings (maybe some leather in the library) would look great. Do you have much furniture in the music room? Something soft (like a velvet type fabric) for a comfy side chair would look beautiful in the rust/terra cotta, or maybe use the color on pillows for accents? What color is your dining room/other rooms on the first floor? Would the terra cotta/rust tone work in your dining room? Warm orange tones are always nice in a dining room and stimulate appetite/conversation. Some green and gold accents would really tie the spaces together. The entry way might be a nice place to try a little wallpaper, or maybe some stenciling. Perhaps you could find something in a natural motif that would tie in the golds, rust and dark green. It sounds like a great project and a lot of fun. Remember, paint is one of the easiest things to change if you don't like it...but I would still try some test areas and see what it looks like under different lighting/times of day, before I painted the whole room :)

What's "creamy" to one is yellow or tan to another! Or even too white! I wish I could suggest a specific color but I really can't. Even though I probably have about 200 different chips of varying degrees of "off-white". I'm not familiar with the wall colors you have except I strongly considered Laura Ashley gold 2 for my bedroom. I recall that it is a complex, muted yellow/tan with green undertone. A really beautiful color. I assume that gold 4 is the same but deeper. I was amazed to see how a trim color can bring out the undertone in the wall or play it down; make the gold look either very green or more yellow or even dirty. So focus first on what undertones you need in your trim color. You already know you don't want blue, gray, pink/peach. You need some yellow but there are so many degrees of it. Take your wall paint chips to the color displays and hold them up--you will easily see which groupings of tones/shades don't work and you will be able to narrow down to the right family pretty easily. Wish I'd done that early on! You might also try taking your paint chips to Home Depot to use their scanner that will analyze your color & suggest coordinating colors from their line. That can at least get you started & when you start to see which tones are appealing to you the most when paired with your walls, you can take those chips with you to Lowes or elsewhere to look for the "just right" selection. Also, if you find a paint chip that has just the right tones but is just too light/white, (or the opposite, like if you wanted to use gold 4 but a lighter version of it) you can ask them to mix it with 150-200% of the colorant. Or cut it in half. I've done this with good success. All that said, I've just done the upstairs hall trim in Behr Navajo White, which to my eye when looked at alone is a creamy, muted yellow-- but looks great (and not yellow) with the several colors it needed to play with. And it took me many visits to paint stores, and many chips on the walls, to settle on my choice, but I don't regret the time I took now. Neither will you! Good luck!

Carly, Over in the Home Decorating Forum they've had lots of discussions about stained wood windows and doors with white or painted trim and vis versa. I don't see why you can't have beige windows and white trim. If that doesn't do it for you, it is possible to paint vinyl so you could paint the interior white and leave the outside beige. Here are pictures: By the way, I am thinking of having beige or tan windows with white or off white painted trim, so I wanted to get a feel for how they would look, too. I think it looks good! Anne

I finally found a color I can live with, Sherwin Williams Accessible Beige and it’s doesn’t make my trim look yellow at all. The lighting was terrible when I took the pictures. I wish I would’ve taken a before & after in the dining room. This color pulls a little bit of purple gray in the dining room & a little blue gray in the foyer. I think it changes based on the environment.