I should clarify as the two sketches separated don't show it but the doorway I refer to is between the fridge in one sketch and the wall where the stove is in the other sketch. Opposite the fridge wall is a pony wall with a staircase upstairs. I will put a small narrow buffet on there or some such.

I do not want yellow, so that's good advice. I'm after a wood floor with a bit of variation, both to camouflage a busy house and hide what is sure to be dents and scratches with a cat and a dog.

The only other things I've got going on in the kitchen is the white beadboard ceiling -- walls and trim colour yet to be determined, and there's not a lot of that.

I want to do the living room in something like a BM Stonington gray.

My flooring store tells me Kentwood makes good hardwood, and I thought Coal Harbour (bottom photo) was promising, but lesser expensive options are two from Mannington that I like -- Mountain View Hickory Smoke (top photo) or Mayan Pepper (middle photo) which is actually shown against a lighter green, albeit the bathtub.

I'm going a little nuts, because the paint store lady says I need to pick flooring before I pick a cabinet colour; other people feel it's the other way around ... and now I read the countertop should be picked first because they're the star of the show.

And here all along I thought it was the cabinets, and everything else came from that!

The order in which you pick items doesn't matter, it's completely non-linear. Just gather some samples and put them on a mood board or a bright white surface of some kind, so you can see if you like them. Look at the samples under natural light, and under the type of light you will be using in the finished kitchen.

Benjamin Moore has some online tools that help with colors, search for Soft Fern and you will get suggestions for similar colors. However, green obviously has some yellow in it, no matter which shade you pick. Do you mean you want a more neutral green, or a more bluish green?

I had soft fern in a previous house. I'd suggest getting a sample jar and painting some large squares on a couple of walls so you can see how it looks in the changing light.

Revere Pewter is the first color to mind when you say green-gray. I've read that eastern light adds green and western light adds orange; I think this is worth considering because we painted our previous house a dark green gray which was beautiful on the eastern side especially in the morning, but it looked like a terrible olivey brown on the western (back patio) side in the summer afternoon.

I haven't seen it in real life, other than a swatch but Sherwin Williams (not sure if that's an option) Sea Salt is a very pale green that is apparently considered a grayish green. The swatch I've seen is very pretty. I agree to paint some samples on the wall to determine how the light will affect it.

I have a big color sheet of Soft Fern, along with several other greens. Soft Fern definitely has blue undertones in my house/lighting. Not yellow at all, and not gray.

Among the many, many samples I have, Camouflage is similar but more gray, no blue undertone. Urban Nature is a bit darker, and also doesn't have the blue undertone. I don't see yellow undertones in any of the three (Soft Fern, Camouflage, and Urban Nature).

FWIW, I did as other people suggested and signed up as a designer on the BM site so that I could order larger color sheets (4x8, 5x9). I've ordered a few of each color and taped them up around my kitchen to see them in different light and angles. I've bought a sample can of paint for the final few.

It doesn't look particularly yellow-ish to me. I have Camouflage in my bedroom and I think it's more of a beige-green than gray-green, but it's very chameleon-like and fluid. The important thing for me is I can't discern any blue.

This link might be helpful for you if you're committed to green: Benjamin Moore greens

That is helpful. I've got paint samples slapped on my old cupboards, on cream colored walls where there are no cupboards (yet) and was starting to panic that Soft Fern looked yellow. I hate myself as I don't want blue either, and just a hint of grey. Thanks, ladies. I think too that if I get cooler tones in flooring that will help too, won't it? Instead of a warm pine, as an example?

the 3 pics you displayed show how these tones can nicely work.... However, I would be considering what accents I may have already in adjacent spaces, or accents I want to introduce .For example a botanical window curtain/ table runner/ or colorful rug..favorite pottery....all important with this scheme. Intense rasberry, cool aubergine, virbrant greens ...etc .....this third element of a "pop" , to me is important with this palette. If the space is too small for that extra level of detailing, or you don't care for that kind of thing or what you have already won't work with this, then I would probably go with more neutral brown woods or stay with more straightforward whites. The pictures don't display this extra element and altho what is shown works,I would want to be sure that what I like for detail color will stand with this [maybe they were just ads for the flooring or such].....Generally tho, I think several different color schemes layered into this work well, and a couple would be gorgeous.