Neutral Gray Paint
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true/neutral gray paint...pls help!
Comments (24)Trust me I feel your pain. After 15 Samples of light gray from multiple brands and all throwing blue or blue/lavender I discovered: - if I paint over light beige I get these off results - if I prime/kilz first and then paint my gray I get entirely different color gray. So prime a wall white to compare your color. Even if you are painting with the paint/primer mixed paint. Also use samples first. I took my gallon of light gray paint, told the paint specialist my problem and she added her own formula which looks like green was added to it and it came out gray (no blue) when painted over white. But looks like mud if painted on beige. Formula is: BL 320 , CL 258, IL 15, RL 112 in 1 gallon. if you look at behr color book, on page 200, the color on the wall (over whie kilz2) is between color numbers 790c-3 dolphin fin and 790d-4 granite boulder. Good luck....See MoreNeed Help Choosing the best neutral gray paint color
Comments (10)There really is no substitution for testing the colors in your space and different light through the day. For a suppposedly neutral color, greys can be tricky. Fact of the matetr is that a greyy can be any color plus black or some canceling tones. Revere Pewter goes violet on me and Edgecomb grey a bit green in some rooms. I wound up going to Sherwin Williams and trying their colors. Agreeable Grey was the right tone for my living areas, but I am doing them at 150% to get a little deeper color. I am using Anew Grey in my entry and stairwell -- that hasn't been done yet. . More important to your question about going with cool and warm colors -- the Agreeable Grey in my FR had to work with red brick, cherry hutch and dark wood floors as well as blue, green and white in the upoho;stery, rug and kitchen cabinets and counters. Anything that tended green made the red brick fireplace more intense and anything too warm made it pinker/orangier. Agreeable Grey at 100% was too light -- was too close to my grout and looked chalky, so we just added more color and went to 150%. SInce it is a light color to begin with, it is still light, just richer. The result was amazing -- my red brick calmed down. No more orangey, purpley/brown red. And it is so soft and neutral with the blues,, green and white. We did the ceiling at a reduced value. It was the first time I had used SW paints and as much as I liked BM, I was just as pleased with this job (DIY)....See MoreHow would I make cabinets look gray?
Comments (6)@patty I can't glaze it with the conversion varnish. I will go on a sample spree of whites. After 23 gray samples and & 27 blue samples, hopefully I can get away with 3 or 4....See MoreGray paint with Brazilian cherry flooring?
Comments (1)We have Brazilian cherry that is 22 years old . We use bona Chemi traffic to finish at that time. We are finally refinishing.. after four sons and 4 dogs it still looks great. As I said it has never been really red. In fact, I was disappointed, at that time, back in the day, they never turned really red. It was probably due to the fact that I used a water borne sealer. It is wonderful for a house full of kids and dogs and held up much better than my friends oak and maple. I can't wait to see it refinished and know that it will be a slight reddish brown. Hope whoever we sell too loves it!...See MoreJenn TheCaLLisComingFromInsideTheHouse
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