Wall paint color to go with SW Antique White Trim

last year

I need help with wall paint colors that go well with Sherwin, Wiliams antique white trim. Any suggestions would be great!

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Connie Stackhouse
last year
Post pics of your whole space. What room? What kind of furnishings? Other colors and/or rugs in the area that will stay? SW Antique white is very neutral and would look nice as trim against almost any color. Much more info is needed.
kandrewspa
last year
See Kylie M's discussion of Antique White: https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/paint-colour-review-sherwin-williams-antique-white-sw-6119/ After you read that if you decide on a direction and still need more help, update your post. It would also help if you posted pictures of your space (enough for us to see what your style is). If you already know that you want a neutral, blue, green or whatever let us know. You'll see from Kylie's blog post that AW is not the easiest trim color to work with. When you're thinking about a direction to go in you need to be considering the fixed elements in the room(s) you will be painting such as flooring or cabinets if you're including your kitchen or a bathroom.
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Supposed to pick a couple options for color for my new kitchen's walls tomorrow. But... I'm a paint procrastinator. :( It's my most dreaded decision. I'm doing the ceiling and trim to match the cabinets, but they're stock cabinets, not painted. The closest paint chip match as far as I can tell is SW Pure White. The counters are a leathered black pearl granite and the backsplash is also white. So, I think I'm in a dangerzone if I try to pick a white for the walls. But, some of the wall is wood panelling and I love the look of white panelling. Was thinking maybe Snowbound? I actually recently purchased a pink-toned white for the adjacent room which is very open to this one, so I considered going along with that and doing something pink-ish, but I didn't see a good option in Sherwin Williams. Ackkkk I'm all over the place. HAAAALPPP
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cporth1
Original Author
last year
These are the 2 bedrooms I’m trying to update. These pics were taken from the old owners. I just don’t like the color of the walls. It looks very outdated. I’m thinking of going with SW Accessible Beige. Thoughts? I need to keep the trim SW Antique White. I do need to paint the ceiling tho. Thoughts and suggestions appreciated.
Connie Stackhouse
last year
Is the carpet staying?
cporth1
Original Author
last year
Nope
Connie Stackhouse
last year
It looks like the rooms are fairly small, so you should probsbly keep it fairly light snd neutral. I like SW Sea Salt paired with Dover White trim.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
SW says Creamy and I have to agree that is probably the best wall color . IMO I would paint the trim white then in a bedroom use the bedding to choose wall color. That trim color is driving the bus for every color I can think of .
kandrewspa
last year
Accessible Beige might work with Antique White. Sample it before committing to it. It will depend on what type of light is in the room and what you decide to do with the flooring. I know, painting trim is such a PITA, but if I were you I would paint the AW. If you have it all over your house just do it slowly, room by room. It's going to restrict your palette of wall colors. For ceilings, I find for a flat ceiling there's nothing wrong with plain old ceiling white. It tends to pick up some of the wall color due to reflection. If you're DIYing, paint the ceiling first. Then if you ever repaint the room you won't have to paint the ceiling.

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