Color selection is not something easily done based up on photographs like this, and since it highly subjective, take everything posted here with a grain of salt.
For starters, unless you goal is to also redecorate the other components in the room, look at what you already have in the space and extract color range from there.
I notice you don't have a lot of art work, from a sense of focal point anyway, in the main living spaces, or your bedroom.
About the most significant piece that I see is the couch in the living room, which in the green colors suggests a certain palette for the room, which fortunately, compliments nicely what is actually the major influence in those spaces, the gold colors of the wood floors. Turquoise blue against those brown/gold floors and the green couch probably won't look very good, for example.
Whats more, you will want to consider how spaces move from one to the next. For example, that doorway from the living space is of sufficient size that whatever color palette you use in the living room needs to be a consideration in the dining. Same with the hallway. The bedrooms and bathroom however, because of the isolated nature of the doors, can deviate from the palette and establish a sense of identity for your children/yourself (my space). I like the suggestion of ice blue/very pale blue for your bedroom, but that might mean making some other changes to the comforter.
There are also some other suggestions I would make that aren't necessarily related to color. Such as Khross suggested, your wall surfaces look like they need to be floated to correct for irregularities. This is important because I would suggest using satin/eggshell finish on the wall fields with semi-gloss or gloss on the trim. The satin finish will give enough reflectivity of light to give the walls a depth and warm glow that flat paints just can't create. However, as you move up in reflectivity of the paint (from flat to gloss), the more details or blemishes in the wall surface will be visible.
I would also reconsider the length of your curtain rods in the living room, and the shades. The long extensions on those curtain rods visually minimizes the amount of walls space, and extends the view plane, making the room look smaller, and the ceiling lower. Bringing the ends of the rods closer to the window trim will help balance the wall to window space. You might also look at leaving the shades in place (but making them all the same), but also installing vertical, floor length curtains that cover the trim at the window jambs. This will make the room seem to have more volume while further decreasing the dominance of those windows in the wall.
I'd also probably remove that ceiling fan and install can lights in the coffered ceiling tiles, or change the color of the fan to one that diminishes its presence in the room and visually lowers the ceiling height.
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