Classic Paint Combinations

As a myperfectcolor.com designer, I encounter various repeat questions regarding paint. One of the more common is "What are good colors for my living room, dining room and kitchen...". Obviously, if i were there physically or had fabric or material samples, I could do a perfect custom color combination dependant on the light and hues in the room. Since I do a lot of on-line consults however, I needed to come up with some standard, neutral, flowing trios of color. I wanted to take a few lines to give samples of combinations that work well (using Benjamin Moore paints) in neutral, averagely lit spaces. For example:

Living room/Dining room/Kitchen:

1) bar harbor beige 1032/chadwick brown 1160/barely beige1066
2) stone house 1039/ scarecrow 1041/ barely beige 1066
3) wheeling neutral HC-92/ nantucket gray HC-111/ everlasting 1038
4) ashen tan 996/ fieldstone 1558/ winds breath 981 (slightly cooler, bluer-tone in DR)
5) everlasting 1038/ camoufalge 2143-40/ muslin 1037 (slightly warmer, greener-tone in DR)

I feel its always best to take the deeper hues into the dining space. People tend to eat better and relax in darker spaces. The Living room should hold a tone that is lighter and more fresh by day, but calms down with darkness at night for relaxation and serenity. The kitchen tends to be a place of high energy and sociability, so lighter colors can help keep that mood going. Most importantly, keep it flowing from one room to the next with colors that are not too dramatically different in tone(color and feel) and yet flow from lighter to darker. Keep the trim colors the same if possible and the ceilings as well.