I like Galapagos Green and Westcott Navy, but have to admit that the color you have now also seems quite nice to me. The little box with mushrooms is adorable, by the way.

I agree with Ingrid. Galapagos Green would be my first choice.

I find many of the colors too drab. My first choice would be Potters Wheel and the second Hathaway Gold.

I'm open to other suggestions too. I went through about 20 paint cards today . . .

What bedding will you be using?

Well, I kind of want to use the quilt that is on the bed, but I may change it out for something plainer. I'm also going to use this watercolor over the bed.

None of the colors show up accurately in the BM paint program, so I used the darker colors on the card to show the general color. I would go lighter. SO thinks I should do "greyish tan" in there and let the art speak. I dunno, I told him that "greyish tan" is the color of dirt. And he then says, "could be tree bark" and then I said, "Yeah, that's how a forest looks in the winter--all tree bark, dead leaves and dirt--drab!" He then joked I could paint the ceiling green. Maybe I should put up tree wallpaper! That would make me feel "cared for" since I am a tree hugging botanist by trade!

You hit the nail on the head Morz8, trying to find something that speaks to me. I find a lot of comfort in mixing my things with mom's in new ways in the house. I like the whole northwoods vibe, green, maroon, blueberry, tan, brown . . . but that dang blue carpet is throwing me off. Has to stay though, just not in the cards right now for changing it. Maybe I could get a tanish rug to go over it somehow. Not the easiest to put another rug over a blue shag carpet. I just can't pull it, the floor underneath is very cheap plywood. I know this because dad flooded the front room when he ran a load of laundry with a broken washer and all the front rooms had to have the floors redone. I saw the sub floor, it was "sub par" if you ask me, but this is a late 80's built home so to be expected.

i really really like sw windowpane in sunlight it looks like porcelain blue and in shadow looks like a very very pale gray i've had it in two houses now and in new house i've even painted the ceilings this color i like it with wood tones and with white and the wall color in my kitchen, living room and main bath is antique white (sort of a very very pail yellow/cream to me

I think the watercolor will look better against something like the bisque color, and would still harmonize with the carpet.

You didn't try the BM Antique Jade I suggested...

I could not find Antique Jade at the paint store or online. I got similar jade colored paint chips to try. I woke up this morning and decided I need to go with a more neutral off white shade in there, but off white is much more difficult than color to me, there are so many gradations and the differences are so subtle to catch on a chip, but significant when the whole wall is done. Sigh.

Edited to add: My bad, antique jade is there. I would probably go one color down on the swatch though, to "woodland white." Will be getting some more, lighter paint swatches this afternoon. I'm going to Sherwin Williams today though, BM is not available in my hometown, but in the nearby town where I live. I just didn't see antique jade there when I looked, but it was almost closing time when I went so I probably just missed it in a hurry.