walkin: Would it be possible for you to actually post a pic of the room? It sometimes helps to get a visual, with furniture, etc.

OSH, I wish i could, and I'm sorry -- DH has both cameras and is out of town. (same reason I couldn't post a pic of my "redesigned" LR.)

The only significant pieces of furniture in that room is a classic walnut panel bed, and two narrow, walnut-finished bookcases. Does that help?

Is there carpet? If so, what color?

If you have hardwood floors, you have more latitude. I think BM OC-7 Creamy White would look really nice against a pure white trim. I can't really help, otherwise, because I'm not familiar with the colors of those brands you listed. I'm sorry. :(

I have no idea on the colors.......that, you will need to try in your home, look at undertones, maybe buy a test quart and roll it on. (My best tip!)

But after reading some commentary on RL paint on the Paint Forum, (maybe a little Faron nonsense!) I decided to try a test quart of RL in a Ben Moore color I was interested in. Well, I just finished painting my master bath in that RL paint. (Alexandria Beige was the color-matched chip) and I loved the paint. Since I was way out of my comfort zone by trying the RL paint, I chit-chatted with the Home Depot paint guy about the Ralph paint. He told me the same thing I had just read on the Paint Forum, that the reformulated Ralph paint was really good stuff. He said that a lot of the decorators that they fill paint colors for really love it.

I would absolutely try it out again.

Red

We tried RL Deep Cream after I saw it in magazine (was it House & Garden? this was many years ago). Anyway, in our light (I live in the Rocky Mountains), Deep Cream has a very grey tone. It looked dirty, kinda like BM Navajo White if it were really dusty. (and I already find BM Navajo White to read as dingy)

I'm already not a fastidious housecleaner so I need things to look as peppy as possible!

Anyway, I just wanted to share my experience with RL Deep Cream. Oh yeah, and I'm delighted to read redbazel's note that RL paint has been reformulated: our painter (when I was first toying with the Deep Cream) said he won't use it. He feels (felt, as this was last year) that the only way to get good coverage with RL paint is to throw the open bucket on the wall. It's a great visual but not so sure I'd want to be part of the clean up ....

OSH, thanks for giving it the old college try, as the saying goes. The carpeting is pale beige, trim is (alas) honey oak, and not getting painted any time soon.

Red, completely agreed. The reason I asked for input is that I think my eyes are crossing after looking at about 20 paint chips too many: a LOT of the RL pale neutrals look really grey to me. And many of the gazillion colors I've tried to test have looked grey in my MBR anyway, even in full sun or with every light on at night! (I know -- new bulbs and more lighting -- it'll happen but not soon.) Some of the greyness has come from bad colormatching, and maybe I'm choosing hues with a lot of grey in them b/c I subconsciously like it, but it's really not the color I want in this room. I'm after a warm, very light brown (read a real estate stager's blog in which she called it "dark white", is that counterintuitive or what?).

But wait.... I just realized something. Can HD colormatch BM colors in the RL paint? Hmmm... (no, someone tell me to stop!)

Rmkitchen, given my growing grisophobia (irrational fear of grey), I really appreciate your post. Evidently the RL colors are very complex, pigmentwise, and another poster here said hers looked *lemony* in her space -- which I could see, when I took the paint chip into my much sunnier LR/DR.

If this helps at all, I think I'm narrowing it down: Studio Cream, Flour Sack White, with Deep Cream a distant third. If my HD can colormatch BM, I might ask them to try mixing me a quart of Ivory Tusk in the RL paint.