make sure you use a good primer before you paint. and no to the paint/primer in one. If you don't know how to paint over paneling, google some of the how-to's.

it's a very creamy color between white/beige. Should be ok. how's the light down there? It can end up looking rather yellow if your bulbs aren't in the 3500-4000K temp range, so make sure you have those

this room gets a lot of natural light, but it's very creamy. using it in a basement w/little light and yellow bulbs, it's going to get very yellow.

Benjamin Moore White Sand is a lovely warm neutral you may want to check out. - Sometimes it's more cost effective to take the paneling down and replace it with bead board that's already been primed. One coat over it and you're done.

In my kitchen and bathroom navajo white is a light ivory/off-white. I painted walls and ceilings that color because I didn’t think there would be enough contrast next to a true white. But I have dark wood trim in both rooms.

We used Ben Moore's Swiss Coffee to paint over paneling in a previous home. Absolutely loved the soft white look, but the room got a lot of light. I've seen it used where it did look more yellow. Regarding the paneling, our painter had to do some special kind of pretreating. All I remember is him saying there was something in the wood paneling that could bleed through the paint if not properly pretreated. As Beth mentioned, check some tips online. If done right, the finished look can be awesome.

We used Navajo White in the basement bathroom. It looks nice..a warm ivory..it also depends on the light bulbs you use. We have LED 2700K so warm lights. In the rest of the basement I think we used White Dove from BM..both nice colors

Some comparisons

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Thank you everyone : ) you are always super helpful. Seeing Navajo White relative to the other colors makes me realize just how yellowy it will be- especially since lighting is rarely ideal in a basement.

I will probably use Swiss Coffee : )

If you want to avoid yellow, go more beige than Swiss Coffee. Something lighter. I will find some choices.

SW Creamy or if you want more white SW Chantilly Lace.

Here are Flos suggestions. Chantilly Lace is BM not SW.

Novice question: can I do *Chantilly Lace if I have *Cloud White trim?

I have a hard time with beiges so I’m very nervous. My whole living room is BM *Berber White and I absolutely HATE it 😩.

Looking at SW *Creamy now. Google tells me that the BM equivalent is *Ivory White. It’s very difficult to really read these colors especially on a computer screen. I feel like they up the saturation to help you see the undertones (which makes sense of course) but it leads to confusion about the strength of the shade

I was going to suggest Navajo white. I used it in my basement to cover pecky cypress in a satin or eggshell finish. I really like it!

I guarantee you Navajo White will be very yellow. I will look up the DNA Of all your colors and report back. In a little bit.

I don’t remember the final coat color we used, I’ll let the color experts help you with that, but I do remember we used 2 coats of bin when we painted paneling in our old house. Beth is right, the priming is key. The paneling was from the 60’s, and it soaked up the paint.

For a family room basement, you might consider a faded blue denim or khaki color.

Just another person confirming Navajo white can read quite yellow. My whole house is now BM natural cream except for the original Navajo white in the garage. By comparison, the Navajo is very yellow. It’s still a lovely color, but not if yellow undertones are not your cup of tea.

Yea I’m looking at swatches in the flesh now & I am definitely canning the Navajo white.

Suz- I thought about colors but I expect there to be so much random decorative crap & other things in my basement that I’m expecting them to kind of steal the show colorwise

There is a BM stone that is a really good neutral color.

https://mycolorize.com/products/cc-120-stone-house?variant=4903786283049

I've also seen a lighter "stone" I liked even better.

Found BM 2102 - 70 "first light" that, on my screen, appears similar but take care to not end up with a pink or yellow hue.

BM *White Down?

half of me is thinking of just throwing in the towel & doing my tried & trusted *Feather Down

Corinne-here are the 4 colors you mentioned.

Chantilly Lace is “whiter” than Cloud White due to less Chroma (color). Ivory White is enough different in Chroma that it would work with Cloud White trim. They are both in Yellow Hue family cool segment. So they would work together and be light with LRVs in 91 approx. The Berber has much more color and you can see Ivory White is lighter than Berber. So what direction do you want to go?

Quick mock up of Navajo White. It can work with your trim but it will lean yellow.

Wow Flo thank you! Colors are so not my bag it’s honestly like reading another language.

Wow *Berber White is so much darker than these over colors (thank God).

I am definitely trying to stay in the white family : ) I bought samples of :

* Ivory White

* Soft Chamois

* White Down

* Feather Down (not a sample but I have plenty from when I bought my house)

Suzebell how funny I had *Stone White painted in my kitchen! You and my paint consultant must be on the same page lol. I actually ended up painting over it with Cloud White because I bought a book on Scandinavian Design & went through a phase lol.

If you just want a nice white, use Simply White. it's clean and crisp, but leans warm/neutral.

chantilly Lace will lean very cool. Oxford white would be another nice white, or try White Dove if you want something a little warmer.

Yeah it seems like Chantilly Lace has cooler tones based on what I saw

Just my personal opinion, but Not Feather Down, that is too dark in my book. I would take a close look at SW Creamy, and SW Alabaster for warm off whites. Chantilly Lace is a cool white to me, is that the color you want?

SW Alabaster is just about equal to BM White Dove

Yes, SW Alabaster has LRV of 83 and Hue Angle of 100 with Chroma of 5.6

BM White Dove had LRV of 82 and Hue Angle of 102 (a bit more yellow) and a Chroma of 4.6 so less graying.
Either one will be fairly light but not as reflective as whites with LRV in 90s mean more reflective.

Also, I used a product called Samplize when I was testing paint colors that was amazing. And more efficient than buying all the little sample size paints to test a swatch. If you sign up for email, you get a $5 off coupon. And you can move the samples to different walls and compare at different times of day. I found this very helpful.

https://samplize.com/

Old post but would love to see the end result. Thinking of using SW White Duck or BM Ballet White on my own basement

I know this is an older post, but I just wanted to say that I used SW Creamy in a basement bathroom project recently and I really love it. I'm considering using the same color for one other room in the basement that I need to tackle. It was the first time I had tried that color.