I think I like Feather Gray...

Not all Taupes are heavy on the pink. However, If you paint an opposite of the pink in your stone it just makes the stone look pinker. You need just the right balance. I'm anxious to see SW Truly Taupe.

I’d like a lightened version of sparrow. When you hold up the samples,please include the cherry cabinet in the photo.

Deb, this is not a great photo, but one I took while we were in the process of painting. The top wall color is Agreeable Gray mixed at 150%. I have a cherry hutch and cherry island in the room as well as that red brick. It turned out to be a great color, but the only way you can see it is to get it mixed up and take it home.

Agreeable gray was one of my earlier suggestions.

Yes! I'm on my way out this evening to get more sample colors. BTW, the lightened version of Sparrow would be Rockport Gray, which I also posted, above. That deepened version of Agreeable looks fab with your brick wall, lascatx! I'll try to capture both the cherry and the stone in my next photos. Thanks, all!

Here's a photo with Rockport,. including both FP and cherry cabinet. Also, here's another one of a different cabinet on opposite side of the room.

Can you try the agreeable gray at 150% or just at 100% ? Agreeable gray has a bit more beige in it than some of the other grays which might work better.

Yes, K9arlene. I have just one color left to sample (Truly Taupe), so I'm trying that now. Unless that one is the winner, I'll go over to SW and try some 150% Agreeable Gray. I wasn't able to have Agreeable color-matched at my local paint store because the young woman working there didn't know how to do it at 150%, so I'll have to go to SW. I love the way it looks in lascatx's home.

Good morning, everyone! Here is the sample of Truly Taupe. I'm not seeing a pink tone here. It's early and there's not much natural light. I'll take another photo when there's sunlight in the room later in the morning. What do you think?

Can I see it up higher on the wall and from a little more distance?

Yes, of course, Terrilynn. I'll get that out as soon as I can take a photo.

If you could, please hang the paper vertically.

Do you want to go that grey? And that dark? I can see where you are pulling that from, but it is the darkest veining in the tile and not a primary color. That's going to make the light stone jump out. With the light floors, light stone and warm neutral you said you were looking for, I pictured a softer contrast.

I hope you can try the AG/150. It really read beige, but softened. Despite the name, it doesn't read gray, especially at 150%. Doing the 150% is just doing one and a half times the pigment formula, but rather than teaching the guy at the other paint store how to do something he should know to do, I would go to a SW store.

While you are there, look at Accessible Beige. I found my fan deck and looked at it with your stone too. We used that in my sister's former home with a whiter marble in the FP surround -- had some gold in it too like yours, and mixed beige and gray marble in the MBR as well as a granite with both beige and gray. Her flooring was a dark wood with some red and a carpet that was an off-white with flecks of brown and gray. I think she was comforted and figured she couldn't go wrong with beige in the name. It worked. The stagers used a lot of rustic wood finishes, linen, touches of black and the buyer said the colors were what she wanted. Everyone was happy. Anyway, I've seen both of those paint colors with elements similar to yours and they are what I pictured with your original post. K9arlene too. ;-)

Thanks. Someone else recommended Accessible Beige, too. It's the warmest of the three colors, Agreeable Gray, Repose Gray, and Accessible Beige. I'm beginning to lean toward beige colors, because of the warm shades in the stone, but first I want to post a better photo of Truly Taupe to see what everyone thinks. It's not easy, but choosing the wrong color would be worse!

It's the planning part of a painting project -- the headaches now are better than spending more later. Do you have some painters tape -- the blue tape (or sometimes green) or masking tape? I make loops of that to hold up my sample boards (until I just slap some on the wall like in that photo -- realized when it posted that It wasn't even cut in). That will allow you to put the taupe sample up between the cherry and the FP but also near the mantle and allow you to step back to look at all three. I need to look up close and step back too.

Yes, I'll tape it up higher. Others wanted to get a view of the sample with both surfaces, too.

I am not at all a gray person but I recently used both Accessible Beige AND Modern Gray and I think I actually prefer the Modern Gray (it's lighter ) . They are fairly similar like I am thinking most people would probably think it's the same color in 2 rooms, but the Modern Gray has more light to it. Just my 2 cents.

Hi, Sheila, yes I did pick up a large chip of Modern Gray, which a soft, pretty color! In this room, everything takes on a cool blue or green tone, and it flashed a very pale green. It won't work here, but now that I know about it, I am considering it for a bedroom or study, both of which face west.

Above is my Truly Taupe sample with stone and cherry wood in view.

I don't know whether it's the lighting in your room, but it looks very gray to me. I'm wondering if the paper you're using is just too thin and absorbing the paint color so we're not really getting an accurate read of the color. I'm also assuming that you're just using one coat of paint.

Well Debra, you really bite at photos lol. All I see is a bit of blue shadow which I think is the sample. Actually I'm also seeing teal. And, periwinkle. The only person worse at photo taking is me when I first joined here.

Pretend the shelves are your fireplace and pretend a bit of the red cab is showing on other side. Hang your samples and stand back about this far to start for photo.

Neither of you is very far off about the color. That's exactly what it looks like: Blue with a purple cast. That is stunning to me, because I painted it in another part of the house and saw something completely different that I thought would be perfect. This is not at all what the sample looks like in other light!

Here's what I'm finding: unless a color has a warm gold undertone, it morphs into some shade of blue or green the minute it gets into my family room! I was trying to avoid gold and beige, but that's exactly where all this sampling may be going.

My children have similar comments about my photography skills, but honestly, that blue glare isn't my fault! It's real!

I still don't have a sample of Agreeable, but it's cooler than Repose, which I've already sampled, so I don't have high hopes. If you Google a Ben Moore Affinity color called Kangaroo, that's what I'm thinking of trying next. I have a larger chip, and it's the first thing that looks really good in this room. I also have a sample can, so I'll try it.

