SW paint color with hint of greige. Need Help ASAP
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Comments (3)Hi, The room is the dining room and will be more on the informal style. My furniture is vintage Haywood Wakefield in a Champagne color. I'm matching the paint color to the fabric on the chairs...the cranberry color. The woodwork will be semi-gloss white and the ceiling, after changing my mind again, will be Navajo White. It's a lighter shade of brown than the Irish Cream. However, I'm off to the paint store after this posting. I may change my mind again....the painter will be finishing up the prep work today so I have a little time left. Hopefully, I'll be able to post some pics. Thanks.......See MoreNeed to pick paint colors ASAP for painter! Help!!
Comments (18)We have rainwashed in our guest bath, comfort gray in our masterbath and had sea salt before the comfort gray. Sea Salt is gorgeous but unless you have a lot of light in the room, it's very pale and hard to see. Comfort Gray is exactly the same color only a shade darker, it's equally as beautiful and would work better in a room that is poorly lit Rainwashed is bluer, less gray but is also quite pretty. Quietude was what I was originally going to use but once on the wall as a sample fell flat with our lighting....See MoreGreige is the question.. Need houzz help with paint color..
Comments (13)Geige is an incredibly broad term. It is like saying green. Lime Green or Forest Green, Teal or Emerald. Here is a list of a variety of Greige colors by Benjamin Moore Abalone Ashford Greige Ashley Gray Balboa Mist Broxburn Greige Collingwood Edgecomb Gray Gettysburg Gray Mineral Mortar Pale Oak Revere Pewter Shale Go into your local Benjamin Moore dealer and ask for paper samples of all of these colors. Pick a few dozen more that are in the same families. Take your samples outside on a sunny day, lay your flooring, countertop and cabinet samples on a white sheet and lay the paper samples of each of the above colors next to the samples. Note what you like and don't like. If you can find the right color you can always pick something a bit lighter or darker, but getting the rigjht mix of brown and gray and the right undertone is something that you will need to do with your samples. If you can come close and say, I like this a lot, but it seems just a bit too blue we will be able to offer a lot more assistance....See MoreHELP with Greige paint - DE vs SW
Comments (24)I am now in a dilemna as I am having our vacation home painted and they only use Sherwin Williams. Not sure whether to go white on white or just do the Agreeable Gray (which I think may be a little darker than the shady. THOUGHTS?...See More
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PROLori A. Sawaya
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHow would SW Nuance look with Alabaster?
It works. Mostly because they have the same amount of chroma. Which means neither will make the other look dingy/dirty.
They are about the same in hue family, so hue family doesn't really play much of a part in this color relationship.
Where they contrast is in terms of Value, lightness, LRV. Nuance is darker.
That bump of contrast and the fact that they have the same chroma is what makes them work together.
If you look at their data values, you can see what I'm talking about. You don't have to understand what all the numbers mean to make these simple comparisons highlighted in yellow.
Essentially, this is the same as using the same color on walls and trim. Except Nuance is darker and you're getting a level of lightness contrast that you would not get if you used Alabaster on the walls in a different finish.Of course, using the same color in different gloss levels is always a good strategy too.
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