If you can narrow down your choices to three or four, I recommend buying some large plain white poster paper and painting a LARGE swatch of each test color, leaving a 2" white border around the edge so that you don't compare the color with whatever is immediately around it, but still see the color in its intended environment. This works for interior and exterior areas. Hang the swatches with painters tape in the area where you want to try it and let it stay there for a few days days while you think about it and look at it different times of day. Don't rush it! Those little Benjamin Moore paint pods are about $5 and other paint brand sample sizes are inexpensive, too. You can easily paint large swatches with the samples and the expense is minimal compared with the cost of having to do something and then re-do it because the color isn't right. You'll be surprised how different a color can look in larger quantities than on a paint chip. N.E.V.E.R pick a paint color from a paint chip or from an online picture. Monitors, cameras, and computers' calibrations, time of day, seasons, area of the country you live in- so many variables when it comes to how any color looks. It's worth it to use HUGE swatches. Paint chips really are just a start to finding the perfect color. Also, if you find a color is perfect but it's too dark you can have the paint folks mix the color at a % formula- 50% if you want it half as dark, etc.

Posted on other Post? You have two....wow you sure get a lot of house for the money in Memphis!....

I will have to do some measuring next time I make a trip to the house. I want to be able to relax on the porch with my husband, read alone, etc. I'm not planning on using the front porch as an entertaining area...more like just a relaxation area for us. Just looking for comfortable seating or swing that will go with some nice urns like you suggested. Each far side of the porch has 2 entry doors into the front sitting room and the den. I don't want to really block them off, so I'm trying to figure out a way to place furniture and decor without doing that.

Should the color of your front door or doors be the same color inside?