My dining room and galley kitchen run into each other Linda. Want more color, more neutral? Sometimes the undertones are so easy to see and at other times you dont see them at all until the paint is already on the wall. Here are just a FEW reasons why I recommend Samplize to my clients. Thanks for your input. Just remember, the warm undertones will come out more not less. At this time I would like to refer you to my budget-friendly Online Consulting so that you can fill out a Personalized Questionnaire/attach photos and I can give your home my undivided attention. Thank you for this post. I was thinking of using a warmer greige on the cabinets instead, to work with the granite and floors, but Im not sure how this will work with the Antique White trim, Believable Buff walls, and Creamy ceiling in the room.

Hi Nichole, I would LOVE to help, but when it comes to personal questions I do need to refer to my E-design (which is affordable and fun!). The problem I see with Gray Wisp is that it really is quite an earth toned and it wont necessarily connect as well with your dining room and kitchen in particular but you were on the right track with it being a cool colour! Love your post. A designer on Houzz.com suggested I use a BM color Stone Hearth. Beige, tan, and cream can be flexible, which means that while they might FAVOUR a particular undertone (yellow, red, orange), they'll have a secondary undertone or, given the right circumstances (exposure/reflection/interior lighting), can pick up the other undertones. I wanted a soft neutral shade of yellow, to go well with my dark oak floors and white fireplace and mouldings and selected BMs golden straw. The warmer greige colors Im looking at right now are Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray and Sail Cloth. I painted my first floor 4 years ago and picked the living room and attached sunroom /tv room color out of desperation. It certainly wouldnt help your worry about the room feeling dark, but it would look sharp in your kitchen (gray/red/black/cream classic combo), but I know gray isnt everyones thing, so it would need to be a comfort zone for you. #2 Cable Knit. .. My kitchen is a BM match to Rh Butter. Im sorry! Now of course you can almost never go wrong with Cloud White. Notice how the yellow rises up but isnt day-glo. Taupe is a lot more difficult to pull off with a blue couch and honey maple floors. Rest of room will be neutral and have some pops of orange/blue etc. Gentle Cream Rich Cream Linen White Leave a Reply Cancel reply Windham Cream HC-6 / LRV: 80.4 Peel and Stick Sample Depending on your lighting, windham cream can look like a deep yellow or a creamy off-white. Hi Shirley! So, dont put any blues, greens, purples (or variations of these colours) in the room. You either go with it (meaning choosing yellow or colours with yellow undertones) or you neutralize which is creams/browns/grays. I was thinking of lightening IW by 50%?? If I could somehow tie these all in that would be great. My floors are Charcoal Maple laminate throughout except in kitchen and bathroom (still need to choose the tile) Anyway, I was thinking of painting the kitchen and hallways all in Benjamin Moore White Dove- eggshell finish, living room Revere Pewter matte finish.
Love this post, so helpful! Could you recommend a good cream color without any weird undertones? Yes neutralizing applies to the paint colours as well as accents and what not! It looks like mud with a green undertone. The pain will subside once I have the samples up. Hope that helps! 3. We are currently looking for a new sofa and chairs, so a dark chocolate would work well? The blue is coming out, and it looks dingy and is a very dirty blue. Lesson learned too late. I would lean MORE into something like BM Balboa Mist with Kendall which could be STUNNING and should be pretty with woods too1. While trying to find the perfect color to freshen up my main living level, I recently found your site and I love it!!! Fraerman Associates Architecture Save Photo.

Undertones are tricky arent they? I also have a cranberry color chair (a big color problem) which Im willing to eventually do something about, i.e. Hop on my site and in the search area look for Ballet White.

#3 Gentle Cream of course I love my Gentle Cream!!! So then I saw white vanilla and then saw your post of gentle cream.

Do you have any Sherwin Williams white recommendations to use? https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/online-decorating-design-services/ All floors are in honey pine, except the bathroom that is an all white with a few small black squares. Theres actually more to consider such as roof, stone, brick, exposures, landscaping sadly its hard for me to throw something out there without knowing, Id be 100% guessing!

