the keeping room (dark red color now?) seems to be a darker room...where does the sun rise and set on the keeping room?

Get yourself a colour wheel and a fan-deck of paint colours. Personally, I find it quite impossible to accurately assess anyone's colours on a computer monitor. You have to see how your chosen colours look IRL with your floors, cabinets, and other fixed items. Terms like "brown" and "khaki" are similarly difficult to interpret as the ones you have in mind may or may not have the correct undertones to coordinate with each other. The chip colours on each page of a fan-deck always go with each other, and, in conjunction with the colour wheel, should provide a good starting point for you to choose a cohesive, tasteful scheme.

okay, just a few notes...

1. i think i saw in another thread you were looking at universal khaki. we used that color when we bought my grandma's house 8 years ago, and frankly find its my "go to" color. i like it. keep in mind it is paint, an easy change if you don't like whatever paint color you choose. a pain to re do? yes, but easy fix. i would really suggest you get a sample size can of the colors you are looking at and paint a section of your wall in different spots. i was 98% sure i wanted revere pewter based on the love it gets here on GW, but did have a sample mixed, and glad i did. it reads too gray for my space :(
2. those stools...are they yours? looking for something similar to that! if so, please share where you got them!
3. cbusmomof3...is cbus for Columbus, Ohio?! :)

I so wish I could slap some samples on the wall, but we're building, so there is no space yet. The pictures I posted are of another house my builder built that has a similar layout to mine in terms of those three rooms.

I guess I just want a suggestion for what family of color I should look at for the keeping room if the family room is SW Universal Khaki and the kitchen is SW Superior Bronze. I don't need an exact color, just a direction.

I am having such a hard time picking paint colors so early. Honestly, I may paint the entire first floor Universal Khaki, live there awhile, decorate, then change some rooms.

MIssyV-Obviously those stools aren't mine since it's not my house but I can find out who makes them if you'd like me to. And, yes C-bus is Columbus :-)

What is a keeping room?

I tend to agonize over paint selections, because once they go up, they stay. Before I selected room colors for my house, I slapped test paint on the walls, which eventually drove me so nuts I had to paint over them with the old wall color. Finally I got some foamcore board (relatively cheap) and painted large pieces (about 2' x 2') and moved them around as the light changed during the day. Or I'd let them sit on the mantle and gaze at them. In the end, I had a clear choice and the color behaved exactly as I thought it would.

If I understand the layout right, the opening to the keeping room is framed by the dark brown of the dining room. So I would go light again for contrast. You could do khaki again, but I'm thinking more of an off white.

Does SW have some kind of color visualization tool where you can apply color to a sample image? If so, use that. I'm always going to the Benjamin Moore Personal Color Viewer to help with color visualization.

LOL! I have no idea what a keeping room is, but that's what some people have called it. My builder calls it a sunroom, and I often call it a morning room because I plan on curling up in there with my coffee and something to read on Saturday mornings after I've fed my gang, cleaned up the kitchen and the kids are lounging in the family room watching morning cartoons. It's right off the kitchen and it has a lot of windows for natural night. The windows are on the east, west, and south walls.

Thanks for the ideas. Maybe once the drywall goes up I'll be better able to picture it. I think painting some boards and taking them over to the house at different times of day will be helpful too.

hey, we are almost neighbors! i am about an hour, hour and a half from you and frequent columbus, admittingly during our endless counter top search. i am in lima, doubt you have heard of it :)

good luck in your new build. i would paint a few boards as suggested just to help you out. i do like universal khaki, like i said we have had it for 8 years and still like it. i have a living room and dining room painted in that color, but honestly could have done the whole house in it. my sister even asked what color it was so she could use it. tans are hard, some read peach undertones, so know you are safe with that one.

MIssyV- Of course I know where Lima is :-) Have you found a countertop here in C-bus?? I'd love to see it. Thanks for helping me out with all of my questions. We are in a rental house now but I did our bedroom and bathroom in Universal Khaki and loved it. Lots of different light and I always liked it. Like you said, no funny undertones. That's why I've decided to go with it in the new house.