I just read this thread and Lynn's comments on colour, then ambled on over to BHG, and found that they have a new feature - colour-a-room! You can actually try different colours together and see what works. I haven't tried it yet, but it could solve some of your worries about which colours work together and which don't.

I have to say though Lynn... some people really can't *see* the colours in the same way. For example, I can easily spot whether a green is more bluey or yellow than another, or whether it's slightly greyish, but I know lots of people who'd just see green. They might know a name for the green even, but they wouldn't be able to see the colours in it and work out from there whether it would go with another colour. Somehow or another our perceptions of colour differ - no matter how hard my mother looks at a colour she can't be sure of it in the same way as I can, and she'll always check with me. This is not to say I'm a naturally artistic person, it just happens to be a gift I have, and I know that not everyone does. I guess paint charts could help too.

uh, the site, in case you aren't familiar with it (whyever not - it's brilliant! Content, not community... I have no idea what the community is like!)...

www.bhg.com

the tool I mentioned is being featured right at the moment, or you might have to go hunting in the tools section for it if the features have changed.

Kerri.