Simple White is red hue family. A hint of pink doesn't surprise me. But Shale is right there in the red to yellow-red hue family neighborhood too. Which is why Simple White was a contender. Are you testing it on the ceiling? Once you turn color from vertical to horizontal above your head this thing called 'flop angle' kicks in and it does change how the color is perceived. The angle strips chroma so the color looks less colorful and more gray and it also appears darker in value. The only other idea is yet another color - Incredible White SW 7028 which is about the same chroma (amount of colorfulness) as Simple White but it's more squarely in the yellow-red hue family so it's less likely it would show as pink. As far as ordered color systems, Dunn-Edwards the Perfect Palette might be the ultimate. California Paints licenses it because it's awesome. Benjamin Moore is actually one of, if not the most, poorly organized of all the color collections I work with. Again, likely more designer-type opinion as opposed to common sense and logic could be the culprit. i.e. The Affinity deck is marketed that all the colors coordinate. Coordinate is arguable. Rather the colors all have about the same amount of grayness. A tight range or consistent amounts of gray means they match on the aspect of grayness. Doesn't necessarily mean they harmonize. Color harmony is just another way to say color order and vice versa. Matching just one aspect like grayness does not constitute order therefore does not constitute harmony. So, the Affinity collection is just as ineffective as Classic Colors.

Very pretty new kitchen! If Sea Salt is a lighter version of the blue-green in the tiles, I think that would work well. PS Are the tiles sealed well, I hope? We chose it strictly because it was called Kiss Me Kate. This makes me unreasonably happy : ) .

Lori, thank you so much! I have learned a lot from you and your advice. Leading me in a great direction! We are debating between the aged white and creamy, which I believe I can color the mineral paint as you suggested. Which color do you like? Picture below (I know I’m using regular paint as the test, but it’s all I’ve had until I get a custom mineral paint made). Left is aged white and right is creamy. Gutter downspout is there since it’s black and we will be adding a lot of black. The paint above the downspout is snowbound white, just as a reference showing that both the left and right colors are more creamy and Not stark white. For this photo, it’s a repeat, but top is aged white and bottom is creamy. Ignore the one in the middle. Same order as the picture above just adding in the walnut front door. House again, black not fully added Yet. Thanks again for steering me in a new direction!

Here are two links to check out. Good luck! Blue Gray Paint Colors Blue Gray Paint Colors 2 Booth Gray by BM looks really nice.