I have BM natural cream throughout my entire house with fairly bright white trim (custom color to match windows). I faced your exact dilemma last year...37 samples boards, a family room that was painted with what was the perfect greige except for the wall that turned mauve, and a lot of tears...I settled for natural cream because the painter was at my house. A year later I think it’s the perfect neutral back drop. After painting the common areas, I called the painter back and had him do the whole house. So with the caveat that this is in my house with my lighting, I’ll try to offer some insight into the color. For reference, my rooms are either sun-filled with southern exposures or dark northern rooms. While the color can read differently in those rooms and during different times of the day, I don’t find it ever turns weirdly objectionable (think purple, pink, flesh, yellowy-green). Generally, the southern rooms read cream without being yellowy. The northern rooms in natural light lean a tad more greige. At certain times of the day if you analyze the paint you can read a bit of a green undertone common with creams but not a yellow-green that made me reject so many other colors. I’m not a color pro so I’m not sure if I have the right words, but there seems to be the smallest amount of grey that neutralizes any overly warm tones. Deco’s photo is pretty accurate, although I think natural cream offers a bit more contrast with the trim. (But I do have one yet to be renovated room that’s Navajo white so I too would question if that’s the color pictured.) Good luck with your choice. My husband couldn’t understand why I was crying over white walls, until I showed him BM’s white collection and asked him which of the hundreds of choices was the one.
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Peaceful & not busy but pretty & classy white kitchen with white counters.
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