It's a good thing Terrilynn told me how to do this, or I would already have made a terrible mistake.

https://www.heytherehome.com/choose-perfect-greige-paint/

Might this help?

I just painted Balanced Beige which I think is the next down from Accessible Beige (don't have paint deck close by). I was afraid of going too dark, but once it is on the wall it really doesn't have that much color. It's just a nice beige color.

Lowes carries SW colors and their samples are only $3. I bought some samples there because it was a) closer b) cheaper.

Commented up above " i'd stay away from the taupes and go with a greige or grey". Taupe=Greige

https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/taupe-and-greige-whats-the-big-difference/

https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/taupe-and-greige-whats-the-big-difference/

That's bazaar Debra, you have one tricky room.

The color Truly Taupe in your room looks nothing like the color in people's online homes.

K9arlene beat me to it. I had read the same article about the difference between greige and Taupe.

Here's Kangaroo, just so you can see how an orange-beige looks. I've never been a beige person, but maybe gray just won't work here.

I'll check out the warmer colors suggested by Terilynn, in her last post. Nothing I can do about the shadow caused by the mantle.

One more attempt at capturing the color of my Truly Taupe sample.

Been following your post & I only skimmed through the recent comments, so someone may have already posted a link to this; however, I have a north-facing room with windows that let light in on the east and west sides of it. It was really difficult to find the right color! This article helped me. Hope it does for you, too.

Laurel Bern Interiors - My North Facing Room

Thanks! Yes, I read that article while scouring the internet for a way to deal with the odd light in this room. If I didn't have the stone and orange cherry cabinets to deal with, I would pick one of Laurel's favorites from that article.

Everyone, I can find many beiges that could work (or that I at least could try sampling), but I had hoped for a warm gray, since I really don't like beige. In looking at the SW deck, it seems that I need to find something that is warm, but not purple, possibly a color that gets its warmth from brown or orange undertones, but not so much that it's beige. I'm not one who is afraid of the purple/mauve tints, but in this room, they just turn periwinkle blue. By comparing the color strips, it seems that Agreeable Gray, which I used before and loved, is too green and too cool -- cooler than the related colors I have already sampled. There is one more gray that comes from a warmer strip: Popular Gray. Does anyone know that color?

I really like the Kangaroo!

But the rest of the house is painted Balboa Mist. I worry that it won't fit in, but furnishings and accessories may help.

Is that bad?

Balboa Mist

Debras, how many coats are you putting on your samples? Also, might the colors be more accurate on poster board?

Two coats. They are on poster board. I used the heaviest quality they had.

Ugh. Was just hoping that one of the colors you already tried would have worked if you hadn’t done everything right. Wish I had the answer. I’ll keep looking.

Kangaroo looks too rosy on my monitor. What lighting are these taken with? Daylight? Lighting turned on? If so, what kind? Have you tried a couple of different bulb -- at least in a lamp you can move around. Flash?

I chose Agreeable Gray exactly because it didn't go green -- my room has N and NW exposures and the red brick. I also think it seemed warmer, more beige at 150%, so that is one reason I suggested you look at that. Wish I still had a sample, but I think it was used at my sister's house and don't think I got any back. If I do, I can send you a swatch. LOL

Hi, all. Still perplexed about my family room color and still hoping to get your help. Not a single gray seemed to work, and I've tried lots. A couple weren't too bad, but they didn't bring out the best in my travertine fireplace. I read something about Shaker Beige, a color I have used before. A designer said that, when you have pink stone that doesn't work with most neutrals, Shaker Beige almost always works. So I ran right out and got a sample to paint. Here it is. Wondering what you all think of this.

I love what I see so far.....sounds like the designer was correct!

Looks good to me.

wow following along, I actually have Shaker Beige in kitchen/family room and adore it. I didn't think to suggest it because it's quite a beige as opposed to gray or greige, but it looks like it works beautifully in your photo and I can tell you in my opinion and experience it's a wonderful color to be surrounded by.

I like the look of this. I avoided this color because it didn't turn out well in my last home. Maybe the formula was off, because this looks nothing like the color I remember. It works well with the stone and doesn't read as pink as some others. It looks good at all times of day in my space. So glad to hear you liked it in your home, Sheilaaus122.

I know I'm obsessing, but since I have enough time before this room is painted, I want to try one more thing. Maria Killam, who recommended Shaker Beige for a room with some pink-beige elements, also mentioned Kilim Beige in another post as a solution that often works with travertine. So one more sample. Meanwhile, does anybody have experience with SW Kilim Beige? It looks more orange, while Shaker Beige has a pink undertone. The stone seems to have both colors in it. My wood is most definitely orange, as you can see.

Hi, all. Here is a photo with two colors. Shaker beige on the left and Kangaroo on the right, both from Ben Moore. Your thoughts, please?

Oh boy. That's a tough one. I think the Shaker Beige is the safer choice because it doesn't seem to have any weird undertones. I like the Kangaroo but wonder if it will read pink when it's up.

Kangaroo has some pink undertones, because they show up in other rooms in my home. They don't show up as much in this north-facing room, but I suppose they could when it's all painted. Shaker Beige is pretty most of the time, but it has definite green tones that come out in some light -- but nobody else seems to think Shaker Beige looks green. It looked mustard-green in my old house in a dim, north-facing study.

Kangaroo looks really nice against my orange wood, so I'm torn about this decision. I do think either will work, and SB is definitely tried and true.

Here's a link to an article from Kylie M. about Kangaroo. She seems to like it.

https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/benjamin-moore-affinity-the-best-neutral-beige-gray-paint-colours/