Also check a swatch of your actual paint on a white card against the SW swatches and make sure it's a match or near match (there will be slight variation between the way they print the swatch cards and actual paint and your card vs theirs, etc., but it shouldn't look like a different color). If it isn't right, have SW correct it. How much has been painted? The process changes the look of things. It can look great, awful and great again as the old color influences and gets covered up. Second coats can make a big difference too. What kind of lighting do you have in the room? That can make a big difference. I changed light bulbs in a couple of rooms to help get rid of a purple cast. I'm surprised you are seeing too much gray. Accesible Beige is more beige than my FR walls (Agreeable Gray at 150%) and they read a softened beige -- but I have a lot or warm tones in the room (dark wood floors like you do, but mine are warm and hickory can have a lot of gray). You might start a new thread and include a photo(s). More people will look at a new thread than a years old one and photos will help.

I'm delighted you will track down Alexander's book (A Pattern Language). You will find it has much useful to say about designing inter-generational living within the same spaces. It starts (at the outset of the book) to describe principles that apply to community and even regional planning design. It progresses steadily down to individual site and building principles, while relating them back to larger ones where necessary. I always suggest people read a few of the earlier ones, then skip backwards toward the level of detail that fits their stage in the process. The book takes a bit of mental effort to work out how it's organized, but it richly repays that effort. If I might suggest this: Get a copy of the book, and spend some time reading it before you go ahead with your current plans. .Just set aside a weekend to study it. If there are two of you making these design decisions, then get two copies so each of you can wander about in it simultaneously, if time is short. Many of Alexander's ideas are quite revolutionary - and hard to retrofit in a standard iteration of the city (or suburban) family-moves-to-the- country farmhouse design like you have posted. It's not that you won't wind-up with a farmhouse in the end, but it will be palpably different, and I think much more satisfactory to live in. Regarding sustainability: while I applaud anyone who is interested in producing some of their own food, don't confuse interest in your own flock and gardens with actual sustainability. It far too easily becomes a bunker mentality of we will have food, never mind if our actions have contributed to others' lack of options. Growing enough food for your own family is not the sustainable path. A sustainable life is more about making sure (in so far as humanly possible) that each of your personal choices does not over-consume the scarce - and growing scarcer - resources we have. It's a different set of choices for different people, in different stages of life and regions and circumstances. But it never is a unitary focus on making sure your family will prosper separately from the other families in this world. Sustainability is always about community. If you are nagged by your conscience about the size of your house, then shrink it. Or design it so it can be enlarged down the road if the initial footprint is too small. Starting too big is much more likely to curtail your choices in the future, than starting smaller and growing the house as (or if) needed. Your options will be more flexible, and more sustainable, with a smaller building. L .

Sherwin Williams rolled out new in-store displays that takes organizing their colors by hue family to the next level. The displays are now overtly about hue family first. So, it's pretty easy there. Unfortunately, it's not so easy with other brands. I do have all the BenM Affinity collection colors notated with huefamily over at The Land of Color. You can also try to eyeball it. You want to compare the gray chips to vivid hue parent chips. For example, if you scoot a gray chip that belongs to the red hue family next to a 'primary' red paint chip, you'll see the red pop out of the gray. It's a that which is like unto itself is drawn kinda deal. Whatever you do, do not compare paint chips to a white background. Doing so will skew your perception of the colorfulness. When it comes to comparing color, white is evil. Here's a blog post about why white is bad for comparing colors.

The houses I’ve seen painted grey and white with the orange barrel roof don’t look “right” to my eyes. They are telling two different stories so I hope you get big samples of both house and trim colors to check this out before you decide. If your tired of the peach a cream with medium to dark brown trim would work with your roof and look more updated and fresh.