Sorry -- Wilmington Tan is a Benjamin Moore color.

I think Wilmington Tan is a light color! No way I would think of it as too dark in my house....

I have it on the ceiling of my living room, which is a north facing room.

When your walls were all white, most anything looks too dark for a while.

I would live with it - give yourself a chance to get used to it. Do you have things on the walls yet? That makes a difference too!

I agree, when you paint swatches against a white wall, the color looks so much darker. I ended up choosing the lighter color for the main part of the house and then a rust color red for my kitchen. Now, I am ready to go darker with the main color. I think your color will look wonderful. Here is a pic of my colors and you can see the tan color is too light.

My daughter used Wilmington Tan in her family room and with just a sample on the wall almost chg. her mind but held her breath and just did it and it looks great, not a dark color at all.

I painted a swatch of Powell Buff on my white wall and I thought for sure this was going to be a bright yellow which was really scaring me. Turns out it is a khaki/tan color that I really like. The painter told me to do this when I was trying to decide. Take a side of a cardboard box and paint the sample on it. Then Magnaverde said to paint the inside of a kleenex box. I did both and the color was a khaki/tan on both pieces of cardboard. I still didn't believe that could be correct. But now that the paint is up, I am a believer. Try it. :) Nancy

Even though I don't have Wilmington Tan in my own house, I love love love this color. Here it is in Johnmari's house. It doesn't look too dark to me.

Laurie

Here is a link that might be useful: Johnmari's house

Oops, I meant Johnatemp, not Johnmari. Here's another one of her rooms.

Here is a link that might be useful: Johnatemp's house

One more picture of Johnatemp's house.

Laurie

Here is a link that might be useful: Johnatemp's house

I used it in our office/den. The room has two large windows but no direct sun. It tends to be a dark room. I find the color seems to have green undertones. Paint color is so dependent on the lighting and the other colors in your room. I'm not crazy about how it turned out in my room.

I painted my foyer Wilmington Tan and it was just too dark and a bit orangish gold in my space. It looked much darker than the pictures above showing Johnatemp's house. There is a lot of red in the color, which didn't work too well with my dark wood entry doors and floors and minimal lighting (no windows other than sidelights and transom).

My DH, who so did not want to repaint this room, would call me in during the late afternoon when the sun was streaming through the transom and point out how nice the color looked on the one piece of wall that got direct light! I agreed it was very nice in the direct light, but unfortunately my room only gets direct light for a very short period of time during the day. I will say that other people thought the color looked fine, and I did live with it for a month or so to see if I changed my mind, but it never grew on me.

After spending a small fortune on the WT (my foyer took almost 4 gallons), I then spent another small fortune on the SW Believable Buff when I repainted (love the BB!). Definitely paint a large swatch or use big sample boards. My DH cut very large pieces of drywall for me so that I could decide which color I wanted to use to replace the WT (wish I would have done this in the first place!). I moved them around the room all throughout the day to get a feel for how the color would look in the different light. I chose Believable Buff, a light goldish tan, because it looked the nicest against my dark stained doors.

BTW - I have an extra gallon if you're in the So Cal area!

I have WT in my LR (north facing) and foyer. At first it was a bit of a shock going from a very creamy white, but now I love it. It makes everything in the room look so rich. I did consider pairing it with a terra cotta color, but the combo did not work.

{{!gwi}}

We have Wilmington in our kitchen. I really like it as it is north facing. We have mission dining room furniture. The cabinets are dark. We have lots of lighting. I like to change paint colors but I am really happy with our choice. A friend like it so much they painted their newly white renovated kitchen.

good luck!

j

Seeing as this thread is 8 yrs old, I'm sure the issue is no longer an issue.

Wilmington an is also Behr color. we painted our ENTIRE cabin that color-the kids call it newborn baby poop. I like the color but not o the ceiling and not everywhere!