Right.. I do know it's a bit of my own bias. Because my decor will change as I replace items (as budget allows), I am looking more for the colors that suit me and make me happy-- silver sage is definitely one of those! I adore all in that color and it works well with the other colors I love. I will definitely try it out-- but I am going to slow down and prime the wall first so that I can really see the colors. My mom was over at the house yesterday and said the same thing I already knew-- you can't see my test colors for what they are because I put them over the horrid blue. I knew that but i was trying to cut corners. See where it got me??

To get rid of warmth (ie. red) from a RED-brown floor = get rid of the floor. I'm sorry but that is the truth of the situation. Red-brown doesn't like to play nice with grays. You can see that with the colour clash in the fireplace (yes...there is a flooring/fireplace colour clash) and the gray in the walls. Sure the green belt is throwing green into the space....but that only occurs when the sun is up. I would say the flooring was chosen to match the cabinets. Now that you are changing the kitchen to gray/white/blue or black, you are going to have a heck of a time working around the red-brown. To fix the problem with the floor colour, you have to change the floor colour. This is where a whole home/space approach is wise to consider when looking at a kitchen renovation. Now that the "match" to the cabinets is going to change, you will probably need to look at new flooring to help you move towards your goal.

Man, that mossy dark green is horrible. do you want a white wall? (I also love my plants!) I did Simply White for the walls and the trim. It's neutral but leans a little towards warm. but definitely not yellow! Or, try one of these neutral, warmer grays to tone down the deep wood tones I used Light Pewter in the kitchen area. Or look at Athena or Nimbus (BM) or Pale Oak, they are similar to Light Pewter Beg and plead w/hub to paint the ceiling. one good coat ought to do it for you. I'd also paint the built in. I know, I know, but I'd paint it! paint it black. or white. or pick a color.

I had a white on white home with very light floors a few decades ago. I lived in Southern California, had huge windows and tons of natural daylight in a climate where it seldom rained or had cloud covered, gloomy days. It was stunning, but I owned 4 dogs, 10 cats and ran a mobile pet vaccination service from my home where I had 8 employees coming and going. White was not a great choice for my lifestyle. Much of my current home was painted white and had light beige carpet when I moved in. I live in Central Pennsylvania where there are long winters and many cloudy overcast days. The white fell flat and felt lifeless without all the sunshine. In both situations I was happier after I painted with neutral colors in the main areas of my home and colors in my bedrooms and bathrooms. Over the decades of picking colors for my home and being sought out by friends and family and referred by real estate agents to help others pick colors for their homes I have figured out that there isn't a perfect paint color. There are perfect paint colors for your home and those color are based on the colors that make your heart sing. We all have different colors that we are just drawn to. We buy clothing and art and bedding and throw pillows with variations of the same 2 or 3 colors. If you love coral and aqua and own all kinds of things that are coral and aqua you want them to look pretty when you hang the art on the wall or throw the pillows on your sofa, so the neutral that you pick should be different than the neutral that someone who loves olive green and gold or the neutrals that I pick that work well with smoky purple and wine reds. I inevitably end up with some shade of taupe, sometimes a bit lighter and more beige and sometimes more violet gray, but they always have some gray and some beige and pink/purple undertones. I always have a clean white trim with just a touch of peach or yellow vs a blue or gray white. (The color I used in both my last home and my current home is Devine Icing which I get mixed at any BM store from their computer match formula. It is close to BM Simply White, but warmer so less likely to pull green. I am the youngest of 6 kids and am in my 60s. At this point all of my siblings and I are long settled into our signature color palette, but we have also all tried painting or wearing whatever color was popular at the time. If it happened to be "our colors" it worked out great. Builders beige trend was a decade of colors that simply didn't work with the colors I love. You won't go wrong if you stay true to yourself. When you walk through your home you want to look around and see the colors that bring you joy, not the color that some designer decided should bring you joy.