What other colors should I consider and get wet samples for?
BenM AF-510 Dragonfly
BenM AF-180 Wenge
C2 Paints C2-760 Major Tom
As far as textured walls, I've used F&B and as long as it's low sheen, I love how it looks.
I read that using darker colors with warm undertones can embrace the natural light in north facing rooms while warming them up. I understood it as: the darker color meets the mood set by the natural light of the room (sorry if that's not the correct industry lingo lol).
North light is notoriously dim. So, yeah, partnering a dim quality of light with a dark, moody paint color is playing into the light you have to work with instead of trying to fight it. Classic, solid color strategy.
As far as "warm undertones" that requires some explanation. See below.
I also read that north facing rooms either have low light or a decent amount of light, but this light is very cool and tends to wash out colors that may work in brighter rooms.
North light is misunderstood. North light never beams directly in your windows like light from the south. North light kind of tumbles in. That's the reason people perceive it as being dim and "cool". Whether you have a lot of it or a little, it's never bright and sunny like a southern exposure.
North light doesn't "wash out" color. Rather, a north quality of light isn't robust. There isn't enough light for muted colors to grab on to so they shrink into the dimness of north light. Typically, colors that lean more saturated than muted do well in a north quality of light - warm or cool doesn't matter, as long as the color has some body, some chroma to bust through the dimness.
So I have large windows and get good light but it is cool. I was thinking I can find a deep color with warm undertones.
I don't do the 'undertones' thing because that's not how color works. Every color belongs to a hue family. Don't get too hung up on "warm" and "cool" color labels because color temperature is relative. In other words, a color isn't warm or cool on its own. We never see color in isolation and context is what determines an individual color's temperature which means all hues can be perceived as warm or cool - it depends.
Technically speaking, warm and cool is not a continuous spectrum that splits the color wheel in half. Warm and cool is actually a spectrum within each hue family. There are warm blues and cool blues. Warm reds and cool reds. Warm oranges and cool oranges, etc. Like you see in this color wheel. The context for warm and cool in this case comes from the hue families in the color system that goes with this color wheel.
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