House exterior: Benjamin Moore Graphite vs Sherwin Williams Iron Ore?
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PRONOMI - Luxury Bathroom Remodel
5 years agoHello Ostrich,
We haven't used those colors for exterior yet but we found these online, we hope it helps!
Sherwin Williams Iron Ore
BM Graphite
They are both dark, tend to black. Both of them are beautiful options in our opinion.Good luck!
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5 years agoWe just painted our exterior in iron ore (please excuse the multiple unfinished projects also shown in the picture) and I love it! I have also used the color several times throughout the interior of my home and will say that it does end up having a slight blue undertone, especially depending on the sheen, but don't find it overwhelming! Hope this helps, and good luck!
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Emily, here it is! I have chosen this photo that was taken in very bright sunlight so that you can see the exact colors! The darker stucco is Sherwin Williams Iron Ore - you see that it does not have any undertone at all! Funnily, the garage door was supposed to be painted in the same color too but it looks bluish here... in reality though, it is not that bluish! LOL!
Just for contrast, the light color stucco is SW Dorian Gray. It is like a warm concrete color. The combination with SW Iron Ore is great!
I hope this helps.hayleyfilasky
2 years agoMarylee H
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoBM Graphite is a knocked-back, greyed-out, very low Chroma, (near neutral) colour from the Blue Hue Family.
It has very little colour to it at all.
If you do notice any sense of blueness. (possible in certain lighting), it isn’t because it has blue undertones. It would be because it *is* blue.
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PROLori A. Sawaya
2 years agoYep. And its factual notation places it at the end of the Blue hue family over near Purple-Blue. Super dark colors like Graphite from this hue family range tend to read as the most neutral, no discernible hue bias.
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2 years ago@haleyfilasky Chris and Julia from Chris Loves Julia blog painted their Idaho house in graphite. If you head to their blog or Instagram, you can see many pictures of Graphite. It is stunning and, to me, doesn't look blue in the photos at all.
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