What colour to paint?

We have decided to repaint Geoffrey as close to his original colour as we can! easy right?! Well I never realised how hard it would be to find the right shade of green! 5 tester pots later still nowhere near! Too dull, too bright, too pale, too blue! Arghh! Then I pop down to my local dulux decorator centre to see if they can help. A very helpful guy says if I can bring  in a 20 pence piece flake of paint he can scan it in and match it to the nearest colour! I have just the thing at home - a flake from the wheels that came of when sanding! Skeptical I went back to dulux with my tiny flake of paint and...hey presto it's scanned in, tester pot mixed and I come home to test...spot on! I cannot believe it. Next thing to find the right shade of cream! Problem starts all over again and this time I don't have a flake of cream paint to scan. We go around our kitchen holding a painted board (of the green) as I have alot of creams in it! We discover the right match is my kitchen cupboards! Perfect so off I trot to dulux where they again scanned it in and once again the mixed colour is spot on! 

We are in those process of painting so watch this space for the transformation!