Thanks everyone for so many great ideas. I really appreciate the time you all took to help me. I went with a nice Pottery Barn green (Grecian). Some of the green paints looked yellow on the walls when I tested them, and I did buy many, many different paint colors. I don't know what I am going to do with all the leftover paint samples! A nice red would have worked beautifully (even on just an accent wall). As the house is going to be put on the market soon, I decided to stay with a neutral color.

HI, We will soon be painting our house and I am seeking advice on exterior paint colors. We have a colonial house with wood siding. Currently it is a sage color with cream trim. (I don't mind the sage color, but my husband doesn't care too much for it.) In our neighborhood, houses tend to be tan, yellow, blue, green, and grey. Our neighbors houses are dark blue, tan and yellow. Here are a couple of colors that caught my eye, but are open to all suggestions: Tan (Sherwin Williams Avenue Tan 7453 with white trim and Benjamin Moore Boston brick for front door.) Blue (Valspar™ 4006-4B Retro-colonial Blue with white trim and black or red door) Benjamin Moore Newburg Green (HC-158) Benjamin Moore Evening Dove 2128-30 Benjamin Moore Copley Gray HC-104 with white trim Benjamin Moore Cromwell Gray HC-103 with white trim Your input is greatly appreciated!

Ask your painter if they use SW or Dunn Edwards. Have them pick up a quart of each of your two choices in the preferred brand, and then have them paint a 4 foot wide swath from floor to ceiling on the front wall.

Thanks for the responses. Yes, they must be xenon and they do get very hot. I had the chocolate on a protein bar melt inside the cabinet. We leave them on all the time so it was definitely a poor choice. They were installed about 10 years ago. I'm off to the lighting store to try and figure out the best way to fix this. We've hired a company who just does this and they removed all the doors Friday and came today to start prepping the inside. I've asked them for a couple large size samples. They do use special paint and I am assuming the colors are their version of comparable colors.The one that seems to go best is the Chantilly lace and I have read that it kind pick up certain undertones and I just can't see it in the small sample, even sea salt doesn't seem to show the undertones I know exist.