Add to Cart. Other times I like it. The living room and hallway have picture frame molding. I might hit up SW Pure White, a nice happy place between the warmth of Navajo White and the probably white white of your shutters. I know sometimes when I pick Cream Im like Cream, really? North-facing light is similar to east-facing afternoon light. Can you speak into the trim color and possibly recommend counter top colors that would work for us? South-facing light is a warm, yellow light which can enhance warm colors EXCEPT at the height of the day, where the sun can actually wash things out. This for a small studio salon I have. I also usually lean toward warmer colors, yet I do want it to really pop. Your references to their comparable BM colours help ALOT, so my suggestions will have to be based on these comparables . Thanks so much. Similar tone to Sundial, but with more of an earthy undertone which calms it down quite a bit. Kylie, you rock. These E-books cover a wide range of topics and are sure to have you refreshing your space and rethinking how you live in your home! 2 colours that I love, that I think could be AMAZING at a fraction of their strength.Blue Grass cc 640 and Palladian Blue HC 144, Now if it were me, I would go to Home Depot and ask them if they can make these Benjamin Moore Colours at 1/8 of their strength into the sample pots that they have (our Home Depot has sample pots of Behr and CIL paint). Love it!! Its been nearly impossible finding a decent cream color for my room! But I dont think I will be able to. The LRV stands for Light Reflectance Value and measures the percentage of light that a color reflects. I would like your opinion on a neutral or a few coordinating neutrals for the main floor. It has a clean yet warm feel, brings out positive tones in the wood and is the hands,down perfect cream I was in search for, a refreshing break from grays and grieves.

1. Its one of my fave greeny blue colours, but youd have to see it with your chairs and artwork to make sure its not too green or too blue for them. these days?

SWs Collonade Gray also looks slate blue.

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LOVE hammered things. I dont. Add on to that, the way a wall can change throughout the day with natural light on it, youre up against natural exposures that also have colours in them. So we will be in the throws of painting this weekend, I will keep you posted. Not sure what LRV is? Thank you for asking! These can often make colours look odd. We have white oak floors that have yellowed through the yeasrs. It also works really well to add texture (which can also be neutral) like branches, hammered metals things (like vases/lamp bases), polished stones (in the bottom of clear vases) and lovely textural toss cushions and throws! Now some Benjamin Moore stores are not able to lighten some of their colours, so if thats the case you can just take the colour chip to Home Depot and get it colour matched and lightened. If youd kept Revere Pewter at normal strength, I would have guided you towards Winds Breath. Have you looked at BM Navajo White or Mannequin Cream? Our living room that connects to the kitchen is a dark tan color. My husband will have a bird if I go and purchase yet another sample that doesnt work.

I am happy with this, plus the windows are white. How to choose? Thanks for you help, Hi Michelle, Id love to give you some thoughts on this but theres SO much to consider in a room ie: natural light/exposure/flooring/fireplaces/etc that I cant do anything off the top of my head without possibly leading you astray! I just realized that my maple kitchen cabinets are about the color of those doors (maple!) I love the colour and am thinking of using it for a basement bathroom which would have no natural lighting and playing bone/cream fixtures against it. The LRV of Gentle Cream is 71, so while it reflects less light than Navajo White, it will still add some great energy to your room.

Gentle Cream has an LRV of 71. Your article on grays has helped me choose the perfect colour. Ive got more of it all! Question about paint color for a kitchen. She is a beauty and for all of the pieces that I paint and sell, its one that I will be keeping for sure. The only real color I dont feel like changing right now is the Cappuccino in the hallway since it goes up three floors. So the most important thing here is that we pick a neutral that doesnt clash with the red undertone of your wood floors. I would like to go a little lighter as the ceilings are low (8') and the room doesn't get a lot of natural light due to a porch. The more read, the more I get confused.

The most common paint finish for hallways is eggshell and at the most, satin.

