RL Studio Cream,Deep Cream, Flour Sack White, Faded Clouds: tone?

15 years ago

For those of you still kind enough to read my endless posts about paint, I'm shifting gears.

(Brief back story: I only have local access to Lowe's, HD, and SW. Lowe's said they could colormatch BM for me, but the samples were all over the place. I went to SW to try their colors, and their samples also came out goofy. I finally learned that sampling pale colors is difficult, esp here where I have yet to run across a "paint guy" who's good at colormatching, b/c the computer frequently doesn't convert the formula correctly for the much-smaller amount of paint that's in a sample as opposed to a gallon. So I'm having to go off chips rather than samples, because I am just tired of spending $$ on paint or, in SW's case, "paint" that isn't the right color and that I now don't need. Of the brands available to me, I like RL the best, and Faron likes it, so that's all I need! (: )

So: of these colors (Studio Cream,Deep Cream, Flour Sack White, Faded Clouds, also Roadster White): does anyone have them? Can anyone talk to me about undertones? Faded Clouds seems a tiny bit yellow to me; Lynn2006 has posted about Deep Cream having a lemon tone, which I don't see on my chip but definitely don't want on my wall; Studio Cream seems just ever-so-slightly pink...?

TIA, all. And feel free to generally chime in about RL paint and colors as needed. I'd be grateful for any and all help, before I leap from a chip to a gallon and just get my darn wall painted already...

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organic_smallhome
15 years ago
walkin: Would it be possible for you to actually post a pic of the room? It sometimes helps to get a visual, with furniture, etc.
walkin_yesindeed
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15 years ago
OSH, I wish i could, and I'm sorry -- DH has both cameras and is out of town. (same reason I couldn't post a pic of my "redesigned" LR.)

The only significant pieces of furniture in that room is a classic walnut panel bed, and two narrow, walnut-finished bookcases. Does that help?
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Faron, thank you, thank you! I really appreciate your time and thought. I swatched Flour Sack White, Deep Cream, and Roadster White on my walls, and found FSW to be too yellow, Deep Cream just a bit too pale (but in my room it's not at all grey -- it's right on the cusp of pale beige and ivory, and it's so pretty!), and Roadster White not a dark enough white. I wasn't quite sure where to go from there, but I chatted with my HD paint guy, who is, unexpectedly, nice, patient, thoughtful, and creative... I'd never have expected to find a real paint guy at Home Despot, but there you go. (I raved about him to the manager, who smiled knowingly and said, yeah, everyone loves Jason.) He offered to remix Deep Cream at 125% to see whether it'd be dark enough. And I think I'll buy one last test quart of Muslin. Jason printed out the formulas for me, and the HD colorants are (all in the 48 column, whatever that means): Deep Cream: AX 22, B (black) 2, R (exterior red) 6. Muslin: C 46, B 8, R 10. I'm guessing Muslin will wind up looking like a deeper shade of Deep Cream at 125%.... and I bet my DH will laugh really, really hard when he hears that I'm at the point of analyzing color formulas just to find the right shade of beige paint. Um, maybe I won't tell him. (and you too, Faron, stop laughing!)
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organic_smallhome
15 years ago
Is there carpet? If so, what color?

If you have hardwood floors, you have more latitude. I think BM OC-7 Creamy White would look really nice against a pure white trim. I can't really help, otherwise, because I'm not familiar with the colors of those brands you listed. I'm sorry. :(
redbazel
15 years ago
I have no idea on the colors.......that, you will need to try in your home, look at undertones, maybe buy a test quart and roll it on. (My best tip!)

But after reading some commentary on RL paint on the Paint Forum, (maybe a little Faron nonsense!) I decided to try a test quart of RL in a Ben Moore color I was interested in. Well, I just finished painting my master bath in that RL paint. (Alexandria Beige was the color-matched chip) and I loved the paint. Since I was way out of my comfort zone by trying the RL paint, I chit-chatted with the Home Depot paint guy about the Ralph paint. He told me the same thing I had just read on the Paint Forum, that the reformulated Ralph paint was really good stuff. He said that a lot of the decorators that they fill paint colors for really love it.

I would absolutely try it out again.

Red
rmkitchen
15 years ago
We tried RL Deep Cream after I saw it in magazine (was it House & Garden? this was many years ago). Anyway, in our light (I live in the Rocky Mountains), Deep Cream has a very grey tone. It looked dirty, kinda like BM Navajo White if it were really dusty. (and I already find BM Navajo White to read as dingy)

I'm already not a fastidious housecleaner so I need things to look as peppy as possible!

Anyway, I just wanted to share my experience with RL Deep Cream. Oh yeah, and I'm delighted to read redbazel's note that RL paint has been reformulated: our painter (when I was first toying with the Deep Cream) said he won't use it. He feels (felt, as this was last year) that the only way to get good coverage with RL paint is to throw the open bucket on the wall. It's a great visual but not so sure I'd want to be part of the clean up ....
walkin_yesindeed
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15 years ago
OSH, thanks for giving it the old college try, as the saying goes. The carpeting is pale beige, trim is (alas) honey oak, and not getting painted any time soon.

Red, completely agreed. The reason I asked for input is that I think my eyes are crossing after looking at about 20 paint chips too many: a LOT of the RL pale neutrals look really grey to me. And many of the gazillion colors I've tried to test have looked grey in my MBR anyway, even in full sun or with every light on at night! (I know -- new bulbs and more lighting -- it'll happen but not soon.) Some of the greyness has come from bad colormatching, and maybe I'm choosing hues with a lot of grey in them b/c I subconsciously like it, but it's really not the color I want in this room. I'm after a warm, very light brown (read a real estate stager's blog in which she called it "dark white", is that counterintuitive or what?).

But wait.... I just realized something. Can HD colormatch BM colors in the RL paint? Hmmm... (no, someone tell me to stop!)

Rmkitchen, given my growing grisophobia (irrational fear of grey), I really appreciate your post. Evidently the RL colors are very complex, pigmentwise, and another poster here said hers looked *lemony* in her space -- which I could see, when I took the paint chip into my much sunnier LR/DR.

If this helps at all, I think I'm narrowing it down: Studio Cream, Flour Sack White, with Deep Cream a distant third. If my HD can colormatch BM, I might ask them to try mixing me a quart of Ivory Tusk in the RL paint.

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