I'd add the color with something that can be changed out later more easily. Tile will be the toughest thing to change out. You could have just as much fun with a pattern on the wall in paint, colorful towels, and accessories. If you're dead set on having color in the tile, then I'd do a mostly neutral with a stripe of colored tile or a few accent tiles.

Jo Ann, I believe I paid $52.00 a gallon. Well worth it. I like the coverage (used much less than Farrow and Ball paint at half the cost). For a 12 x 12 room approx. I only used less than 1/2 gallon and that's with two coats. It dries slowly as compared to Aura and even BM. Or maybe it just dries differently. The color is more clear and intense in a good way. I had Bleeker Beige in his room before and it was sort of ho hum boring. This color is deeper and depending on lighting can go either more olive green or more brownish. But not muddy at all. Her colors seem vibrant almost as if the light amplifies the color in a good way (not garish). I need less artificial lighting now and the room looks cleaner if that makes sense. Sort of the feeling you get after a good rain storm when everything looks crisp and clean. And I have to say Ellen is awesome. She felt bad cause one dealer she tried to get mixed for me, screwed it up. She actually sent me two gallons free of charge and had them delivered no charge the following day. Now that is good service and an amazing person. I would have gladly paid because it wasn't her fault. There are so many colors I would like to try. The colors are beautiful and she has a good sense of color and is really helpful. She can send you large hand painted swatches so you can really play around with them in different lighting situations. She has a ton of neutrals that would work for you and some bold colors as well. I think with the natural setting your house is in, full spectrum would be awesome. It wouldn't hurt to call her as she is an amazing person who really wants to help out. I wasn't sure of the color for the room in question but in the end, Ellen was right. Honestly, Bm colors, while nice, just look flat and lifeless in comparison. The full spectrum just ights up the walls. I have one more room to paint and it's a hard call between Farrow and ball and EK. But I know the EK just makes the walls come alive and I am drawn to that. Let me just add that I was one of those people that liked greyed down colors. There's just somethng special about full spectrum paint. I think I am becoming a paint snob or maybe i just like experiencing new types of paint rather than the status quo. Go to he website and you can see many photos and even do a search here. Everyone says the same thing.

One way to paint with resale in mind and still have color in rooms is to paint the most difficult ones in colors considered "acceptable" for your market and to reserve the color you want for easier-to-paint rooms. As an example, our master bedroom has a beamed ceiling, with the beams set into the walls. That means that there are three wall surfaces per beam requiring cutting in. Sixteen long beams, including one at each end of the room running across the length. This room had been an uninteresting white, and I redid it in a neutral mushroom color. For the cutting in required around the beams -- white to mushroom means two coats, so that worked out to the equivalent of 64 beams to meticulously paint around. Part of the wall in which five or six beams were set was on the other side of an open stairwell. So, regardless of what other colors I might conceivably have envisioned this room, there was no way it was going to be anything other than a classic, warm neutral! I do agree with posters who argue for painting for yourself. I knew within weeks of moving into our former house that it was a huge, huge mistake. Roughly 18 years later, we moved. The whole time, I lived with neutrals that weren't particularly interesting because every year I thought: THIS is the year in which we move. But are neutral rooms always necessary for resale? Someone bought an 18th C. stone house on the river with the intention of reselling. I saw it under its previous owner and was charmed by its quirks and character. The new owner has certainly improved it both structurally and mechanically, and floors are new, as is the paint job. Alas, there is absolutely no charm left. Every wall is an off white, all the trim is white...the owner may have thought potential buyers would easily envision their own things in these spaces, but I thought that every room required a new paint job. Isn't that back to square one? By contrast, one of the best real estate agents in the area lived near our former house. She sold her house very quickly. The outside was purple, with deep lavender trim. I recall a dark red room, or maybe it was orange. Another room was a bright green or bright blue....Granted, the town is one in which people want to live, not too many places come on the market, and the market itself was very different. But still...orange...blue...in fact, there may not have been a single neutral room in the place. I think the sunroom was a dark green. If you crave color but think you might want to move, just remember, too: with some exceptions, painting doesn't take very long.

amysrq, before you make any choices on your decorating, I'd like to suggest you take a look at some of the threads on the Buying and Selling Homes forum. Not only those on decorating but also on the status of the current housing market. Also you can post your home as it stands now on that forum and get some excellent advice from the folks on that forum on what changes could be made to your home to make it more saleable. I have no idea where you live or what your housing market is, but many markets are facing very very slow sales and very stiff competition. If you want to sell your home then you want to appeal to the greatest percentage of buyers which increases your odds of selling your home for the highest price possible in the shortest length of time. What someone likes to see in decorating and what they will buy may be two different things. Generally real estate agents say if the decorating is too bold the buyers look at the decorating and not at the home - you want the buyers to focus on the home not the beautiful decorating. Wallpaper is generally considered a turnoff to about 90% of buyers. There are ways to decorate homes with neutral backgrounds and accessorize with color that can satisfy your need to make your home beautiful but still accomplish your goal of selling the home. Remember, if you have decided to sell your home, then you are decorating for the buyers. The fact that you are packing is a good first step because that is one thing mentioned by real estate agents, decluttering your home and reducing those personal objects in your home so buyers can "picture" themselves living in your home. I know moving can be very stressful (been through that many times myself) but since you will be moving closer to family that should help. johnmarie has given some excellent advice above. Making your home appeal to as many buyers as possible is foremost, as you don't want your home to languish on the market which can create even more stress. Good luck to you. Here is a link that might be useful: Buying and Selling Homes Forum