"All the trim in the house is a dark stain. I want to paint it all white because that will definitely brighten things." Paint colors don't exist in a vacuum, it's always about how they look next to another color, and bounce back light from windows and bulbs. Bright white woodwork and doors will make the Kilim Beige walls look dingy and dull by contrast unless you have bright white and Kilim Beige in upholstery and drapes too. Don't mix "muted/dirty/greyed" shades with clear and bright shades unless you have a lot of experience. Stick to one or the other. Maria Killiam has a knack of explaining clean/dirty, undertones and the rest. http://www.mariakillam.com/clean-vs-dirty-colours/ ******************** AS you can see the family room is wayyyy too dark Paint can't fix a dark room ... you need light bulbs or higher wattage for that. A better picture of that, taken in daylight or with lamps from another room will get you better advice. ************** "I was going to paint the main living room cool tones, gray, light blue, white etc. but after reading, I'm worried the room will look washed out because of the bow window that allows for so much indirect daylight. So I am leaning more towards warm tones on that side of the home" Warm tones look warm only because they bounce back warm tones from the incoming light. When the incoming light is already "cool" because it's north light, it gets really hard to see the "warm" and undertones are going to be driving you nuts. I had a warm yellow in the kitchen, and the light coming through leaves and bounding off the grass turned it a gaudy green every morning ... ******************** I would immediately paint that fake wood wainscoting Kilim Beige to make it vanish. Remove it later, but right now it's just plain ugly. What I see are the DARK, light-blocking valances in the kitchen, pale mauve (?) drapes in the living room, and the almost exclusively beige and tans in your furniture, and no color in the artwork or accessories. No rugs? That's a far larger influence on the "blah" feeling than the dark woodwork and beige walls. Save your money by keeping the doors until you have drapes and rugs that add color and interest. Paint should be the last decor thing you pick, AFTER furnishings and drapes, because there are thousands of colors of paint. Trying to find a rug to go with the paint is far harder than finding paint to go with the rug.

I like how the wood cabinets break up all the painted walls, so I wouldn't paint, but I can see how it would be a more cohesive look to have them the same as the doors and trim out in your home.

Don't use a chaise lounge to illustrate furnishings in a living/family room, unless you actually intend to use one, and to use the size and configuration illustrated. Chaise lounges may be one of the most useless furniture inventions of all times, unless your family and friends like to sit on one and play kneesy with one another. One can never fill all the seats indicated on a chaise at the same time with adult humans unless there are some very odd games taking place. Far better to use two 3-seat sofas and 2 lounge chairs arranged in a square "U", with a coffee table in the center, or something similar. The chaise lounge lovers will be along shortly...

You need to work with a local Contractor who can first identify load bearing walls - if you have a design/build facility in your area I'd go there as they have both designers who can visualize and contractor's who can identify load and can do the work.