Oooh, i did just this in my kitchen. Experimented a few different ways. GreenDesign is absolutely right - if you just lighten it by telling the guys to mix in 50% less of the colorant - you get a very different colour. RH-SS is mixed in a creamy or something base - not a white one, so the creaminess of the base manifests more than it does in SS. Result is a sort of glassy, celery colour - very nice, actually, but not reminiscent of Silver Sage. Since, not what I was looking for and I wound up using that in another space. However, mixing the paint with 50% of white yielded a colour that was RH Silver-Sage-only-lighter. So, all that said, I'd recommend a couple of options: (1) try mixing white paint with RH-SS till you have the shade you like and then have the shop chaps colour match the result. (2) Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage line now has deeper as well as lighter colours than when I did my kitchen. Do try and take a look at "Pale Silver Sage" as well as "Pale Silver" to see if those pass muster with you. (3) You might also want your paint chaps mix the RH-SS colour in the same base at half concentration and see if you like the result. As mentioned earlier, it isn't really Silver-Sage's paler sibling so much as it is say, RH's "Sycamore Green". Good luck. Silver Sage is a very nice colour and 6+ years after, I'm still appreciating it.

I don't know those colors but wanted to say that it seems like an awful lot of color changes throughout your home. Every room doesn't have to be a different color. It's possible you might lose a nice calm flow, feeling choppy, depending how much difference there is. The other thing is that painters charge extra for paint color changes. The one I have seen is Wool Skein. The house had good natural light. It would seem like a dark color for all of your ceilings. It was very pretty on the walls, appearing a a golden tannish neutral, not real light but not dark either. When I've looked at its swatch in the past I was surprised how different it looked there, not so tan. Is your home an open concept style?

I used Muralo Quik-Tred in our utility/laundry area (concrete floor) 12 yrs ago. In the interim I did one quickie refresher coat in the walk path (which happens to be floor drain area too and yeah, our laundry sink has overflowed on occasion in that spot when someone left a rag in there and it clogged the sink drain when the washer was running.) Last year I repainted the entire floor to freshen it. There were small areas that had pulled up (pea size at most) but again, in the primary walk path. Overall I've been quite pleased with it, they have a nice color selection, and I have taken an old fashioned electric scrubber with rotating bristles to is when is was muddy from dogs and that didn't even phase it. I do keep a lot of rugs down (dogs beds are in there, and basement door to outside). If it were in my day to day living areas I probably wouldn't do it. It's very tough paint and has held very well but I don't know how well it would fly in areas that get much heavier use, such as rooms where furniture could slide around alot (a chair), table legs scrape it, etc. You might find yourself going crazy touching little spots up. I have used Muralo Super Tred (an oil-based formula for exterior). Used it on a rental concrete stoop that had ancient brown paint on it. Pressure washing just would not pull that brown paint off, so I opted to repaint over it. On sides of stoop and backs of steps it looks fresh as new, but on tops of steps and porch there are tiny (fleck size) areas where it's pulled off. (That porch is covered and someone protected from elements.) Also, the oil-based has more shine and would be more slippery than the water based Qwik Tread I used, which is a satin finish. I have seen stained concrete in person (a new local salon I've been to did it during a remodel, very fancy inside and the floors look great, a really appealing look). If you check over in Home Decorating here and ask for photos, I know some members have done it themselves. If you don't want tile, another option might be the novalis vinyl plank flooring that looks like wood. You can see a photo here. oceana did it herself and she paid .98 per sq foot at Lowe's . (It's noted further down in her post). That's about the 3rd room I've seen done in vinyl plank that mimics wood and all look very nice! (Can't beat that price, either ;)

Thanks for the input so far. I appreciate your photos & recommendations Flo. Denita, I had to laugh out loud when you mentioned colorblind. Sometimes I do think my h is. I once had a boyfriend that I did not know was color blind until I went shopping for clothes with him once, I am posting a photo of the home we just purchased this past summer. It needs lots of attention inside and out, but hopefully you can see the "Clay" color of the siding which is more of a taupe. Black or dark brown roofing would go nice, but we do not want green. I would love to change the siding which would not be my choice if I had purchased it. Hopefully your computer screen will show the color accurately to some degree.