dasiychain01- that's good to know. I was thinking of using some bloggers who I thought seemed really knowledgable about color. Figured they might actually be better than an interior designer who is probably more skilled in furniture and things (also being in the NYC area, the one's near me are $$). I asked the builder about using the BM consultant (they use Benjamin Moore paint) but they said the way they get it isn't really through a store so there's no consultant? Not sure if that sounds right. I will double check. Since it's new construction there's nothing to match, it's just picking a bunch of things that work well together.

All major paint manufacturers offer that on their sites. Go to SW for instance. Free is only so good at distinguishing the boundaries though.

I also suggest removing the really WILD colours that are in the space/home already. The intense colours on the wall and the floors (from the one photo) will cause issues with how the floor samples/boxes look. So it is best to remove the carpet and PRIME the walls white. Once you have a colour-neutral room to evaluate the floors, you will have a much better idea re: presentation. Rose colour carpet throws +++pink into the air (and thus the floor samples) and the intense yellow wall paint will throw HUGE amounts of yellow onto the samples as well. There is no way around these issues. The only way to counter act them = remove all that colour (remove carpet; prime the walls) and THEN investigate the look of your chosen samples.

You can use EasyRGB if you know the hex value. That can be matched to paint colors. Just be aware that these inexpensive tools are designed to measure a single small dot and it may not represent a blended color (linen will often return the color of the darker, grayer thread or the lighter yellow white thread, but neither are the color you see when the two blend together and produce that gray yellow white linen color. The site I referenced is here: easyrgb.com Select match color data Choose data type (HTML) Enter the Hex Code Select all collections or pick a specific paint brand. EasyRGB returns the closest matches. It will also convert the color to different data types It has a glitch and won't convert all data types without re-entering the information. HTML is one that if you left click on the number and hit convert it will return ERROR as the HTML code and you have to enter the HTML code again. But it does then convert it to all data types. There is a whole lot of issues with pulling color data, but each tool helps some and most of us can't afford the tools that work really well and there are no tools that can read a color and tell you how the average person with normal vision will see color in context. Cannot be done. Tools can only measure what length wavelengths are being reflected off a surface, they cannot measure how human sight interprets that data. It cannot replicate cone fatigue or the impact of dopamine or how lighting will alter your interpretation of the color or your emotional response to color. There have even been studies on rats that show that a mother rat that is surrounded by a single color during pregnancy changes the behavior of the offspring throughout their life. Here is another website that uses hex codes and lets you explore color combinations that will appeal to you. Our eyes tend to like geometric shapes, but there isn't some magic that says it has to be a 30 degree differential, This allows you to play with all kinds of combinations to find out what makes your heart sing. Paletton.com