Paint stores and manufacturers have liability insurance. I would file a claim especially since the store said that it was from a 'bad' batch. You should have the paint manufacturer redo the stairs. Ask your attorney. I belong to Pre-paid Legal. That's what I would check into first. Other than that, you will have to refinish the stairs with paint remover and do the whole process of refinishing them. Otherwise they may always 'bug' you. Joan Here is a link that might be useful: DazzlingInteriorDesign

Sorry about the load time...but I'm done now. :) You have refinishable floors, MG? As Pllog says, reduce, reuse, recycle...I see why you'd be torn. Tough one. The grey we have decided on (yes we have!) is far less interesting than "Granada" which is sort of elegant and grownup but didn't work for us. Too earthy I think and I want more Easter basket springy. My juvenile streak is shining through. That orange (with blue!) is a perfect look with my oak floor, Pllog. But the spouse wasn't as keen. Some days I'd show it to the spouse and he's all yeah great! And the next time he's all ewwww that's gross. We also had the problem of not being all that great at coordinating things. I mean, I can pick colors that look good together, but when a floor has a lot of chunks of color in it, I feel compelled to use a wall color that is also in the floor. I shouldn't, and I can get past it, but...well, grey's nice with anything I'm likely to use. I've done floors grey before. I've done walls grey. It's a good color! But we have selected a plain grey. "Eternity". If it bores us, we can add a rug or rip it out and add something bright. I hope it doesn't show coffee grounds...the picture on the Forbo page looks even less like the sample than most of their pictures. It's smudgy and not mottled like that suggests and has larger texture. Looks alot like Rhome's "Serene Grey" but a tad darker, and yes, there will likely be celery walls. I was going to attach the Forbo picture, but it's so far off I won't bother. Refer to the celery picture above and imagine it a little darker. Boring? yeah, but once I hang up my cockroach collection, who will notice?

Thanks so much for all the helpful info. I got the Christmas lights out of the basement today. The trim is dark green, so the strands won't stand out too much. I would have liked green bulbs but I don't have enough of them, so I'll probably use all white. BBstx - I replaced the globe on the porch fan light, and I could use the old one to make the glowing orb, and I would have liked that out in the yard. But I can't think of a way to hide the extension cord. It would have to go across lawn or patio, and it's orange. I thought about some kind of solar light out there, but I have no experience with them and can't judge whether a particular light is any good, or determine whether the light cast by a single solar light would do anything in my yard. Now that the little lights are out on the porch, I really feel the need for some kind of light to make a shadow in the garden when I'm sitting on the porch. But it would bother me not to be able to turn it off. How clever to use a solar light indoors. That's a very interesting idea. Lkplatow - those Target lights are a great looking deal. Do they have an connecting cord on the end opposite the plug so you can attach multiple strands together? My Christmas lights don't have an on-off switch, another nice feature of the target lights.

Yes, you are correct about the wall seen from the foyer looking up. That would mean re-painting the whole upper floor hallway. In the (more than a few) errors we made with choosing paint, the biggest judgment call we missed was starting in the bedrooms and working out way in. In hindsight - that would've been better to start with the main color and go from there. But, we were thinking start small - tackle the rooms that are easier to paint. The dining room WAS this color of deep blue. It was (is) gorgeous when you walk inside and we ordered our dining room set new so it still hasn't arrived. So I don't know exactly how it'll look, but the original whole-house-paint was supposed to be some sort of greige - which started this quest to find a paint that doesn't have strong undertones in pink/purple. I am not immediately loving the greenish/blue contrast between the two rooms, but I'll wait until the furniture comes to judge for sure.