Honestly, I might be tempted to keep the checkerboard wallpaper.
What do you feel about that?

If that’s a no go, I’d look at some light blue samples.

It’s not wallpaper - it’s actually painted in that design. But I just don’t love the color! 😖 there’s a lot going on with the wj

With the paint and beams and texture of the walls, etc.

There definitely is a lot going on.

Paint the ceiling white.

I like the color we painting our dining room:

which is a dark bluish green. It goes well with wood, like your beams.

Will you change the light fixture - it seems to hang too low if there will not be a table beneath it, and the light it puts out is too orange/yellow.

Buy the rug first. Use the color palette in the rug to inspire the ceiling and wall color. So much easier than trying to pull a color from thin air.

There isn't a good answer for your question. A relaxing space to watch TV can be almost any color and most colors will work fine with your flooring, beams and stone.

The bigger question is how will this space tie to the other spaces in your home. I see the very cool blue gray walls in the space adjacent to this room.

When I help people pick a color palette for their homes it always starts with a discussion about the colors that have to stay and the colors that they love. We build a color palette from that discussion and figure out a neutral color family that works with the things that must stay and the colors that they love.

Usually the main living areas of the home (Living room and all hallways, sometimes foyer or other connected rooms) are painted in the neutral and bedrooms, bathrooms, laundry rooms, dining rooms are spaces that can be painted either with the neutral, a darker version of the neutral or with a coordinating color.

This home has all creamy white walls with colors brought in with furniture and art and window coverings. Notice how the dining space has both the greens from the living room and the purple from the bedroom.

This home uses wall color, but all the colors tie to the living room colors.

What are your favorite colors?

What colors do you want in your home?

My sister, sister-in-law and I have very different likes when it comes to color.

I love tropical purples, reds and teals.

My sister loves fall colors, the golds, olive greens and orange reds.

My sister in law loves creams and pastels, especially cornflower blues.

My neutral is a taupe (Beige/gray with purple undertones).

My sister's neutral is a greige (Beige Gray with green undertones)

My sister in law's neutral is a creamy white.

Can you help us understand what you love and what you plan on changing over time so that we can help you build a palette that flows from room to room and lets you decorate with the colors that you love?

The neutral color for the rest of the house is light French grey by SW. We are buying this home and I am looking to stay in the greige family but I don’t love that this one has the blue undertones.

BM Metropolis would be a nice dramatic neutral..but give a cozy feel.

Love that one. Thank you!

White ceiling or paint the ceiling that as well?

I would paint the ceiling white.

ditto cat_ky

Light French Gray is a blue gray, not a greige at all.

The neutral color families are

pink beige

orange beige

yellow beige

green beige

greige - between gray and beige with a green undertone

green gray

blue gray

violet gray

taupe - between gray and beige with a violet or pink undertone.

Are there colors in this home that you have no intention of changing?

Cabinets?

Countertops?

Flooring?

Trim?

Are there things that you are bringing into the home that you love and want to work with your neutral color selection

Art?

Area Rugs?

Furniture?

Décor items?

Will all of those things work with BM Revere Pewter, Edgecomb Gray, Natural Cream or Swiss Coffee? All popular Gray/beige neutrals with green undertones.

I would paint the walls and ceiling Metropolis! Fabulous!..make sure your sectional is a lighter neutral…(something similar to the stone)…this room has alot going on…..beams, tray ceiling and light stone..painting the walls and ceiling all one color will help make all the details look cohesive..

Thank you!!