If you go out and try to find the whitest tile possible (which is adex, I have it in my kitchen because the tile I bought looked very PINK and I could not live with it) it might end up making your kohler stuff look dingy. Whites are just really tough - nothing is pure white really, they all have different undertones - from yellow to blue to pink. I just tried to keep them all "warm" and that's why it works (nothing in there has seriously blue undertones). I thought about it but we have nearly 300sf of subway tile in the bathroom. 300sf x $2/sf for the stuff at lowes is a lot less than 300sf x $7/sf for the adex I have in my kitchen (I used a fraction of that amount for my backsplash). Thanks for the compliment, I am making the final push to get it done and coming here for motivation hehe. caroline, we used mapei warm gray. I felt it was just dark enough to emphasize the pattern but not so dark that it made my rather large bathroom too visually busy with all of the lines being very prominent.

Plain bamboo shades might as well not be there at night when the light is on. Folks can't see in during the day when they are closed, but at night when they are back lit, practically see-through. I know this from personal experience. I tried bamboo shades in my living room that faced the street, and checked out the level of see through from the street at night. Not private at all. These were unlined ones.

Hello all - thank you for your comments. Yes sorry reread that post and I'm quite sure building a house is actually making me a bit bananas. Truth. lol. Once I get the paint and lights sorted out I can get back to even keel. lol I will attach a comment with a pic of some samples. The Oxford white is officially the only colour chosen. It is for trim, doors, etc. I like how it seems very neutral - white as white can be. By my layman's eyeball anyway. It amazes me how many shades of white and how side by side they all look so different! I was thinking of the "Intense white" because the swatch looks a little warmer and wondered if that would be best in the kitchen where there's already a lot of very bright white but the warmth of the walnut island - maybe that might help sort of tie it together? The more grey shades like white whisp I thought for my master bath as its white and marble (with the greys in marble) and a laundry room and bathroom that have grey in them. Also, the living room's fireplace with its tile surround being black - thought it might be a good idea. But it seems the advice is to pick a white and stick with it. I have ordered a couple of colours in sample sizes to paint in a few places to see how it looks. The crazy in me was feeling stressed (first world problems) and my husband just looks at me with glazed eyes so perhaps I was turning to Houzz for some moral support. Sad, really. LOL. I'm blessed to have this problem, I know. New house, picking paint colours.

Sounds like they are in different rooms. I don't think it will be a problem. Even the same white in different surfaces read different. If it is an obvious difference all the better.