i sampled very many grays and greiges alittle over a year ago... SW perfect greige and BM glacial till became my finalists for our master bath---they're very similar colors. i ended up choosing glacial till because (as i recall) it had just a very slight hint towards more gray--but, still very greige. i love the color- very soft, but deeper and significantly 'beigier' than revere pewter, which is right outside of the bathroom.

Thanks for responding, Faron. The person mixing showed me the sheet, but I did not write it down and do not remember the colorants. A red, an umber/yellow and a brown, I believe. I'm having a terrible time trying to get the color right. I started out using C2 Pearl. I love it in the room I painted, but think it might be too white/stark/bright for my formal rooms. (The informal area I painted has light carpet, and the formal rooms have medium-tone oak hardwood, and the Pearl, I think, in these rather large areas, would be almost blindingly white). This painting is taking place in a home we're moving to. In our old house, we have white walls also, but a bit warmer. I always thought they were a true white, sort of a perfect balance between warm and cool, but C2-Pearl (which I though looked just like my walls when I saw it in the paint store) is lighter. I think the walls in my old house are closer to the C2 color called Cocoon. It is amazing to me that they are that dark, as Cocoon looked so yellow in the paint store next to some of the other whites. I also am considering C2's "Coconut" as an in-between option. Though in some lighting both Pearl and Coconut look like they may be too bright, and Cocoon seems a better match. While I love C2's colors, in the room I painted, I had trouble with ceiling flashing, (you may remember my posts on this). We finally hired a painter, and on various recommendations, I settled on using Evolution by Miller Paints (a Pacific Northwest local brand). So, I'm trying to get the colors right in one product (the Evolution) for the walls, we're using another Miller product on the ceilings, which yields a different shade than the Evolution even when the same color "recipe" is mixed-in (due to differences in the base and/or sheen, I suppose). To complicate matters, my painter wants to use Satin Impervo on the trim molding, and none of the standard BM colors work, so we're working on a custom color there also. Coordinating all three products is proving to be a challenge, especially since the walls being painted are currently done in a very yellow color, which is very distracting when viewing sample patches on the walls. I never knew that plain-old white could be so complicated! Seems like what looks like a match at the paint store, somehow looks different at home. Makes me wish I knew more about color mixing, as it seeems like if you knew how the colorants and the base interacted, and you had a starting-point color that you knew how it looked at home, you could, in theory, figure-out what to do to it to make it the right color. Does this sound crazy? Guess my head is spinning from too many trips to the paint store! What you've said has proved true in our experiments to-date. Adding white makes almost imperceptable changes, and going to a half-tint makes the pink flare-up. It seems that for some reason, the Miller products tend toward a cooler-"lemony" yellow tone to their off-whites, and C2 seems to have a range of lovely "warm-peachy" tones in their off-whites. When Miller attempts to go peachy, they skip over that, and end-up rosy pink. Any thoughts on that? Thanks for any advice--and I'll see if I can get the exact colorants, and report back.

Funcolors, so cool that you're still here. Thanks for the help, man. I think it was you who originally suggested the dark trim. And you even remembered the lamp post. I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of the relic, so a little Rust-o-leum and voila. Malarkey is based in Oregon, just a couple hundred miles south of here, and its shingles are highly thought of here in the wet west. Did oodles of research and couldn't find much at all in the way of complaints. Again, thanks for the helping hand.

When you first mentioned this idea, the color that popped into my head was a deep teal. I have a vivid image of the cabinets I recalled, but no recollection of where I saw them. They were in a magazine spread about a young couple. The wife had grown up in a home done by the same designer. The designer commented that when one didn't have a spectacular budget (by his standards), one could compensate with color. (I'm sure the young couple's budget would have been spectacular by my standards, but that's another topic. LOL.) Anyway, a deep, but relatively mellow teal is what I recall. It would be quite striking if the sight lines included black and white from a nearby kitchen. The Crown Point teal is less bright than the one I recall. Miles Redd used Farrow and Ball Hague Blue in a butler's pantry recently. It's darker than what I had in mind, but sort of the same neighborhood. Then there's this blue from a place in California, I believe: Here is a link that might be useful: Here's a teal from Crown Point