Some pics of the pelican room. This was a color match from Valspar of BM’s Thicket I think. It’s 13 years old now and we have to patch a wall and repaint anyway. I would like to maybe keep the banjo wall an accent wall. It gets the most light from a south facing window across from it. The room leads into our kitchen and TV room. I’ve been thinking Arctic Shadows on the accent wall and Soft Chamois on the rest.

You clearly like art and color. I'm thinking that a color closer to neutral like Soft Chamois or Mountain Peak White would let the art shine. But your combinations are well thought out and if you like to have color on your walls and these colors look right to you then they're right for you.

I have used Soft Chamois and it doesn't look green at all in the light I have. I have it in both north and south facing rooms. I only sampled it in the south facing room. It turned out to be brighter than what I was looking for there, but in the north facing room its brightness was needed.

Your question about why Brandon Beige looks different at different times of day is because the angle of natural light varies throughout the day, and seasonally. One person told me she chose a color for a room in summer which she loved and she hated it in winter light. This is why it is problematic for people to try to help you online. Colors look different IRL and even IRL they'll look different on different walls of the same room. I have painted the interiors of two houses completely and I'm halfway through the third. I've found there is just no substitute for sampling. Rarely do I hit the right color on the first try. And that's not even getting into how sometimes DH has a different opinion. :-)

@kandrewspa Thank you for taking the time to write! I love all colors, but there are way too many in this room! I feel much more at ease in rooms like the bedroom/bath where it is limited to just a few. Unfortunately, this sitting room has become the catch all for everything that we can’t give away.

I think you are spot on about changing to a lighter neutral and I wish I had the ability to paint it all again a cleaner neutral. However, that would drive my husband to run away I think.

Looking at my photos helps me realize the main issues that make me question this room: the height vs floor space is an irksome proportion and there are too many competing colors. Does anyone have any suggestions not only on the Pelican room color, but what I could do to tone down this room and give it a more cohesive feel?

I really like the living room color and decor plus dog. Perhaps consider getting one large rug to unite all the seating and ground the space more.

@jackowskib Thanks! I was just considering swapping the blue runner with our bedroom rug this afternoon! That would leave the red rug out of comission for a bit, but it certainly would bring more cohesiveness to the room. I brought the bedroom rug into this room once before. It was right before I repainted. I have a photo.

@decoenthusiaste Thank you, those are all good suggestions to consider. Especially your comment on protecting against sun damage. I had to laugh of the thought of that pelican in my bedroom. Our bedroom is not big. I’ll maybe have to find him a place up high in the sitting room. Although I like seeing him from all the way across the 2 rooms, the canvas is likely to get rammed by accident someday with our hundred pound dogs and young kids running around. I also like the idea of grouping the antlers. It’s an electric piano. All such great advice, thanks again!

I love your spaces. I would go with a slightly darker color in that room.

I’m getting the sense that I need to ”fix” the spiral staircase room before I can choose a wall color for the adjoining room to the east (green room/was the pelican room). My first step will be to rearrange the art and swap the rugs out. I don’t know when my new picture frames (3 of them) will arrive, but I’ll want to have those before moving the art around.

@houssaon Thanks! It seems maybe with my new couches a different paint depth whether lighter or darker would be preferable. Unfortunately, I can’t change the paint color now. The walls and ceiling are so high we needed scaffolding for 2 days to paint it the last time and my husband is not letting me do it again any time in the next decade. I’m hoping to help the wall color by painting the piano room and maybe that one wall that has the 3 art pieces stacked in a column if it would help the overall vibe of the room and the transition from bedroom to living area. Brandon Beige is the living area and Grant Beige is the bedroom.