Question for Painters (colors)

[Buck Turgidson]

Wow. What a range of answers. I don't consider it a dumb question. I am color-challenged, too. One color I just painted a bedroom is Home Depot (Behr) Tuscan Beige. It is not very strong, but a nice color.

Lowes has a Waverly color called "Natural" which looks nice. It is a bit too deep for me, but my wife likes it.

Home Depot's Parisian Taupe is a nice color, too.

The poster's advice about going a couple of shades lighter is right on. Everything looks darker on the wall. Flat tends to look dark than eggshell, which looks darker than satin, etc.

[Robatoy]

Without red and green, you're going to have a rough time making any earth/brown tones. red + green = brown.

[Robatoy]

A friend of mine, a professional painter, painted one client's dining room 8 times...next time she wanted a 'touch' more blue...and he shook her hand and said: "you're not going to make me crazy too!" and left.

[Robatoy]

*rocking back-n-forth on my heels*

.....and what's wrong with those colours?

Eh?

[Robatoy]

18% grey is 'neutral'. There is NOTHING going on in terms of colour.

for more info on 'neutral'

[maradcliff]

Yes, some people are like that. Anal Retentive is the wording. Like the OP.

[felderbush001]

Jeepers! Maybe I should have said, "it SEEMS like I paint a room over and over". Just kinda like an expression ya know. You've never been disappointed with a room color? You've never painted a room two or three times to get it right? And it's not like it's painted the same year. I just finished painting the kitchen. I painted it last year too. The new color is growing on me, but it will probably be painted again next year. I call it persistence.

-Felder

[Hopkins]

No one can meet your request -- "neutral" means something different to each person. That's why there are so damn many choices.

Go to a paint store or 2 and talk to the guys mixing the paint. Every store I frequent has at least one guy with enough experience to steer you the right way.

[Hopkins]

Actually it'd be better to get a test quart and paint a poster board.