Need Medium Grey Exterior paint without undertones ? HELP
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Comments (9)Update: I stopped at Home Depot this morning to pick up Cree bulbs and they had none. However, I did find some daylight (5000k) Phillips bulbs with a CRI rating of 90. I brought those home to experiment and tried one in the vanity light so I could compare it to the others. Interestingly, I noticed the old bulbs' light had a barely discernible pinkish/purple hue in comparison to the new Phillips bulb. I never noticed when they were all the same, but am sure that wasn't helping my paint issues. I then changed out all of the bulbs and do feel the paint looks a little more neutral. Another observation: my old bulbs have a large plastic base, which concentrated light toward the top of bulb (upside down in the vanity fixture). The new bulbs are full glass and look just like an incandescent, which means more light flows out near the base of the bulb as well, and toward the top of the room. I think this helps light some of the corners near the ceiling, where the plum was showing worst. For anyone else who stops by this thread, the daylight bulb seems to help neutralize funky color shifts, but in my case, I needed a better daylight bulb with higher CRI. And don't discount the directional flow of light coming from the bulb! All that said, I still question if my paint was mixed properly. BM Thunder looks darned taupe to me, but at least the bathroom is now a little less plum-like. :) I appreciate the feedback!...See More
petlover
6 years ago
PROLori A. Sawaya
6 years agoI'm not understanding the Sherwin Williams wheel.
It's just an example to show you that you can find a gray from every hue family in the spectrum. The grays in the Sherwin Williams wheel are just a sampling of the full spectrum range of grays you can find in the SW fandeck.
For example, "Analytical Gray" where does this fall on the color wheel?
It has a hue family of 4Y - it belongs to the yellow hue family. You won't find hue family notations for Sherwin-Williams or Ben Moore published anywhere. Dunn-Edwards is the only brand that does that. I have them because we have the spectral data for every paint color here at The Land of Color and I know how to use "color math" to transform that spectral data into a hue/value/chroma notation. So, that's how I know what hue family Analytical Gray belongs to.
Lori, I understand the Dunn-Edward Hue codes (except one I looked at ended in PB and don't know what that means - maybe B= blue?)
PB is Purple-Blue. Here's a color wheel with all the hue family designations like Dunn-Edwards uses.
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Abby Mac
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
Lori A. Sawaya