You did mention an apricot. That would be really pretty too -- warm, inviting, and soothing as well. I'm wondering if you like the feel of the warm, goldens around you and would just like to see a gradual color shift -- still on the warm side -- as you look down the hallway. Or, something totally different with a blue or green. Something to think about : )

I'm afraid I must disagree with the suggestion that green on the walls will tone down the brick. Actually, the opposite is true...colors that are opposites on the color wheel will bring up the color in both...so green makes orange look twice as orange, and yellow makes purple much stronger. We dealt with the same issue by painting our walls a soft neutral, and then putting a four to one mixture of water and paint in a bucket, washing it onto the brick chimney wall with a big paintbrush, and patting it down with a handful of cotton rag. This method works wonderfully to control the look, and keeps the variety among the different bricks, while tying it all into the room in a much more sophisticated way. It took one morning to do the whole thing, and gave the effect more of stone than brick. I wanted the hearth to relate to the dark floor rather than to the wall, because it keeps the brick wall from intruding visually into the room area...so I painted the inside of the firebox and the whole brick hearth flat black. Then I brushed a second coat of semi-gloss black just over the surfaces of the hearth bricks themselves, which made the whole thing settle into the floor. The grout stayed flat and shadowy, the nooks and crannies likewise, and the effect was much more natural than the dustiness of just flat black, or the fakey plasticky-ness of all semigloss. You could do the same thing with a deep tone of your carpet color. I wish I had a photo to show you. It looked wonderful, if I do say so myself!

Painting the garage navy would make it the focal point, not really the objective here. Also navy would be too harsh on the house itself. Beige through sage and some grays will work. Think blend not pop for the garage. The house should pop.

The windows are not right for the shutters. I would remove them. Paint the trim a light tan. It really looks good with the color of your brick.