No side-lighting (either in the hotel or mine).

mamabird, I can appreciate your (or is it DH's?) desire to have a white room to house that large stone fireplace. It sounds very good to me, in fact - a lovely Scandinavian-country look. I really like the idea of a nearly-white in that room - it won't look cold! not with that behemoth of a firebox in the room. LOL! If you like the White Dove for the woodwork, it looks good. For the walls, if you're amenable to other brands, I would suggest Farrow and Ball's "Strong White". I have this colour in my living and dining areas and it looks like cashmere on the walls - just regular undyed, cashmere. A definite white with a little bit grey, a bit green, a bit tan, but only enough to keep that white from being blinding. Strong White's my preference for your room. It will "go" with the white dove as well as with the tan of the stone. Another (set of) suggestions are from Donald Kaufman. I have DK-24 (in a bedroom) and I love it. It is basically a white with some green, blue and lilac / tan to it. I have it in north-facing room and it reads quite like a blue-green tinted white - once again just enough to knock the blindingness out of the white. This would be even more of a scandinavian-country touch to your room with the great big stone fireplace. Other nice whites from DK are DK-4,5 and 6 the last of which has a noticeable amount of green to it. So not a green colour per se, but a green-shaded White. Alternatively, if you're really bound for a deeper colour in the white-ish territory, I'd suggest F&B's Off-White or Shaded White. Both are gorgeous, definitely deeper colours but both also come across as whites-in-shade if you get what I mean ;-) And I think they'd go swimmingly well with that stone fireplace. Good luck. For what its worth, I support your paint-it-white vision as I think the look will look stellar in it with the fireplace.

Thanks for all your replies! Here's another obstacle.... We feel like we can't even make a thoughtful decision for at least another week. Both my husband and I leave for work before the sun is fully out and we return when it's getting pretty dim. We both work over 35 miles from where we live and can't just pop by during the day and take a good look in broad day light. My attempts to see it before and after work resulted in this kind of lighting: It looked ok to me, but again, tough to tell. Unfortunately, we are going out of town this entire weekend, and so the earliest we can make a decision is next Saturday when we can see the house in daylight. This stalls things a bit bc if we decide to repaint the house, it would change the humidity levels in the house, and we've been trying to bring those down so that we can bring in the wood floors to acclimatize or whatever. We rolled some of the real SW Concord Buff on the wall, and it doesn't match exactly, even in the dim light. We keep asking ourselves, does that extra drop of yellow make a difference (yes, I'm sure it does). I feel like I like the current color, but I worry that I'm saying that just so that we can get on with this project! Thanks again!

Seen it in restaurants too. I wouldn't like it as a night light. Seems too commercial, but that's just me. And those restaurants shut the thing off after the closed sign goes up! I do like little night lights tucked behind furniture that make a corner glow, so you can see after the main lights are shut off. Night lights provide safety. Suzi