Faron, Thank you so much for writing back right away. You are so knowledgeable and generous with your time. I just want my walls to look nice and I was afraid if I skipped the primer, the paint may not stick. These forums (especially Michael) has taught me how important it is to prep the walls before painting and I can see how nice my other walls look by following this advice and making sure my painter did what I told him to do. But my bathroom was just painted and I am not changing the color much at all. I guess it is my fault for taking a shower too soon in the room and not putting the fan on in the room after each shower since I have no windows and that is why the paint is now streaking. All the other rooms look great and the other bathrooms have no problems that are rarely used. I do have the guest bathroom that I can take showers in for one week. I rarely use it since I like taking showers in my master bathroom with the glass doors than in a tub with a shower curtain. I only use that bathroom for guests or to wash my little doggies. I guess for one week, I can use the guest bathroom to shower in despite a little smell from my doggie's puppy pads in there. I guess I should feel blessed that my townhouse has 2 1/2 baths and has a lot of room. I just keep the puppy pads in there since in the winter time my spoiled little 5.8 lb Maltese, Sassy does not like to go outside. My other little doggies will go outside in my fenced in backyard on the stones but not the little Miss Princess Sassy who has always been like this knowing her cuteness will win out. I am just changing the color slightly since the BM Navajo White is only slightly less yellow than the Deep Cream and the Navajo White which I feel will go better with the bone colored Jacuzzi and the two bone colored sinks and the bone colored toilet, as well as the taupe tiles up the sides of the Jacuzzi and shower stall. The extra gray in the Navajo White surprisingly does not look gray to me in that room but warms the walls up and takes away the lemon cast that to me just did not look right against the taupe tiles. They are so similar in color and the formulas show it (Navajo White has 4 Less Units of Oxide Yellow and 4 more units of Gray and 1/2 extra unit of Orange than the deep cream color but otherwise they are so much alike in formula) but the room will then appear less lemon but still happy and bright and be semi-gloss like I wanted since I have no windows in it and I want to be able to clean it easily when I brush my teeth and get my walls dirty. I love my new pictures and my new olive towels and new olive rug and I feel they will go better with walls that do not have that lemon cast to them. I guess I should ask the paint store for a "liquid deglosser" and they will know what I mean? I can degloss part of the bathroom except for the tallest walls I will not be able to reach even with a tall ladder since I am not quite 5 feet. Maybe I can do what I can before painter arrives and he can do the rest. I think he is not that tall either (but much taller than me) but has tall ladders and long poles for his rollers. I had the painter tint the primer deep cream last time for the deep cream room and bone white tinted for the bone white room. I guess that was not really necessary since the colors are so light. The painter used the Deep Cream tinted primer for the Philadelphia Painted room telling me it was not worth going out to buy new primer. I wonder if this is why that room turned out more yellow than I had thought it would be.

It was no problem to get either. Turns out that "Delicate White" is untinted white base (at least in Manor Hall). "Commercial White" has a point of brown in a quart. "Slightly more greyed," the paint guy said, echoing your words. I got a quart of Commercial White, and it's still extremely bright white - as white as my bathroom fixtures. Before committing to a whole-house trim color, I might try a softer one. What would you say is closest to EK "Snow" in PPG, funcolors? (Their consumer white card is totally unhelpful, omitting most of the good ones.) I should add that Paul at Lakewood Hardware in Tacoma (where they carry PPG, Devine, Martin Senour and Pratt & Lambert) is extremely helpful. When I dug out the painting stuff, I found a couple sample boards - one of EK "Green Apple," and one of his match to it. It's very close - he did a great job with the match - but the EK is soft, whereas the PPG is sort of obnoxious in comparison. It was a really good demo of full spectrum vs standard tints. I am considering having him try and match EK "Stone" because my shower splashes heavily on my walls, but I don't like semigloss on the walls, it looks ugly. Eggshell doesn't seem durable enough for the application. I might get him to do it in Manor Hall pearl. I sampled PPG "Silver Dollar," which is close but not a match to EK "Stone." Not nearly as pleasing. I bet he can match it pretty closely though, and I wonder if it will be as noticeable on a more muted color like this. If only EK came in Satin... sigh!

I always use an extender with Aura. It gives you more time before drying. If you're painting a bathroom, research "surfactant leaching." This happens when the paint in a bathroom isn't fully cured, and you use the shower. Google photos of surfactant leaching. Most paint stores will say latex cures in a few days, but I had this problem in two homes and did extensive research. You get ugly drips down the walls, and they are yellow or brown. You can wash it off, but it comes back. Now, when I paint a bathroom, I wait 30 days before using the shower. That may be overkill, and if you only have one shower, that would not be possible.

If anyone is still out there..... I'm starting to second guess my plan to extend oak flooring into the kitchen - mostly because of the smell/VOC potential associated with finishing the floors and having two small children in the household (being out of the home for more than a couple of days is really not an option). I know we could go with a water-based finish, but that really wouldn't match the rest of the home. So....... Now I'm reconsidering whether we should go with tile and I'm looking for suggestions on what would look nice with the rest of our colors (the Aria countertop and bright white cabinets). Ideas??? Flooring is supposed to go in early next week, so I need to think through this quickly.