If there is good light by your front door how about a sand with hints of moss, color instead of cream.

open space with the dining room having west facing windows and the living room having east facing light The geographic direction of windows and doors isn't that important because the characteristic of the light changes throughout the day. What does matter is how much daylight and with windows from two exposures, you have quite a bit. I would like to paint the walls white and am looking for suggestions on paint or undertone in general. Every color including colors of white belongs to a hue family. Hue family is determined objectively based on the color's DNA. Undertone is the wrong way to think about color, especially choosing paint colors, because undertones are just someone's subjective opinion made in some random context under some random light source - and their perception of a color has nothing to do with the reality of context and light you have to work with. When it comes to white paint colors, this is important to understand for a couple reasons. #1 an objective categorization of whites by hue family makes it a whole lot easier to understand the core characteristics of white paint colors. #2 you can just use a color notation to find out what hue family a color belongs to, there is no visual gymnastics or shuffling of paint chips involved. but the floors are the same Use the floors and the stone in the fireplace to help you zero in on the right white. If you make sure the white looks pretty with the FP and the floors, you'll essentially create an "envelope" of color; a color coordinated shell for the essential contents like furniture, rug, art. Gather the paint chips for the colors on this infographic. It's a collection of whites from different hue families and evaluating this range of whites from different hue families will help you figure out what hue family neighborhood harmonizes best with the FP, floor and the light you have to work with so you can get the look you want.

I’m curious, though: if picking the right color based on window or light orientation isn’t a sound strategy, why are there so many articles about it? Because it's lucrative. It depends on what you mean by "articles". There are scientific studies and white papers about azimuth, fenestration, cardinal and intermediate geographical directions and how daylight propagates through interior spaces. Also, lots of good stuff about how the eye adapts to light and dark illuminantion. If you're talking about posts on blogs, most of them are garbage. It's a lot of baseless, subjective opinion presented as expertise. Bloggers know they can make up whatever they want about color and no one is going to call them out on the bulls@t they publish - because there aren't that many legit color experts reading the crap they publish to call them out - or care. Most people have not one fat clue how color works but are intrigued, fascinated, sometimes romanced by color. Which makes it a hot topic and how color responds to NSEW light is Google keywords rich. So, whatever "systems" and "rules" bloggers want to make up, and sometimes slap a price tag on, innocent people who don't know any better are willing to gobble it up and adopt their color point of view as if it were gospel without question or vetting. Blogosphere is at best reductive when it comes to how color works and it's the last place anyone should look for information. The damage it's done to color literacy is actually quite sad.

I like a sky blue in laundry rooms kind of reminds of hanging laundry outside. I would do a plain white counter that will then allow you to do anything in the space .There are fun declas , in your space I do not see a window so maybe something more like a piece that makes you feel like you are looking out a window. You could really make it feel like that with a large window frame and the art mounted behind it. Wallpaper is also a thought . I think laundry rooms are like powder rooms have a bit of fun