Please show the kitchen colors.

The trim is fine, but the color does not go with your cabinets which are visible from the doorway, nor does it go with the floor. I would pick a very light color green, or greenblue, and yes, it would be nice to be able to see the kitchen color too.

I’d paint the walls lighter (even include kitchen) and and baseboard decision can be made after walls are painted. Your best bet is a soft neutral so that you aren’t tied down to a specific color scheme when purchasing your furniture, etc. Your flooring will play a major role as well. Look on line for inspiration, narrow down the overall feel (your style). There are major and costly decisions ahead so be sure to have a plan.

It’s really important to test a number of paint colors. Show your saved inspiration rooms and your flooring picture to a paint consultant. I highly recommend Benjamin Moore paint and their consultants are really knowledgeable and helpful, based on my countless interactions (repainted the interiors of 3 of our homes over the years).

^agree!

Are you sure it’s Polar Bear in the trim? Looks a bit light - but if it really is then I also agree to do the walls in the same color.

Polar Bear is pretty dark for a trim color (it's not a true white), but it was probably chosen to go with the Tony Taupe. So if you don't want to paint the trim you will have to paint the walls the same color. I personally find it to be too peachy, but it would be an improvement over Tony Taupe. You're right, Tony Taupe is too dark.

The best choice is to decide on your color scheme independently of what's there already and just repaint everything. Is the kitchen staying the same? People frequently want to have everything painted before they move in, but I think the only thing you really should do before moving in is floors, if they need it. The floors in your family room look almost new, so I would hold off on the painting until after you buy furniture. I didn't have my living room painted (two stories high like yours) until I'd been in this house three years and had bought new furniture. It's not that hard for painters to work around you, and with a crew they are done pretty fast. What colors do you like? If you had a blank slate, what would you like to do?

Here is the kitchen! I think we will eventually redo it but that’s years down the road

Thanks for photos. I suggest choosing a light off white from the backsplash tile for a new color for the living room. The cost of painting will be driven by labor with scaffolding if needed for the two-story rooms, not by the trim paint. So this is the time to choose what you really want, rather than make do with someone else's color preferences. Pick up an SW fan deck to save time. Then get Samplize samples of your top options. Finalize your choice after the painters have applied white primer since the current Tony Taupe will cast reflections on samples.

Personal color preferences are often shown by favorite objects such as pottery bowls, pillows, or clothes.

I Suggest you move your furniture in. I suggest you figure out what you want where. Do you need rugs!!?

I understand, the urge to avoid disruption, but people live in homes for years!! They may paint several times.

Nobody here can honestly tell you what will work for you, what you should or should not like. Trim color is related to wall color....some pair better than others......and one trim color throughout is best and simplest.

Move IN. : ) first.

Agreed--wall paint color is always chosen last, because there are thousands of paint colors to choose from to harmonize with your furnishings. It's infinitely more difficult to match sofas, curtains, rugs to a wall color.

If you must paint before you move in, paint everything, white--walls and trim alike. We did that when we built our home many years ago, and it's worked fine. When we redecorated a room, we had a plan for the palette built around the furnishings, so we were able to paint the rooms to coordinate. Popular Ben Moore whites to try are White Dove, Simply White, Decorators White and Chantilly Lace. One of them will most probably work for you.

The folly of anyone on the internet selecting a paint color for you is illustrated in the color rendering in your photos. The color looks different in every photo you posted. No one can tell what it looks like in real life except you.

Color is too cark IMO.

The room needs a larger fan and longer downrod if you keep the fan.

Start shopping for furniture as was suggested by the pros. Buy a couch that’s comfy, great chairs, a gorgeous rug or two. THEN change the wall color to go with your furniture. If this color is too distracting, paint the entire house white. Including the trim.

Save photos of high ceiling living rooms. Look at what you’ve collected and your preferences will stare you in the face. If you REALLY need to do something, buy new hardware for your kitchen. Don’t rush any of these decisions. Furniture is a longer relationship than paint color.

It is a good color for south and west natural light. It does look dark now; but it would be a large bill to have it repainted.

I'd add lots of white and for the accent color go with blue. It works well with south/west light, too.

I think when you add a rug into the mix, covering a lot of the floor, the taupe (really it is beige) will present brighter. I like this blue on the chairs..denim tone.

What's in a WHITE? : )

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Navajo

So...... It depends ......what is with the paint: ) the light, the time of day , what's outside...

Cannot use Navajo White near that flooring that was selected for your kitchen IMO.

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It was not a suggestion to use Navajo White. The point is nobody can effectively suggest the white. ANY white, any color for that matter, is a test in the space, along with the furnishings that will inhabit the space.

I follow a process when helping people choose colors for a new home (new to them - not new build).

The first thing we determine is what colors must stay

Kitchen counters, cabinets, backsplash, flooring . . .

Bathroom counters, cabinets, wall tile, flooring, tub, toilet . . .

Main home - flooring, sometimes trim, fireplace . . .

It may include art, decor, furniture, area rugs they are bringing from their previous home. Not the things they expect to change out in the next year or two, but the things they have and love and want to have in their new home.

The next thing we explore are the colors that they love. These are not wall colors, but the colors that are in art and decor that they love and want to make part of their home.

(Often includes colors from the must stay items brought from their previous home.)

Do you love blues or greens, reds or purples? Do you love pastels or bright clear colors or muted colors?

From that information I help figure out what the best neutral color family is that works with both the things that must stay and the colors that they love and we build a color palette for the home that includes the white that works best with the color palette and neutral color family.

Neutral color families are

Pink Beige

Orange Beige

Yellow Beige

Green Beige

Greige (Mix of gray and beige with a green undertone)

Green Gray

Blue Gray

Violet Gray

Taupe (Mix of gray and beige with a violet/pink undertone).

Tony Taupe is darker than what I typically recommend for the main neutral, but I have used colors this dark as a main neutral in 2 homes, one mine and one for someone else. Both homes had massive windows and were flooded with light. For most homes it is too dark, but can be used for a bedroom or library or dining room where the main neutral is a similar hue and you want something darker, moodier in a room. The LRV of Tony Taupe is 37.

A color like Accessible Beige is about as dark as most people want for their main neutral in most homes. LRV =58 The current trend is to go quite a bit lighter, going with creams, off whites, whites and lighter neutrals.

The most popular white trims have LRVs in the 80s to low 90s.

SW Polar Bear has an LRV = 74

White in the right shade can work but honestly I am already tired of all white walls often done in not the right spaces. I use BM Healing Aloe cut 25% or more sometimes and use it with white trim is has a hint of colo and works with every other color a true neutral IMO