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I woudl take the page from the ad to a paint store and have them scan it in and color-match it. Do they do that anywhere near you?

Take the magazine clipping into a paint shop that does colour matching with a computer. My local paint shop has a little machine with an "eye" that they can hold up to a paint chip, fabric, whatever, then it tells them a formula to mix. They mix it up, then do a test to see how it dries and see if it's a match.

The catalogue link is broken.

in photoshop its matching very close to pantone 360. u can check it here

http://www.pantone.com/pages/paint/paintselector.aspx

its pricey as a paint tho.

It looks similar to the green of my bathroom, which was Lucky Green by Duron paints.

Since you're taking that intense color into a smaller space than you see in the photo, you may want to go just a shade lighter in order to get the same effect you see in the ad. In a small space, that intense color will probably look darker than it looks in the big, open studio.

I'd go with the old-fashioned method of trying paint chips, since there's no easy way to tell how the color will react in your light and your space. Greens are especially difficult that way.

That looks like green screen. That is what is used in the movie busoness for special effects. Put an actor in front of it and then film it. Then the effects guys can drop in any background they want. Also comes as blue screen as well. It is usually not paint, but a pice of fabric that is stretched on a frame. That's my guess.

I don't know about the availability in Paris, but in Ireland and the UK, Dulux have a great range of greens - I'd imagine it'd be possible to find a close match, there .

The correct link for the catalog is http://www.lovelylovely.net/home.aspx

Allegra,

Have you tried taking the photo to the BHV? The paint department there will mix custom colors, or help you find a comparable match.

Another good paint resource is Peintures de Paris, 208 rue St. Maur, 10eme, 01 42 02 22 03.

Sorry, the correct address for Peintures de Paris is: 83 bd Diderot, 12eme, 01 43 79 07 32.

Ben Moore has a nice paint called mermaid that is similiar, a bit lighter, and will look beautiful in a bathroom.

Great color! Not to be a buzzkill but having been in co-habitation situation with man who had a style sense of a circus clown and painted our bathroom a bright olive, I learned quickly that the color of the walls will reflect and effect the look of everything in the room. Including your skintone, which really made it impossible to use the bathroom to apply makeup and as a primp station. So be mindful of where your light sources are, how they reflect on the walls and where and how much green you paint.

Still love the color though. Good luck.

My husband dabbled in interior design just long enough to paint our tiny bathroom a toxic yellow. It would have been nice cut back in half with white, but as it was it gave everyone jaundice.

Thank you all for the great feedback I am actually going to BHV today Kristin ! I'll make sure not to cover more than the upper part of a wall in this colour.