Paint experts over here! Help!

[Lovethesea]

Right. Moving in 10 days into our new house. I want to paint what will be the kids room as it's sugar pink and pale lilac and makes me feel a little ill. DD and DS will be sharing (they are 2 and 1).

I'm drawn to the idea of plain walls and then adding lots of fun animal stickers. Budget is, um, very tight.

White? What's a decent basic white paint? It's a north facing bedroom ... will white look awful?

Pale yellow? But I read today yellow rooms are linked to insomnia (some hotels won't use it)

Other ideas?

[microserf]

we painted the kids rooms all warm cream - the same colour for ceiling, woodwork and walls. boring, but we are getting really bright curtains and putting up lots of stickers, so we didn't see the point of a strong colour. also, the carpet is a minging brown and we can't afford to replace it despite the iron mark the vendors nicely covered up on all our viewings, and it went well with the carpet.

[Lovethesea]

Cream or white trade paint perhaps.

At least white would be cheap to paint over when the marks get excessive.