carol.. did you go to the UK to answer ... otherwise you dont qualify per the title.. lol ken

I am in the midst of choosing colors for my renovated bungalow and am trying to get colors to "flow" while staying with earth tones mostly but not doing the same color everywhere! Quite a challenge. I started with my trim (at the insistence of cabinet maker, who is making medicine cabinets with trim to match what's around the windows and doors) and chose BM "cotton balls" (hope I don't find that too white but I wanted something whiter than what I had before, which was Ivory White). The kitchen will have cherry cabinets, medium brown wood floors, soapstone counters, and the backsplash tiles are hand made 3x6 that vary from light green with gray to greenish-gray with darker gray edges - I chose Sebring White. The sunroom I'm thinking Vale Mist, the den off the sunroom maybe Vale Mist mixed at 25% (lots less natural light), the hallways Morning Dew, the living room off the hallway Coastal Fog, the dining room next to it (and leading back into the kitchen) Tapestry Beige (in part to pick up color in fabric of dining chair seat). Master BR I've chosen Silken Pine but mixed at 150% - it's to complement the bathroom tile, which is P&L P138 (of course I'm using the store's sample and who knows if the tile will actually be that color!). Trying to decide what do about ceilings. If my builder and architect get what they want, I'd use "ceiling white" but no way am I going to go with yet another white - it will either be Cotton Balls (in a different finish than the trim) or should I go with the room colors, perhaps mixed at 50%? Thoughts? TMI????

PEI is on the east coast of Canada. I do have a robur oak at home, but its acorns are not as long and skinny. I had not seen ones as long as the photos from Kew Gardens before, so I didn't know they came that long. I'll have wait till it's light again and see if there are any robur acorns left. Usually Crow eats them all. "Crow" is our pet raven. Our kid was only 3 at the time and couldn't say raven yet, so he's a raven named Crow. Incidentally, has anyone seen red oak acorns sprout in the fall? I have some on a saucer of clay that I just gathered from under our trees, and was a bit slow bagging them up, and some have sprouted. There is no doubt as to species, as I got the parents from Forestry, and added a few from known stands of rubra oaks. They had perhaps a month of close to freezing temperatures outside, but some of that was while they were still on the trees.

Ash (Fraxinus).