So you replaced BORING beige carpet and now want to paint the walls boring beige? IMO beige is as far form neutral as you can get you do not see baige in nature and IMO with wood the best type colors are either white or a really pale grayed green so much more neutral than beige I lkike this color and often cut ut it 25%

@Patricia Colwell Consulting hahaha. You got me there. The truth is I’m having trouble with too much change. My home is in thr suburbs of Houston built in 1999. I’ve got big open areas, tricky lighting that drastically impacts the paint and this annoying two story foyer with staircase seems so enormous without some depth to the color.

If you have changed a lot of things in a short period of time, consider waiting on the painting for a while so you get used to the changes. You can keep sampling paint colors if you want, but don't rush the decision. I sometimes take months to choose a paint color. Someone told me she painted her living room a color she loved in the winter, but in the summer the light is different and she hates it. I have painted three houses top to bottom in my lifetime. Sometimes I get the color right on the first try, but in one room I think I tried ten colors. But the tenth one was perfect. The average number of colors I sample is 3 - 5. Sometimes when sampling I decide a color isn't right for that room but I end up using it in another room.

I like Accessible Beige, it's very close to BM Edgecomb Gray. They are background colors - you don't really think about them. If you cut a color's tint, I've found that you have to do 50% for it to make enough of a difference. But when you do that, you do end up with an entirely different color. What about going lighter with Aesthetic White, Shoji White, Natural Choice or Greek Villa?

When you sample, prime a large section of wall so when you're looking at the new colors you're not influenced by how they look next to the old color. Or paint scrap pieces of drywall or wood with your samples (after priming). Paint two coats of the sample colors so you get the full effect. Or get the peel and stick samples from Samplize.com. Look at the samples on all of the walls, at different times of the day and under different weather conditions (cloudy, sunny, partly cloudy).