Whitewashing my walls

Dear Renovation Diary: I have to pick a paint color and it's stressing me out.

We are getting close to starting home renovations, and the contractor has asked me what color I want to paint the walls.

“White,” I said.

He asked me to go to the hardware store and pick out which white I wanted.

Wait, what? Technically, white is the ABSENCE of color. How can there be more than one white?

And then I went to the hardware store — where they h…