Hi Minnie. I found the photo of your Teddy Bear afghan in the Gallery and left a posting for you. Would you share the directions with a few of us? It's so unique. Thanks Barb

I think if you don't like it/ want it, that's all that matters! The decision is ultimately yours, not your builder's :)

d f , your kitchen looks great ! I think it's silly to say you can't put warm colors and cool colors together. d f's kitchen proves that you can, and it can look good. Why limit yourself and what you can do ? I think most people assume that gray is always cool, but there are also warm grays. I don't try to be trendy as a rule, and I use what I like. I had gray walls before it became a trend, and will have them after it's outdated. I'm not going to paint my oak cabinets white just because that's the trend right now. Also, some of us like a warm look in our homes, as opposed to a cool gray and white look.

Paint colors are notoriously variable, even when you hold things like brand and product constant. I have three cans of BM paint right now that are all ostensibly the same color but were mixed by two different shops and they are all a bit different, even though that's a machine with a formula doing the mixing. It is also possible that they got the color wrong for yours--the color names are quite similar if it is in fact the Extra White, and I've found at our local paint shops that many of the staff have the codes in their head for the many whites and will key them in when you tell them the name, so there's room for human error too even if your painter said "Pure White." I'd take a cabinet door to the paint shop and have them match the color, and then repaint the trim in that shade. Without the cans of paint in hand, it's hard to know if the current color is the wrong one or, if it is, whose fault that is. (If it's a large painting company they may have an account at the paint store with a record of the color they purchased, but that's a bit of a long shot, and you'd still somehow need to get a sample of the color on the trim in for them to check.) Good luck!