Hi - We just painted our entire first floor in Farrow & Ball "old white", which is a taupe-y grey. In some light, it also has a very slight hint of sagey green, but not so much that you'd think it's a green color. It definitely looks more taupe-y than anything else, and we've gotten lots of "oohs and aaahs" over it, even from the subs. We have dark wood floors and white trim and baseboards (which is done in F&B "Pointing" as are our ceilings). In the office and master bedroom, we used F&B "light grey", which is also a wonderful color but definitely darker and may not feel light enough for the main areas in your home, depending on what your natural light is like (and obviously, depending on your taste for dark vs. light). Farrow & Ball has such wonderful big hand-painted swatch cards, and I would highly recommend purchasing them...they're a hefty $50, but definitely worth it and WAY better than the little brochure they'll send you for free, which has tiny little bits of color that give you just enough of a feel to want to see more! If you're interested, I can take photos of these rooms, but we're moving in on Friday (after an 8-month whole house renovation), and we're in the throes of last-minute chaos with electricians hanging fixtures, painters doing touch-ups and punch list stuff. Our contractor put rosin paper down on the floors so they won't get messed up, and so the tone of the red rosin paper may influence what you'll see as the color of the walls. Here's a tip for you - if you go to Google and press the tab for "Images" and type in the name of the paint that you're considering using, you'll probably see photos of rooms from magazines that used that color. It's very helpful. When we were considering using F&B's "Middleton Pink" for my teenage daughter's room, we were worried that it would be too little girl-ish, but when she saw the image of several rooms painted in Middleton Pink, she liked it and so we went with it (unfortunately, later on, after it was on the walls, I made the mistake of mentioning that it wasn't a very sophisticated color. DUH! WRONG thing to say to a teenager). Anyway, Google Images was very helpful! Good luck with your search. I went through the identical struggle on the neutral grey taupe about six months ago so I know how difficult it can be! Susan

Thank you bookworm4321. :) The stone b/s is 6 inches high, so I am going sans backsplash above that. I think it will be enough, especially since the back of the sink is higher, and I will have a full stainless behind range. :) And I am def making that window trim more narrow-going from 4 inch to 3...

Nice sunroom. Love the floors. Here's are some visuals Comparing a neutral grey (less blue undertones) with white or beige trim & white or beige ceiling. I suggest getting 3 shades of grey to compare if you paint the walls. Get a bluish grey & a neutral grey (less blue to test) IMO, I like the white trim. Beige trim will always have yellow tones & works well with beige rooms. Hope that helps :)

It's a good thing you like area rugs. You will need a REALLY BIG ONE to separate the wooden bed (beautiful BTW) with the gray-mouse flooring. The oranges/gold tones in the wood do NOT like to play nicely with gray. They can clash badly. So you use a LARGE area rug to separate the two. In fact, the area rug will be so big (how big SJ?), it will be sooooo big it will turn out to be 'wall to wall'. I love the bed. Ignore the floor. You already purchased the floor so you are stuck there. Simply suck it up and purchase a very very large area rug to sit underneath the bed...and really needs to sit underneath all 4 corners of the bed...including the floating side tables.