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Greetings from the land of moderately-ridiculous paint names!

Without cheating and looking it up, guess: exactly what color is "Peppermint Beach"?

(C. thinks you should all provide RGB codes for it. I'm more forgiving and will settle for words.)

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Pale khaki? A brownish eau-de-nil? Sandy green? (No, I have no idea what that would be either...)

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Pale sandy pink.

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Pale blue with a hint of beigeness? The colour of the bit of sea nearest to the shore which you can see the sand through (on a Caribbean type beach where the sand is pale and the sea is blue, not Brighton, that would be sludgy mud coloured).

Off to Google it and see if I am right now!

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Googling done... I see there is also a Peppermint Beach cocktail. Guess the ingredients!

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Too late for me - I read them when pre-searching before I posted! (To see how easy the answer was to find.) Perhaps someone else will!

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Not a clue. "Peppermint" suggests red and/or white, while "beach" would be tan. If it's some sort of combination of those, then it would be a dusty rose color, but then why not call it that?

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Pale green. Like seafoam.

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It's green. Ask me how many green paints I looked at before I painted my living room a colour that was supposed to be sort of sage and turned out a dark kelly green, I dare ya :)

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20? 40?

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38, and tested 7. And it still went wrong! Bah. Paint.

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Peppermint Beach was my lesson in what happens when you choose a paint color based on a swatch rather than testing it first. I can live with it, but it's really rather different in person than in swatch. I had very little notice about the decision and what color to paint the kitchen door just had never crossed my mind until the contractor arrived with assistance to start painting this morning, after a quick run for paints....

We'll be getting lots of color samples for choosing the paint for the cabinets.

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It was light yellow before. It really did need repainting, but it had been a blind spot to my kitchen eyes.

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Yes, probably a good idea. Thankfully, it's paint and not a bathroom suite or something so you'll be able to change it pretty easily, but meh. Paint looks so different on the wall than on the chip, it's really frustrating.

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And only one side of one door's worth at that.

But yes. It really is very, very different.

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Agreed. My husband got a sample of a paint that looked pale green on the chip but was Jailhouse Gray in person. I couldn't nix that color fast enough.

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Not looking at the other answers, I'd guess it's a tan-pink.

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peppermint would suggest some sort of pale green, but I'm not sure how youid get beach into it.

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I would suggest pale green with warmish beigey undertones?

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ugly?

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OK, mint is green, sand is sort of sort of beigey-orange, and water is bluish-green. I'm going to guess a pastel greenish-blue.

Will there be another post with the answer?

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Yes, especially because there are two answers: the answers on the official Dulux strip, and the answer on my newly-painted door.

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I'd say it was something like 66CCFF. Oh god, how sad does it make me that that's how I choose to describe a colour...

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Gold star to you for answering in hex! I'm so proud of you for it. I bet C. will be even prouder.

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WOW. Um ... like a seafoam-y green?

As a person still awash in paint samples (and with a wall that looks like the one seen in the background here), I side with C. At this point, I want RGB hex codes. That way I could just tell my husband, "Oh, you want a slightly more orange-y red-orange? HERE IS THE EFFING CODE FOR THAT."

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So long as you calibrated your screens/walls/paint cans first!

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I would guess it's the color of sand with crushed pink seashells in it. Sort of tan tinged with pink?

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I'm going to go with vomit-green. Something about that concept combination really strikes me in a negative fashion.

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Probably beige with a hint of green, like all those whites with a hint of colour that were the in thing years back. Bit confused at the people saying peppermint must be pink/red though...?

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Peppermint-striped, at least in the US, is like a candy cane, red-and-white striping.

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Melt a candy cane's colors and that's about what you'd get.

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I only just learned that myself. Unless you're C., who thinks of peppermint as a shade of blue, since peppermint-flavored Polos are white with blue flecks.

It's not a perfect divide. A handful of Americans went for green, as in the color of the plant, and a few people in the UK focused on the beach part over the peppermint part.

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What's more, if something is available in both peppermint and spearmint flavours, one will often be green and the other will be blue. However, there does not seem to be a standard for which is which. For example, Spearmint Mentos are green, but Spearmint Trebor Softmints are blue.

Don't even get me started on the Walker's salt-and-vinegar incompatibility.

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Peppermint ice cream goes both ways--sometimes it's green, other times it's white with the red-and-white candy flecks.

Personally, I prefer my peppermint in a green form of some kind.

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Mint plants are green (or blue-green depending on species).

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Pale green?

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I'd say a slightly greenish yellow.

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Pale bluey green with beige stripes? Kind of like Goober Grape.

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Wow. You ask tough questions, lady. Texture, translucence and the material being painted also affect color perception so just hue isn't enough to define it. Add in that some women have another retinal color sense in addition to the RGB most people have and there's plenty of room for error. I'm guessing a pale salmon color, like #F4D5B0.

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Plus there's the extra complication of only being about to effectively share the answer visibly via photos, and I can't count on most people having properly calibrated monitors.

Thank you for answering in RGB!

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