Land of Oz

Paint colors

I went out today to Sears to look for some dark brown paint for a toy chest I'm building. Do you realize that Sears doesn't sell dark brown paint? Actually, after looking over hundreds (at least) of paint chips, I don't think Sears sells any paint that is a real color. I'm not picking on Sears necessarily -- actually I kinda like Sears. I've found any other paint place is just as bad.

Here's what some of the Martha Stewart paint chips I picked up when looking for a brown were labeled:
Ok - so some of these I can understand, sort of; ivory, cornmeal, and tea bath (they're almost white, yellow, and tan). Most are questionable leaning to completely baffling; stone (granite, oil shale, marble?), twine (I've got some white twine and tan twine in my drawer right now), linen white (my linen white or my girlfriend's linen white), pebblestone (whatever that is, they have it as a lighter, more tan version of stone) and sundial (and all sundials are what??).

The problem is that if my girlfriend had been with me, she could instantly tell you how those colors relate to one another. That raw silk and buttercream are in fact completely different colors (not by my eyes). And the current rug in the bedroom I have would or wouldn't "go" with a beeswax and raw silk room decor.

And if you're wondering about what color I finally picked, it's one I found on a different set of paint chips - a non-celebrity/felon version. This one had:

Yes indeed, I actually found a brown. Now while I'm not too sure whose saddle this was copied from (I'd like to think it was John Wayne's), it is a dark brown.

2fers:Paint Colors and Real Colors