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Help light silver sage RH dining room help

6 months ago

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I have Light Silver Sage from RH in my dining room. looking for a complementary color for living room across the foyer. it has a chair rail so I could paint one or two colors. want something more saturated and brighter. Everything I look at is to blue or green. i am putting curtains in dining room with blues, greens, tans and poppy coral red.

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Lori A. Sawaya
6 months ago
Light Silver Sage belongs to the Blue-Green hue family.

Technically a complementary color would be a color directly across from BG (blue-Green) on the color wheel. In Light Silver Sage's case that's the 'warm' side of the Red hue family. For example.

want something more saturated and brighte. Everything I look at is to blue or green.

Depends on what you mean by more saturated and brighter - because that statement kind of contradicts "too blue or green".

Let me explain why I'm asking.

Saturated usually means more Chroma, colorfulness. So more saturated is saying you want something bolder, more colorful and not as neutral as Light Silver Sage.

Brighter or brightness is technically about lightness. So if you want something brighter than Light Silver Sage, it's going to have a higher Value and look lighter.
HU-370033250 thanked Lori A. Sawaya
HU-370033250
Original Author
6 months ago
last modified: 6 months ago
Lori A Sawaya, thank you for the info. I was thinking something in the blue green family just darker like the picture showed. what color is that in the room picture? never mind I was able to enlarge and see it. . I do want to pull in the red as accents. I have a lot of coastal blues in the rest of my house but I don’t want everything the same. Leaning towards blue with a hint of green. i am probably creating a mess. lol
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Hi Lynn, Thanks for your input with my own link I have going with "cream cabinets and what green wall color"! I have become obsessed with this whole green wall color thing! From the feel of your post your looking for a gray/green look. The SW Ancient Marble color has a gray hue to it. It's the light on the strip. It's on the same strip as Svelte Sage just a couple hues lighter. I have also had a hard time with them looking army green. I have been considering 1/2 strength of SW Herbal Wash and 1/2 strength Garden Sage. In fact, you may like the 1/2 strength Herbal Wash. Let me know if you have any other ideas for warm greens next to cream cabinets! Thank you!
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First- Silver Sage doesn't necessarily look fully green in all applications/lighting/exposures. It's a beautiful color but a bit of a chameleon. The mistake a lot of people make is expecting it to look in their homes like it does in the RH store. You have to keep two things in mind-the trim color RH uses is a super bright pure white, and most RH stores have little or no natural light and are awash in bright can lights. It's one of those colors that you really have to sample as much as you may love it in the store. Second- RH is in the process of repainting all of their stores in a color called Slate. It's a really nice chalky gray but it's nothing like Silver Sage. Some people wouldn't want to use a "signature color" like SS now that it's no longer RH's "signature color". Does it 'date' the color? I dunno, but I thought you would like to know that information. If you do end up going with SS I think Latte would be a nice complimentary color. Last-don't use RH paint.It's awful. This opinion is based on both my personal experience and the opinions of many on this board that are way more knowledgable than me. Have the colors mixed in another brand. For what RH paint costs ($38/gallon) you can get Benjamin Moore Regal which is FAR superior. The Benjamin Moore colors that match Silver Sage and Latte are Grey Wisp CC1570 (Silver Sage) and Crisp Khaki 234 (Latte). Good luck!
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I'm sorry to have to repost these two posts... but it just goes to show how little you people know about ANYTHING. PLEASE DON'T GIVE ADVICE WHEN YOU HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! It is now almost THREE YEARS later and you are wrong... very wrong... One could argue that YOUR TYPE is very much to blame for our current economic problems. YOUR TYPE - the ones who "knew" all about home improvement, "the experts" who could give the best advice... Get a life. Quit trying to sound like you know what the hell you are talking about. It's all a matter of taste. NO ONE can predict what buyers will want - because NO ONE knows whether or not the RIGHT BUYER will walk in your door. QUIT trying to advise people as to what the right "upgrades" will be to help them sell their homes... YOU DON'T KNOW! * Posted by housekeeping (My Page) on Mon, Nov 13, 06 at 22:54 Although it's a nice color, I think an entire house of it would be too much. It's also a "trendy" color right now, so it may look dated in the future. I think looking at an entire house for sale painted in that color would certainly be memorable, though no in a way that would make me eager to get out my checkbook and put down a deposit. If you truly love it, use it liberally, but intersperse it it about with plenty of rooms painted something else so your eye keeps finding it afresh and being delighted. Even chocolate-covered strawberries would would get old if you had to eat them three times a day. Molly~ o RE: Entire house painted in RH Silver Sage clip this post email this post what is this? see most clipped and recent clippings PrintPage * Posted by wonbyherwits (My Page) on Mon, Nov 13, 06 at 23:35 DH painted the living/dining room (3 houses ago) in RH Silver Sage to sell it. It was a big hit with the buyers, HOWEVER--- big HOWEVER -- It's a beautiful color but very difficult to match. Most of our greens didn't work with it. Most of our blues didn't work with it. It has more blue in it than you might think. Beige and brown worked with it.
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Lori A. Sawaya
6 months ago
last modified: 6 months ago
Interesting color fact: Wedgewood Gray HC-146 is so close you could call it a color match for Restoration Hardware's Light Silver Sage, not just a dupe.

I was thinking something in the blue green family just darker like the picture showed

Sounds like you're looking for a darker version of Light Silver Sage. That would be a good, cohesive color plan - not creating a mess at all. 🙂

The Restoration Hardware paint was discontinued a while ago. One might think that if there was a Light Silver Sage then there would be a dark one too. There wasn't.

But here's a light to dark range of colors from other brands that are similar to LSS in terms of DNA, just darker. Some are greener, some are bluer. I recommend grabbing as many chips as you can and compare.
HU-370033250
Original Author
6 months ago
Lori A Sawaya thank you so much. this is exactly the information I needed. When I looked at the old RH blue sage which is there next dark color it was not the right shade. you have saved me so much guess work and my husband painting more than once. thank you
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Lori A. Sawaya
6 months ago
last modified: 6 months ago
You're welcome. :)

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