You know that part of the job description that says “and other duties as specified”? Well, today, my other duties included painting some swatches of paint on the walls of our center hallway.
We had narrowed the colours to the Laura Ashley Pale Cowslip and a new entry, Duron’s Spice Island. The CEO had suggested I look at a taupe, and I whipped out my PMS colour book to see if there was a shade he had in mind. Once we settled on a PMS colour, I showed him some paints that matched and got a quart of the one he liked best.
He liked it on the sample board but was not at all wild about it on the wall. After I painted the Pale Cowslip, 
it was deemed too bright, and the Spice Island was too boring. 
So, tomorrow, I will be getting a dark blue and a hunter green. The issues with those colours are that we are painting the stairway all the way to the third floor and if we do it all in the same shade, it will be very dark.