I have balanced beige and tony taupe by SW in my house. They might look good with your floor. I like all of the colors you have tried besides the two that look too blue. Edge comb is probably my favorite of your samples. It seems to have just a hint of taupe to mix well with your floors and might be a bit warmer. Good luck and please show after pictures.

saw50st8; As someone said, there are many, many threads about soapstone...the pros and cons. So many you might not want or be able to read them all. In the hope that this will help...a quick primer: The pros: Soapstone is a very dense stone that does not etch or stain. It can be absolutely maintenance free, depending on what look you want. It typically starts off in a medium grey, grey-greenish or grey-bluish tone, with or without veining and usually a vaguely matte finish. Over a long time, it will gradually and naturally darken and develop to charcoal, dark green or nearly black, with a subtle sheen. It will do so somewhat unevenly, with areas that are exposed to fats and oils, for example, sooner and others that are washed off a lot, staying lighter longer. If you want to speed up that oxidation process, you can oil (or wax) your soapstone, as often or as little as you want. At the beginning oiling it will temporarily make it look uniformly darkened, then over a period of weeks or months, need another oiling to get there again. But eventually, it will oxidize whether you oil ir or not. So, in that sense, maintenance depends entirely on what you want the result to be. If you want to maintain the light look...it's higher maintenance than granite. If you want to quickly make it all dark...it's slightly higher maintenance than granite. If you let it go au natural...it's no maintenance at all. The con: It is a softer stone than granite, so can chip or scratch much more easily. Some versions are fairly hard and don't chip or scratch much at all. Others get banged up quickly..but because the stone is soft, chips smooth out quickly (either with a bit of hand sanding or over time) and darken to match the rest of the stone. Whether that makes it high or low maintenance again depends on what your aesthetic sense is. For those who like pristeen perfect, the odds are soapstone isn't a good choice. For those who like old, characterful surroundings, it's perfect. It never looks bad or damaged, the way a chipped granite counter would. It just looks like it's been loved and used for years. In short, If you love crisply starched cotton blouses and wouldn't dream of wearing a t-shirt straight out of the dryer, you probably won't like soapstone. If you love the look of a vintage linen jacket...soft, drapey and slightly rumpled. It's perfect for you.

OK another update. I took the can of slip back and had them tweak it -- they tried for Violet Pearl but because there were already pigments in there that weren't supposed to be, I ended up with something darker that looked a lot like BM's Piano Concerto instead. I used it to repaint a few of the slip walls and liked it better -- it went from little girl's room lavender to a darker lavender with a bit of grapey tinge. But it was still pretty intense and not grayed out enough. So I went back to the store and grabbed sample cans of Hampshire Rocks, Violet Pearl, and After the Rain - the three lightest on that paint strip. (After the Rain had been a finalist in my earlier deliberations.) Hampshire Rocks was an immediate no -- in the room it looks pink with a gray tinge -- not lavender at all (and -- STOP READING NOW IF YOU HAVE HAMPSHIRE ROCKS ANYWHERE IN YOUR HOUSE CAUSE I DON'T WANT TO RUIN IT FOR YOU -- awful as it sounds, it reminded me of the color a dead person's skin after the undertaker makes them up for the viewing - yikes!). Violet Pearl and After the Rain have serious potential though. The sample cans are some other kind of paint that takes MUCH longer to dry than the aura, so I painted some largish swatches and am waiting for it to dry down fully. More pics tomorrow I guess! I brought home a chip of Capitol White during my first paint store trip and it is beautiful -- it's like the color of vanilla ice cream. But the trim paint is Ben Moore's Simply White which has a creamy tinge. And really, it's a color match done into a different brand of paint that is ended up even creamier than the real Simply White. So when I held the Capitol White up to the trim, there didn't seem to be enough contrast -- it looked like a slightly "off" version of the trim color. I will keep Capitol White in mind for future projects though - it is pretty! LisaD82 - funny you say that about Ocean Air - I wouldn't call it spa blue or baby boy blue -- in real life, it's more like a tiffany box blue. It's pretty but somehow it seems to fight with all the gray in the stone, grout, etc. And Roarah -- I think your room is beautiful and not boring at all!!!!

"My only concern is that they all seem to have many jigs and jogs, multiple rooflines, etc. I want something that is somewhat simple and not too much going on." While there's a tipping point as to the number of corners as it relates to excessive costs, just because it's an easily quantifiable thing(stick out one's index finger and go clockwise, or counterclockwise around a house....how hard is that?) doesn't make for anywhere near of a complete analysis of a designs cost. I don't design production housing anymore but when I did, the builders (and unlike the folks here, they are professional clients who know a lot more about what they are looking for) really didn't make a big deal about corners, even for very price point sensitive entry level housing. As an illustration, below are plans of entry level housing going up in my area (which is about $350K here, the land being the significant cost driver). This is real stuff in a real market with real costs, real risks and real profit margins yet corners are abundant. And the financial model for a typical builder building cost sensitive houses in a competitive market is a lot more constraining than custom housing. Sure, everyone has a budget but building a house to hopefully immediately sell at a profit is a whole lot harder endeavor than a building a house that won't be for sale any time soon. Sure, there's a point where increased complexity has merit as it relates to costs but the "corner thing" tends to get too much weight on this forum when compared to the attention it gets from folks who are concerned with putting bread on their tables by building speculative housing. As another example, we are temporily in a rental now, having sold our Annapolis house faster than e thought. It's an entry level 1300SF house and it's got 10 corners. Interestingly, I'm working on a project now where the order of the day was "very simple and cost effective" as well as passive solar. I came up with this only to be told "This is TOO simple!"...LOL! So in the second "go around" I'm working on dressing it up a tad: I think it will be fine now!! Disclaimer: Thought about not posting these thoughts on corners because it might look like I was trolling for work. I'm not and won't be working with the OP. Just trying to offer hopefully helpful advise to her. And good luck in your build, Exciting times ahead for sure!