There are too many choices to commit but we want to paint before we move in.
Here a pic of the house living room: (horrible curtains and yellow paint).
dining room looking into living room (same color)
I keep changing my minds from light to dark, greys to beiges. Our furniture is neutral with pops of color that I change out. I want to keep the molding and ceiling white.
BM's revere pewter is a nice neutral greige shade that is universal in being able to work with most colors.
we just painted our living room/dining area a light mocha shade to change it from the creamy yellow it was (I think it was SW hawthorne yellow). i need to find the paint chip to tell you exact Valspar paint name is for the mocha shade.....
When you say your furniture is "neutral", what exactly does that mean? Beige? Gray? Brown?
I'm not really a neutral paint kind of person. I like the color to be on the walls and then have pops of color as accents. My neutral is the couches. They are a beige, so I have a gray-blue/navy on the walls in the living room. Prior to the navy, the walls were a chocolate brown. Loved it.
Careful here. Every color has undertones. You have to look at everything together. Just because Revere Pewter is pretty in some people's homes does not mean it'll be pretty in your home's light next to your furniture. Your furniture might have a pink undertone or a green undertone or something else that you won't notice until you see it next to a certain shade of paint. You could have northern light that'll turn the shade cold or southern light that'll warm it up too much for your liking. You have to do all this at the same time. If you want to paint before you move in, take a couch cushion and a million paint chips over to the new house and stand beside a window.
They're all about picking colors. The first one is about grays and it talks about "moods" and stuff like that. It helped me pick the dark gray above and totally helped me avoid picking something with too much blue in it.
BM's revere pewter is a nice neutral greige shade that is universal in being able to work with most colors.
we just painted our living room/dining area a light mocha shade to change it from the creamy yellow it was (I think it was SW hawthorne yellow). i need to find the paint chip to tell you exact Valspar paint name is for the mocha shade.....
sorry for my delay. turns out dh lost the paint chip and we had to dig out an old can of the paint to find the name of the mocha shade we painted recently. it is valspar's signature paint/primer: sandy shell.
Careful here. Every color has undertones. You have to look at everything together. Just because Revere Pewter is pretty in some people's homes does not mean it'll be pretty in your home's light next to your furniture. Your furniture might have a pink undertone or a green undertone or something else that you won't notice until you see it next to a certain shade of paint. You could have northern light that'll turn the shade cold or southern light that'll warm it up too much for your liking. You have to do all this at the same time. If you want to paint before you move in, take a couch cushion and a million paint chips over to the new house and stand beside a window.
just as an fyi, i haven't found a tone that revere pewter doesn't work with. we have it in a space (basement) that i change around a lot. we also have it in our master, which we just changed from very warm to more cool tones as accents. i have also shared the shade w/friends and it has worked in their homes and their tone choices vary/differ from mine.
i didn't share that to say that you should take tarheel's advice. it is very sound advice and there could be a color out there that won't work with revere pewter. but, i shared it more to let you know that if you didn't want to spend a lot of time trying paint swatches, it is one that has a high likelihood of working.
I know you said you wanted a neutral suggestion, but just an FYI of my experience. We are having our whole house painted before we move in We closed 6/15 and we're moving in this Thurs-painter is there now. I literally got 30 samples of paint from behr, BM and SW. I painted two coats of each color on a poster board, then hung them around the house where I thought I wanted them and picked them after viewing them in the different shades of natural light. It will be a little challenging if you are adding or changing light fixtures (we are), but it was the best way for me to try to pick colors. Other neutrals I contemplated was SW wool skein, SW gateway gray (more gray than neutral), BM shaker beige (using in the office), Behr sandstone cliff, ocean pearl, sandstone cove and castle path. And I held up fabric swatches to the poster board paint samples (we're getting a few new upholstered pieces as the stuff we have now is falling apart). So def bring a cushion with you to the house to see it against the color.