We don't have an open floor plan, rather arches leading to the main rooms. This is the largest part of wall area in the family room, looking towards the kitchen. Revere pewter is to the left and mindful gray to the right. A small amount of sedate remains under the light switch. The arch is not painted (yet).

Standing in kitchen, looking into family room. Dining room to left. And you guessed it...fireplace unfinished;). Builtins will be like the cabinet you can see here in the kitchen.

Standing in family room, looking towards foyer. Mindful,gray sample, showing purple undertones in real life. Picture are not the best.

Check out SW Worldy Gray and Amazing Gray. They're beautiful, warmer grays with a good amount of beige in them.

Just put up,samples of worldly gray, needs to dry, but boy it looks like straight light lilac to me. Arghhh! Looks so nice on the chip. Could it be the yellowish primer underneath or beside it, making it look so purple?

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Check out the thread on TOH Nov color of the month - Aluminum. Might be what you're looking for.
Gray's are hard. I just painted most of my first floor in Behr Sparrow. Its a bit dark for you and more blue. But looked the best in my house with the light.
I thought the revere Pewter looked good in your pics. It was green/greige in my house.

Try BM Metropolitan Gray. It has a higher yellow value than red and blue.

SW Agreeable Gray and Collonade Gray are very nice grieges.

I'm currently debating between Agreeable Grey (SW) and Revere Pewter. I also like Grey Owl (which is grey grey...look it up on Pinterest), but for the rooms I'm doing now, I want more of the greige tones. Currently leaning towards Agreeable Grey.

Another thing a paint person told to consider if something has a particular tone in your home that you don't particularly care for: try a different kind of lightbulb in your lamps/lighting. Sometimes THAT is what gives your room a particular hue. :)

dove gray?

I painted our guest room BM Owl Grey....blue, blue, blue! Very pretty for my guest room, but be prepared for blue.

Jane
For some reason it looks green in this photo. But it really looks blue

We are not finished yet so excuse the unfinished state, but hopefully some pics can help. I used Agreeable Gray as my transition color to other spaces and it works very well as a neutral and goes with both cool and warm colors. Here it is with red, the warm wood, and creamy white base.

The Collonade Gray is on three walls of my open space with Exclusive Plum as an accent wall. Agreeable Gray transitions these spaces. I also have a purple couch and chair in the room, but none of the gray walls read purple. The Collonade has a lot of depth to it and changes from very neutral to very warm depending on the light. I have a lot sunlight and also use all LED bulbs (3000K). Here is the Collonade.

Here is Collonade on the left wall behind the chair and Agreeable on the wall to the left of the fridge. The Exclusive Plum abuts the Agreeable.

Grays are a challenge, but great when you find what works for you. Definitely check your lighting. If all of yours are reading purple I would suspect bulbs. I swapped out some CFLs that definitely cast purple.

Try BM smokey taupe, it's heavenly

Thanks for the support & suggestions. I haven't given up! Revere pewter is looking like May favorite, thus far. I still see some purple undertones on the on wall in particular at different times. I'm going to see about switching light bulbs and them I also want to try a few more samples. Keep.the ideas and grays coming;). Thanks!!!

Bbtrx- that looks beautiful & thanks for another option!

I just painted two living rooms, a dining room, and an entry way collonade gray. What are the best lightbulbs to use if you are seeing lilac undertones? I wanted more of a beige undertone.

The only way I was able to obtain the color I wanted was to start with what I thought was close and then I bought small containers of more beige and more greenish colors and mixed small amounts of them together with the base color and painted the results on pieces of white paper until I hit on exactly the right color. I took this paper to the paint store and they were able to duplicate the exact color by analyzing it on a computer and adding different tones to basic white. I then had my very own custom color which I'm completely satisfied with, and there are no blue, purple or red tones in it. Under a certain artificial light it can look greenish but that doesn't bother me, and it's only with overhead lighting, not when lamps are turned on.

I don't see gray walls in your house with those warm golden wood floors. Are you replacing the floors?

I found three grays that I considered for our master bath. The lighest is Alpaca SW7022, Pussywillow SW7643 and Fawn Bridge SW7640. We used Alpaca and to begin with I thought it looked a little too beige to begin with. Once everything was done in the room, I could tell it was gray, not beige. These are SW colors at Lowe's and from what I understand, they can't be found at SW stores, although they can mix them for you. There was recently another thread about grays, check for it here or on the Bathroom Forum, I can't recall where I saw it yesterday.

The original question is from Nov 2014. I suggest Brittany start a new thread to avoid confusion with the older info.