A favorite quote...     "Send me some sample boards in a sort of latte color, but with a bit of ecru or one of each.  Perhaps they should read toward putty, you know, like parchment, but not lineny.  Do not make it too camel or vellum.  Try one in ecru and sand.  While your at it another in sisal or fawn.  Make sure it doesn't go oatmeal, nougat or raw silk.  I hate those colors.  They are so eighties.  Shell, suede or wheat is OK.  Can I get them tomorrow?"

....... Anges Liptak, decorative painter