Help! SW Pure White looks dirty next to current trim.
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Kirsten E.
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SW Pure White or Extra White?
Comments (27)Hi - there is a method for paint colour comparison you can access yourself, using the website EasyRGB .com. See the ‘how to’ via Youtube - the land of color - videos - ‘Color Muse - Use Hue Angle to Find Paint Colors‘ In answer to your question, this method allows you to do lots of things - including find the data for a colour by paint name AND input data, such as Lightness (Value) Chroma and Hue Angle° to see which paint colours are closest. Very cool! The information I gave you is in the Munsell system format, which is more complex to process. (Blue) But EasyRGB uses the alternative colour space of CIELAB. (Pink) Both can be plotted using the Color Wheel above. Using CIELAB, Software is approx 7 points darker and 0.14 more colourful. You can also compare their location within a Hue Family using the Hue Angle° You will notice the difference in Lightness, but the difference in Chroma is very small and unlikely to make much of a difference, especially outside....See MoreLast night I painted the ceiling SW Pure White. Wall color?
Comments (20)@Abby Marshall - glad the pictures showed up. I am currently renovating a fixer - will take a few more years until I am completely finished, but I have a color palette planned for the house and am slowly filling in colors on my master plan as I complete each room. When I moved in I knew I would be changing almost all the colors in the house, (Painting everything, replacing flooring and cabinetry. I looked around and decided on what must stay. My foyer had purple, red and green slate and I have a huge fireplace wall that is between the foyer and living room. The brick matches the outside of the home, so when someone walks up to the front door and looks through the foyer window it has the same brick inside and out. Those were really the only colors that were staying that I had to work with. Luckily, I love purple, red and teal and own a lot of art and things with those colors. I will be painting the living room, foyer and halls in a neutral that has not yet been finalized. I just got the original wall paper down and even with a good eye for color the gold metallic fleck wallpaper was making it hard for me to see what the neutrals would look like in these 2 rooms and get a feel for the way light will play on the walls (10' window facing east in the living room and 8' window facing west in the foyer.) The bedrooms and bathrooms will all be combinations of purples and teals. I look at the paint color as a back drop for the other things that will be in the room - bedding, lamps, art. I don't want something too brilliant that it fights with things, but I want enough color that it looks like I picked a color and not another neutral. I picked BM Quiet Moments (LCH 81 / 4.5 / 150 for my master bath, was planning BM Beach Glass (LCH 75 / 4.3 / 172) for my guest bath and bedroom, but ended up with SW Silver Mist (LCH 74 / 4.4 / 152) for the Guest Room. The hue of Beach Glass at 172 was too blue and was going powder blue where the sun came through the window. The 152 hue at this chroma level was a great match to my flooring in the foyer. So if you stand in my hallway you look one direction and see my foyer with the blue green flooring and a light that I painted a similar, but slightly more chromatic blue green. If you look the other direction you see the guest bedroom and the third direction the guest bath. Looking down the hall you will see my office. The floor color I used in the guest bath and guest bedroom is very similar to the purple slate in the foyer. The rest of the floors throughout the home complements the darker flooring - same design, but a light taupe (Purple undertone) vs the dark purple gray. I can pick any bedding I want as long as it has a bit of the blue green color. My office will be the transition from the blue greens to the purples that I want in the master bedroom. My living room will transition from the blue greens to a truer green in my dishes. Here is a snapshot of my color plan as it stands right now - still have not decided what purple is going in the master bedroom or how I am incorporating red into the kitchen, just know that when I do these rooms that I plan on doing red and purple. Hope this helps you with how to plan color selections for your house....See MoreDoes anyone have S.W. Pure White walls with B.M. Chantilly Lace trim?
Comments (2)I don't have a photo of wall/trim to show you, just my opinion. 1. Always test it in your own house. Even if someone had a photo to show you, their lighting, their flooring, their furnishings will impact how the paint colors look. Color is relative and sometimes completely changed by light. 2. In theory, I think they would work together because there is enough contrast, but I don't think it would be my favorite pairing. Pure White may look gray (or possibly a little dirty) next to Chantilly Lace because Pure White is more "gray" or desaturated. In the comparison below, I think Pure White looks like a very pale gray. Maybe that's the look you want. 3. The "easiest" thing to do with a white is to paint everything the same color, but use different sheens. Say matte or eggshell on the walls and satin or semi-gloss on the trim. 4. If you haven't tested it in your home, get a Samplize sheet or a sample pot and paint the pure white on a large board and compare it to the Chantilly Lace on a piece of moulding. Then move it around the room/house to see how it works with flooring, countertops, anything that isn't going to move, and of course how your furnishings work with it....See MoreSW paint color to pair with SW Pure White trim in a basement
Comments (7)I would like something "bright" without yellow undertones. "Undertones" are a construct of the internet - they aren't an attribute of color. In other words, when someone describes color appearance in terms of "undertone" they're simply giving you their subjective opinion of what a color looks like to them under an unspecified light source and in some random context. Undertones aren't facts, they're just opinions and not worthy of consideration - because how a color shows up for you in the inherent light and context you have to work with is likely very different. Here are the colors and their respective hue family - hue angle/family is derived directly from measuring the color using a balanced light source. Hue angle/family is an objective color appearance description baseline that's reasonable to reference because the light source is defined - daylight around noon ish. All things considered from what you said, IMO Silver Strand would be a good option with Pure White. The colors in the pink box aren't technically colors of white. Either too dark in terms of Value and/or too much Chroma. If it's a color with a Value less than 9.50 ish, then the rule of thumb about Chroma isn't applicable. The Rule of Thumb is: the key to successfully creating white-on-white/white-on-off-white color schemes is make sure there is a difference in Chroma of at least 0.20. The difference almost always insures that neither color will make the other look dirty or dingy under most light sources....See MoreLori A. Sawaya
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