apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

A possible suggestion on the blue, if you like the blue that's in the pic, copy it to a removable disk of some and take it to a good paint store and see if they can get a reading on it, hopefully a pantone code and then from that, find out the recipe and then have it mixed if need be if unless you can find a brand that makes that color.

As far as figuring out a shade of color, try looking at the rug and funiture and look at it's shade, be it cooler tone or a warmer tone and then see what will go with, so if the other colors tend to go towards the cool side, pick something a tad warmer to keep the room from being cold and vice versa. Also, look at the direction the windows face, if to the north, you will tend to be more bluish in cast so warmer colors are best in that kind of light as an example.

Hope this helps some

Thanks!
Here are more photos to get a better idea of our apt. Just hit slideshow. No login in is required.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=upkl6fd.7eg6cjxx&x=0&y=5gos2j

Because you have direct light coming in, the colors on your walls are going to look different depending on your lighting, the fabrics you choose for your window coverings, the time of day and sometimes even the sunlight reflecting off the building across the street. (I recently stayed in a friend's guestroom that I swore was bright yellow until that evening when it was a cool beige - the next day I realized that the reflected light from the Yellow house across the street turned the room's color!)

Get yourself to the Benjamin Moore paint store, purchase some samples and try them out on your walls - That's the only surefire way to do it.

I actually tried 4 sample little bottles from Benjamin Moore.
I'm hoping for some suggestions to narrow down my samples.
Those little samples add up.

I used BM's Polar Sky on my bedroom walls and LOVE IT. see here

We used Benjamin Moore CC 700 Smoky Green in our bathroom and kitchen and we love it. It doesn't read smoky green actually - its a soft blue colour. It seems to be very close to the Room and Board picture.

totally off the subject but do you/should you throw out the rugs too, because of the bugs?

i'm so sorry you had such a horrible experience but it will be worth it to have a whole new set up.

Hi Joan,

Technically they say not to start throwing out all your stuff. Alot of great info on bedbugger.com
We had a bed bug sniffing dog come in after I went without bites for a long time and got bit again.

She confirmed that they were in the bedframe and couch.
So we carefully disposed of those 2 pieces and got treated again by a professional PCO (2 more times evenly spaced out).

One rug we are throwing out, just because we don't like the design and the other we're keeping. Both were treated with poison a few times too.

I'm happy its almost all over!

I like the 2nd blue on slide 18. I would like nice with the sofa.