I just went through this to match an Ikea Odensvik sink to a Toto Legato Toilet. I lugged the Ikea sink (in box!) to the toilet store. Sure enough, Toto cotton white is a very very good match.

I know colonial white is creamier than the cotton white.

napagirl - re-read as you left out the color names word white before your end quotes... as i was told, Toto's Cotton White = Kohler's White, Toto's Colonial White = AS White. there is NO color Kohler that matches Toto's Colonial White AND there is no American Standard color that matches Toto's Cotton White. make sense? maybe i am making it more confusing that it really is. my apologies if so.

OSH, thanks for giving it the old college try, as the saying goes. The carpeting is pale beige, trim is (alas) honey oak, and not getting painted any time soon. Red, completely agreed. The reason I asked for input is that I think my eyes are crossing after looking at about 20 paint chips too many: a LOT of the RL pale neutrals look really grey to me. And many of the gazillion colors I've tried to test have looked grey in my MBR anyway, even in full sun or with every light on at night! (I know -- new bulbs and more lighting -- it'll happen but not soon.) Some of the greyness has come from bad colormatching, and maybe I'm choosing hues with a lot of grey in them b/c I subconsciously like it, but it's really not the color I want in this room. I'm after a warm, very light brown (read a real estate stager's blog in which she called it "dark white", is that counterintuitive or what?). But wait.... I just realized something. Can HD colormatch BM colors in the RL paint? Hmmm... (no, someone tell me to stop!) Rmkitchen, given my growing grisophobia (irrational fear of grey), I really appreciate your post. Evidently the RL colors are very complex, pigmentwise, and another poster here said hers looked *lemony* in her space -- which I could see, when I took the paint chip into my much sunnier LR/DR. If this helps at all, I think I'm narrowing it down: Studio Cream, Flour Sack White, with Deep Cream a distant third. If my HD can colormatch BM, I might ask them to try mixing me a quart of Ivory Tusk in the RL paint.