I really think I have, so I need some help.

New-to-us home that we are remodeling. We have done the kitchen counters in a beige/grey marble, backsplash in a narrow natural stone strips in shades of beige, gray, charcoal, nearly black, and close to limestone--a nice mix that this discription doesn't covey. We will be painting the cabinets--probably a light gray.Perhaps the island will be a dark gray.

Changing (if the price is right) the red/brown, saddle colored brick from its squatty present look ( heavy low mantel with wall board above) to a ledgestone (in similar colors to kitchen back splash) going from floor to ceiling.

We have medium dark brown wood floors all over. I think I want to paint the kitchen/breakfast, living room, dining room, and entry in shades of gray. Perhaps the darkest in the dining, medium tone in kitchen/breakfast and lightest in living area. The jury is out on the entry. Trim will be a white.

I need to replace or re-upholster most of my upholstered furniture, add window treatments, etc, Many, many of my beloved accessories are robin's egg to teal tones of greenish blue. Of course, as I browse fabrics with gray tones, the primary accent color to pull out of fabrics seems to be some variation of yellow/gold. I just don't like this. (I did yellow about 35 years ago and don't feel like repeating it and absolutely hate gold.)

What are some sugestions on how I can bring this blue together with the gray? I have thought about using creams, and flax colors for furniture and add rich colored pillows. I think window treatments would be nice in a print... (Don't suggest wood blinds--hate them and the ones that came with the house are stuck in one position or have broken wands or other issues.) Have I lost it?

Last home had lots of khaki like beiges, browns which looks great with the blues but now... I guess I want a change but want to keep my robin's egg blue, tiffany blue or teals. It is hard to know exactly what to call this blue.

Say! Will you be my decorator?
I love your colors. I am also a gray nut.
You don't need help, you need to GIVE it!
Go with your first idea of creams and flax to complement the robins/tiffany/teals.
I can just picture some sea glass in those colors in that room.
Just do your thing -- you've got the right idea!

Thanks Arepo but I really do need some help. For instance, what tones of gray would go well with the not-quite-tealish colors I want to incorporate as accessories. The samples I have picked up don't seem quite right although I must admit I have only been to the Sherwin WIlliams store and glanced at paints as I run through Home Depot and Lowes. I need to find where Benjamin Moore is located, etc.

Also am I dating myself by wanting to use the not-quite-tealish tones? I know variations of this color with brown have been hot recently. I have never been one to particularly folllow color or other trends but I don't want to blatanently ignore them either.

The window treatments are a case in point. My children (in their mid thirties to early forties) are quite happy with wooden blinds--period. While I remember the metal venitian blinds of my youth and so dislike wooden blinds. Funny--I could live with traditional plantation shutters, I think--and yet I really like the softness of fabric treatments and like the way they help to modify sounds. I will probably work with roman shades and simple panels in this house. When I need privacy (last house was in the middle of no-where so privacy was never an issue, now we are fifty feet from the street), so I will probably use the pleated or cell shades--maybe the top down bottom up variety. under my fabric panels and leave them mostly open during the day. Are these dated too? I really like bamboo but then what color of bamboo shades!

This whole house is blowing my mind. THe living room is oddly shaped--almost a square but with a large hulking firplace in one corner (can you tell I really hate this firplace) and another corner cut off with an understairs closet entrance plus three other entrances into the room (entry, breakfast and a short hall leading to study, master and a guest bathroom.
It seems that none of my furniture really fits and I am torn between using two longish sofas or a sectional or !!!

I should hire a decorator--bite my tongue--this is a person who has worked in conjunction with decorators for years and was always prized for her color sense. See, I really have lost it. My former collagues would be horrified.

You have neutrals going w/ a predominance in grays. No problem teaming a blue w/ most grays. The key in establishing a scheme is to find a print that features at least one of the grays present, plus a blue you love (additional colors like black, cream, etc. is fine too). This often is a rug, an upholstered pc. of furniture, window treatments or even art. Once found, it will become the springboard for your entire palette. Hue values can vary. Mix in another print in that palette in a different scale and lots of textural solids. BTW, depending on the gray's undertones, various blues are often teamed w/ gray from deep, dk. navy to pale, dusty blues to bright turquoise or teal. Allow the textile designers to give you cues.

Here's an example of a rug in grays and blue. I found it on Homedecorators.com:

Found these:

http://catsligh.info/taupe-gray-rug-with-flowers.aspx

Check out Houzz 4 pages:

http://www.houzz.com/photos/ru...l-blue-and-gray-rugs

FrooFroo and Zone9Lady,

Thanks you are on the right track. Love the rugs you are showing although for some reason FRooFroo's is not showing up.

I have been so frustrated in trying to find a gray combo/almost teal fabric. I think I must be looking in the wrong place. I need to spend some serious time sitting down at my computer and search my fabric sites. Between worrying with the various things in the house and trying to use the computer (my son has been revamping our system)and acting as primary caregiver to my granddaughter as we waited for school to start, I have not been able to spend serious uninterrupted time doing my usual searches. Guess I want someone to wave the magic wand and make it appear. I am also in a metropolitan area that has a lot of sources for decor, I just haven't gotten my bearings yet. Maybe next week I will get on the computer and search out the location for the sources and then take my GPS and go on a search. DFW has a lot to offer. In my former area (San Antonio), there were not a huge number of resources but I knew them all. I need to find that comfort zone here.

Meanwhile I welcome others' suggestions. Many of you tap into places I do not ordinarily go and so need to open myself to these sources. Keep your eyes open and shoot any suggestions in my direction.