It helps to understand this: All color wheels, like the one I use, are a slice from the middle of three-dimensional color space like you see in this video of the Munsell color space. Tints, tones, shades, muted, near neutrals - they're all accounted for in a color space as you can see. Also important:The definition of overtone is when you sense two colors at the same time. It's a compound color experience. The overtone color in the combination is the one that's sensed more intensely compared to the other. Overtone precisely describes compound color experiences by identifying the bossier of the two colors. So, now on to your comments about Gray Cashmere... WOW. I would have guessed that it was more toward blue than green - the color looks like a very light blue. Plotting a color on a color wheel like I did here, illustrates where the color and its entire family "lives" in its color space. Specifically, we can see what hue families it lives next to. Colors that belong to the green-yellow hue family can have yellow or green overtones. In the case of Gray Cashmere, we can see by looking at where it's plotted on the color wheel that it 'lives' OVER near the green hue family so we know to expect OVERTONES of greeness - more so than overtones of yellow. But Gray Cashmere is also very low in chroma (colorfulness) - it's a grayish color. It's nearer a true neutral gray than it is its saturated green-yellow hue parent. That means it's a near neutral. Again, near neutrals don't have a lot of their saturated hue parent chroma, they're grayer. That means they are easily influenced by light and context and as a result, near neutrals like Gray Cashmere can shift in certain qualities of light. Color shift is different from overtones. Colors from Gray Cashmere's hue family neighborhood are known to shift and look blue -- but that doesn't mean they belong to the blue hue family. It's important to remember that they still belong to the green-yellow hue family. Because when we know what hue family a color belongs to according to its spectral data (its color DNA) we can anticipate, predict, and most importantly explain WHY. We can explain WHY a color from the green-yellow hue family has a yellow or a green overtone. We can explain WHY it shifts and looks blue. But I guess the kind of blue is due to some yellow, which causes this. The colorants in the formula provide zero information about what a color will look like. Because there is more than one way to mix a single color - several combinations of different colorants can result in the same color. That's why the only thing that matters is what the color looks like when it's dry.

Joannas23 I went with Benjamin Moore Cheating Heart. I really like it. In my room on my built-ins, it is black with a charcoal tint too it, sometimes even a little blue. Not much. My room does get a lot of light. When I get back in town, I will try to get a picture of it.

The problem with a bench is that people like to scoot up to a table and not everyone is going to scoot up the same distance. Also, benches are not good for lingering on. People like to have that back support and they are hard to get on and off of ( especially if you are trying to get 3 people on one) - think picnic table as you really can't easily move the bench in and out like a chair. Ask yourself if you were at a dinner party and the table had a bench, would you and your husband run to sit on the bench or the chairs? I'll focus on non-fabric chairs for easy clean-up. But don't completely discard fabric as with all your hard surfaces you may find that you may like having a fabric to break it up. I purchase cans of Scotchguard (or like product) and spray the fabric myself and over-all it does a pretty good job. And if you are looking to kid (or husband) proof it, then a sheet thrown over the chair will work, too-lol....

This is a very colorful slab if you are wanting to stay neutral. I would go to a local place where you can view the slabs keeping to whites with tan, grey, black veining or mostly white. It should be something that goes with any other colors to be a true neutral. Similar to a lot of the ones in your ideabook. You can easily change out accents and wall colors to change the color of the room without a remodel. A butcher block island top adds warmth to the white kitchen along with wood floors and accents.