Grey

So - you, the readers, have spoken!
Grey it is :)

Now the search for the RIGHT grey for MY apartment is officially on.

*insert loud exaggerated sigh here*

Grey, like most other neutral paints, is a hard one to nail.

Most, as far as I can tell from looking at various pictures and paint chips, have undertones of either green, blue, or purple. The ones with purple undertones are the ones I tend to like most.....

And while I want just a "normal" grey with no undertones - I've seen several WITH undertones that I do like. And having an undertone seems to make it more...complex - for lack of a better word.
More interesting.

BUT, as we all know, the type of light in the room, colour of the floors, and even the furniture will affect the way the paint looks on the wall.

And so, earlier this afternoon, I picked up tons of swatches.

I know...NONE of them look grey. But trust me.


What's in the running?
From BM:
A La Mode
Barren Plain
Stone Harbor (which may be too dark)
Ice Cubed Silver (which may be too blue)
Horizon
Metro Gray (if I can find it...my BM store said they didn't make that colour...weird.)

And I still have to pick up chips for:

 Dolphin Fin (Behr)

Graytint (BM)

And Farrow & Ball Great White.

That's a lot of grey!

Here are what some of them look like in pics I've sourced online:
(plus it's handy for me to have them all in one place like this ;)

Behr Dolphin Fin via the blog Live Creating Yourself

(while it doesn't look like it in this pic I'm fairly certain this has greeny-blue undertones)

BM Metro Gray as seen in this sneak peek on Elements of Style

(seems to have purple-y undertones)

BM Stone Harbor as seen in Laure's Dining Room over on the blog At Home At Home

(another one with slight purple undertones)

BM Ice Cubed Silver as seen here on flickr

(seems to have slightly blue undertones)

BM Barren Plain as seen here on AT

BM A La Mode as seen in one of my fave AT tours ever

(pinky-purple undertones)

Farrow & Ball Great White as seen on Style at Home

Next step?

I'll put all the paint chips on my wall to see how they look.
Then, I'll narrow them down.
Then I'll go buy 2-3 small sample tins of what's still in the running.....
and actually test them on the wall.

THEN I'll pick 'THE ONE'

I have a feeling this is going to be a long process.

If any of you have used grey paint in your own space I'd love to know what colour you used and how you liked it...and if you have a picture, feel free to leave a link to it.
I'd love to see!