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warm gray Sherwin Williams interior paint colors
Comments (5)My Dad recently painted his whole house in SW Accessible Beige, which is a griege that leans warm. He doesn't have marble flooring though. His house is totally in the warm (brown) color tones. It came down between that and Worldly Gray, which leans cool, but to my eye has a green undertone that didn't look good in his house. It sounds like you want to choose a light griege that leans to the warm side. Someone taught me how to choose the perfect griege. It goes like this: Have your lighting already installed because that will impact the way paint looks. Go to the griege area in the fan-deck of paint colors (in the area that includes "worldly gray," and "accessible beige." Look at the darkest paint colors on the strips. Considering your room, decide what underone you would like to have in your paint color and choose 2 or 3 paint strips where the darkest color represents an undertone you want. Now move up the paint strips to the lighter colors (probably the lightest). Now choose 2 or 3 light griege paints and go to the SW store with some samples of materials from your room and nearby rooms (such as paint color of adjacent rooms, cabinet color, marble flooring, etc.). Ask the SW people to weigh in. They might suggest a color you hadn't thought of. Get 2, 3 or 4 samples at SW. Paint large areas of your room in the samples. Let it dry all the way and look at the colors at different times of the day to choose your color. For me this method has worked well to choose different grieges for my house. Some of the grieges I chose lean warm and some lean cool. The one in my bedroom has a green undertone which works great for that room but would look horrible in others. The method above works great to lead you to the perfect color without having to get 30 samples....See Moredeciphering the paint code?
Comments (5)The RGB data is used to inform a device what proportion of Red/Green/Blue light iis required to create a digital swatch of a colour. It’s not directly useful in explaining how that paint colour appears in real life. We can use other data for that, either CieLAB data or a Munsell notation, seen here. This info tells us that BM Caldwell Green sits almost at the centre of the Green Hue Family. It is a mid value, greyed green. Due to its location we know that some low Chroma (near neutral) colours from this lower bottom right quadrant of the wheel, can shift, or have moments of blue-ishness, in imbalanced light. This is an effect of light quality upon the colour. It doesn’t mean the colour has blue ‘undertones’. But in daylight/lighting relatively evenly balanced in all lightwaves, it will appear just as its description. With an LRV (Light Reflectance Value) of 16 out of 100, we know that Caldwell Green absorbs far more of light available to it, than it reflects....See MoreSherwin Williams equivalent to Ben Moore Arctic Grey
Comments (4)Here you can make direct comparison between the colours mentioned. L = Lightness. (How light /dark does each colour appear?) C = Chroma. (How muted/near neutral or how colourful/clean is it?) The Lower the Chroma the nearer to neutral. H = Hue Angle° (Where within its Hue Family does a colour sit?) LRV = Light Reflectance Value. ( How much light does a colour reflect/absorb)...See MoreWhat sherwin williams color that can be used with repose gray
Comments (4)Coordinating colors for repose gray As you see Eider White works great with it. And Warm gray as well. If you do not have enough light you might want to go with off-white instead gray. Gray color is out already....See Moresed1885
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