I can't comment on the PB, although I have a full gallon of it in my garage! I have the darker Tobacco Road in my FR. Hate to through another color(s) at you, but have you looked at RL Plateau or Antique Bone? Also, BM Ladyfinger. You can always order samples from My Perfect Color and have it matched! Someone on here, I think Parma, not sure, mentioned SW White Raisin.

Here is RL Antique Bone.

Here is a link that might be useful: Antique Bone

Kcmg, you have great taste, so I take your suggestions v. seriously. I think I brought home chips of Plateau and Antique Bone, and rejected them: not close enough to the bedspread I was hoping to match, or at least create a good backdrop for.

I am reluctant to order lots of BM samples from MPC.... I kinda just want to do this locally, instead of fussing around w/lots of samples via email. Is there an advantage to going with MPC, do you think?

My "common areas" (family room, downstairs hallways, staircase, and upstairs hall) are painted Plantation Beige. In other words, there's a lot of it! I've never noticed it veering light grey. It's really just a pretty staightforward, slightly-goldy warm beige. Neutral all the way around. I've been pretty happy living with out for about 3 years now. I don't think you'll go wrong with it, no matter what the lighting.

Good luck.

I have Plantation Beige in my entry, living room, dining room, and office. I used Tobacco Road which is one shade darker in my kitchen/hearth room. The PB is definitely a warm goldish beige, no cool or grey tones in person. My living room is a little short on windows also and I was afraid to go to the darker Tobacco Road. The PB is a very medium to medium light color but I love the neutralness of it, not yellow, not green, not pink, just a warm color.

These are old pics but here it is in living room and dining room and will give you an idea of the color. The dining room has 2 windows but there's an 8 ft wide porch outside them so the light is low in there also. The color here seems pretty true, maybe slightly washed out by the flash.

Walkin, Thankyou for the compliment. Re-reading my post, I can't believe I spelled 'throw' through???? Hopefully you knew what I meant! No, I don't think there is any advantage to MPC other than seeing a color if you can't get it locally. I guess what I would really use it for is getting a sample so I could match it locally. I wouldn't want to pay the shipping cost on gallons of paint, lol! My TR was matched by SW from a Duron paint chip. 2 Years later, I was fortunate to get a gallon of TR from Duron and I used it to patch up some work I had done and it matched perfectly to the SW paint!

Thank you all so much for these thoughts. I don't want something that golden, even though your pics are lovely, Mimi -- isn't it funny how the same color looks SO different in different houses?

So, I have another question for you paint mavens, if anyone is kind enough to continue reading this thread. Is there an online source for the LRV of different colors? I am really taken with a few (gulp) BM colors: Hot Spring Stones and Litchfield Gray. And I'd like to check out Softer Tan. Is there a way to find out how much light they conduct/reflect, relative to other colors?