Brand new cabinets don’t match brand new trim
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Help! Newly installed white cabinets don't match paint swatch.
Comments (13)Thank you everyone for all your advice and suggestions. I have read each and every one of your posts. thank you- First let me back this up by saying this: My cabinets were initially installed with a sprayed paint on them- a "Pittsburg" paint that my cabinet maker (yes he is old school!- fantastic builder and very nice to work with) had matched up to BM sImply White. Pittsburg is the paint he prefers to use over anything else b/c of it's commercial grade quality. We did not ask for a sample of how the actual color would look but we did however see what a sprayed cabinet looked like. Separately we saw what BM simply white looked like. I guess that's where the mistake was b/c even though it was color matched using a "formula" the cabinets casted a faint lime green tone. The kitchen looked like a "white kitchen" but when you held up real WHITE- you could see a huge difference. SO, without hesitation, our painter took our cabinets down and re primed and sprayed what he could and hand painted the other cabs which had the granite on it. Before he did the "2nd paint", he showed us the white we would be using and asked for approval. It looked white and much better than what was there, so we approved it for our cabinet builder to go ahead and re spray the cabs. Ok- 2nd install- cabinets go it, some look WHITE and others look really off. No consistency. NOT HAPPY!! That's when I wrote my first post on GW. SO, we had our cab guy here today and again, with a great attitude and willing to solve this "white" issue we are having, we decided to talk to the people at BM and do some more research and we are now testing BM Simply white in the ADVANCE. This came highly recommended by the BM people. Apparently the yellowing that you MIGHT see in an oil base is not for YEARS to come- and that's very slight. BUT the oil base paint is the best when it comes to preserving the cabinets from nicks and scratches and with white cabinets, you have to be very careful of that.So with all this being said, my husband and I just held up two painted SIMPLY WHITE BM boards. One on the corner upper and one next to it. BOTH the same white. The one on the curved cabinet is a different color than the one next to it- it has almost and icey bluish tint to it. NOW we think it may be the lighting. So, my husband just ran to Home Depot to get a different bulb for the ceiling light. We will try this before we have our cabinet guy take down everything and repaint!!! I just think white cabinets in our kitchen may just be very inconsistent. Go figure, we have a slew of big windows with natural light and a ton of high hats. this kitchen reno is just part of a huge reno on our house/ gutting and addition- that went smoooooth. The kitchen cabinet part is what's giving us a hard time. going on 5 months without a kitchen. UGH!...See MoreHelp! Trying to tone down brand new SW Dover White cabinet-too yellow
Comments (33)Can any color experts out there tell me if SW Moth Wing would be a good choice for the island? Would it give an ample contrast to the SW Dover White. First, I loveDover White. I think it's a pretty white. Some whites are "okay" and some are "pretty" and I think Dover White is pretty, so you could have done a lot worse, IMO. Dover White belongs to the yellow hue family. So, the data validates exactly what you're seeing. If I painted the walls SW Accessible Beige with a PPG Delicate White Trim, would that clash? I'm hoping the paint color I choose will help neutralize the yellow I see. They would not clash. Those three colors go together well - they relate nicely. And it is possible that Accessible will lessen how yellow Dover White looks. Moth Wing doesn't really fit in. It's too close in terms of hue family and chroma to Accessible Beige and I don't care for the relationship on paper or lookin' at the chips. I know Moth Wing and Accessible Beige are on the same strip but that doesn't really mean anything. Color harmony is not built-in guaranteed just because colors are on the same strip. Very often the similar color attributes that land colors on the same strip are the very reasons they don't go together - Accessible Beige and Moth Wing are a good example. If you're not happy with Balanced Beige and don't want to just leave it and see how it works out, then I'd get off that strip of colors and go another color direction....See MoreHow close are paint chips? Cabinets don’t match trim
Comments (12)Paint colors are notoriously variable, even when you hold things like brand and product constant. I have three cans of BM paint right now that are all ostensibly the same color but were mixed by two different shops and they are all a bit different, even though that's a machine with a formula doing the mixing. It is also possible that they got the color wrong for yours--the color names are quite similar if it is in fact the Extra White, and I've found at our local paint shops that many of the staff have the codes in their head for the many whites and will key them in when you tell them the name, so there's room for human error too even if your painter said "Pure White." I'd take a cabinet door to the paint shop and have them match the color, and then repaint the trim in that shade. Without the cans of paint in hand, it's hard to know if the current color is the wrong one or, if it is, whose fault that is. (If it's a large painting company they may have an account at the paint store with a record of the color they purchased, but that's a bit of a long shot, and you'd still somehow need to get a sample of the color on the trim in for them to check.) Good luck!...See MoreNewly painted cabinets don’t match brand new countertops
Comments (17)Honestly, you're being too hard on yourself. It is very nice, and you're just seeing a difference because you haven't finished decorating. What are you doing for the backsplash? Many times that can tie things together. I think I commented the same comment earlier this week on a similar kitchen. Once everything is in there, you won't give it a second thought. My white cabinets don't match my white countertop or white backsplash. The cabinets don't even look like they match in some places (lighting). It's ok. Take a look at some pictures on houzz and see if you notice differences. I think you will be delighted when you finish....See MoreRelated Professionals
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