Shee, Yes, Ardmore does have alot of brown - my kitchen gets alot of light. My sis has the Moselle above it in her den - had it in her previous kit/hearth room. I like Kmcg's Wild Grasses, too. Decisions, decisions!! Last house....had bright pink walls with blue linoleum floor in kitchen .....I did a late nite run to Home Depot for Ardmore green the night we moved in!! DH left to go hunting & SIL brought paint brush & wine.;) Most paint stores have the formula in their computers....just slight differences - just like your SB with Ace. Smiles:)

I am just here to say that.... wow. I found this thread an hour ago via a Google search. BM has samples 50% off right now for 1/2 a pint so its like 2.99 a piece and with Free Shipping.. Sounded like a really good deal, as i paid $18 (on sale, in addition to borrowing my dad's small discount he recieves for using his store loyalty rewards card) for a pint this morning of another equally consistently good paint that ive used. I have been flipping furniture and doing a lot of DIY type things, as well as am an artist with an educational background in color and how paints have historically been created (and marketed)- for extra money since the pandemic happened. And yes - paint has gotten so expensive. I understand the quality and work that goes into developing the higher end paints and the skill in those that use it for way bigger jobs than i do. And in totally respect that. But In regards to what I need it for- I simply cannot pay $30-80 a quart. I will buy samples and mess-ups all day long as cheap as I can find them. I will literally choose the color I am going to use based soley on what's cheapest. And that's only because this is like a hobby that occasionally will make me some really good extra money. I don't depend on it as my main job- so I'm definitely not in the same position many of you are. But when I saw the discrepancy in price, it made me pause and do some googling. i think i typed in "why are bm samples so cheap and are they the same paint they sell?" And the very first link Google gave me was this thread. I have learned more in the last 1.5 hours (9 years for you guys) about paint most people will ever know. Like, EVER. Y'all are some dedicated and highly intelligent people and I never knew there was so much misinformation to customers, unregulated practices among businesses, opposing opinions among companies and professionals, nor did i know there were people like Lori who is still showing up after 9 years to answer people's questions and provide answers and solutions. I'm just very impressed with this whole thread right now. I work in the Anti-trafficking movement and I though we were persistent 🤣 It's just super cool to see people caring so much about their work, each other, their industry and its just nothing like I ever would've expected. keep up the good fight. We'd love to have some of you bring this dedication and commitment to excellence and holding your industry accountable on over to help us fight. We could all learn from folks like you 🥰

seems like the "greige" family of color have low Chroma values (less than 2) and I when I have looked at these colors both up close and from a reasonable distance, they look washed out and like their isn't much intensity to the paint (I know that's what Chroma measures Yep. Exactly right. If a painter were to roll on the paint with 2 coats instead will it help make a house look like there is more paint applied to the wall and make it look more rich looking or is there nothing one can do to make these low Chroma value paints not appear washed out? Two coats are the industry standard in order to achieve the proper film thickness and color resolution. You should never do just one coat. The one-coat coverage claims are marketing. Just because a paint might "cover" in one coat doesn't mean one coat equals a proper paint job. With that said, the chroma value is the chroma value. If you perceive low chroma colors a being "washed out" then more coats of the same low chroma color isn't going to change that. The good news is you understand chroma - and where to find it, e.g. Dunn-Edwards. Which means you can use chroma values as a framework to efficiently rule out lower chroma colors that you feel look washed out and find higher chroma colors that appeal to you more. My basis for comparison on paints that I like the rich, intense look of for a house paint are the Warm Neutrals family in Dunn Edwards. A color example would be Warm Hearth DE6110. Perfectly appropriate exterior color for the Southwest region.

1. Does the LRV make a difference in the home interior temperature? Yes and no. Yes because: It's a fact that lighter colors reflect more of the energy from the sun that makes things hot. Darker colors also hold on to moisture more than light colors and fade faster. Which means touch up are impossible after about year 1. LRV is a decent guideline for making general assumptions like lighter colors hold up better and may help keep things cooler. No because: Light reflectance isn't the same has heat reflectance quantified as Total Solar Reflectance. Because LRV doesn't consider the sun's 45% energy in the infra-red range. LRV just tells you about a color's luminance. LRV answers the question what proportion of the light that hits it will it reflect. You can have two colors with the same LRV but one might literally be hotter than the other because of individual pigment load. Because pigment load is what determines how much energy it will accumulate. LRV values are a controversial topic in color science world. The controversy has to do with the accuracy of Light Reflectance Values. How they’re measured, the standards, the science, the math, the instrumentation, the whole LRV enchilada is debatable. With regard to paint colors, you shouldn’t compare LRV values from different brands and think the values are telling you minute differences in luminance. (Luminance is an umbrella term for Value and LRV) Because they don’t. Because the values are from different sources. LRV is most meaningful when one source is identified and used as the standard.