flyleft, I thought about putting china white on the ceiling, but it looked so grey on the swatch I was afraid it would look dirty. In fact I was worried the China White would not be enough contrast with the Revere Pewter on the lower wall. The lower wall I can repaint myself if it's wrong, so I'll take a chance, but not these tall ceilings! I made that mistake once before, painted a room Rosemary Sprig a beautiful medium green, then painted the ceiling just a touch warmer then ceiling white, and boy, it looked like cr@p. The ceiling looked just plain dirty and I had to live with it for years. Won't do that again!

Boy, I can relate to all of these posts. I have RP in my open floor plan. On the walls that have natural light, it looks OK (not my favorite) but the adjoining family room with the screened porch next to it blocking the light, the walls look like green/yellow mud and I am stressing as to what to do. My trim & cabinets are off-white so i have to stay with the warm greys. I've even tried Sea Salt which looks dull. I'm going for an LRV of 65+ so I'm trying the sample board with the Repose Gray at 75% with the idea of the adjoining kitchen/nook at 100%. We will see. Next I'll try the Gray Owl - OC 52 i think. Beware.......there are two Gray Owls! The Oc 52 is the lighter version. To complicate matters, I have a beautiful silver gray sectional sofa that I'm working with. I appreciate all of the posts here.

Okay, well, I know that once you get into the mauve violet hues, that brown is going to be part of the tint added to the paint. I was just confirming you are headed in the direction professionals have combined with your base color for the paint companies. You can likely do better if you don't like the brown, or than likely the gold tones, finding something more in the silvery hues of the colors you are thinking. They would be lighter colors certainly. In those photos that brought in grays, you will find that grays are either blue or brown based, and the person tinting the base can tell you what tints they are adding...Blues take them towards the purple range while browns towards the tan range. Grays are very hard colors but I always liked just the right shade of yellow with gray. I would think that could be a very pretty office accent wall, and not a brown yellow but something like Lemon Pie, which can veer towards a bit of a green hue, and yet is very versatile, light and clean. If that is too much the wrong direction, than there is a shade of silvery grey out there, that may be the perfect blend for your office setting with the Revere Pewter. Maybe Silver Sage, is a nice idea for your office?

I wonder if I added molding to the lower walls the columns sit on and painted them white, would they look more like built-in pieces and help to divide the family room from the foyer and nook better? That way I would have the option of painting the foyer and upstairs hallway a different color, maybe Revere Pewter, since it does better in that lighting. How would you handle a home that has three different areas of light? Zone 1 being the foyer/front of house (north sunlight), zone 2 the middle part of the house (kitchen, nook, family room with all indirect sunlight), and zone 3 the morning room (east, south, west sunlight).