Don't laugh at me, but in desperation you could do the following:

1) Record a show with the foyer in it, or play the DVD of the episode, if you have it,

2) Use your videocam to record the scenes. (The flash iof a regular camera might distort the hue).

3) Take the videocam to the paint store, show the clerk, and work from there. It won't be perfect, but you'll be in the ballpark.

I am trying right now to capture a picture of a fabulous couch that appears in a Comcast commercial!

Good luck.

I have an art degree, so you're in my wheelhouse here.

It's in the skyblue family. There's three categories of skyblue: skyblue, lightskyblue, and deepskyblue.

Within each of those, is about 4-5 different hues each with a lable of 1-4

Now everyone sees things differently due to little variances in our televisions, plus what scene you're looking at, how it's lit etc. But start with trying skyblue and go from there, you should be able to bring it down to about 3 different choices and then use your best judgement.

.....There are a few vintage paint color websites..... maybe they will show you what you want.....here's just one....

http://retrorenovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sears-vintage-colors156.jpg

That is a beautiful shade of blue....couldn't be just plain ol' robin egg blue, I don't suppose??

collchris2003, someone asked about the Draper dishes last July and Clayton N. helped research it and posted the name of the china pattern.

http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/talk/2008/07/draper-dishware-1.php

Maybe he --- or another AMC staffer --- might similarly look into your paint color question?

I love paint!!! I painted my bathroom 4 times before I got the perfect color, ok, my husband did. My daughter said the room is gonna get smaller if I keep it up.
I'm actually a preferred customer at my local paint store.
My favorite paint is Benjamin Moore, they have a historical collection that is really awesome. If you get Pottery Barn catalogue you can see the colors in the different rooms the website tells you which color the walls are painted on each page.
However it you want to narrow the search to the elite pallet of tried and true,(only 132 colors total) there is a very old paint manufacturer that orginated in Dorset, England, like over 70 years ago, called Farrow and Ball. Check them out online and see if there is a store near you, if not order a color wheel online. Their paint is highly pigmented which means more depth of color because more colors were used to make it. More decorators use one of the afore mentioned paints than any other.
Skylight 205 or Borrowed Light 235 are possibles depending on how much sun light you get.
Good Luck!!!

.....Ho.....Impressive! I've never met anyone who knew so much about paint! What I want to know is how you talked your husband into painting the bathroom four times!

Just saw the rerun of Three Sundays and noticed the blue painted foyer color might be close to Behr's Skylark or Blue Feather or Tropical Pool paint color samples from their website...esp. Skylark.....

Dry, the bath is small,we're talking a quart.
The first coat was a case of left and dreamed he'd put the right one on the wall, stupid me. When I asked how the color looked he said it was white, he'd used the ceiling paint on the wall. The second was too gray, the third too pink, then we re-tiled the shower and floor and the first thing my husband said was "Your gonna want me to paint the bathroom again, aren't you" at the time I hadn't thought about it, but just in case I said "yeah, probably". I didn't want the oportunity to pass me by.
In case you missed the previous thread about my husband, he's a therapist. In my house the philosophy is "Happy wife, happy life". As Alex Baldwin would say ..."and that's how we do it"......
It's been working for me.

Yeah, holotta, you have to catch them while they're being receptive, don't you?

lol

.....Ho.....No, I didn't see that.....where do I look? How interesting!

Bathrooms are notoriously hard to paint, however small. Your husband sounds like a peach.

Love the various phrases, but had not heard them as yet. One that I am familiar with in that vein is, "If Mama's happy, everybody's happy...."

Am I close?

Dry, ...bizarre MM dream, the discription on eharmony read..paddler (translation:big shoulders, small waist) very peachy. Having a therapist for a husband means 90% of communication has a better delivery.........so yeah, your hot!!
I married for the first time @50. I consider myself the pickest woman alive, but some things are worth waiting for.

So now that you've narrowed the color down to 2 or 3. Buy small samples and paint eye level places in the room so you see it when you go in, out, or sit for a while.
Why do I love Ben Moore paints you ask? When you buy other paints open the can and start to stir the consistancy is like melted ice cream, when you open a can of Ben it's like a Jack in the box milk shake, super thick (translation:better coverage) my favorite finish is the pearl finish, semi-gloss in the bath or kids room.The more sunlight in the room the more matte the finish.
Whatever you do don't pick the color while in the store unless your house has 10-14' ceilings and flourescent lights over head because you will be re-painting.
You know when you have the right color when you feel like taking off your fedora, wacking a dining room chair or having a slice of ham topped with a pineapple ring and cherry center.
That's when you will have sucessfully channeled Betty Draper and the color is puuurfect!!!

holotta, did you really meet your hubby on eharmony? Have you guys been on any of their commercials?

That's cool..

SCfan...I really did. My 12 year old daughter signed me up. The questionaire is a bit tedious, but it was worth it. Online a month, meet at a Starbucks, married in Vegas, bought a condo in Hawaii and very happy.
We haven't been on any of their commercials, they don't even know we got married.

Well, I think that's wonderful...congrats to you and your honey!

That's so great that your 12 year old daughter started it all!

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So, collchris, what brand and color name did you end up going with???

Isn't it turquoise blue? The turquoise blue that everyone painted in the 1960's before pastel pink became the popular color. Who remembers 'boomerang' Formica? We had Formica counter tops that had a pattern with little boomerang shapes in shades of pink and grey. It was very popular in those post-Korean War ranch houses.

Yep, Schroobs...pink and turquoise and grey...biggies in those days. I remember my parents had a "kidney shaped" coffee table in black lacquered wood...wish I still had it!

And, yes, we, too had that 'boomerang' Formica!

In the late '50's, I recall my mom doing one of the bathrooms in pink, grey and black...even the sink and tub were shell pink!...and she put a group of those little ceramic mermaids "wall plaques" on the wall...very chic.... back in the day, anyhoo!