Cream trim, white quartz! Help!
Heather Huber
7 years ago
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7 years agoShannon Morrison
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need help with a warm white/cream interior trim color
Comments (9)What's "creamy" to one is yellow or tan to another! Or even too white! I wish I could suggest a specific color but I really can't. Even though I probably have about 200 different chips of varying degrees of "off-white". I'm not familiar with the wall colors you have except I strongly considered Laura Ashley gold 2 for my bedroom. I recall that it is a complex, muted yellow/tan with green undertone. A really beautiful color. I assume that gold 4 is the same but deeper. I was amazed to see how a trim color can bring out the undertone in the wall or play it down; make the gold look either very green or more yellow or even dirty. So focus first on what undertones you need in your trim color. You already know you don't want blue, gray, pink/peach. You need some yellow but there are so many degrees of it. Take your wall paint chips to the color displays and hold them up--you will easily see which groupings of tones/shades don't work and you will be able to narrow down to the right family pretty easily. Wish I'd done that early on! You might also try taking your paint chips to Home Depot to use their scanner that will analyze your color & suggest coordinating colors from their line. That can at least get you started & when you start to see which tones are appealing to you the most when paired with your walls, you can take those chips with you to Lowes or elsewhere to look for the "just right" selection. Also, if you find a paint chip that has just the right tones but is just too light/white, (or the opposite, like if you wanted to use gold 4 but a lighter version of it) you can ask them to mix it with 150-200% of the colorant. Or cut it in half. I've done this with good success. All that said, I've just done the upstairs hall trim in Behr Navajo White, which to my eye when looked at alone is a creamy, muted yellow-- but looks great (and not yellow) with the several colors it needed to play with. And it took me many visits to paint stores, and many chips on the walls, to settle on my choice, but I don't regret the time I took now. Neither will you! Good luck!...See MoreCan you mix cream furniture with white trim?
Comments (13)Thanks so much Lynn. I used to know what the floor is. I'm pretty sure it's three-inch quarter sawn white oak. The stain is a custom stain that's mostly natural with a little nutmeg. It's a Swedish finish. Annz, funny you should mention the rug because that is what we're starting with: a very colorful bold rug which I absolutely love--but had been wondering about what furniture to put on it. The cream or beige definitely answers that question. I'd love to see photos of your room....See MoreHelp with Swiss Cream and pure white trim
Comments (1)Of course pictures would help but I think the Swiss Coffee will look fine with SW pure white trim. Cream and white can be quite elegant. Do you have any fabrics or other inspirational pieces that you can pull colors from?...See MoreMy white windows are ugly! or is it the cream trim? HELP ME FIX IT!
Comments (22)I agree with painting the window trim a white that matches the vinyl, and personally, I'd paint all the trim. (whatever you do, I strongly recommend against painting the actual frames if they're vinyl.) also agree that you can choose just about any color you want for the front door. the fun part about that is that it's not that hard to paint a door, so you can easily change it if you don't like it....See Moreoldbat2be
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