Pure White with Extra White trim
Libby Woodworth
2 years ago
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mearnhart
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SW pure white vs SW extra white
Comments (51)Amy Sivley, we had our cabinets painted Snowbound with extra white on all the trim. They look like the same color. Its a very stark white. in certain lights the snowbound has a pink hue & the extra white has a blue hue. way to bright for me but I’m stuck with it we did Pure white on our ceilings & love it. I wish i would have picked something that doesnt blind me when I walk in the kitchen. all our trim throughout the house is bright white & Im trying to pick a white for the walls & having trouble.we did Cedar Key in a few rooms & that looks great but I want to try white....See MoreSW Extra White or Pure White for trims AND walls?
Comments (1)We were going with SW Extra white but after seeing some pictures and comments, some people said it is TOO bright white For a multitude of reasons, I wouldn't let comments and pictures online inform your opinion about Extra White. Again, we want to undertones. Paint colors don't have undertones, so you're in luck. Would Pure white work better? Based on what you've said, I doubt it. But I don't care for Pure White. I think there are prettier whites (personal opinion). All paint colors are defined and described by hue, value and chroma. The majority of white paint colors available in commercial paint brands belong to the yellow hue family, green-yellow hue family or green hue family. The reason is because there's a whole bunch of human visual perception stuff with regard to this region of the spectrum. Long story short, we end up perceiving near neutrals like grays and whites from this spectral, hue family range as being the most neutral as in not having amounts of discernible hue. Extra White and Pure White belong to the same hue family neighborhood. Pure White is at the end of the Yellow Hue Family, Extra White is at the beginning of the Green-Yellow hue family - again, same neighborhood on the color wheel. When it comes to brightness - and brightness is a description of how lightness (value) looks - they're basically the same. The biggest different between EW and PW is CHROMA. Chroma tells you how colorful or neutral a color looks. Pure White has more chroma. 0.44. Which means it's not as white as Extra White which has a chroma of 0.32. Extra White is a whiter, cleaner color than Pure White. (remember swatches you see online can not mimic in real life colors so whatever you think you see in swatches online you should ignore and go get physical chips)...See MoreTrim and Ceiling Paint -SW Pure White trim - What white for ceilings?
Comments (27)We closed on our house today wahoooo! I only got to spend about an hour there but looked quickly at the samples for trim/doors/ceilings. I think I've narrowed it down to three possibilities: BM Simply White, SW Extra White and BM Super White. I thought about BM Chantilly Lace too. Basically, looking at the finishings, my first gut is that BM Simply White looks the best. I just worry it may look too yellow once up on everything. At least that's what I read (and you know how reliable the internet is). First question: has anyone had experience with BM Simply White? Does it just read warm or do you see the yellow in it when it's one trim/doors/ceilings? So I may go that direction, or wonder if I should go with a cleaner white but something close. Something still a little warm... As for the runners up, from what I can see SW Extra White and BM Super White are very similar but Extra White maybe looks a little warmer? Maybe because it has more chroma? Is this understanding accurate, Lori A. Sawaya?? And it seems to me that the order of warmth would go SW Extra White, BM Super White, BM Chantilly Lace... is that a correct reading? Again for context - East/West exposures with a lot of shade. Wall colors aren't chosen but would likely be something along the lines of BM Edgecomb Gray, BM Ballet White, BM Chelsea Gray, BM Natural Cream. Daughter's room will be BM Opal. I'll try to take some pics of the finishings tomorrow but would love any thoughts on this. Thanks!...See MoreExterior paint color indecision fatigue!
Comments (17)Hello @celerygirl ! Thank you for your input, that makes sense! This has been so hard to make decisions on the exterior! Furniture, tile, interior paint, easy but for some reason I keep adding paint swatches to the mix and am overwhelmed with options and an inability to visualize the whole exterior. I'm glad I posted to this board, it is helping me figure things out bit by bit....See Moreknitsewoften
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI started to paint my trim with SW Pure White, but it actually looks a little drab/warm in my house. I think it might be because my house doesn't get much natural light (it’s east facing, there’s no windows on the north end and most of the west side is blocked by a screened breezeway/garage.
I just started to repaint it in Pittsbirgh Fast Dry straight out of the can untinted, which I think is probably similar to extra white. My walls are Pittsburgh Colonial White which is like a bone white or very light beige. I’m repainting the trim because I wanted the trim to pop more against the walls. I thought about getting more SW in Extra white, but I wasnt really happy with the satin finish in their Emerald Urethane, it almost feels like chalk paint and it already has scuffs on the trim I painted. So I didn’t want to spend all that $ again when the Pittsburght finish feels better and harder.
I think Pure White walls could look really nice with Extra White trim. I like a little variation between the trim and the walls.
Here’s some pics from my post showing Pure White on my trim, next to the brighter white I painted on a board.
mearnhart
2 years ago
A K
2 years ago- West-facing room, midday natural light.
- West-facing room, combination midday natural & artificial overhead light.
- Living room that spans both East & West facing, midday low (blinds closed) natural light. The door is SW Extra White.
- Hallway, artificial light only, door also SW Extra White. This pic really shows the versatile softness of SW Pure White that I love.
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