Pure White Trim- in need of a good cream to go with
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"Cream" trim doesn't look good with anything except...
Comments (14)I have the same issue: 3000 square foot house and EVERYTHING is beige: not just the walls, ceilings, and carpets, but ALL the ceiling trim and baseboards (found in every room, hall, and stairs), all the interior doors, window surrounds, wainscoting, fireplace surround, and the entire 2-story wall of decorative paneling into which the front door is set. And the real kicker: ALL that trim is DARKER!!! Who in their right mind ever thought tan trim was a good idea?!? I've done the best I can with accent walls of blue, burgundy, and slate gray, but I love to play with color and this has been SOOO constraining (for perspective, my idea of a fun room is one with turquoise & lavender walls, dark wood or black furniture, and some pops of orange and green). So after 5 years of struggling with the beige I'm nearly ready to take the leap and just start re-painting all the trim--or at least the baseboards, door surrounds, and ceiling trim. Will likely have to hire a professional for the baseboards. Either way it's going to cost thousands of dollars and/or hundreds of hours of my time. We bought the house in a rush and I thought I'd be able to work with it, but I will never, ever make the same mistake again....See MoreSW Extra White or Pure White for trims AND walls?
Comments (1)We were going with SW Extra white but after seeing some pictures and comments, some people said it is TOO bright white For a multitude of reasons, I wouldn't let comments and pictures online inform your opinion about Extra White. Again, we want to undertones. Paint colors don't have undertones, so you're in luck. Would Pure white work better? Based on what you've said, I doubt it. But I don't care for Pure White. I think there are prettier whites (personal opinion). All paint colors are defined and described by hue, value and chroma. The majority of white paint colors available in commercial paint brands belong to the yellow hue family, green-yellow hue family or green hue family. The reason is because there's a whole bunch of human visual perception stuff with regard to this region of the spectrum. Long story short, we end up perceiving near neutrals like grays and whites from this spectral, hue family range as being the most neutral as in not having amounts of discernible hue. Extra White and Pure White belong to the same hue family neighborhood. Pure White is at the end of the Yellow Hue Family, Extra White is at the beginning of the Green-Yellow hue family - again, same neighborhood on the color wheel. When it comes to brightness - and brightness is a description of how lightness (value) looks - they're basically the same. The biggest different between EW and PW is CHROMA. Chroma tells you how colorful or neutral a color looks. Pure White has more chroma. 0.44. Which means it's not as white as Extra White which has a chroma of 0.32. Extra White is a whiter, cleaner color than Pure White. (remember swatches you see online can not mimic in real life colors so whatever you think you see in swatches online you should ignore and go get physical chips)...See MoreCream vs. White Trim and Cabinets? Is Cream Dated?
Comments (2)Things feel dated when they were done by everybody without regard to their space, just because everyone was doing them. If you love creams, always loved creams, and the house you build will look great with them, given its location, style, your concept, light it gets, etc-no, won't look dated. Colors by themselves can't be "dated". They're too independent of us:) Only our impressions of combinations of them, our perceptions etc, that are usually very personal, can make them feel dated. So, to summarize.. No:) Use whatever you love and whatever your house will like most....See MoreTrim and Ceiling Paint -SW Pure White trim - What white for ceilings?
Comments (27)We closed on our house today wahoooo! I only got to spend about an hour there but looked quickly at the samples for trim/doors/ceilings. I think I've narrowed it down to three possibilities: BM Simply White, SW Extra White and BM Super White. I thought about BM Chantilly Lace too. Basically, looking at the finishings, my first gut is that BM Simply White looks the best. I just worry it may look too yellow once up on everything. At least that's what I read (and you know how reliable the internet is). First question: has anyone had experience with BM Simply White? Does it just read warm or do you see the yellow in it when it's one trim/doors/ceilings? So I may go that direction, or wonder if I should go with a cleaner white but something close. Something still a little warm... As for the runners up, from what I can see SW Extra White and BM Super White are very similar but Extra White maybe looks a little warmer? Maybe because it has more chroma? Is this understanding accurate, Lori A. Sawaya?? And it seems to me that the order of warmth would go SW Extra White, BM Super White, BM Chantilly Lace... is that a correct reading? Again for context - East/West exposures with a lot of shade. Wall colors aren't chosen but would likely be something along the lines of BM Edgecomb Gray, BM Ballet White, BM Chelsea Gray, BM Natural Cream. Daughter's room will be BM Opal. I'll try to take some pics of the finishings tomorrow but would love any thoughts on this. Thanks!...See MoreDiana Bier Interiors, LLC
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