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Trim color with SW Softer Tan?

10 years ago

Can anyone share what trim color you've used with SW Softer Tan? I am trying to help my niece out. Thanks so much!

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chispa

10 years ago

I have BM Simply White on all my trim, doors, windows and some ceilings. It is a bright white, but not stark. I had originally painted the walls SW Softer Tan, but they turned a sickly green at night. I repainted with BM Grant Beige. Both colors look great with the BM simply White.

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springroz
10 years ago
I used SW Downey. I think it was color matched in PPG paint. (My GC got the paint...I have the can)

Nancy
Arapaho-Rd
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks, Nancy, I will pass that on and have her take a look.
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Arapaho-Rd
Original Author
10 years ago
Chispa, thanks for sharing your experience. So hard to judge how paint will re-act to different lighting. I am going to look at sample strip to see if darkest color shows signs of green.
ILoveRed
10 years ago
SW Creamy with SW Softer Tan walls. Old picture taken during build.
sirienne
10 years ago
I have SW Softer Tan through about half my house and all of my trim is SW Alabaster. SW Dover White is on my cabinets and that would probably look fine as a trim color with it as well - it is a bit yellower than the Alabaster. I don't find the Softer Tan to have a green cast at all.
Arapaho-Rd
Original Author
10 years ago
red_lover, walls and trim look beautiful in photo. Thank you.

sirienne, thanks for the trim colors and the fact you don't see a green cast in your home. Paint colors can vary so much!
chispa
10 years ago
Yes, you have to try a pretty large swatch on your own walls to make sure a color will work. I had spent a lot of time picking the colors for my house in the northeast. When I moved to CA I thought I could just use the same colors. Wrong! The colors I had loved in the old house did not work in the new house. I had to repaint the whole downstairs after that mistake!

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