Here is reference to a poster here who has used it. They are chefs so hard, heavy use. The paint store told me the same. You might ask if this is the Classic or Select version, but I have read the new Select is even better. Can't always believe what you hear though. ' Posted by trailrunner (My Page) on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 9:53 I don't have a 60' Wolf but I do have a 36' Caldera gas cooktop. We do a LOT of high heat wok cooking and also have a Miele built in deep fat fryer. We use all of this frequently and have done so for 7 years. We have no backsplash. Only paint on sheetrock. There has been no change at all in the quality of the painted wall since it was installed 7 yrs ago. I have BM Regal Matte paint that is scrubbable after 30 days. I regularly scrub it with a soapy dishcloth. There is no reason that you too can't have a painted backsplash . I have it throughout my kitchen. Here is only one of 100's of pics. You can see more in the albums of you click on the pic. Good Luck .c ' Here is a link that might be useful: regal matte This post was edited by snookums2 on Fri, Jan 17, 14 at 15:36

Me!?!?!?, hail no, I'm not that crazy lady. Good heavens she's a kook. . . . Well, okay, so maybe it might be me. ;-) If we recall, in my very first response to lottamoxie the very first line in my reply was: "Depends on how you want to define "match". Depends on what *kind* of color you're talking about." Just like almost everything else in color world, you gotta take it one person, one room, one color, one *kind* of paint at a time -- there is not much that is one-size fits all. I am so on board with not being able to "color match" the uber brands. If there is parade to raise awareness to prevent people from wasting their time and money doing so, I volunteer to carry the front banner. In my last post I talked about the two women at the Home Depot. In that example I would be the lady with the tragic trainwreck F&B color matching experience. I, personally, could never be the tickled pink woman who saved $20 and walks away thinking she got her boutique paint & color at a bargain price. As always, I can tell ya exactly why THAT scenario as well as the project from the Kennon site is different than lottamoxie's specific "color matching" endeavor that we have been discussing so far. Get comfy. :D 1. Lotta is looking at matching a Ben Moore color in Sherwin Williams Duration. The source that set her first visual benchmark for that color was a regular-size, ink on paper, paint chip. She hadn't seen that color in or on another house. 2. We're not talking about any extenuating circumstances here with paint or color. It's not an uber shee-shee final finish paint base like from Fine Paints or F&B, and she's not looking at complex color like C2 or a full spectrum. 3. Color benchmark that's been set by the color information she's been exposed to about that color deployed on structure to this point is normal and limited. (she's just seen a chip). Developing her expectations about what a "color match" means is easy. That is low hangin' fruit for a color consultant. (No offense lotta. I don't think you're a fruit, it's just a figure of speech) 4. Lotta mentioned an awareness, a desire, to make sure that the vibe and visual she is getting from that chip will translate into her gallons of paint. She's not looking to make sure she likes the color, she wants to make sure she GETS her color. Reassurance, like from PG, might be all someone needs. As a reminder PG told lotta that "close enough is good enough for most people". She understood what he said. What happened was that her expectations for "color match" relaxed and were now clarified and defined. Anxiety addressed. Thanks to Paintguy she now knows to expect close enough and she's decided to be okay with the parameters of "color match" that PG helped define. She's proceeding down that path. Moon added to the reassurance and has given her some pointers for along the way. Circling back around to the kooky lady on the Kennon site who says that full spectrum colors can't be "matched" and clarifying further just how that is different from lotta's situation: Kennon, Citron, C2 and some other brand's color chips are real paint, not ink on paper. They're also bigger than your standard paint chip. These factors set tougher color matching benchmarks, more refined color expectations to deal with and meet. This is one of the BIG things that painter in the story on the Kennon site chose to ignore. When trying to match regular to full spectrum, it involves differing mentalities, methods, philosophies and processes of mixing color. Lotta is going from Ben to Sherwin. Different paint products, but they are both essentially playing the game of color by the same rules and those rules include black and fewer colorants. Whatever else might be different between the brands, their color philosophy is the same. This is the other BIG thing that the painter in the story on the Kennon site chose to ignore. The Kennon colors use ICI bases and ICI colorants. The painter underestimated just how much color philosophy and mixing technique could matter. The leap from a Ben Moore color to a Sherwin Williams paint is not a big one from a color matching perspective. The leap from say, Citron, to Pratt & Lambert or whatever *regular* brand would be a much bigger leap due to many of those technical factors mentioned but ALSO because of color mixing practices. There is no *dubious practice* to color matching. There is just a lot of confusion surrounding what is fair and reasonable to expect in each unique color matching circumstance. The confusion is compounded by the fact that there is no resource that properly educates the consumer of color on how to buy color. That's because it is complicated, involved, and a whole lot of work to do so and there are not many people who are truly equipped to do it. As you've found there is all kinds of stuff out there about paint - because that's the easy part - but the information about architectural color, not Color Theory 101, is sparse and is heavily sprinkled with misinformation. The reason for that confusion, once again, can be attributed to the fact that there is little in color world that is one size fits all. Just because it may be difficult - almost impossible to match one particular color or finish does not mean that "color matching" will fail 100% of the time nor does it mean that there is no such thing as a "color match". CalGal, I think I addressed all the really good points you've brought up in your post(s). If not, post away with more. I could talk and talk and talk and talk about color! Maybe I really am a kook. :~D We just need to be sure that lottamoxie doesn't feel like her thread is being hijacked.

