The Amana fan deck.
Not a paint line, a working shortlist. These are the colours we specify most often across the GTA, chosen because they hold up under Toronto light specifically: low-angle in winter, overcast for five months, and cooler than the light your paint chip was photographed under.
AF-01
Gallery Bone
AF-04
Plaster
AF-12
Ochre Field
AF-19
Amana Clay
AF-26
Sage Room
AF-33
Slate Harbour
AF-41
Pine Ledger
AF-47
Oxblood
AF-52
Charcoal Ink
What each one actually does.
Hex values here are indicative for screen. Colour on a screen is not colour on a wall, always test physically before committing.
Gallery Bone
AF-01Warm off-white. The default ceiling and trim tone in most GTA repaints.
#E7DCCA
Plaster
AF-04Soft clay-pink neutral. Reads warm under north-facing light.
#D9BCA9
Ochre Field
AF-12Saturated earth yellow. Used sparingly, entryways, powder rooms.
#C8963C
Amana Clay
AF-19Our signature. Burnt terracotta with a grey base so it never goes orange.
#B4572F
Sage Room
AF-26Muted green. The most-requested cabinet colour of the last two seasons.
#6E7F5F
Slate Harbour
AF-33Dusty blue-grey. Holds its depth in low-light basements.
#3E5C76
Pine Ledger
AF-41Deep forest. Library shelving, built-ins, feature millwork.
#2F4739
Oxblood
AF-47Dark red-brown. Front doors, dining rooms, heritage exteriors.
#75302E
Charcoal Ink
AF-52Near-black with a brown undertone. Softer than a true black on trim.
#2B2724
The chip lies. Test properly.
This is the single most expensive mistake in residential painting, and it costs nothing to avoid.
- 01Buy sample pots, not chips. Two coats, on primed card, at least A3 size, larger is better.
- 02Paint boards rather than the wall, so you can move the sample around the room and hold it against the trim and the floor.
- 03Leave a white margin around each sample so the existing wall colour does not contaminate your perception of it.
- 04View at three times: morning, mid-afternoon, and after dark under your actual lamps. Artificial light at night is where a lot of colours fall apart.
- 05Compare candidates side by side. Undertone is a relative property and it is almost impossible to see in isolation.
- 06Live with it for at least three days. First impressions of colour are unreliable and they reliably change.
Choosing colour, answered.
Why does paint look different on my wall than on the chip?
Three reasons compounding. Scale, colour intensifies as area increases, so a subtle chip becomes a saturated wall. Lighting, store lighting is nothing like your window light or your evening lamps. And surrounding colour, your floor, trim and furniture bounce their own tint onto the wall, which a chip in your hand never experiences. Large sample boards viewed in the actual room at several times of day are the only reliable method.
How many colours should I test?
Three to five per room, no more. Beyond five, comparison gets harder rather than easier and most people end up more confused than when they started. Narrow the field with chips, then commit to proper large sample boards for the final few. Testing only two is usually too few, because undertone is a relative property that becomes visible only in comparison.
What is LRV and why does it matter?
Light Reflectance Value runs from 0 to 100 and measures how much light a colour reflects. It is the most useful single number in colour selection and almost nobody uses it. Above 70 reads as light and bounces light around a room; 50 to 70 is mid-tone; below 50 is genuinely dark and will absorb light. For a basement or north-facing room, look for LRV above 60 to keep the space from feeling closed in.
Should the whole house be one colour?
Not necessarily, but every room should share an undertone family. Warm neutrals throughout, or cool ones throughout, mixing warm and cool wall colours between rooms visible from one another is what makes a house feel subtly incoherent without anyone being able to say why. Within one undertone family you can vary depth and saturation freely.
Not sure which way to go?
Colour direction is part of the walkthrough at no extra cost. We will tell you honestly which candidates will fight your light and which will hold up through a Toronto February.
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