Anyone used or have any input on these Benjamin Moore paint colors?
Serena Butler
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Comments (4)I have a beautiful old apartment in Sacramento. It has hardwood floors and some dark accents like a brown brick fireplace. We used Athena in this apartment and it is absolutely gorgeous. It is not pink. The light is from the South and the color is perfect. I grew to absolutely love this color. My younger tenants who are in their 30's love it and they usually buy a grey sofa for the room....See MoreAnyone used Benjamin Moore's "Dove wing" as a wall color?
Comments (4)I used it in a bath with Cloud White trim and really loved it. Very soft and serene. Sorry, no pictures. I don't think it would do well with a really bright white, though. Here's a photo from Houzz (not my house!) Here is a link that might be useful: [Dove Wing walls, white trim[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/dove-wing-benjamin-moore-phbr0lbl-bl~l_50581?fi=48)...See MoreAnyone have Benjamin Moore Clay Beige painted on their walls?
Comments (3)I don't have a picture handy nor did I use Clay Beige in a living room, but I did paint the main bathroom in my summer home Clay Beige. After many attempts at finding just the right color for the room, I selected Clay Beige and I love it. I know this is not the living room information you're looking for, but I thought I would provide you with my two cents--we love the color. It's a neutral with a clay/green cast--goes with many different colors....See MoreDoes anyone have Benjamin Moore Affinity Color Eternity?
Comments (10)Well, I do not have Eternity in my house so I can't provide the kind of answer you're looking for. However, I do have a few thoughts to share that you may - or may not :) - find useful. AF-695 Eternity's hue family is blue. Here is the full hue/value/chroma color notation: 2.31B hue / 7.61 value / 0.23 chroma AF-700 Storm's hue family is yellow. 9.52 Y hue / 6.43 value / 0.12 chroma. Here's a sortable table of color notations for all the colors in the Affinity color collection. I don't do "undertones" especially with regard to paint colors because I think it's an ineffective at best, technically incorrect at worst, way to look at/think about color. For example, one probably would never guess that Storm's hue family is yellow. But it is yellow, on the cusp of green-yellow. And that's exactly why you think it reads as having " no undertones". The majority of whites and grays that people perceive as "true with no undertones" belong to a hue family in the yellow, green-yellow, green range. The Affinity deck is not arranged in any particular, technically precise spectral order. It looks like somebody just eyeballed it. So it's not correct to think that Eternity is "one down" from Storm meaning it's the same color but lighter. In addition to dissuading folks from the misleading pitfalls of "undertones", I also don't recommend cutting formulas. Because as you already know, you don't know what it's going to look like until you do it and once you start down that path, you own the gallons whether you like how they end up or not. The chroma part of the notation tells you how colorful or chromatic the color is. Eternity is already pretty low at 0.23. And its value is 7.61. My guess is lessening the colorant load, if possible at all, is going to shift the color from a "gray" category to a "white" category. Better off to just keep looking for the right light gray vs. monkeying around with cutting formulas, IMO. If you want to understand the Affinity color collection and hue families better, I suggest you reorder the deck according to the color notations. I walk you thru how to do it in this blog post and video: Put the Affinity Color Collection in Hue Family order I get more emails about that post than any other at The Land of Color. Many have told me that simple exercise of reordering the fandeck was life-changing and once they see the Affinity colors in proper hue family order they finally understand my point of view about "undertones"....See MoreSerena Butler
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