I bought a sample of raccoon hollow. I thought I might paint my cabinets (lowers) this color. It's a medium to somewhat deep green/brown/gray. It's definitely not light. I think that it took more of a green/brown color in my home than anything else. It is a nice color, but wasn't right for my home right now. Maybe later, though. It was a nice moody color, but was thinking of more of a pure gray. With the trendiness of gray, maybe I should reconsider. I've attached a link to a blog that used that color. In my home, the color matches the color of the photo facing the black front door. And, the photo below. This is where I got the idea to use the color. :) Here is a link that might be useful: Design dump

Thanks everyone, you're reassuring me. Maybe I'll go get some this weekend and do some painting. I'm just so sick of painting! I've had this house for about six months, and nearly every room needed to be painted -- some more than once, due to bad color choices on my part. almagh, thank you for the pic! Is the color true? The patch on my wall looks darker than in your photo. But my room doesn't get a lot of natural light, and it looks like your entry does. It looks lovely.

Thanks Amy, yes we saw those. I just wondered if anyone here had used it and had some input. Have you seen it in real life?

Threed, I have seen you recommend Ellen Kennon's Taupe on other threads, and it looks gorgeous in your rooms. But I have sunk too much $$ into samples already, and am too indecisive, to go with mail-order paint at this point. Same reason that C2 and Donald Whoever and Farrow and Ball are not options for me. Christophern, I hear you, but Lowe's is the best I'm going to get. Basically, the situation is this: I live in a little town, in a poor region of the US, where the only BM store is a full hour's drive away. Not doing that. So my options are HD, Lowe's, Sherwin Williams, and Dunn Edwards. For a while I thought I'd go w/SW paint. But in the paler shades they can't get the sample quarts to match the real color -- too little pigment, and their computer can't break it down sufficiently, and evidently no one in there gives a darn about or is good at matching color for the samples. So I am stuck with: --Lowe's, which can't really match BM colors but which tries, and their Valspar paint is really nice --SW, which has pretty colors but I can't sample them b/c the samples are often quite far from the actual color that'd come out of the gallon --HD, where I thought I'd found a good color in the RL line, but then it turned out that the gallons they mixed me were really different from the sample quart I'd used to make the decision, and they couldn't figure out how or why it was different --Dunn Edwards, haven't gone in there yet but am not eager to have another frustrating paint experience in a new store Hence my frustration. Hence my partially painted wall, once again. Hence my desire to just pick a Behr (HD) or Valspar (Lowe's) color and be done with the whole damn thing at this point. I would note that almost all the paint guys I've been dealing with are neither the sharpest knives in the drawer nor at all talented at matching paint, and they treat me like I'm slightly mad. WHich I suppose I am, at this point. So I guess I can't really blame them.