I have SS in my bedroom and dining room. By the way, it looks more blue in the dining room and greener in the bedroom, but changes all day long! That said, I love it. I think that it looks very good with white and black and red. I have mahogany and cherry furniture and it looks good with both. I usually have a white matelasse duvet cover on the bed and think it looks good. I tried a beige duvet and thought that it looked dull and lifeless with SS. Good luck.

Thanks for the response Maryanne3 - the duvet is the martha stewart white one with just light beige embroidery so it just adds a little texture to the white but doesn't over power it.
What color curtains do you have in your bedroom? I think the furniture in the room is comparable to your mahogany color and when I was in RH last weekend I thought the SS went well with the black furniture they had in the store.

Thanks again, I have been stewing over the color for so long I need to make a decision. Did you use the BM color Grey Wisp or the RH Silver Sage?

We have white wooden blinds. I think that SS looks great with black; all of my picture frames are black or silver and black seems to best compliment SS. I used the RH paint, but I didn't know about Grey Wisp when we painted this color; the color matching to SS and Sycamore (in my family and living rooms) done by Benjamin Moore were just a little off. I've been very happy with the paint quality of RH. PS: I"m a hoyamom, too!

Here's my master bedroom in RH Silver Sage -- and the room faces north:

I think the SS paint from RH would look beautiful with what you have described as far as your bedding & furniture choices. We recently used RH sea green in our kitchen, but a friend and our daughter have the SS & it is beautiful, esp. with the darker woods. Our painter who usually prefers SW paints said he liked how the RH went on.

Please post pics when you're finished!

Jan, gorgeous room! The paint color is the perfect finishing touch...

Teacats, in real life, does your bedroom walls read more green or blue? In the photo is looks more blue to me, but I am also contemplating this color in my master bath and it is feels more green in my room.

My bath also gets north light, but has a skylight too, so while it's not bright light, it's not dark either. I just was wanting a tad more green than blue to come out and probably should just pull the trigger and paint!

Honestly -- this color changes throughout the day! ((NO help whatsoever! LOL!!)) But that is the simple truth -- I have never seen a shade that changes do much with the available light ....

Sometimes -- the room is more silvery-blue -- and at other times -- more greeny-blue-gray.

BTW -- this room was painted 10 years ago (I bought the very first cans of RH from the store when it opened in Dallas! LOL! The moment I saw the color on the store walls -- I dragged my DH in -- and bought the paint -- and they were still stocking the shelves!)

Another interesting fact -- so many colors look good in here! From the summery Ralph Lauren bedding (shown in the photo) -- to the winter bedding in darkest sage green. There are gold items and accents AND silver ones too. Black and fresh white (the master bath is painted in simple white) look GREAT with it too.

Can you tell that I'm a big fan of SS? LOL! :)

Jan

Thank you all for such great responses and now I feel like that is what I will go with. But I am concerned now that the BM paint isn't the same color as RH. Do you get the RH paint at their stores? I was planning on getting the grey wisp in the Aura mixture. I read that Aura is a low VOC and I don't want a lingering smell in that room esp for the holidays. I really wish EK had a silver sage color in full spectrum - does anyone know if there is one? I have all of her colors but none of them look like SS.

I will definitely take pictures when I am finished.

OT: Maryanne3 - I guess I should say I used to be a hoyamom but now my little hoya goes to Cornell law school (2nd year). Georgetown is a gorgeous school and she got a great education and experience there. Is your hoya still there?

Hoyamom, I did a little searching for you and found a blogger who uses SS throughout her home. There is a pic of it in her bathroom and it looks just like it does in the store! Shame on you! Between Reno's new bathroom cabs and you, I am thinking that I might paint my MBR cabs SS and do a glaze like Reno did! :)

Here is a link that might be useful: blog

I have BM's Grey Wisp in, well, I guess it is actually 4 rooms (dressing room, WC, laundry room, shower room) and we really love it. We have multi slate floors throughout, and it beautifully highlights picks up the greys and blues in the stone. Dark espresso cabinets, BM "white chocolate" trim and doors, and Palladian blue ceilings, which in some lights looks exactly the same as the walls.

It does change throughout the day, amazing stuff. It really really changed when the 4th wall was painted, too. What kind of light bulbs you put it makes a big difference in the color of it.

Betty- thanks for letting me know that the BM color is just as nice as the RH. The only RH store is 25 min away and the BM store is closer but in the opposite direction. LOL When I was in RH I noticed that they had some SS slippers with tan/beige fur and it looked like it went very well so I guess I am good to go. I do want it to pick up blues and grays and since the attached bathroom is EK Aqua I wanted it to transition well. I was also thinking about painting the ceiling a blue - do you have crown molding? Would it look ok if I didn't have the crown?

Kmcg - I will have to take a look at that blog - thanks for posting it.
I know getting on this site makes you want to paint, decorate, and restyle!!

I really wish EK had a silver sage color in full spectrum - does anyone know if there is one? I have all of her colors but none of them look like SS.

Yep, she sure does. It could be that the chip is not in the regular 84 rotation/stock colors. It's in the "Designer's Collection" she did a little while ago.

