Balboa mist too pink, classic gray too light
Hello, Team
I am selecting my paint color, I have narrowed down to three colors:
BM Balboa mist, Behr Silver Drop, BM classic gray,
I initially thought Balboa mist will be a perfect color, but... It's too purple-pink
The balboa mist is pretty changing based on different color's flooring, lightening, blabla..
Left -> Right: Balboa mist, Silver Drop, BM classic gray darken 25%
With lights on
I have to say Balboa mist is sometimes perfect, sometimes too warm, too pink, sometimes even purpel,
Silver Drop is very clean, well, it reads some green undertone, but it feels a little boring, a little cold
classic gray is good with a warm undertone, but it's too light even after I dark it by 25%
So my question is:
Is there a warm gray color darker than Classic Gray but lighter than Balboa mist, which reads a little brown but not taking advantage of the gray .... So struggling choosing color and it takes more time select than I expected
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3 years agoone more photo: at times balboa mist will look beautiful with good sunlight, it shows as pink but romantic and very impressive, but not all the time, not all the places
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Balboa Mist looked purple in my house. I hope my samples help. Light Pewter is a darker Classic Beige.
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I would like to share another photo, since I know people might be interested in knowing how each color looks like.
From left -> right: Balboa mist, Light Pewter, Silver Drop, Classic Gray + 50%, Classic Gray + 25%
I think a little bit and this is what my decision might be:
1. Balboa mist is pink on my first floor (though good on second floor)
2. Light Pewter is a beautiful color, more towards Gray than classic gray and with a little Green Undertone, to some light, it's blue and yellow, this for me looks like more a traditional light version of gray owl
3. Silver Drop too light after standing near Light Pewter
4. Classic Gray + 50 % is in good depth, but, it start showing up green undertone in additional to brown, but actually it's still pretty good, you may see that it looks pretty similar to classic gray + 25%
5. Classic Gray +25% looks almost similar to classic gray, but add a little depth
I feel like Classic Gray + 25% is still light, but the best one among all of them. I will try to paint as this, will update. Feel free to ask/discuss any questions 
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Benjamin Moore’s paint colors.
🫣🫤🙄😤Balboa Mist cabinet color- Comments so far…., ”Oh!😬 you painted your cabinets 🎀Pink!?”
😊Chantilly Lace paint on half wall- a clean fresh look. No undertones.
😊Classic Gray on right side wall- a neutral soft warm gray. No undertones anywhere.
PRO2 years agoAt first Balboa Mist paint appeared to be a simple beige.
I agree with you, under a balanced light source Balboa Mist does look "just beige".
And it shows up that way for a lot of people in a lot of spaces.
Factually, Balboa Mist belongs to the Yellow Hue Family over near the Yellow-Red Hue Family. Right where you'd expect to find a 'warm just beige-beige'.
Factual color notations, like Yellow Hue Family, demands specifying a light source first and foremost,
Which is very different from subjectively judging color under random, unspecified light sources and then categorizing it into unyielding, static silos of "undertones". For example, Balboa mist has purple undertones.
Specifying a light source is also why factual color notations can easily explain why a color looks the way it looks under different lighting and "undertones" can't.
And because we have framework of factual notations, we can observe what actually happens with color -- and track it.
That's the whole point of having data.
So, what we know is low chroma colors like Balboa Mist from this hue family neighborhood can shift. It's all about the quality of light first, context second.
Pink/peachy/fleshy with Balboa Mist comes from overtones because it is so close to the Yellow-Red hue family.
A Purple/Purple-Blue version of Balboa Mist is due to the quality of light and context.
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Please explain how quality lighting is achieved
Unfortunately, have to deal with the hand you're dealt when it comes to how much and the quality of natural light you have in a room.
Adding windows and doors (called fenestration) to improve the amount and balance of light usually isn't realistic.
Neither is changing light bulbs.
Because even if you were to leave the lights on all day (and who does that?) the affect is comparable to spitting into the ocean and expecting it to rise.
Window treatments that open to expose as much of the window as possible helps the most when trying to bring some balance to the quality of inherent light.
By balance I mean a quality of light that shines a mix - or balance - of wavelengths across the whole visible spectrum. Not just warm like incandescent light bulbs and not just cool like many daylight light bulbs.
What kind of light source will Balboa Mist need to look warm grayish purple.
A natural or artificial light source that is 'cooler' and shines more wavelengths from the blue end of the spectrum can make Balboa Mist show up purple.
Again, during the day the color and kelvins of a light bulb mean nothing.
At night, it's going to change how the color looks - and the atmosphere.
So, it's really important that you like the vibe you get in the room from a light bulb. That's just as important as how changing the light changes a paint color.
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