coming attraction: paint

First, let me say the more I look at paint samples the more astounded I become at the sheer number of tacky names that paint companies have developed for each of their colors. Some of my personal favorites (names, not colors): "decisive yellow" "trinket" and "topiary tint".

If you want to see the current front-runner for the downstairs color scheme, check out page 5 of 11 of this brochure at the Sherwin Williams site...

http://www3.sherwin.com/do_it_yourself/paint_colors
/paint_color_palette/pdfs/Simply_Color.pdf

We are thinking "believable buff" for most walls, although the west wall would be "peppery." I am also lobbying to paint the foyer "sundance," but audience reaction has only been lukewarm to date.