I'm painting my home also, however, I'm looking for grays with a green undertone. I found that against the greens in the grass and trees, the blue undertone grays start looking too blue for me. My suggestion is to look at grays that initially you didn't consider because the color may look more blue outside. Benjamin Moore Coventry Gray is a med gray with slight blue undertones that looks more blue outside. I also started to ask what the LVR of the paint color is. This is how light or dark the color is. Sherwin Williams lists this number on the back of the paint strips, Ben Moore does not, you have to ask. This also helps limit your color choices. I decided I liked a color that has an LVR of about 38-40. I understand what a hard decision this is. I have purchased about 12 sample colors and painted large areas on my new house last fall and stared at them all winter. I settled on S.W. Rare Gray which looked so green in the store I initially passed on it. The painters will start in a couple weeks. Hope I made the correct choice. Good luck with yours.

Thank you for the picture sweetrain. the 1/2 strength bennington gray does look very nice. I'm probably going to do the halls/stairs elmira white and was trying to decide what to do for the family room/dining room. The kitchen is probably going to be RH silver sage or BM quiet moments: something in the grey/blue category. I thought about continuing the Elmira white but I'm used to pretty dark colors and I'm not sure how I would like that. My old kitchen/dining were Nantucket gray and family room was hamshire gray, but I want to steer away from all that green. I'll just have to wait for all the dry wall to go up and try some samples. I wonder how bleeker beige compares also.

Get as many samples as you can, and move them around to all walls. What looks good in one house or even one room in a house, will not always look good in another room. Gray is a very hard color, to get right. It took 3 tries, in my living room, to get a gray that didnt turn green, even with samples up before I picked the color. The first gray I used, was used in another room, and in that room, is a perfect gray. In the living room, it was a terrible shade of green.

Your room is lovely; it's unfortunate that some people get satisfaction from being rude - must make them feel better about themselves somehow. When you put the sample against the couch are they different or the same? Or did you not actually have a sample or just the pic of it. If you don't have a sample, I'd order one and see if they are the same. The color is lovely; I personally think it is much more interesting and livable than a darker gray would be, but that's me, not you. It looks great in your space. Will the store take it back if the fabric doesn't match the sample?