I also suggest that you build a whole home color pallet. You want each room to complement the rooms next to them so that you keep a great cohesive feel to your home. I recently bought a home and used the same method that I used on my last home and on a dozen homes belonging to friends and family. Get a large white sheet and lay it over a table either outside or near large windows. You want to see the colors in natural daylight to really get a feel for the undertones. Gather samples of the colors that are in your home and have to stay. Flooring, counters, appliances, might even be a painting that is special to you and you will never part with or new furniture that you are going to keep for a long time. Place the colors on the sheet in the same pattern that you would see if you were walking from room to room in your home. Then pick the colors that you love - those colors from your closet and accessories and art work that you selected that make your heart sing. (You don't want to envelop yourself in a color you would never wear - you want your home to make you feel like a 10). You will want most of the colors to be subdued versions of the colors you love - I have dark hair and eyes and ivory skin. Summer colors. I love purple, but instead of bright purple walls, I selected smoky purples complemented them with deep wine red and grayish teal. My sister have medium brown hair and more olive toned skin. Her home has all fall colors - gray greens, oranges, tans, reds. My sister in law has blond hair and blue eyes and has a country home with soft yellows, peach and cornflower blues. Place the colors in different rooms on your sheet, figuring out what works with the colors that must stay and how the colors can flow from room to room. Think about how each room is going to be used and what feelings you want the room to reflect (You may want to feel sexy in the bedroom, but comfortable in the living room or you may want to feel relaxed in the bedroom and have your living room a bright and cheery gathering space) Pick out 3 to 6 colors that you want to incorporate into your home. Now pick out the neutral that is going to work with the colors that must stay and the colors that you love. The rule of thumb is that you should have 60% neutral, 30% subdued color and 10% accept color. My last home the ceilings were all my neutral (Purple under toned taupe) as were my living room, entry, hallways and office. My kitchen was deep wine red - made the cabinets pop. I continued the wine red into the family room as it was a single wall in an open concept space. I used a deeper shade of my neutral on the other 2 walls in that room. My 2 spare bedrooms were a light grayish teal and the bathrooms a deep grayish teal. My towels were smokey purple as were the walls in my master bedroom. My carpet in the bedroom was a deep shade of my neutral. Don't be afraid of color, use what you already know. What would you wear together. If your ever unsure if something works together, remember that mother nature is the best color coordinator around. If she put colors together they work. Look at landscapes, flowers, streams, beaches and pick the colors that mother nature put together and you will never go wrong.

Just match the walls and use a SATIN finish. Not understanding the door color. Watch out for TOO much going on. I'd consider all trim to match the new built in....Or paint charcoal on that door, all trim the satin version of wall to match the new built in. . Looks awfully red. : )

Do you know a fantastically skilled finish carpenter? Or someone who can recommend one? If so, have him/her come in and take a look at your room and see what is involved in removing the scalloped edging from the book case and crown molding and if it can be done without damaging the bookcases and crown molding and what the cost would be, etc, and then you can decide about that. You can have a wood refinisher restore the wood back to its natural beauty if it has dried out and or alligatored, etc. Or you can have it painted. The sage green color Flo Mangan suggested is lovely. Just think about if you want to be married to that green color, because although you love the fabric on the little sofa now, you grow tired of it, or it will wear out and when you replace it, you may want to go for a totally different look, but you will be stuck with green woodwork. If you want to introduce a piece of furniture, say an armoire that is very functional for you but the quality of the wood is not that great, you can paint or stain that one. If the rest of your home is in greens, and if you have been a green gal your whole life, why then go for the green con gusto. If not, please think carefully about doing all the woodwork green. I like a wood floor with a beautiful handmade rug. I am partial to Orientals, and the prices on Persians are very good right now. You could get the paler colored Nain or Isfahan, but a brighter colored rug would look well too as it would stand up to the deep green and the deep coral in the sofa. An allover pattern is a good idea as a central medallion might get lost depending on the positioning of your furniture. An Aubusson (yes, they are still being made) or Aubusson look-alike would look great as well, but this hand-made authentic Aubusson requires a serious $ committment to green. Curtains to the floor would be a good idea. If you are willing to make a long-term commitment to green, then you can pick 1. Medium sized print with a botanical print such as a green leaf such as a fern on ivory, or 2. Green and ivory vertical stripe 3. All ivory with a wonderful embroidered ribbon trim along the inner edge, and the trim should incorporate the colors of green and ivory and one other color from your sofa, you decide. I like something that looks and feels and drapes like silk. I know you thought about about an upholstered desk chair, but you need to really think about the ergonomic aspects of a desk chair. It doesn't matter how beautiful the desk chair is if your back or hips hurt after sitting in it after a while. I strongly suggest going to every office supply place in town, and buy the most comfortable chair you can find, but sit in it at a desk in the store for a while. Even if you despise the fabric. You can always get it recovered in whatever fabric you like, or a supple leather. I suggest having a throw pillow made for your sofa is you think you would use one, and if you like to put your feet up, I would have an ottoman made, with the cushion in a floral print in the colors of the corals and green of your sofa, and a ruffle skirt in a medium green stripe to match the stripe of the curtain, or if you don't do a stripe in the curtain, pick one of the greens of the sofa. (I say sage, you say olive, but you know which shade I'm talking about.) And on the throw pillow and the ottoman you will use contrast pattern welting. And you can think about really going for broke with lavish fringe or tassels, etc. Take a look at the Scalamandre web site under trims. There are no prices listed on the Scalamandre website because if you have to ask their prices, you don't need to shop with them. Seriously though, their products are only available through a designer but you can see what you like there and get the best facsimile that you can afford elsewhere. Pink and green go very well together but a bit Palm Beach Lily Pulitzer. Coral pink and sage green go very well together and are tres chic. So if you really want the room to read feminine, you can paint the walls the coral pink that is in the sofa. But choose the pink carefully, because you don't want the room to look like a nursery. And the choose the green carefully too, because, well, split pea soup. A side table to hold a drink, a book, and a small plate would be useful. If you can corral a somewhat larger table from somewhere else in the house, or buy one from a garage sale that would be useful. You might want to bring up a tray from the kitchen and eat lunch in there or someday have someone in there for tea and to discuss a project and you can keep a tea set if you like on top of the table. So think about a small dresser for storage, or a small table, or a set of TV tables (is that what they are called?) This will be a really fun project, and keep us posted!

You have all convinced me that we should do white similar to the trim. I am not planning to change the trim color so it will just be a standard white. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and photos! @Maureen, I have asked my painter to start with the hallway so I can see how dark winds breath looks on a larger surface before committing to it in the family and living rooms!