Is your husband an expert in color or interior design or an artist? Does he really believe he knows better than all the experts and designers? There are a dozen blog sites written by people who spend their lives learning about paint color and they all say the same thing about white in a room without really good lighting. ------------------------------------ "This is a great question and the answer is, if you don’t have enough light streaming in your house for most parts of the day, then white is not the best idea. What will happen instead is your walls will look gray and dingy because the shadows all on their own will simply cause your white walls to appear gray." Maria Killam ---------------------------------------- "Why Can’t I Paint a Dark Room Bright White? The most counter-intuitive tip is that you need lots of light for white paint to look good. If you have a dark room, white gets shaded in the corners and turns into a dingy gray." Color Concierge --------------------------------------------- "Design Mistake #3: Painting a Small, Dark Room White" - Emily Henderson ------------------------------------------- I have been painting for over 50 years and studying interior paint colors for the past 20 years. I say do not paint the room white with great confidence. I understand how white works and when it works well. I often share the following information when someone wants white and it is a bad idea. . . HOW WHITE WORKS White needs light to look good

Can someone who understands all the color numbers give me a comparison in layman’s terms of Shoji White vs Aesthetic white? I’m looking for a warm white for an exterior, that leans towards cream without being stark white or having too many obvious undertones. I empathize so much with homeowners and totally understand why it's hard to figure out the undertone color theory. The inconsistency and chaos in the din of voices talking about color on the internet is overwhelming. The reason why is because undertones are just someone's subjective opinion of what they think a color looks like - to them - under a random, undefined light source. Bottom line is they're all making it up as they go moment by moment, color by color. Color notations are factual and based on the exact same color science that is used to make and manage color - across the globe for every industry you can name. And just like using a clock to tell time, you have to learn how to read the numbers. Comparing Shoji White and Aesthetic White is good place to start. Because as we can see from the numbers, they're very similar across the board. EXCEPT in terms of Chroma. That's where they differ the most. Shoji has a Chroma of 0.84 which is more than Aesthetic White's Chroma of 0.73. What that tells us is Shoji is more colorful. Aesthetic White is grayer and more neutral in comparison. Because you said you're looking for a warm white for an exterior, that leans towards cream, I would choose Shoji White because it has more Chroma, is more colorful.

There is variety in different slabs of marble, so this is a difficult question to answer. However, I don't think I would pick Shoji White to go with Carrara. Shoji White is a warm color and Carrara is cool. White Dove isn't a bad choice for trim color. (BM Sebring White (OC-137) looks good with the Carrara I have in my bathroom, but I painted my bathroom a very light green with Simply White trim because that's what I have used for trim throughout my house. If you're having trouble finding a white you like you could think about using a green or blue instead. If you want more specific advice you need to post pictures of the room in question and give us more information about what your objective is.

I've always found white dove tricky to work with... with the wrong light, it can look dirty or yellow. West and North light do it in. and possibly it is he natural light bringing out the undertones. The only thing I can tell you is give a year. The weather will help it. My house is white, faces North and I used Super White in an exterior finish called soft gloss.