I can give you advice based on what I discovered in my lower level family room (two windows at ground level, east and west exposure). Pretty dismal room ;) Previously painted cream, I wanted to 'warm it up'. I wanted Sherwin Williams Blonde but it was so dark on the sample poster board it looked like mud. I learned to bump up on the color swatch to lightest or 2nd lightest from top for a darker room. Color will have depth to it (conversely if you used that same color in a high light room it would probably be so pale you couldn't see much color). How about a nice warm golden>tan to cheer it up? I used SW Jersey Cream and like it. It started out a bit more on the yellow side but within a few months 'mellowed' to less yellow, more golden tan. I would steer clear of colors with Yellow in the name, they tend to be bright like daffodil or dandelion color. If you check on creams, many have yellow base and you'll get that golden warmth. Or check out browns where darkest color at the bottom of the swatch is butterscotch or acorn color, then move up to coordinating lighter color, again about 2nd one from top on that swatch. Check the Gallery section of Home Decorating here. Specifically "Yellows and Golds" thread. You'll see lots of photos and just might find a color that inspires you! (There are other "Favorites" threads in the gallery as well, such as "Blues", "Greens", etc. all loaded with photos.)

Flyleft I have the same kind of room in my house. Low light, northern exposure and I live on the Gulf Coast! It's sunnier than crap here almost all of the time, but we wouldn't know that from this room and it's our main living area. After testing all kinds of colors I ended up going with a medium grey. Nothing else looked good in this weird light. It uses the White Base with only raw umber as the colorant. I'm definitely affected by light conditions and it was a relief when I finally painted the room from the "light switch beige" it was before. I always steered clear of grey because I thought it was depressing, imagine my surprise! I used deep tones in my kitchen (peacock/marine blue) and dining (an almost black, blue). The Gamma Grey is a nice buffer. It's a very close match to SW 7065 (Argos). Walkin's suggestion to add shimmer to the paint sounds fantastic. Autumnal paint colors, whites, and beiges don't look good in my light conditions. I do have an orange couch and have a lot of those fall colors in my art and accessories.

The idea with cool weather grass is to help them get through the stress of the hot summer, which they do not like. To do this you feed it in the fall and winter before ground freeze, and once again in late spring (around now for fast acting inorganic, early may for organics). It is like an athlete carbing up the day before a competition. You need to eat in advance of the competition, not during. Likewise with your lawn. You don't want to feed it in 90 degree weather and force it to grow when it would just as soon take a nap and save its energy. For that reason I'd say skip anything that releases nitrogen during the hottest months. This might also encourage fungal attack under the right conditions. Just get the cheapest brand (usually Lesco) of high nitrogen, low everything else fertilizer. Sometimes you can find 50-0-0 or 42-0-0, something like that. As long as the first number is a lot bigger than the other two, you're fine. Follow the directions, and consider going organic, at least for part of the year, but that's another discussion.

likewhatyoudo - Thank you so much for those gorgeous recommendations. I do feel like I need something a bit more dramatic as everyone in our neighborhood is pretty much light gray. Just curious what is the equal of BM Embers to Sherwin Williams? And regarding your suggestions of beefing up columns, we actually replaced our columns last week which I've attached today's picture here so you can see it a bit more. I would LOVE to replace our door in addition but I don't have the $$ to do that t this time. Not sure if you saw another post I actually added this morning (titled: Help! Need to decide exterior paint asap! Looking for mok ups to help) explaining I just lost my job due to COVID so I'm scraping by gettting the little work done that is currently taking place (replacing awful wood rot and the load bearing columns) , and now getting to paint. So no wiggle room for anything extra though we are trying to get our front lawn to look good this summer (fingers crossed). I really do appreciate all suggestions though.....time is ticking and my fiance is going to ring my neck!