BM Tout: http://www.decorpad.com/photo.htm?photoId=17481 Here is a fun blog devoted to gray: http://www.aperfectgray.com/ The only way to get a true gray is to have a paint that is mixed w/ only straight black and straight white so check the tints used for a color to determine if it is a true gray. One paint guy at SW must have pitied me at one point. I told him I wanted my hallway ceiling color (black) but way lighter for the walls in another room - 'can you start mixing it at 25% strength?' He had a loooong conversation w/ me about grey paint. Nice enough to tell me that he would have no problem spending time w/ me, a can of white paint and black tint and slowly adding the tint until I got a shade of true gray that I wanted. Here is a link that might be useful: From Country Living - Amherst Gray

Are you in love with that picture or do you actually have a plan that will work with that color, such as a home with lots of paneling painted white and little wispy areas to paint that color, and furniture upholstered in colors that will just not work with anything else. Ugh, I fell into the grey trap years ago (about the same color of grey) when I was trying to decide whether to upgrade and refurbish or just buy another house. Realtor took me to the grey house I fell in love with. I decided just to redo my house to be the grey house. I found after painting all the walls in my DR and living room and foyer, that the only thing that looked good in my house in gray was the foyer and with the furniture and upholstery I liked in the LR and DR, that had to go. That grey just did not work with my Chippendale tables or Queen Ann DR set. I had marble foyer and lots of white molding and woodwork stuff in foyer but I still ended up putting grass cloth over the grey of the foyer, DR and LR. Furnishings that went with gray just did not go with my style. So I ended up with greige and cinnamon grasscloth wallcovering and furniture that I loved. I even put a black oriental table in the foyer and never worried about the gray again. My house was now much prettier than the grey house. O, if only the grey house lady could have seen my house, she would have put grasscloth everywhere and begged for my Oriental painting of magnolias, brass chinese hope/faith/charity letters, my satsuma vase and umbrella stand, the pagoda lamp shade on the black oriental table.

I think the BM Nantucket grey would go with the straw. I have NG in one room and the room next to it is Yorkshire tan and the hall outside of it is Rich Creme. They all flow very well.

A beautiful Taupe Gray is RH Graphite. Not sure if they are still selling it since they just introduced a new gray series of colors. I have it on the ceiling and interior doors of one of our BRs. It definitely reads taupe.