Any suggestions -paint colours for sitting room?

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We have a large split level sitting room with a north facing window to the front and south facing larger window to the back, so the bottom half of the room gets lots of light. Its currently painted a sort of primrose yellow, which I find too strong, especially in the sun.

Can anyone suggest a colour that would work well in both areas of the room? So far, I've come up with a sort of neutral beigey off white, but feel I may be playing too safe.

I dont want two different colours as I want it not to look like two rooms with a wall missing!

Any ideas would be welcome.

I was decor-porning at this Kevin Mccloud's paint collection for Fired earth yesterday.

We have dusted damson and just walnut from dulux, we have a long sitting room with 2 large windows (lots of light).

Thank you both.
I am quite taken by the Dutch White, which is described as being
"Like the timeworn cobbles in Vermeer’s painting, ‘The Little Street’: a mix of chalky light earth pigments forming a restful canvas for living."
I could do with some restful living!

Not sure where the numbers and # came from there!

Is there anything in the room that the colour will have to go with, pre-existing furniture/fabrics etc?

Have you looked at the neutrals in the Farrow and Ball range? Lots of them are very warm compared to beige as long as you stay away from ones with a green tinge such as James White (in my sitting room at the moment and I hate it). Personal favourite is Matchstick.

We had a very similar situation in an old house and had House White, which was lovely...I'm also partial to Lime White but more neutral again...good luck

Yes, concur completely with Manchurian - don't have any green tinged colours in north rooms (String etc.) Will at some point of the day be very 'green'...

what a poncey description

i'm going for pale grey this year meself

Am wary of grey after I once painted a room what looked like a lovely poncy grey colour and the room (was a bedsit but largeish, with a high ceiling, big window, Victorianish proportions etc) just looked like a concrete cellblock. Lasted two days!

We have a large sitting room and South to North much like yours.

I mix paints. Choose a basic pastel colour - whatever is your thing - for the South end. Then add bog standard white emulsion to the original colour for the North end. It's a bit of a pain as you need to experiment and jot down the proportions you used each time. Paint on various daubs and once one looks good at each time of day there's your colour !

IMO F&B Slipper Satin works in nearly every room - its is very neutral

Slipper Satin is almost too neutral maybe?

I have it in my kitchen and bored of it.