I need help with paint colors! We are building a new house with an open floor plan with the kitchen dining room and living room open to each other and the stairway leading to the basement. The kitchen will have cherry cabinets with a medium brown stain, countertop is Cambria's Buckingham (Browns, creams, grays...), engineered hardwood in the kitchen and dining room - Acacia Natural, and cocoa carpet with lighter greige flecks in the living room, stairs and hallway. The living room faces West and has a bay window and the entry doorway (mostly glass w a sidelight). The other two rooms are on the East and there is a window in the kitchen and an extra large sliding patio door in the dining room.

I'm trying to decide if I can get away with painting the walls gray (or greige) with all of that rich brown wood color. The color samples I am looking at are Valspar's Urban Dream with Main Street Paver as an accent wall over the stairs and perhaps down the hall. The trim and doorways will be painted - possibly Affluent Cream (again by Valspar).

The living room furniture adds more browns and creams with burgundy accents. I am looking at the grays mostly because I am not a huge fan of the yellowish/orange undertones that many of the taupes and browns get. And my hubby doesn't want it to look "pink."

I have tried to attach a pic of the countertop and will try to add more pics of the space when I get to a different computer but it is still under construction so...I only have stud walls and no working light fixtures so it is hard to tell what the colors will look like in the space! And the walls will be painted before the rest of the stuff arrives! Help!!

Thanks in advance!
Charity