One of her guest designers chose RH Silver Sage and it ended up in a full spectrum version called H2 Ah. I painted my powder room with H2 Ahh. Lost count of the number of Gray Wisp rooms I've done, which btw, is a spot on match to the original RH Silver Sage.

I opted for the full spectrum version. There is a difference. The lack of black gives it a completely different slant. It is a fuller color experience and it is more responsive to various characteristics of light as in it changes sometimes showing more green than blue and other times showing more blue than green. It's lovely.

Funcolors - thank you for posting about the EK comparable paint. I do have H2 Ahh and I had pulled that one from the deck as a possibility but in the room it looks like it has A LOT of blue. It is a beautiful color though but it doesn't seem like it is similar to SS at all. Maybe I need to take the EK sample to the store and put it up next to it to compare. You know I love full spectrum paint - I have almost my entire house in EK colors - so I was really looking for one. I thought at one time I read that Lichen was close to SS but upon checking, it didn't look like it.

I am wondering if I paint the ceiling (9 ft) in a full spectrum blue if it would look ok if I don't have crown moulding? Would it look weird to have SS on the walls with a blue on the ceiling without that division? This is a guest room so I don't want to spend a lot of $$ on mouldings if I could get away with a painted ceiling without moulding.

Thanks!!

Ok, I just ordered the silver sage coverlet so now it's a done deal I am going with silver sage. Now on to find a painter who can do Aura.

btw - Funcolors - when I got home I looked at the H2 Ahh and it is very close to the SS but seems a bit grayer and not blue like I thought, plus when I held it up to the grey wisp it didn't have the green cast to it. I guess I was thinking of Sandy Lagoon and not Ahhh when I thought it was too blue.

Hoyamom,

Why do you need to find a special painter who does Aura paint?

I was thinking about doing BM Grey Wisp in the Aura paint, but was going to paint it myself. My only experience with BM paint is a few years back, but the paint was so thick - almost like pudding. It was hard to get on the walls I thought. Is the Aura paint really thick?

I have been reading about the paint on this site and it seems like there is a knack to it. I have painted one room and it took me so long that I thought I would hire someone since I am not a pro at it. Do a search and see what others say. I think it has something to do with it drying very quickly so if you make a mistake you have to sand it out and repaint. I was just putting the question out there to see if there is a big difference.

EK Clay?

Clay is Gray-green-blue like RH Silver Sage, only much more complex. A bit dark though, maybe try it mixed a bit lighter?

EK Khaki is lighter but more gray. My card was shifting all over the place yesterday, even to very blue while I was talking to Ellen about an order. Ellen said she hadn't ever heard of it reading blue. Quite clearly blue here two days running. Maybe it was the freak snowstorm coming.

I ordered a bunch of RH samples on-line and tried them on my bedroom walls. I was going to use RH Seafoam because it appeared very pale blue in my sunroom. In my bedroom it appeared very light and grey. I tried SS and like it although it appears more blue than green. I painted the sample paint on various walls to see how it looked under different light. It changes so dramatically I couldn't tell which paint it was (I had tried Light Silver Sage, Silver Sage, Atmosphere, and Sea Foam. I've settled on the SS but am concerned how different it appears on different walls.

I can't get over how blue SS looks in the bedroom picture posted! Used it in both my bathrooms. In the upstairs bathroom, with black trim accent, it receives filtered light from low windows and is usually a sage color, natural light adds more grey with undertone of blue. In the downstairs bathroom with white tile and trim, it shows up a soft grey/green. Here is a picture of the downstairs bath color, ceiling is also ss (keep in mind the flash washes it out some):

The more I see the pictures the more I like SS - I think it is just what I wanted. Lauren - love the crown moulding - I wish I could do that with my room but I think it might be too pricey. I am already spending too much... :)

Celticmoon - I think I one of EK's biggest fans but I couldn't find a color that jumped out at me. I looked at all of those you mentioned but they are either too green or too grey. I want a green/blue/grey so I could have a spa feel.

Thanks

I used BM Aura paint in Grey Wisp to paint our master bedroom and bath. I did it myself, and it was great paint to work with. Excellent coverage. I love that color - it reads grey/blue and is so soothing. We have espresso bedroom furniture. I bought lined pinch-pleated drapes from Penneys in the linen color, 72" (I think) length with expresso rods, also from Penneys. I love the way pinch-pleats look, they are tidy when open and when closed. They add just a nice touch of formality.

That is so cool Chay! Do you have the pinch pleats on rings or where you have to draw them closed? This weekend I was heading over to JCP to check out their window treatments. I was planning on going with white so linen definitely fits the bill. The length of the window is so odd in that room. It is 96 inches from the top of the window frame to the floor and so I am short if I buy 96 inch length and too long if I go 108. The drapes we have up now I had DH put the rod ON the window frame and they are still too short.

Well, thanks again for your input!!

I Have SS in my master bedroom and it takes on a more greeny gray shade...other times it looks more green, and sometimes it looks kind of aqua. Never blue though.
FYI...Behr's "Rhino" shade is identical to RH's Silver sage.