Hi all!
We are building a home and are just about ready for
paint. I thought I knew what I wanted, but now am so overwhelmed with
all the choices, so am hoping you all could give me some advice!
The
biggest challenge is that most of our home will be one color, and of
course that's the color we can't decide on. The first floor is semi-open
concept; there are walls, but you can still see most of the other
spaces from any given spot. The second floor has a large loft that
overlooks the family room. We are thinking that the stairs/hallway and
the loft should be the same color as the first floor since they're
mostly visible to each other and we don't want it to clash.

What
color would you recommend? Our painters are going with Sherwin Williams
paint so we're limited to their choices (I know you can color match,
but I don't want to risk it).
We really like the farmhouse kind of style (our house is a farmhouse/craftsman style, with a wrap around porch).
I
want to keep it a neutral color since it will be in so much of the
house. Am leaning toward a light gray/blue color since we will have gray
cabinets in the bathrooms (upstairs), and grayish carpet in the
bedrooms (upstairs). I'm having such a hard time finding which shade of
gray/blue would work well though. White or off-white I think would be
great, but the kitchen is all white, and there are a lot of doors and
windows that will be white with white trim.
The flooring on the
entire first floor is camden oak from harmonics (I've attached a
picture). I am really not sure which color to choose that will go well
with the floor? We also have pine tongue in groove boards on the ceiling
of the family room and loft. We will either clear coat it, or white wash the tongue in
groove and stain the beams when we move in though.
We're
keeping it simple for the rest of the house color wise. For the bedrooms
we've picked SW Silver Strand (greenish) and for the bathrooms, SW
Unique Gray (purple-ish). But those are changable as well. I thought
about doing the bedrooms a blue color, and then silver strand for the
first floor/loft/hallways. I'm not sure if that would look ok with the
flooring though? Or if it would be too much green?
Thank you in advance for any advice, I really appreciate it!

flooring:{{attachment:2505805}}loft from the family room:

{{attachment:2505806}}entry looking into the family room:
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