thanks! Hi Linelle, it's the wall colour that's got a green undertone to it. I like herbflavor's idea of the bluey white (I guess teal-y white if there is yellow in the formula?), although I have other blue things like curtains, textiles and plates that might add balance... I was thinking I would do a monochromatic yellow/caramel/white palette with the main elements. But when I cover up the walls with my hand and imagine the blue-y white, it looks really nice... Yes, I have a stainless fridge and stove. I have the BM paint deck. Is there a way to tell from the paint chips what colours are in the formula?

Have you thought about not following a trend? We don't live on the pages of a magazine or in the Houzz photos. We live in our homes and they should reflect the personalities of the people inside the home and work with the lifestyle of those living in the home. What colors truly make your heart sing? What colors will bring you joy every time you walk into your kitchen or family room? My method for selecting the best colors for a home start with looking at the things that must stay. Usually this is flooring, cabinets, counter tops, furniture and may include art or other belongings with great sentimental value or that you simply love. Second step - Find the colors that you love - look in your closet, at the art and things you have purchased for your home. We tend to like colors that look good on us (it isn't all bad to feel like a 10 in your bedroom), and have colors that bring back wonderful memories. You want to incorporate those colors in your home. At this point you have to figure out the colors that you love that work with the colors you have to keep. I love lime green, but I have blue green slate flooring in a brick home with lots of dark reds. I also love blue greens, purples and dark reds, so I excluded lime green from my palette. So now I can think about how I want to use those colors throughout my home. Do I want to paint bedroom walls, bathroom walls, dining room walls, laundry room walls or kitchen walls with some color? Think about each room and the feeling you want that room to convey and how you currently use the space. Do you throw cocktail parties or football parties? Do you keep everything fastidiously clean or do you have 4 dogs and 2 horses and throw your muck boots in a corner for the next day? With kids, darker walls may cause a lot less stress about keeping everything clean and give you more time to focus on playing with the kids instead of wiping down walls. Think about how the rooms relate to each other, what rooms do you see when you walk through the front door. What rooms to you see as you walk from room to room? You want the colors to flow from room to room. Now if you love purple, you may not want to paint a bunch of rooms bright purple, but there are a lot of grayish purples and subdued purples that look great on walls. Same with blues, greens, oranges and yellows, Reds are either pink or red, but deep wine reds rather than fire engine reds can be used successfully on walls. What ever colors you love, subdue them considerably for on your walls - you are painting hundreds of square feet of wall - so a little color goes a long way. For the common areas of a home I usually go with a neutral (living room , foyer, hallways), but I pick the neutral based on the colors that I have selected for my other rooms that I want to bring in as accents and furnishings in the common space. So my sofa color works with the centerpiece and chair coverings in the dining room. Generally I pick 3 colors, a neutral and then pick a white for trim/ceilings/doors if they are being painted white. I like to use my neutral or a lighter version of my neutral on the ceilings throughout the house. It adds continuity. I play with the colors and the neutral, using some lighter and some darker versions, art work and linens may have brighter versions, but my main 3 colors get repeated and flow from room to room throughout the entire house with a neutral that brings them all together. If you do this you will have a unique home that works for you and your family and brings you joy every day you live there.

so it's actually more orange, you'd say, then pink? I liked the pink tones! and yes, I hate the brown tones. totally here ya on that one. Such a cool looking house. I suppose doing a lime wash on the brick is a no? I mean, I think you could really brighten her up if you went that route. Look at Romabio and their before and afters. just spend a little time online looking at the transformations. It's not a regular paint either, so it's very very low maintenance. try these. instead of doing tans/greens/sage, try moving over into the blue/green and blue grays, along w/some white and tans. These blues, along w/the orange brick, are natural compliments. I love these two blues w/the white. you have the porch and railing that could use the diff blue tones. don't forget the porch ceiling in the pale blue.

Thank you. I’m waiting for pre fab cabinets to arrive for the kitchenette. It’s just base cabinets because the plan is to have 2 open shelves above (the ceilings are low). Now that I’ve accepted that I need a white im having a really hard time picking one since I don’t know if it’ll match with the pire white cabinets. Im thinking I need an off white so that the white cabinet and white subway tile will pop. Im considering Acadia white. Now im in the world of mixing whites and it’s not fun!!