I love silver sage, too. BM Gray Mist is very similar, but a tad lighter, and BM Night Mist is one shade lighter than Gray Mist. BM Quiet Moments is the same idea and a little lighter than silver sage as well. SW Sea Salt is also very similar to silver sage, but a little lighter. I would look at those and see if they would work for you.

Dropping in to say I love Silver Sage as well. Just do it! It's only paint. If it's not what you like, then try something lighter. I bet it will be smashing!

Oooh, i did just this in my kitchen. Experimented a few different ways.

GreenDesign is absolutely right - if you just lighten it by telling the guys to mix in 50% less of the colorant - you get a very different colour. RH-SS is mixed in a creamy or something base - not a white one, so the creaminess of the base manifests more than it does in SS. Result is a sort of glassy, celery colour - very nice, actually, but not reminiscent of Silver Sage. Since, not what I was looking for and I wound up using that in another space. However, mixing the paint with 50% of white yielded a colour that was RH Silver-Sage-only-lighter.

So, all that said, I'd recommend a couple of options:

(1) try mixing white paint with RH-SS till you have the shade you like and then have the shop chaps colour match the result.

(2) Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage line now has deeper as well as lighter colours than when I did my kitchen. Do try and take a look at "Pale Silver Sage" as well as "Pale Silver" to see if those pass muster with you.

(3) You might also want your paint chaps mix the RH-SS colour in the same base at half concentration and see if you like the result. As mentioned earlier, it isn't really Silver-Sage's paler sibling so much as it is say, RH's "Sycamore Green".

Good luck. Silver Sage is a very nice colour and 6+ years after, I'm still appreciating it.

I purchased BM Quiet Moments (50% lightened) yesterday and it's nice, but a little bluer than I had hoped. OK mindstorm, I'm going to mix some of my sample SS with some white paint (I hope I have some), and see what I come up with. I also picked up a swatch of sea salt at SW yesterday, so I'll compare that as well. I've got to get this worked out, because I'm spending way too much up paint samples. I do love the way silver sage has that sometimes blue, green, gray effect.

I used silver sage and the light blue color (can't remember the name) from Restoration Hardware in most of my last house. In my half bath that got no light, it was fine. In the basement family room with no light, it was fine. And in the kitchen which did get light, it was fine. I will probably use it again in my new house, although it does get a lot more light. I really loved the colors in the old house and you're right, silver sage really does have different tones depending upon the light. Good luck!

I took the RH bluish color (can't remember what it is called) and just went 2 bars up the color card that looked the same at Kelly Moore.

Thanks again, guys! Still experimenting...

I have this color in 5 rooms of my house and it looks totally different in each one. Go for it! It's such a nice color and I love how it looks different throughout the day as the sun rises and sets.

Tami - do you think I should lighten it or choose a lighter version from RH if the room doesn't get much natural light, or leave it alone? Will SS still have that pretty chameleon look it's known for?