He really wants black, so Im going with an accent wall. Hi Kylie. When youre dealing with cream cabinets you do need to be careful that your trimwork isnt competing with your cabinets. Gentle Cream is what I call a heavy cream. It sounds to me like you might need a more gray tone to humour those countertpos and then can supplement that with other rooms in warmer colours and adding some warm accents/textures to warm up the gray toned walls. Just photographs that way. I have nooooo idea why they have the same color with two different names #thanksforconfusingeveryone. Its an amazing Green with a slight blue undertone in fact a lot of people say what is that colour as its entirely open to interpretation. ok so here goes. Well, you dont. Normally I refer people to my Online Consulting but all that sweet talk buttered me up!;). Darker charcoal furniture it is! If that doesnt work, check out my E-design exterior packages here https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/product-category/exterior-selections/. It helps a lot when you can understand lighting and LRVs when picking colors. I know BM has a new one that is supposed to be PRACTICALLY bullet-proof and washableI just cant remember the name off the top of my head. Many other color blogs Ive looked at seem to just comment with pictures or tell you what can go wrong in an attempt to scare you into buying their services. shade of yellow. Im going to show you what makes this beautiful cream color so unique, and Im going to give you three valuable tips you need to know about Gentle Cream. e, Hi Elyse, thank you for your note! Just keep in mind that the blu in Hale Navy can slightly enhance the warmth (yellow) of a warm white. If that interests you, the link is here for you to check outSingle rooms start as low as $45! Hi Lori sweet, it is lovely isnt it?! The furniture is the land of Nod uptown bed set in gray. Black is undoubtedly one of theShare, TIPS & IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR CREAM CABINETS LOOK MORE MODERN When it comes to updating a kitchen or bathroom with cream cabinets, its not just about looking for theShare, Smoke is a smoke show of a color a gorgeous muted blue-gray Choosing the perfect paint color can be SCARY, especially with so many great options on the market.Share.

Ty. However, Ive found that the key to getting the right cream lies in HOW MUCH YELLOW you can actually see which is why Gentle Cream is SUCH a fabulous choice. You can distract from a colour with texture and pattern so that the colour is no longer the most sumptuous or strongest visual item in the room. Well we decided to use Gentle cream as our main throughout the house color . Some colours (like Ocean Air) would be called Blue with gray undertones. I literally have 10 different samples thrown up on the walls in there with the worst sort of paralysis of choosing paint possible. So then I was thinking mascarpone would still be too white. To get you off on the right foot, check out SW Aesthetic White, which is a lovely off-white with neutral undertones. #2 Priority make sure it looks good with the kids room. Im color-blind, so, therefore have a problem. He thinks its blasphemy to paint wood, but we will see. I would be happy to help you. That being said, Id still send you there, but tweak things to colours that tend to have a slightly more orange warm undertone rather than a yellow warm undertone. I thought I had a color for my living room/dining area, open room-BM Pale Oak. #1 Do you have the compact fluorescents in your rooms. I need to bridge between my newly-opened kitchen, which is Revere Pewter at 50% saturation (the kitchen has white cabinets and white quartz with dark hardware), and my living room, which is Pittsburgh Paints Sand Fossil, a soft buttercream yellow similar to BMs Elephant Tusk (the living room is full of white furniture with driftwood gray accents I LOVE the warm yellows and gray tones together).

The adjoining dining room is BM Raspberry Truffle on the upper half, with nice wood molding and crown molding painted white below. We still like the relaxed vibe of boho. I hope I am interpreting your advice correctly. It then has to have some sort of neutral counterpart such as beige/gray to calm it down (otherwise youd simply have pastel yellows, peaches and pinks). Another colour you might want to get lightened a bit (but the one under it, Gray Mist seems a bit too light, but you can look at it too. Hi Kylie! You come across as knowing so much concerning this, like you authored a BTW, from now on Im just calling it Gentle Cream so we can BOTH keep our sanity. Okay, Ill finish this email tomorrow .

