Honestly, slow your roll. Live in a house for a bit before you remodel. You don't really know what a space needs until you've lived in it. For example, you have no idea yet what sort of light the house gets. You also don't know how you'll live in your house until you've lived there for a while. This past November we downsized and moved into a new home that has a smaller kitchen and pantry. Before we moved in I drew up plans to enclose one of the three kitchen entrances in order to add a second pantry. My husband convinced me to wait until after the holidays to make the changes and now I'm glad I did. It turns out that we use that entrance a lot for bringing in groceries from the car. Going through the other two entrances with bags is really annoying and inconvenient. I instead waited for a Container Store Elfa sale and paid the store consultant to remodel my existing panty.
The same goes for painting walls in a house. To choose a color you need to put large swatches of different colors on the wall and live with them for a week. Colors change throughout the day as the sunlight coming into the room changes. You can buy small pots called tester pots for that purpose. When we painted our bedroom blue in our last house we did that. It turns out our favorite choice looked awful on the wall at bedtime.
My final suggestion is to join the
Gardenweb forums on the website Houzz and post your reno plans there. They provide the best invaluable and forthright advice regarding such matters. Their advice could end up saving you time, money and headaches.