I like Bittersweet Stem and may need to get a sample of that. The others look too yellow for my liking, I am trying to get rid of the Restrained Gold look. Any thoughts on Balanced Beige, Pavilion Beige or others like that?

Patricia Colwell Consulting, Thanks for responding and for your ideas. You didn't say why you wouldn't pair taupe with beachy colors. Is there a specific reason you think taupe doesn't work? Not being a pro, I'd be very interested to know and to know why I should go with a greenish gray, especially since green is a color I don't care for in large quantities (such as on walls). If it helps, I've attached two photos. The first is our previous home with the furniture and decor we'll be re-using in our new home. In this previous home, the walls were Sherwin Williams Sand Dollar (a slightly pinkish taupe). I chose those colors based on the second photo below which was the inspiration photo I used in picking the colors. As you can see, it has taupe walls and floor tile in the main area, aqua walls in the foyer, and the furniture and rugs are in blues, aquas, creams and whites, with some other colors in smaller decor pieces. As I said, I'd love to understand why you think taupe is a bad choice, and I'd love to hear from others in regard to these color choices, as well. Thanks!

Add a "Design Dilemma" tag to your post to get more help and add photos of the tile, rug, woods floors. Pretty home to so far!

Hi - these top two colours have an LRV of 80+, the bottom colour 78+. But remember LRV only does one job. It tells us how much light is reflected back from the surface of a colour. Value is a more useful indicator of how light a colour appears. LRV is no indicator of potential warm/cool attributes of a colour. (Hue Family location gives us a reasoned likelihood of that.) LRV does not tells us how colourful, or neutral, or greyed a colour is. (Chroma does that.)