Interior Paint-The gray color i chose looks like it's blue, advice pls

jetset2000

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

I’m getting Behr Dophin Fin (gray color) painted in the interior of my house which I just bought. I’m so shocked tonite when i saw it had a blue undertone, it looks like a very light sky blue color. i can’t even tell it’s gray.

I'm getting the walls painted satin except for the bathroom and kitchen where it will be semi-gloss. (I wonder if the sheen has something to do with it)

I bought 3 different gray colors samples, and painted it in different areas of the house, and looked at it in different time of the day. (I didn’t look at it at night coz I havent fully moved out of my apartment, and i’m not staying at the house at the moment)

I finally went with Dolphin Fin.

Today, the painters (5 of them) came in at 4 pm (because they have a day job at a construction company painting). and they. I left the house at 6 pm to do some stuff. and I dropped by the house at 9 pm, they had covered about 75% so far, except for the kitchen, and 2 bathrooms.

Looking at the dolphin fin color, it has such a blue undertone. it looks like a very light sky blue color when i dropped by to look at their progress. i don’t know if its the incandescent light bulb giving it that color,

but i did google it and read that dolphin fin has a blue undertone. but i also read that dolphin fin is a a warm gray, and i also read it gives a true gray color.

but i don’t like it. eventually i plan to replace those incandescent light bulbs to LED bulbs, but i’m not holding out that it will make a difference and make it look more gray.

at this time, what should i do? backtrack and start over? i’m sure those painters will like that because it will probably set me back another $1200=1500 if i do decide to start from the beginning and re-paint over those walls.

just frustrated at this time, and need advice, i'm gonna drop by the house tomorrow again. maybe because the paint was still drying, maybe by tomorrow it will turn out like the actual gray color i saw online and on the paint sample.

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Lori A. Sawaya

5 years ago

but i did google it and read that dolphin fin has a blue undertone.

but i also read that dolphin fin is a a warm gray,

and i also read it gives a true gray color.

Since Diana invited me. :)

That one is easy to explain. Won't help where you are but at least you'll understand what you found when you Googled Dolphin Fin.

It doesn't have a blue undertone. It's not about undertones.

Instead, every color belongs to a hue family.

Dolphin Fin belongs to the Yellow hue family - the very end of the Yellow hue family right where the Green-Yellow hue family starts. Can see what I mean on this color wheel.

Hue family is determined using a balanced quality of light. What a balanced quality of light means is a quality of light with a nice, balanced mix of all the wavelengths in the spectrum.

So when you have that kind of mixed-bag, balanced quality of light in your space, Dolphin Fin will look "just gray". Some may call it "true", others "warm". but overall "just gray".

When the light doesn't have a mix of wavelengths, when it has more blue to green wavelengths, then Dolphin Fin will shift and appear as tho it is blue.

Nothing is hidden or under anything.

It's just the way the light is and it's just the way Dolphin Fin looks under that *color* of lighting.

Changing light bulbs will change how it looks.

Because if you change the light you change how a color looks. That's just the way color works.

But if it's looking blue when the lights aren't on, then that's an inherent light issue. Can't move your windows and doors.