I would paint the walls and ceiling the lightest of the colors you have swatched.

The furniture will bring the room down darker once it is furnished.

no one want to hang out in a cave.

Thanks for the reply.  I should have also noted a few things you mention.  We will be looking to get a sectional so new furniture will be coming as well. The far right color was just a white primer.  I am assuming you mean this color when you say the lightest?  Also we are open to other color options if you think it might more beneficial?

Colors can be deceptive in pictures and the lighting isn't great in basements, but the floor looks like a very warm color. If it is, you are going to have difficulty getting gray to work with it. None of the color swatches on the wall look like they're going to work the with to me, but that would easier to judge if the swatches were closer to the floor. I suggest you look at colors that don't lean gray. Maybe SW Shoji White for the walls and Urbane Bronze for the fireplace surround.

I would do the fireplace in the stone of your choice, and then pick carpet to blend with the fireplace, and then choose paint. Its too early yet, to be able to know which paint will work the best.

What are the colors in the rest of your home? What is the style of the rest of your home? Even if you want the basement a bit different it should still have some connection to the main floor of your home. You don't want it to feel like belongs to the neighbors house. Basements can be more fun, brighter, or more dramatic, but not so different that it doesn't relate at all.

When I develop a color palette I always start with the colors that must stay. Are you keeping the tile floor? Are you keeping the oak trim and doors?

If so you need to find colors that are going to work with the colors that must stay.

(off topic note: If you are keeping the tile floors I would consider recoloring the grout. Inexpensive DIY project that can transform a space. )

The second thing I need to know is what colors you love. Not neutrals - actual colors. Those colors that are in the art and décor that call your name when you are shopping. Do you love cornflower blue and peach or wine reds and purples or golds and green?

Once I understood the colors that you love and should bring into your home as accents and art and décor I can go about deciding on a neutral color family that works with what must stay and the colors you love.

You neutral color families are:

pink beige

orange beige

yellow beige

green beige

greige (between beige and gray with green undertones)

green gray

blue gray

violet gray

taupe (between beige and gray with pink/purple undertones)

Once you have the neutral color family selected you can pick out carpet and furniture that are in that color family one darker one lighter or you may want to be brave and pick one of the colors you love for the carpet or the furniture.

The color selection for carpet and furniture is limited. Wall paint comes in any color you can imagine, so I would not be picking a wall color until I found the carpet and furniture that will work with the colors that must stay and the colors that you love.

Once you have those picked out you can decide what shade of the neutral (lighter or darker) you want for your walls.

This is much like putting together that perfect outfit, but your house will be wearing it every day for years and years. If you find the perfect blouse (the own that has the colors that work perfectly with your skin tone and your hair and eye color.) You have to get pants that work with the blouse, you need shoes that work with the pants. Next you will want to dress it up a bit with jewelry or other accessories and then finally you will pick nail polish and lipstick that works with the whole outfit and looks great with your skin tone.

It is the same concept and you seldom build an outfit based on your neighbors favorite shade of lipstick.

Is that a woodstove or a gas insert? If a wood-burning stove, you better do your homework on clearances to combustibles and proper venting and code requirements before boxing that in. Before doing anything else, actually, if you use the thing and want to avoid burning the house down.

Don't select paint colors until the new sectional arrives. Paint is usually matched to fabrics and textiles in a space. Is the wall-to wall being removed? Are you changing the tile to wood or LVP?

I think it is too early to make the paint decision. I like slate; soapstone is also good and holds a lot of heat to radiate into the room.

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Thanks for all of the comments and suggestion.  It is a gas insert. We like mountain style homes even though we are so far from them.  As to the tile floor we have went back and forth if we keep it and I think are leaning on removing it and putting in carpet.  Any concerns from the group there?

Sadly we haven't picked the sectional yet since we thought that come later and we didn't want it to get dirty during the renovations.

@jennifer hogan the one thing we love and drew us to the home are the huge windows on the main level.   The rest of the home is a '90s orange that we don't like so this is sort of leading our charge to renovating it in a style we like.  There is one thing now that I think of it.  The doors on the main area alder stained in English chestnut that we really like.  As to colors we love I found a fireplace idea that might have us axing the stone. I am going to try and attach it or put a link below.

So if this is our start of what the rest of the house might become how do we start?

https://www.soulandlane.com/inspiration/black-shiplap-fireplace-with-portrait-art-piece/

Every room is different but we recently painted our basement SW Honied white and its light and bright but still warm , just another color to consider

I would paint your whole basement bm white dove. It is so gorgeous and would be beautiful with your stone. I would lay a floating wood floor in your basement no carpet and add rugs.

If I understood correctly, you are undecided about flooring, fireplace‘s stone, couch is not bought and the paint color (which should come last). You like a mountain inspired style, so keep that in mind and look at inspiration rooms. You shouldn’t be deciding on individual items in a silo - have a plan. Suggest using your stone choice as the jumping off point, with lighter walls and a mix of light and dark accessories that work with stone and floor.

I am going to advise once again that you look at the colors you love before deciding on a neutral.

We all have colors that make our heart sing. We buy certain colors because we love the color.

Your walls should be the backdrop for the art you love. Your furnishings and flooring have to work with that wall color.

Here are some collages with some of the art and décor items that I bought because I loved them.

The pictures also include the slate flooring in my foyer that I will not be replacing and the pink brick fireplace which is not being altered.

Which neutral should I pick?

A pink beige

Orange beige

yellow beige

Green beige

blue gray

violet gray

Taupe

I picked Taupe. If I didn't have the pink brick I may have gone violet gray.

Without knowing what colors you love how can anyone help you pick colors that will be the perfect backdrop for those colors?