Paint by Number

A couple of weeks ago when Lacie was visiting she mentioned that I should paint one of the kitchen walls red, reconsider my cabinet hardware, update my kitchen faucet, find a new home for my newly purchased (antique) china hutch, and restyle the island. All of this in a relatively newly built home I have live in just eight weeks (since marrying Jim)! I was a little overwhelmed and decided to grab some paint samples while at the home improvement store this weekend.

After looking at the samples for a few days, I have definitely come up with a favorite, and then I had a thought, "what is the perfect color ISN'T among the four samples I have chosen?" I need to find a color that will work well with the existing kitchen walls, in fact, I need a color that will actually compliment the existing walls, what if I haven't given myself the right colors to choose from?

Then somewhere in my search for the perfect red I remembered that my Math Professor told me that calculus is used in every day life and I remembered that each color had its hex code based on the amount of primary red/green/blue it contains. In order to find the perfect kitchen red, I would need to find the hex code of the existing walls (Sand Trap 187/167/149), run those values though a color wheel program and mathematically determine what color would analogically accented.

The results? Sherwin Williams 7585, Sundried Tomatoes, which isn't even close to the four samples I started with!