Thanks for the suggestions. I know painting the wainscoting will get me the look I want much easier, I just honestly don't want to mess with it even if it makes this a little trickier. rice grain does look nice in pictures online i may pick up a sample. I picked up a sample of sea salt yesterday, i'm so drawn to it and figured why not just see what it looks like. I can see how the wainscoting is accented a bit, but it's not that dramatic tbh. The FASCINATING is how it looks in the west facing rooms vs the north facing family room. I've heard that north facing rooms turn colors blue, but that's not the case, and there's a fairly large window right there in front of the sample. Here's the dilemma now, i really like how it looks in the rooms with a bluish hue, but the family room sample looks like a faded forest green (not bad but not as complex and pretty). The new lighting isn't installed yet and it'll be 3000k so i know that will play up the green. @aliceingardenland those are beautiful. i'm thinking of trying Mantra it seems to have a bit less green and a higher LRV. Even in the sea salt i loved (1st & 3rd pic), i kind of wish it was lighter. Any other suggestions or thoughts? I think next i'll try SW Topsail and/or Mantra, they seem almost identical. Thanks!! Above: W facing sea salt (perfection!) sea salt in N facing family room...washed out forest green/khaki? another pic of west facing room, this is closer to what i like. on the left SW Sea Salt, above it is Behr reflecting pool, below that is SW icicle.

tried that 1ST...still looked beigey pink..nasty!! tried everything..weird how when the same color is turned upside down it looks sooo different!!! thought undertones off ..tried dover white..looks different on each side but not as bad as having red undertones..now trying SW extra white no pigment...can still see pink and green!! so is it LRV ???? SO FRUSTRATED!!! OH..BTW..CANT THK U ENOUGH FOR UR HELP!!!

Hire a Kitchen Designer. You need way more than colors. They can help you to see why that’s not a functional layout. It’s not even good aesthetically. And help you pick colors. A kitchen had to fit in the rest of the house. You can’t pick selections for a kitchen like it’s the separate building playhouse out back. You have to pick things that create a whole design, for the whole house. Every room isn’t Tomorrowland, or Pirates of the Caribbean theme rides.

I have learned to AVOID flat paint. If anything happens or if there are children it gets dirty and can't be cleaned. Semigloss allows a wipe down. Trim heeds to be hi-gloss for contrast. Another person commented about using Navajo white (in a posted photo). Don't do it. The school systems use Navajo White when they paint the interior walls around here? You know why? It doesn't look dirty from kids, because it already looks kind of dirty and never really clean or fresh even when they just redo a room. The color above the lovely white wood in the dining room doesn't match the rest of the house and isn't nice at all. The nicest neutral non-white color so far is the light taupe near the staircase. How nice you get to be the new caretakers of such a grand home.