CREAM WITH EVERYTHING!

I'm definitely not the first, nor likely to be the last person to write for 20 minutes about Cream. Not the milky stuff, no, i'm talking decorating, colour charts and paint pots! To say I have felt nothing less than exasperation about the choices, from the hues of tinted whites to the richness of custardy yellows, not to mention the full range of citrus tinged lemons and some that are simply brown n dull. No, what I wanted was the right shade of cream for the room in question... In this case one that doesn't get any sunlight being at the back of the mansion and with a blue carpet currently covering the floorboards, something that wouldn't appear green or dingy...Should be easy...Check out any mainstream colour chart and take your pick....then put some up on the wall and..............yep, you've guessed it...it's wrong..Just not right.. too light, too grey, too dark, too peachy, too lemony and simply not what I had in mind...Of course if I were of male persuasion i'm sure MAGNOLIA would have been 'perfectly fine' but being a woman with so many buttons and controls perhaps I can be misgiven for checking out the Calico, the Barley, Whicker, Almond, Ivory, Nude Glow and frankly even the Snuggle Up...Whoever makes up the names is deserved of an award..Still in these recession hit months, its keeping the Returns desk at Homebase and B & Q busy!!