peachy? no, not here. i have it up, lit by a 40 watt wall sconce. i went out and had a sample mixed just yesterday and painted it on a 5x8 wall. i even put up the art that i have planned for the space. it looks perfect. color is relative to it's surroundings so if you put other colors next to it you'll actually comprehend the tones a bit differently. i love annapolis because of it's absence of a lot of yellow or red so it doesn't seem TOO beige, really. it reads quite gray/stone next to the other sample i bought: pismo dunes. now THAT is beige. really beige; like camel. dark with a lot of yellow and red. no gray at all. annapolis in comparison is more like stone, i'd say a creamy, gray stone. sorry, did i just say the same thing five times?! color is a personal thing though. it may not be for everyone but it's my new love! p.s.: i also picked up a sample of quiet moments in my travels which is a very pale, gray-blue. i think i'll use that in the guest bath. gorgeous color!

I have tried the app. For some reason it doesn’t capture the color... for some reason in the picture it does look similar. But in real life it looks a lot more taupe I want to show you guys something. The big horseshoe shape is the human gamut of color - it's a diagram representing all the colors we can see. It's one 'slice' from a 3 dimensional color space. Which means it's kind of like an infographic for a color space that includes every color. All tints, tones, shades, whites, grays, neutral, etc. Every color you can name is present and accounted for in that horseshoe. The black triangle inside shows us the average range of colors that our devices are able to light up and display for us to see. Using red, green and blue channels of light your phone, tablet, computer is only able to display a fraction of the colors we see in real life. The RGB color space doesn't include the dimensions of Value or Chroma. It makes no effort to mimic how humans perceive color. All it does is mix together red, green and blue channels of light to make a small range of colors. If a color is outside that black triangle, then an algorithm will 'clip' it to make it fit. In other words the algorithm will find the closest match inside the black triangle and then display THAT color. The colors we see in real life aren't lit up and emitted to our eyeballs. Colors in real life are reflected light to our eyeballs. Two different visual experiences. That's a big difference. So, your device has a limited number of colors it can display and the colors it can produce are emitted to your eyeballs which is a different kind of visual sensation than how you experience color in real life. Those are the two main reasons those apps do not work, will never work and are a complete waste of time. Are the paint companies lying to you? Sort of. I think it's a mix of lack of transparency and color expertise. Most of the people they have marketing these apps have not one fat clue how they actually work.

It might not work. Wall colour is so dependant on the light - natural and artificial. We can wish it all we want, sometimes we have to change direction. My greige suggestion is BM's Silver Satin. If a greige looks too dull in your space and you still want a light neutral, consider brightening the colour and going with a warm white/off-white. Less grey undertone, more white or yellow.

If you get a tester of Vale Mist and see how it looks with all of your finishes, but decide you want something a bit grayer or lighter or bluer or any - er we can help you get to similar colors that hit the nail on the head. I have not used Vale Mist before, but have used October Mist - just a shade darker and loved it.