Is this the house you're buying or selling? Bathroom looks great.

We have the same color throughout most of our house. There is a considerable difference based on the exposure and amount of light we get.

Olychick - the painter was DH :) He painted both rooms at the same time and used 1 can for the first coat and 1 can as the second coat, so I know it's the same color.

1929Spanish - I think it is the different light and exposure. The bathroom gets limited southern light from a window in the toilet room and the closet gets more direct northern light. Plus the warm gray paint probably looks more ivory against the cooler gray carrara.

I actually love pale gray and creamy ivory together so I'm not really complaining - I'm just really surprised how different the same paint color looks in these side by side rooms.

This is the house we are selling. The master was the last project in our 16 year remodeling adventure with this house :) We bought a fixer upper farmhouse in Tennessee so that's next after we sell and move. I do like this bathroom though - wish we had done it sooner. Maybe I'll do the same master bathroom in the Tennessee house!

Wow - what a difference. I'm not surprised though. Last time we painted, the color I chose actually seemed to look different on each wall of the same room.

Yes..we're painting right now-not changing colors, just freshening ..it's crazy how different it looks in different light, different angle, another wall..

And these are the colors I'm used to..

The only color we changed is the master bath one, and it's much more peach in certain times of a day than I'd prefer.

But. To be fair-I think it was a first morning in a long time that I looked at myself in the mirror with less disgust than usual..)))

I think your color is gorgeous, either way.

Thanks, april and torrey. I actually liked this color in the master closet so much that I was thinking of using it in most of the main areas in the next house. Guess I'll have to test it once I'm there to see what it actually looks like in each room before I commit!

I painted the family room, living, and dining rooms with a light, warm gray (can't remember the name). The color looks different depending on the direction of the room, the time of day, and whether or not we have lights on. It's amazing. Sometimes you'd think one wall was an accent wall with a slightly different color. Then later that day, it shifts.

Before I painted, I painted every single wall with three different colors in Big patches. Just to see how different it would look. Then lived with it or awhile to make sure I knew which I preferred.

I noticed your room with the light off looks a lot more grey than ivory.....I think it is the lighting or the bulb that makes the difference in the color.....pretty color...both of them.