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advice  You’d think you couldn’t go wrong choosing a selection
of beiges to coordinate throughout your home, right?  But then
you get those beiges on the wall, and somehow they manage to
clash horribly. Or they clash with your beige couch, or your
beige carpet.  Why does this happen? In a word, undertones.
Every paint color, even neutrals like whites, beiges and grays
have tones. These include mass tones and undertones. Mass tones
are the predominant color you see when you look at a color.  So
the predominant color you see in a beige might be beige. The
predominant color you see in a white might be white. But the
undertone is the color that is the hint of another color you may
see peeking through that first shade.  In a seafoam green, for
example, a mass tone might be the green. The undertone is blue.
In an olive green, a mas