Anyone know about paint colors

reible · Post by **reible** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:37 pm

Hi,

On a visit to a place called St. James Farm we were introduced to a color that the guide said was "Kremlin Yellow". Now I'm trying to find that color paint somewhere and despite my efforts I find very little information on reference names of colors to actual paint colors.

The story goes that on a business trip to the Russia the owner found the yellow Kremlin colors to be very interesting and returned home and had the farm redone in "Kremlin Yellow". Now after my visit to the Farm I'd like to find the color to use on a couple of projects of my own.

I did snap a few pictures but it was a very overcast day and the resulting photos will not work to "match" with. Short of returning to the Farm and looking for paint chips or a sunny day does anyone have any ideas how to find this color?

Samples:
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Ed

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:09 am

DOUBT you'll find "Kremlin Yellow". But maybe look through the paint chips at a store, you'll find something close enough. OR see if ya can find out what brand of paint they used.???

iclark · Post by **iclark** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:01 am

a google search turned up a website that says:
"Now available by Sherwin Williams as St. James Farm Yellow."

it is on a vox.com page with a date of May 2008.

FWIW.

reible · Post by **reible** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:16 am

Thanks!!!

That is the Farm and the picture there at that site is a much better example of the color. Guess I know one of the things I'll be doing tomorrow...

Ed

iclark wrote:a google search turned up a website that says:
"Now available by Sherwin Williams as St. James Farm Yellow."

it is on a vox.com page with a date of May 2008.

FWIW.

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:02 pm

iclark wrote:a google search turned up a website that says:
"Now available by Sherwin Williams as St. James Farm Yellow."

it is on a vox.com page with a date of May 2008.

FWIW.

Okay I give what was your search argument. I tried everything I could think of and all I kept getting was Kremlin yellow pages.
I have never been very successful doing Web searches so enlighten me what did you search on and why?

iclark · Post by **iclark** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:06 am

Ed in Tampa wrote:what did you search on and why?

Ed,

I searched on
"St. James Farm" "kremlin yellow"
including the quotes. I originally searched on one of the 2 terms (do not recall which) and got way too many hits that had nothing to do with paint. so I added the 2nd exact phrase.

why? those were the terms that looked unusual/special to me in the original question.
if there had still been too many, I would have added "paint" as a third entity in the search. as it was, I got lucky and the 4th site that I visited from the search was the one that named the Sherwin Williams paint.

I did not say this the first time because the first site that turned up from the search tried to continuously load and reload scripts from their page.
because of the way that I killed that misbehavior, I couldn't tell if any of the other links that I visited that session were safe to send people to.
now that I have re-booted, the site with the paint looks safe enough and it has a nice picture of the color:
http://pearsuncape.vox.com/library/phot ... 9000b.html

the site that gave me fits was the first one that google found at highbeam.com. it might have been a one-time hiccup, but I do not plan to go back to that site to find out.

hope that was an answer to your question. if not, re-phrase and I will try again.

Ivan

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:30 pm

WOWWWWWW!!!!! Google found it on "LULU"S BLOG"!!!! That would have been IMPOSSIBLE (too small a needle in a WAY TOO BIG haystack) only a very few years ago!

Wonder if SW site would have been a hit?

Do I understand the 'effect' of the quotes(") as being to find 'something' that includes at least one occurrence of ALL the things so enclosed?

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:00 pm

Yahoo found these:

http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/wooddale/ ... nd-opening

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=193310

iclark · Post by **iclark** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:50 pm

JPG40504 wrote:Do I understand the 'effect' of the quotes(") as being to find 'something' that includes at least one occurrence of ALL the things so enclosed?

on google the quotes require a "phrase match" but they seem to ignore punctuation and capitalization. so "St. James Farm" would match "st james farm" but not "james farm st" or "jones st. next to james farm".

also, searching on
shopsmith
without quotes will give results for both "shopsmith" and "shop smith" while searching on
"shopsmith"
only gives the results without the space.

reible · Post by **reible** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:36 pm

The trail has run cold again. I contacted 3 different SW dealers and no "Kremlin" yellow or "St James Farm" yellow. One of the guys thought perhaps it was a commercial paint which they don't do nor can I buy even if they produce it????

I have contacted the Forest District and the nice lady said she would send the request on to others but no promises if they would chose to contact me with answers....

I might just have to go back and look for paint chips or a sunny day for pictures.... RBG check a few places on the photo and come up with my own color... "Ed's Kremlin" yellow sounds good.

Thanks for the help!

Ed