Benjamin Moore Nantucket Fog

We moved to our current house in May 2007. We loved the color of our walls at the old place, which was a greenish-blueish-silver from a Pottery Barn catalogue, but for some reason, Joe insisted that he wanted something warmer at the new place. We painted all the major walls of our new house a "Restrained Gold." It's really not a bad color. I see similar shades in Better Homes and Gardens often.

But if I look at how my life has interacted with the color yellow, one might say we were casual strangers. I have one article of clothing that is yellow - an old Crabby Mike's t-shirt from an Easter trip to Myrtle Beach in college. As the paint was going up, I told mom, "I'm afraid this color is going to give me a headache, but maybe it will grow on me... not the headache, the color." Since then, I have decided that yellow = headache. It makes for a very ugly background in pictures and I think it just makes me cranky. Most of the time, I prefer to have the lights off in the living room because the yellow... uhhummm... RESTRAINED GOLD, causes me to lose my personal restraint.

Much to my surprise, two weeks ago, Joe casually asks, "So, are you ready to paint the house back to the color we had in Cary?" Yes... but what was that color? We didn't pick the color. The only thing we know about the color is that the previous homeowner found it in a Pottery Barn catalogue and that it was the most heavenly color ever. Yesterday we went to Sherwin Williams and looked at an old Pottery Barn and a recent Benjamin Moore fan deck and think that "Nantucket Fog", though maybe not exactly what we had, should fit our current space and go with the other colors. The other colors (shown in the swatch) are Fireweed, Garden Gate, and Oyster Shell. The kitchen and dining room are Fireweed, the front sitting room and guest room are Garden Gate, and the bathrooms are Oyster Shell. Garden Gate looks more green in person, but it is very dark. What do you think? Would Nantucket Fog be an improvement?