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.

Amysrq - thanks for the help with how the paint chips work and the advice about waiting for the marble. I knew about some of the other collections not be coordinating, but I wasn't sure about the OC colors in BM. Just goes to show you how bad I am at coordinating creams. patty cakes - your bathroom sounds so beautiful. I'm just terrible at accessorizing, so I'm sure I wouldn't be able to pull something off that nice. But when I'm in incredibly interesting spaces, I love them. I just can never seem to achieve it! Well, I really wanted wall paper in my bathroom. I'm bad at accessorizing, and thought wall paper would help with my "statement." Now with all of these thoughts, besides just waiting for the marble to arrive....I have a new idea. And please tell me if I'm crazy. I am thinking about stenciling a wall-paper look in the bathroom. I'm great at painting (really just finished my entire house ceiling, trims, doors and walls, minus this bathroom). But I've never stenciled and I'm guessing it uses a completely different skill. Anyone have experience? And what do you think of this type of wallpaper stencil for a small bathroom? Too busy? would it distract from the marble? Of course using a stencil would mean I would have to then pick the front and back color. oh dear. Here is a link that might be useful: Wallpaper stencils

Will BM Navajo work with the Super White? Yes. Here's why. Only two things to worry about to coordinate white trim and white/off-white wall colors: hue families and chroma. Hue families - is an artistic judgment about how the two colors relate to each other, it's not color data judgment. To my eye, I don't like the white's h° to be too close together but they also can't be too far a part. Chroma - as long as one of the whites has more chroma than the other, then they will work together because we know one white will NOT make the other look dirty and gray. How much more chroma is an artistic judgment using color data as a framework. A good rule of thumb is one white should have at least twice the amount of chroma or more than the other. The white with LESS chroma, the one that's more white is usually what people choose for the trim. The white with MORE chroma, the one that's more colorful is usually what people choose for the walls. However, you can reverse this rule of thumb if you like the look of not white, more colorful bolder trim and a near neutral white on the walls. So how does Navajo White and Super White stack up against this rule of thumb. It's good because Super White has a chroma of 0.21 and Navajo White has a chroma of 1.27 - ample difference in chromaticity. Which means Super White trim/doors/cabinets will look nice and white and clean juxtaposed to Navajo White walls. From a Hue Family and/or h° color relationship perspective, I like it - the colors are far enough a part but not TOO far a part. Look at the Hue Families and h°, 92° and 115°, on this color wheel and you'll see what I mean.

Hi! I have SW Navajo White Trim (High Gloss) and I want to paint the walls a shade of blue that compliments it. Any suggestions? Thanks!!