Need warning on what color to paint dimness living room next to brown-grey fieldstone fireplace taking up one wall? house is a split level and you can see other rooms...
house is a split level and you can see other rooms from living room, so a too pitch-black or bright color wouldn't work
Answers: play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find something that you resembling. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I close to how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can force out by color family & color baptize, the "painted" rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color scheme. You can literally spend hours:
http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/
I think a color close to "tower tan" (# 7704) would be perfect.
The measurable color would be an ivory or warm white. If you would close to a little more color, but still keeping it reading light an option would be a intensely light sage green. Sherwin William's have a color called "Drop Leaf" which I have a sneaking suspicion that will look very nice surrounded by your living room. If you are interested in a especially pale pallid, then a color call "Chamomile" would be an option. Is blue a color you approaching? This is an extremely light restrained blue called "Timid Blue". You can check these suggestions out and more by going to the Sherwin William's pattern site and then clicking on "Color Your World". It take you to the color visualizer section, where on earth you can choose a room and "paint it". Good luck!