I don't really want a pure gray but rather a greige. I have Stonington Gray and Gray Owl from another room, and it's too gray for my taste. Edgecombe Gray reads a bit greenish, something I really want to avoid. To complicate matters, this morning, both Agreeable Gray and Balboa Mist look good.Does anybody know which one of the two leans more towards the red/orange/purple side? (As far as the rug, I only meant "ditching" it from one room to the next, sorry)

color on the walls never went away.. I feel it's about tastes and preferences of course, but geographic location first and foremost. every place on Earth has its own settings..its own light. so yes, the colors are chosen to work with the light that's there as you say adhiker..bright or soft..lighting up and shutting down as with the switch, or lingering.. I also think: every color is a color. White is. Gray is. So what if they're neutral. To me many browns and greens and blues are also neutrals of sorts.. Whatever your eye is used to see a lot is a neutral. People would think neutrals are less restrictive..true..but with so many shades and tints-you'll still choose one main direction for the rest of your things(warmer or cooler, brighter or muted), and add a bit of other colors. But you still will choose main direction. I love taupe, ivory, cream, off white..I have both taupe and greenish off white besides greige as I've said.. I also have shades of green and purple And they all work perfectly well together because they're a tad muted..they're soft, muted, and change with light but in a way that I like the changes And you can actually get away with many much brighter, saturated colors too..so many beautiful examples, whether it's New Orleans or India..:) or England or Russia you can have enfilades of rooms, or just rooms all painted or wallpapered differently yet it all perfectly works that's when you have this very-very open floor plan only, and certain style of a house, when you have to choose a color otherwise hard to pull off.. Also so much depends on the materials a house is built of..architectural style..etc that's why I actively dislike all this "timeless" blah blah. Timeless is beauty. Beauty is different. Forest is beautiful, and sea is, and jungles are, and mountains are, and deserts are. And the most timeless you can do is to go with what's there already, and create a dialogue between the place and you. I don't know why people think something is in vogue. True, something is, but there are literally hundreds of"vogues" going simultaneously It's like if all the people would dress the same but why on Earth should they, when everybody's different? I feel bad writing so much..:)

Yes. We have a unit vacating on the 31st and I just paid for another 5 gallons of D of M. D of M belongs to the middle of the Yellow hue family. (see the Colorography) When some yellows (most yellows) get darker and grayer they looker greener. It's not always noticeable, however. It's more like there are moments of greeness not necessarily an inherent sense of greeness. Personally, like that edge of greeness because to me it reads fresh and clean. What all that means is classic color theories apply. Colors that go with yellow and green will go with D of M and colors that don't, won't. Drift of Mist Colorography.

I enthusiastically recommend SW Worldly Gray. It is a light gray with beige undertones, perfect for what you are trying to do. My backsplash was cream, beige, and gray tiles, counter tops cream, gray and a little black quartz. The Worldly Gray was perfect, almost a griehe, but light. Home Depot will be able to mix SW colors. I used WG in an open floor, moved, and did it again.