White? Cream? White and Cream?
Galina Sundberg
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Favorite cream paint and a ? about mixing white/cream in a room
Comments (13)I've wondered too and I think most whites, or at least white's that aren't really stark have some "undercolor". I think you get, yellow, green, blue, pink or grey. I bought a house with white walls with a grey undertone and didn't realize till I repainted with a white with a yellow undertone years later. I liked it so much more, the grey undertone I thought was depressing. I think the yellow undertone gives you that old fashioned "linen" look. I also tend to really dislike a pink undertone and find blue makes me feel cold (ice cubes anyone?) which might be a benefit in a bedroom as I like to sleep in a room on the cool side. I prefer the yellow and green undertones myself but thats just personal preference. Might be a question for a paint store person....See MoreRL Studio Cream,Deep Cream, Flour Sack White, Faded Clouds: tone?
Comments (6)OSH, thanks for giving it the old college try, as the saying goes. The carpeting is pale beige, trim is (alas) honey oak, and not getting painted any time soon. Red, completely agreed. The reason I asked for input is that I think my eyes are crossing after looking at about 20 paint chips too many: a LOT of the RL pale neutrals look really grey to me. And many of the gazillion colors I've tried to test have looked grey in my MBR anyway, even in full sun or with every light on at night! (I know -- new bulbs and more lighting -- it'll happen but not soon.) Some of the greyness has come from bad colormatching, and maybe I'm choosing hues with a lot of grey in them b/c I subconsciously like it, but it's really not the color I want in this room. I'm after a warm, very light brown (read a real estate stager's blog in which she called it "dark white", is that counterintuitive or what?). But wait.... I just realized something. Can HD colormatch BM colors in the RL paint? Hmmm... (no, someone tell me to stop!) Rmkitchen, given my growing grisophobia (irrational fear of grey), I really appreciate your post. Evidently the RL colors are very complex, pigmentwise, and another poster here said hers looked *lemony* in her space -- which I could see, when I took the paint chip into my much sunnier LR/DR. If this helps at all, I think I'm narrowing it down: Studio Cream, Flour Sack White, with Deep Cream a distant third. If my HD can colormatch BM, I might ask them to try mixing me a quart of Ivory Tusk in the RL paint....See MoreWhite/cream to compliment Simply White trim?
Comments (1)Benjamin Moore's "Mayonnaise."...See MoreCream vs. White Trim and Cabinets? Is Cream Dated?
Comments (2)Things feel dated when they were done by everybody without regard to their space, just because everyone was doing them. If you love creams, always loved creams, and the house you build will look great with them, given its location, style, your concept, light it gets, etc-no, won't look dated. Colors by themselves can't be "dated". They're too independent of us:) Only our impressions of combinations of them, our perceptions etc, that are usually very personal, can make them feel dated. So, to summarize.. No:) Use whatever you love and whatever your house will like most....See MoreChris H
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