In article , Doug Kanter says...


wrote in message
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I'm looking for some neutral shades of paint.
I was wondering if anyone can supply me with the paint brand and chip
number of some nice neutral shades.

It seems I paint a room over and over again looking for the right
color. The color on the chip looks nice, but when I get it on the wall
there is too much red or green, etc... Or it's too light or dark.

If you paint for a living, I'd sure appreciate the brand/chip number of
the neutral paints you use.


This is a really weird question.

No it's not a weird question.

There are shades that interior painters for upscale new construction, model
homes, and homes being 'staged' for sale (by a pro after a death, for example)
turn to that are 'safe' in that they don't go too much to one or other side of
the color wheel and have wide appeal.

I'm not in those trades, but I know the answer he's looking for exists.

For example, I chose for a bathroom vanity counter a subtly textured neutral
formica. Because I wanted it. This was in the showroom of an outfit that
proobably does the most contractor supplies in the area. The sales person
commented that I had chosen the particular color and pattern used very often by
new construction. For its wide appeal and good neutral.

Something like that (in a paint color, of course), is most probably what the
O.P. is looking for.

Banty