If you're painting to sell, I'd go very neutral. When people are looking at houses, they are thinking in terms of what color they'll paint a room, so neutral colors allow them to do that w/o turning them off. Some people will love a green room, others will cringe at it. Neutral is just that: Neutral, i.e.: safe. However, the color of a room really isn't a deterrent for a buyer, unless it's a deep, dark color, in a large room, that they'll have have to prime before being able to paint. Turnoffs are things that will incur high costs or heavy labor. When I looked at my house, one of the bedrooms looked like someone had painted it while on LSD in the 1970s: neon colors with huge flowers on one wall, different geometric designs on another. I bought the house anyway. That room is now painted in Nantucket Fog. But I did have to prime over all that other stuff first.

DE has some gorgeous colors and they also list the Munsell Code for their chips -- sweeet! So if you're shopping there you need to know how to take advantage of that information because when you're splittin color hairs like you kinda are, the info can help... First Snow and December Sky both have the PB notation which indicates they are a purple-blue. Just what you're looking for. Munsell notations are: First Snow 4.61PB / 9.0 / 2.1 December Sky 3.24 PB / 8.2 / 0.7 First number: The Hue scale is ten steps or integers. So you can see that December Sky at 3.24PB is not as purple-blue as First Snow coming in at 4.61PB. December Sky is at the beginning *steps* at 3.24 coming out of blue into purple-blue and First Snow is almost smack in the middle of being a PB at 4.61. When you look at the chips you can see that edge of blue in December Sky. Second Number: Next is Munsell Value which speaks to whiteness to blackness. This is a grayscale value ranging from 0 for black to 10 for white. For these two colors the Munsell value is close, with December Sky being more grayed 8.2 and First Snow less grayed or toned at 9.0. (This is not like LRV lightness darkness. LRV is a different *part* of color from Munsell Value) Third Number: Last is chroma. This is where the color is. The chroma scale starts at 0 for neutral colors and really has no end number because you can go all the way to fluorescent colors and who knows what else. Easier to understand this number with these two colors as example especially when you consider that December Sky is a DEW color which means Dunn Edwards Whites. December Sky has a Munsell notation of 0.7 which means there is little chroma or color - just what you'd expect for a "white". First Snow has a chromatic notation of 2.1 so we can tell that it has more color to it than December Sky. I'll list some other colors from ICI/Dulux as options if the two DE colors do not work. The ICI notations or color numbers are kinda similar but are still very different from Munsell notations but I won't go into that. :~D ÂCloud Motif 10BB 73/026 ÂStar Glow 30BB 72/034 ÂMoonlight Blue 30BB 72/045 ÂBlue Haze 30BB 72/028 ÂMing Dynasty White 49BB 76/037 ÂEvening Light 50BB 72/045 ÂWhistle Stop 50BB 72/032 Hope you find one that works.

Am not surprised about First Star. It sits towards the end of the Yellow Hue Family heading toward Green-Yellow. Low Chroma colours from this neighbourhood are prone to shifting blue in imbalanced light. I would have thought Eider White to have the potential to look more lavender rather than blue. But everybody’s light situation is different. Sometimes just moving a few degrees away from the colours which don’t work can be enough. Sometimes you may have to increase the Chroma so they are somewhat less impacted by changing light. These suggestions sit between Eider White + First Star.

Thank you so much to all of you who have commented, you have all been so helpful. Sounds like the combination could work and that a rug is key, hopefully I can find one with the right colors, it looks like that is possible from the examples you posted, Jinx. beache, yes, I would call the paint a muted grayish green and I like the colors you suggest - white, gray, blue and green are some of my favorites. Celery, the visualization helps me a lot! areyano_cs, I'm glad you like Livable Green as well as I do. Carrie B, I'm thinking navy would be a nice addition, too. Now to start researching for that rug. Thank you all again. What a great community this is. And if anyone has anything else to contribute, I'd love to hear it!