Here are a couple of informative links if you are interested.

The 4 Best Warm Gray Paint Colours: Sherwin Williams

9 fabulous benjamin moore warm gray paint colors

If the windows are on the south wall, it is south facing. Your face, and the windows, look to the south.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you and the double doors you referenced are glass patio doors that are opposite the windows, therefore on the north wall. In that case you would get ambient light from a northerly direction however the southern light from the windows will definitely warm it up.

I thought you stood in the doorway facing out and that is the way to determine the facing? The double doors (bedroom doors) lead into the bedroom and are on the north side of the room - The windows are opposite and on the south wall.

I will add to the above comment that the bathroom would be on the east side of the doors and windows. The bathroom has a 2 windows 1 on the southside and 1 on the eastside,

Thank you phuninthesun - a couple of those BM colors are on my list.

"The windows in both are on the south part of the house, so if you stand in the double doorway of the master bedroom you would be on the north"

Unless the doors have glass that lets in natural light, why does it matter what end of the room they are on? The light that will affect the paint is coming from the window, which is in the south wall!

Like I said. WHERE DOES THE SUN COME UP? And where does it set.? How about you draw the space ? And even consider a paint color not resembling liquid mud. I am killing myself................lol....omg........ thank heavens for Friday wine

Go buy some Big poster boards and test. In the end, you won't know untiil you test IN YOUR OWN space, whichever way it is facing

Sorry Jan I don't see that comment. Maybe it hasn't posted yet? I don't see the OPs reply either.

Don't forget this is a fun and helpful thing. Please play nice everyone and have a great weekend!

Well all I'm saying is, if the bathroom is to the east of her room, and the door to the room is on the north wall, and the window is on the south wall, THE ROOM FACES SOUTH!! Potentially there's some western light too.

So jodigee if you go hunting for a bunch of potential colours that are good for north facing rooms you will maybe not get a good result. Because your room, from every single piece of information you've given us, is SOUTH FACING.

PS I'm laughing as I type, not yelling. For the record.

Another question for jodigee: did you come by your north facing determination by employing the Feng Shui method of determining your house's direction by standing in the front door and looking out? Because that isn't applicable to choosing a paint colour.

Yes I did - is that why it’s backwards? In any case I’m still looking for paint colors and not so much how to determine the orientation. The room does NOT get much light unless I open my shutters on the south wall

Well the reason we talk about northern exposure with reference to paint colours is that the Northern light looks cooler and bluer, so it affects how paint colours show up.

I don't know a lot about Feng Shui but determining the direction of your house as a whole is probably different from determining the way an individual room faces.

I had some luck in my previous home with BM Mesa Verde Tan, and BM Pismo Dunes, with wood tones. IMO, they are more toward warm Greige than “tan.”

"Pashmina AF 100 - I like it - not sure how it would be on all walls - I heard this color would not work in north facing tho :( "

Now that we've established that your room is *not* northfacing, this sounds like it would be worth your while to sample :-)

You could open the shutters.............. ? And you have to realize lamp light is different than daylight which is different than no light. And when do you MOST want to enjoy the space and color?

Without some type of light there IS no color. Exactly as if we stuffed you blindfolded in a small closet, shut the door, and asked you to remove the blindfold and tell us the color of the walls. All color, every shade, tone, of any color...is dependent on light. Yours is specific to your home, as it is for all other folks and their homes.

So then do you want me to rephrase the question Jan? Although, apparently you think all the colors I’m thinking of trying appear to be like “liquid mud” —- I was asking for feedback on the colors I had in mind....like have you used them? Or any color suggestions like https://www.houzz.com/user/drbevdc provided.

Also in my my original post I did say I have tried a few color patches and what I thought.

• What I am saying is a few test patches of several colors, close together, especially in the greige to gray and to all its variations? Will make it very hard to choose . You need a big test in the light you will have, and it needs to be all alone or your eye will be confused. We see color by comparison, but the best color to see your "test" near, is white. Not another gray tone.

• What anyone else used? That may help only as far as which four, five, or six test quarts. None of us are in your space. But there are color pro's and perhaps one in your local area who could help advise greatly. : ) In person

Try ballet white from Benjamin Moore. I have a north facing bedroom in Chicago that gets no sun during the winter. This color works well for me.

I just painted my north facing room smokey taupe from Benjamin Moore. I tried BM Halo on poster board in the room and looked at it from all different angles and at all different times of day and thought I loved it. When the room was painted it looked mint green. I had to then make a decision about what color to repaint and snow made it so I couldn't go get samples -- so I did as much research as I could on other "grieges" and picked smokey taupe from a paint strip because the articles I found said it had red undertones versus green -- and I love it. Has a nice taupe-gray feel that's very neutral. The upshot is, pay attention to what research you can find about undertones -- I don't recommend picking from a paint strip, obviously, but the research helped a lot (and I guess I got a bit lucky). I know seeing is believing, but a little supplemental research can really help, too. Wish I had paid attention to it before I had to repaint!

It.s a bedroom how much time do you spend in there during the day? Choose a color you like forget the whole facing thing and for crying out loud get the shutters off the windoww to actually get some light. I usually use the bedding to decide wall color so maybe try that , not all walls want to be greige.

Benjamin Moore-look at the CSP colors-they are fabulous-

NOTE-BM on line will send you large sheets of paint colors--CSP is my go to for our clients-

For bedrooms--lighter is usually better and you have dark wood-