@TheFoxesPad sounds kind of crazy that the LRV of colors of black could be relevant. After all, it's black. But different colors of black mean different LRVs. do you know how to paint a kitchen with with cherry wood cabinets if you want to tone down the orangish tone in the cabinets? Fight fire with fire. Too pink, add more pink. Too green, add more green. Too orange, add more orange, etc. In other words keep in all in the same hue family. Context and contrast get tossed around a lot but I'm not sure it's ever really understood. Instances like this, too orangish, is the perfect example of what it means. The reason you feel like you want to tone down the orangish tone is because there's something making it too orangish. There's some level of contrast in the current context that's making the cabinets visually too orangish. Shift the contrast, adjust the context, the color will respond and its appearance will change. That is the law of color contrasts. We never experience color in isolation. Johannes Itten's Seven Laws of Color Contrast are a worthwhile Google event. I have read that the color should have red in the color and others have said to stay away from color (beige or greige) with red undertones and stay neutral. I don't do the undertone thing they way the mass interwebs consciousness is doing it these days. I think it's confusing as hell. Beige, greige, red undertones, every hue in the spectrum is considered "neutral", etc.??? Have to admit it's a total mystery to me how people are finding any logic or reason in what appears -to me- to be a chaotic hot mess of confused color misinformation. Sorting out this one sentence and aligning it with my Color Point of View would take a while. And I think all you're wanting is an opinion. . . which is next. I know greens work well with cherry but the only green I would consider is BM grey cashmere to go with the rest of the colors in the other rooms. Considering BM Pale Oak, Balboa Mist or SW Accessible Beige Thanks. Greens work well with cherry and mahogany type wood tones because it's classically complementary. A choice of green would be reconciling with what the cherry is - it is orange-red. The reason why this is a good choice is green will enhance all that the cherry has to offer and compliment it in the best way possible. I like Pale Oak and Accessible Beige and would buy samples. They are a much calmer, no-lo contrast option vs. a green.

Matching and mixing colors is not an exact science. It is an art form that has been commercialized for the retail market. There is no such thing as a 100% guaranteed perfect color match. What does guaranteed color perfect match mean any way. "Perfect Match" according to what and whom and in what lighting conditions. The way to home sample MOST accurately is to buy a quart of the color in the base and sheen you intend to ultimately put on your walls. Even then, stuff can happen. I talk a lot about expectations. Expectations of color on various levels. What do you expect the wall color to do for you, the room, the design goals, the light, etc. The other part of my expectations discussion is how do you expect that small chip to translate and play out in your 3D room. Sometimes, depending on the feedback given during those discussions, changes are made in color choice, paint brand and even sheen because it becomes apparent that the original paint/paint color choice is not going to sync up well with the now better defined expectations. It can help to know going into the color matching endeavor that you may need to relax your expectations a little because stuff can happen along the way. Starting at getting a decent match to a chip all the way up to the end when the whole room is done, the ceiling is painted and all the contents are put back in the room. Color is a phenomena of nature and there is only so much one can do to control it. In the end, everyone makes their best guess; the homeowner or designer who picked the wall color as well as the guy trying to mix it. How well a Ben Moore store can match those SW colors depends on many factors like how well maintained and calibrated is the equipment to how experienced and skilled at mixing color are the staff. Always have them dry out a sample of what they mix. Take it to a window or outside. If, at that point, it does not meet your expectations, then don't buy it. Nothing says you have to. If they can't mix it to your satisfaction, just leave.