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Need help picking a cream color

todancewithwolves

15 years ago

Need help picking a cream color paint for my livingroom. I watch the H&G channel remodels and I see these beautiful cream colored rooms but I'm clueless when I comes to picking a color at the paint store.

I have painted my livingroom 5 times. It's either too beige or too yellow. My house is very small, 980 sq ft. I think a cream color would brighten it up. I like a yellow cream hue rather than brown cream hue but not a bright yellow. I hope that made sense.

Thanks so VERY much!

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pumpkin_spice

15 years ago

I'm having the same problem right now. I'm trying to find the perfect cream for my bedroom. I'm looking for a color that looks like the walls in the link below. I already painted the room BM Philadelphia Cream, which comes close but is a little too "lemony" for me, especially in artificial light. I've also sampled Montgomery White and Rich Cream, and they didn't seem quite right either. Everlasting was too beige for me. Finding the perfect cream shouldn't be this hard!

Here is a link that might be useful:

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lisad71
15 years ago
What I've done is initially tape the paint chips on the wall and view them at different times of the day in different amounts of natural light as well as artificial light. Then I got a small can of the actual paint and did the same test.

Good Luck!
lindybarts
15 years ago
Brutuses Rich Cream comes to mind. Maybe she'll post it...it's yummy.
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happytobehome
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acountryfarm
15 years ago
SW Dover White
eliza_824
15 years ago
I painted my son's trim in Behr's Vanilla Custard (from Home Depot)-- I love it. It does a mild yellow hue in certain lights, but very mild. His wall colors are a deep red and the combination looks lovely together. Very warm.
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alisande
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My daughter just had most of her new house painted in Behr's Camembert. You might check that out, too.
brutuses
15 years ago
Here's the BM Rich Cream. BM has this in their little sample pots.

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User
15 years ago
We have Behr Raffia Cream in our halls & on 2 walls in our living room, it's got a yellow base and works with any color. Love it!
Sueb20
15 years ago
Also look at BM Natural Wicker or Everlasting.
Meghane
15 years ago
During my brief foray into the land of neutral when I was selling my old house, I used this color palette:

The lightest cream is Parmasean from Behr. It is really pretty, and more yellow than what is showing on my screen.
lindybarts
15 years ago
pumpkin spice, that sure is a pretty color. How about one of the Buff colors from Ben Moore? They seem more muted and what you're looking for...? Here is one from the Gallery courtesy of txnewmommy.

Believeable Buff
todancewithwolves
Original Author
15 years ago
WOW! You guys are great! I didn't expect this many responses. I will check out each and everyone of your recommended colors. Brutuses and Pumpkin's pictures are the very colors I'm wanting.

Thank you ALL so very very much.

Edna
User
15 years ago
I have BM rich cream and it is definitely yellow, not at all a cream color. In my light it has slight peach undertones.
pumpkin_spice
15 years ago
lindy that believable buff is nice. I don't know why I've never gotten a sample of it before. It's one of those colors I always stop and look at when I'm at SW, but I never end up getting! I've gotten a sample of just about everything it seems. It's a little embarrassing. I think the guys who work at BM and SW must think I'm nuts!
brutuses
15 years ago
choe, you know I thought it was yellow, but when I hold true yellow next to it, it then looks like cream that comes out of a can. LOL I love it because it has that cast of yellow in it though.
threedgrad
15 years ago
acountryfarm, that Dover White is absolutely gorgeous! Is that your house? Wow, it is very nice!
acountryfarm
15 years ago
threedgrad - Yes, it is my home & thank you. I also love the Dover White, with so much woodwork, cabs & beadboard I definitely needed to stay away from shocking white.
Thanks again.
ljsandler
15 years ago
My kitchen walls are BM White Down (not Dove). It's a wonderful off white/cream color without a pink or yellow undertone.

It's a little lighter than what is in the pic:
User
15 years ago
Brutuses,
From what I can see in the pictures you are posting of rich cream, you are using it in much brighter rooms than the room I'm using it in. My bedroom painted with it is rather dark and it is yellow in there. I wanted more of a cream color for that bedroom.
lindybarts
15 years ago
Islander, that's a beautiful color too! One I had not seen on here before!
trk65
15 years ago
Try Benjamin Moore "Featherbed" #928. You will look at the chip and think "eh" but sample it-it's just strong enough to look great against white trim.
parma42
15 years ago
Lindy, isn't Believable Buff a SW color?

I've used that same photo when steering people and that's what I've said it was.

Course, I could be suffering from the dreaded 'mentalpause', LOL.
Kathleen McGuire
15 years ago
Pumpkin Spice, the color in your inspiration photo looks a lot like BM Monroe Bisque.
lindybarts
15 years ago
Parma...you are correct! I just always think Ben Moore when I see Buff in the name but I see it IS SW! So sorry for the confusion. Yep...mentalpause here too! ;c)
almagh
15 years ago
I vote for BM Rich Cream. I just painted my entry with it and it is not too yellow and not too beige.
almagh
15 years ago
BM Rich Cream
From Drop Box
From Drop Box
dancingqueengw
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If Rich Cream (BM) is to yellow you might consider Mannequin Cream from BM. Sorry I've not yet figured out how to post a picture.

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