gwent: I read your previous message and see that you are seeing green in your RG----is this in your north facing room? I do accent with a lot of reds and have been considering RG for a long time but I sure do not want the green cast in this already darken room. I am with you, it looks so beautiful in others' photos. Wonder about Tobacco Road, would it also cast a green cast in a darken room. I have it in a room that gets a lot of light and it is beautiful.

IMO it makes sense that you'd have green in there, because northern exposures tend to bring out blues (I'm meaning in colors here, not in people, although that applies too! I know because the entire back of our house, the area in which we live most, is north facing and I get greens in colors you'd never expect to see green in, when I put them up on the wall). The orangey tones in your oak cabs might bring out the complement, too, which would be blue (the same way the paint is bringing out the rusty/golds in the laminate). And painting over Olive Branch without a primer might very well also be contributing, as you note. If you really don't want any green in there, you might want to look for paints that read more orange in the store than you like. But so you really don't want green in there? It's obviously a natural partner of the colors you've got going...

Thank you to all of you who gave me input on using restrained gold on the exterior of our home when I posted the question a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, DH wasn't crazy about doing anything in gold tones once we really started playing with the idea and buying samples. So I found a new inspiration photo in a Cottage Living back issue and have been trying very hard to match the color scheme in this house in the photo! I would love anyone's opinion on the following combination (or photoshop workup if anyone has time). As always, suggestions for alternate color schemes are welcome too! I'm definitely suffering from analysis paralysis right now! So here's what I've come up with (all these are Sherwin Williams colors) The bulk of the house body would be in Perfect Greige, the trim in Pacer White, and the accents on the gables would be Riverway. This house is on a lake so I was trying to go with a bungalow/lake house feel to the color scheme. I've painted some scrap siding (we're using Hardiplank) with these colors and I *think* I like them but I'm horrible at imagining them on an entire house! HELP!! (and THANKS!!) :)

I have 10 foot ceilings (113 year old house) and used Restrained Gold in my bedroom. I used the same color on the ceiling without crown molding. The same color looks lighter on the ceiling. I think using the same color would look even better with white crown molding because the separation caused by the crown molding would make the color appear different from the walls, yet still would match because it is the same color. Maybe this wouldn't work on a lower ceiling, however.