We just repainted our bedroom BM Tranquility with a BM Frostine ceiling. Our bedroom has 4 large windows, two facing west and two facing south, in an extremely hot climate. This a picture I found on the interwebs, but it does not do Tranquility justice, it is about the most beautiful color i have ever used, I smile every time I look at the bedroom. It is much more blue and a lot less green in our space, similar to the old RH Silver Sage, but bluer, I really love it, and will try to post a picture. http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo143/nickliss/Greens/Golds/Blues/BMTranquility.jpg Here is a link that might be useful:

Hey, Barbara J.! jjam, Full spectrum color works in low-light situations too -- for all the same reasons. FS color packs a robust bundle of wavelengths and it can reflect a broader range of light wavelengths than regular color. That means, even in low-light situatuions, whatever light wavelengths you have to work with will be maximized. The wall color will reflect back as much as is possible for that particular hue -- nothing will be lost kinda thing. With any color, the more evenly balanced light you have, the better the wall color will look and FS color is no different. But... if in that equation of partnering bundles of wavelengths, one side of the equation is a little short, like the light, you can compensate with robustly built paint color. If you think about it, it works the same in reverse. i.e. A room with southern exposure with abundant daylight is the easiest kind of room to fit with a wall color -- because you have a robust bundle of light wavelengths to work with. In other words, you will find that a greater number of paint colors work in a southern exposure because of the abundance of light wavelengths; they have better odds of finding kindred wavelengths to reflect back into the room. The paint color might be short in some way, but the light is robust. The other part of FS color that I didn't speak to because it was getting kinda long is the factor of black colorant. FS color does not use black colorant in the mix. As we all know, black keeps all the light that hits it, black doesn't reflect anything back into the space. Having black in the mix also creates what feels like dimensional shadowing *within* the actual paint color -- sometimes it's not a big deal, sometimes it is. All depends. Tobacco Road is a good example. My favorite formula uses black -- in fact black is important. I'm anxious to see what EK's version looks like because it's not going to have that shot of black. There's a place and a way to use both versions of the same color. Having a choice about how color is mixed is awesome. i.e. I love to juxtapose *regular* color to FS color. It's a subtle way to add a layer of finely nuanced contrast to sightlines. It's fabulous if you can use FS color everywhere, but if you can only use FS for a room or a hallway, the effect can be rather spiffy.

Goodness, it was a busy holiday weekend. Thanks so much for the input. My biggest concern is that I can get away with a dark color in the family room. There are windows all along the back of the house, but the kitchen just has that one window and I was doing darker cabinets. I just don't know how a color like Texas Leather would look with brown cabinets. I could rethink the cabinets? But my idea was that the warm color of the cabinets would tie in with our warm colors in the family room. Hmmm. What do people use for color boards when they are trying to make decisions in new construction?

I like BM Revere Pewter. It can go more grey or more taupe depending on lighting and what you put w/ it. I also like BM Porcelain Ivory, Deleware Putty and Jonesboro Cream all off of the same strip. Some people get nervous when they see that it is in the orange family but it really doesn't show orange at all. Cream Fleece on the next color card over is a favorite of some designer whose name escapes me at the moment.