Mindful Grey

Repose Grey

Popular Grey

Stone Lion

Amazing Grey

Balanced Beige.

Versatile Grey

I think neither of your choices. they read way too cool. Because of your carpet and fireplace I think you need a warmer grey or even beige.

No accent wall! paint all walls the same color.

I agree, if anything, a greige. BM Edgecomb Gray, BM Gray Mist.

Google ideas for the most popular greige paint colors.

Thank you for the suggestions. Repose and Mindful are supposed to be warm grays, but they are pulling cool for some reason in our house!

Any of these are a little warmer and might work better

SW Passive

Quick question, do you plan to paint the fireplace at all? Either or, city loft for the accent wall and Balboa mist for the other walls. I think painting the fireplace white or black would make it pop in the space. :) Accent walls don't have to be drastically different colors ;)

No plans to paint the fireplace at this time.

something else you have to consider is all of the oak trim, the oak bookcases, mantle, and even the fan. they all throw out a warmer, yellow tone. Any cooler gray is going to clash.

I suggest getting a new fan (or at least fan blades, or try painting yours) painting the bookcase (or getting something else for that spot), and if you can, all of that oak trim around the doors/basebaords. If you want to move out of the 90's that's the only way you're going to do it. And to be honest, it's not some fabulous type of oak. it's generic and inexpensive builder basic trim they used back then. prime it and paint it white.

Pale Oak and White dove trim

SW Crushed Ice and a nice bright door and trim.

Eider White

Otherwise, embrace all of the yellow wood tones and pick another color and go w/cabin theme.

Yep! Love the look, but we have a baby on the way so won't have time to do all of that. Have a painter hired and just looking for a good color for now :)

Gotcha OP, would still choose city loft(for the accent wall) and balboa mist for other walls. :D

Definitely gives you room to play around with decor later. Our builder was offering to paint our interior this sky blue(one of many choices) but I KNEW we were not going to stay committed to blue forever and KNEW we didn't feel like painting(if we changed our minds) after doing it a ton with our last home we sold. So, though I loved the blue color we decided to go with BM San Francisco fog. Gr-eige type of color, maybe another choice you could consider if you want. Gives you the best of both worlds. Great neutral color ;)

Would show you ours but we have not gotten to painting just yet. ;)

lyss,,,have the painter prime all of the wood trim/baseboards. since he's already there, won't be much more for him to spray it. then when you can do it, paint for an hour each day. just little by little do a semi-gloss white paint over the trim part. even if it takes you weeks, you'll get it done.

your words were, 'moving into a 90's house and want to update it w/paint.' That's how you have to do it. leaving the trim as is, is still going to look like a 90's house, even w/new wall paint.

the trim is yellow tone. If you really want that gray on the wall, you'll have to paint this trim.