> I do the painting myself...then, if I don't like it, I'm out less than $100 for most rooms. I learned to paint stuff myself when I was first married & we didn't have two nickles to rub together. Now that I could afford to have it done, I prefer doing it myself! The only thing I won't paint is double story stuff....then I'll use a color that I already love closeby.

Your welcome Judy. I have 2 tiny ballet dancers, 4 & 6, part of the reason I bought the tulle. I had such a problem finding WT's for that room. The windows in the room are caddy cornered, and part of the problem is one of the window's is boarded up from the outside. Our home is a work in progress. It has been a slow renovation/restoration, 3 years in the making. We found the windows in their room behind knotty pine paneling. Their bedroom is not finished, I still intend on hanging their tutu's on the wall. The tulle was meant to be temporary, but I really like how it turned out, and since we have so many other projects going on in the house, they will probably stay indefinitely. I will post pics tomorrow. I don't have any close-ups and the girlies are asleep in there right now. BTW, I am delighted to see your DD's bedroom and the similarities in my girls' bedroom. Perhaps this may mean they will still like it when they are 15? I could only hope ;-)

To tell you the honest truth, the two colors look alike on my screen and I don't like either one. Both are too mauve-y for me. (Caveat - I don't like mauve; I've never liked mauve; I avoided mauve the last time it came around. So, my opinion may not be a good one for you.) What about a nice cream? Several houses ago, I painted my bedroom Pratt and Lambert Antique White. Then I had the ceiling painted the palest tint of blue. I loved that room. My best resource for choosing colors is the guy at the paint store and when I lived in another town, there was a woman at a paint store there who was super. I take a fabric swatch, describe what I want, and he figures out which color will get me there*. He helped me pick out colors for our 2nd home when we were 500 miles apart and I was pleased with those colors until the day I moved.

Funcolors a slight side track- who cuts the paint by 50%? HD? or does the consumer need to buy a second gallon and mix it 50-50 themselves.? and is the old numbered MS pink paint available at HD? or just ask for them to mix by number? The ballet pink sound wonderful I ahve long loved the color of ballet slippers! Well, as several emails have reminded me today !!! I usually frown upon cutting formulas. I just recorded a "Burst of Color" mini-podcast in which I said don't cut formulas. Apparently that was not lost on a the listeners who also read here. :) So, to clarify... some paint colors do 'cut' more gracefully and predictably than others. Slipper from SW is one of those colors. If you cut it yourself using white, you have to take into consideration the "color" of the white you are using. What colorants are in THAT can of paint to make it THAT white -- and how will those colorants affect the can of Slipper? Can try it with a small amount first, but to do that you're committed to buying quantity unless you want to try with samples - a lot of unpredictability comes with this choice. Plus, you have to figure out how much paint you need for the project. Mixing two gallons together is not a big deal -- unless one gallon is all that's need for the entire project. Ending up with a whole gallon left over is not a good thing. So, Slipper from Sherwin Williams is probably best 'cut' in terms of formula/colorant at the paint store. Ballet Slipper Pink from the Home Depot is #MSL033. Slipper from SW is #8358. Home Depot could probably mix #8358 and cut it. In general it's an easy color and I would think HD could handle it.