Ppbenn, thanks for the response. Paint is so funny. I look at it and look at it...on the wall...on my painted boards...day and night. I am so sympathetic towards you for having painted all of those times in your kitchen, but I can understand the need for color perfection. The soapstone sink will be new. I got the idea to make it myself after I fashioned my own soapstone counters (with the help of my DH for the heavy lifting and strategic planning). NOBODY wanted to help me so we were on our own. I loved working on the stuff so I will make my own sink for the bathroom. I think I am a natural sculptor. After I get back from a retreat at the end of April I will start on this remodel and the sink build. The carpenter will build my sink cabinet sort of like I've drawn. I want the sink to function as a nice bathroom sink and a laundry sink. This room is a hard working room in our home. Hope it all works out. The faucet will be a Hansgrohe wall mount Montreux, in chrome. The spout actually adjust from 6-8" from the wall, which is perfect for me since I will be building my own sink and lord knows where the drain will end up :) Initially I wanted to go with brushed nickel for the warm look, but I got a good deal on the bath filler in chrome, so chrome it was. I am happy with this cause I like the shine. Here is the faucet for the sink:

Faron, thank you, thank you! I really appreciate your time and thought. I swatched Flour Sack White, Deep Cream, and Roadster White on my walls, and found FSW to be too yellow, Deep Cream just a bit too pale (but in my room it's not at all grey -- it's right on the cusp of pale beige and ivory, and it's so pretty!), and Roadster White not a dark enough white. I wasn't quite sure where to go from there, but I chatted with my HD paint guy, who is, unexpectedly, nice, patient, thoughtful, and creative... I'd never have expected to find a real paint guy at Home Despot, but there you go. (I raved about him to the manager, who smiled knowingly and said, yeah, everyone loves Jason.) He offered to remix Deep Cream at 125% to see whether it'd be dark enough. And I think I'll buy one last test quart of Muslin. Jason printed out the formulas for me, and the HD colorants are (all in the 48 column, whatever that means): Deep Cream: AX 22, B (black) 2, R (exterior red) 6. Muslin: C 46, B 8, R 10. I'm guessing Muslin will wind up looking like a deeper shade of Deep Cream at 125%.... and I bet my DH will laugh really, really hard when he hears that I'm at the point of analyzing color formulas just to find the right shade of beige paint. Um, maybe I won't tell him. (and you too, Faron, stop laughing!)

So sorry I never updated this thread (such a bad habit to not conclude threads in case they pop up in future searches). I posted the tile info in another thread, but i should post it here too. The 'marble' tile is porcelain and is called Exedra Calacutta. 18 x 18 on the floor, 9 x 18 on the walls. The feature tile is Danse Lucido Vetromarmi collection water jet tile with glass and calcutta marble. The subways and shower floor 1 x 1s are Pavarotti Pearl. All tile is from Artistic Tile. BlackChamois the Gray Owl didn't work at all. All the ones I thought would be great just didn't look the same in the space. Enduring, we LOVE Smokey Taupe. It's our whole kitchen and library area paint. I just didn't like how it was pulling out the strong yellows in the tile. Maybe because the tile is porcelain and I felt it made it look more like porcelain and less like marble? In the end we stuck with Moonshine. It ended up settling in much less blue and much more green. I must have caught it in very specific light for it to look that blue. Paint is so tricky! Anyway, here is a link to the updated thread so I don't have two running at once on the same topic. Here is a link that might be useful: Sneak Peak of UNfinished Master Bath

I think I'd choose the purple or teal, since either should look good with the cabinets and countertop. Obviously, the landlord doesn't mind bright colors :) Maybe a soft, grayish-lavender on the living room walls, with a purple or teal accent wall in the kitchen? She should have some fun with it, since it's an apartment and she isn't making a major commitment to color...cute place!