Thank you for the courteous response, Annie. I love yellow, so I might give that some consideration. I've always been partial to colors that are bright or soothing. It's a psychological thing with me. Dark colors tend to depress me, so the "dark color" allotment will be limited to my charcoal-ish floors and the black hardware on my white cabinets.

What flavor of gray do you think you want? A true, neutral gray is achromatic, is colorless, has no trace of hue. And is actually kinda hard to find as far as paint colors go. What most people mean when they say they're looking for a gray is a chromatic gray. Chromatic grays are so close to a true, neutral gray that it's difficult to detect any hue, but they do have some degree of hue and do indeed belong to a hue family. You can find a chromatic gray from every hue family in the visible spectrum. Depends on what you're looking for. Examples of hue parents and lighter/darker, grayed child colors:

sloyd thanks for the suggestions but I don't think those will work for me - most are too dark for this space which is a long rectangle with windows only at the far end (townhouse). THe lighter ones have green undertones and while I like green it doesn't look good with the warm red and the browns in our scheme, I think. I guess I am looking for a white with warm udnertones or a cream that is not "buttery".

Thank you Marylee H! Tonight I painted SW Beach House, Colonnade Grey, Requisite Grey and one other color whose name I can’t remember. Of that bunch, Colonnade or Requisite are the winners but I need to see them in the daylight!