I love the colors, but found I was more interested in the desk you show in one of the photos. Our breakfast room, painted in Sherwin Williams Zurich White. Hi Kylie! And yes, I do have a review for Creamy here you go! Color Sample Chip. 3. Do you have any recommendations on a white ceiling and trim paint that would pair well with this??? I appreciate the neutralizing suggestion I am guessing you mean with rugs, pictures & furniture I can neutralize.

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I LOVEIndian White! The bed arrives in a week and I need to know what color may look best. On-screen and printer color representations may vary from actual paint colors. Can you tell me what bm paint colors look good with chocolate brown sectional and light oak (khans lecco oak) hardwood flooring. My husband likes the large swatch I painted of Tranquility, which I was originally thinking of using in the dining room, as per the designer Charmeans recommendation on Houzz.. She acutually recommended Gray Horse or Misted Green. I added Affinity Tranquility to the mix. Ballet White is a fabulous neutral. I'm so glad you're here! Another one that is similar but tweaked. I would look at BM Cloud White, its soft and warm. Okay, so Im assuming you want something in the lighter end of things. I am taking a chance with Revere Pewter on 1 living room feature wall and in the Bedroom and bath. Thank you so much for your help. What do you think would be a compatible ceiling and trim color with Indian white? I have bisque applainces and oak cabinets When colours are paired with each other to provide balance with regards to hue/tone/visual temperature it can be an amazing thing if its done right! Since I am doing the painting, I dont want to have to repaint again and have my husband say see there was nothing wrong with it the first way Again, I apologize for this essay and hope you have some time to help me out. Cream is classic. Call me crazy, but it seems to be that Louisburg Green would look LOVELY! Im leaning towards a cream color. My dilemma is: I am redecorating my 650 square foot condo and I am extremely nervous about my color choices and I do not want to have to paint twice or three times etcetera. I am repainting my kids room, boy and girl ages 3 and 4. Hi Lindsay, I usually use BM Cloud White with Gentle Cream . Weve just finished a whole house redo as result of a major storm. The wall directly across the cabinets is the longest wall with a sliding glass door and a bay window. I am really going insane with the whites! One Color Entire Home Package. Today. I havent used Almond Bisque much as sometimes the yellow of it doesnt sit quite right in rooms. Cross your fingers and Ill let you know! I had the BM store mix the Latte and it wasnt as close as it should be. Hi Shelley, thanks for asking! After a long search for a creamy neutral for my north facing LR and hallway youve help me decide to go with BM gentle cream. 3. #2 Powell Buff Another great yellowish colour that is still clearly yellow on the walls, but not nearly as strong as Golden Straw as it has a nice earthy undertone. OC-96 Gentle Cream. The bedroom set will submarine ( sea theme) and I really want to know what is the best color for the wall? So its nice to see attention given on your blog to warm colors, which I love. The hope would be that your kitchen and dining room would look like the same colour to most people, but you and I would know that wed tweaked the dining room to the right undertone. You will just need to check them with your version of Elephant Tusk to make sure that White Down doesnt turn slightly pink. Hi Kylie, We live in a southcoast/cape town in Massachusetts. We have a contractor (long time friend of husbands) he normally only does million dollar homes but is doing ours because of our situationhowever, with the paint job alone running $11,000 I want to make darn sure I choose the RIGHT color as Should I do eggshell or flat? Ive read to be careful about painting outside trim stark white because it ends up looking to harsh.

Whew, I didnt think it would be so hard to put everything into words. If you like light and fresh creams, Gentle Cream might not be the color for you. Kitchen (unfortunately the base cabinets cannot be seen from the other rooms) white lacquered satin finish upper cabinetry sprayed to match Formica Colorcore2 countertops -New White-7223C-58 matte finish I would be happy to help you. Follow it down to darker shades. North, East, South, West - Which Paint Color is the Best? http://Www.202pickwick.com i have read your blog and see you really like BM Gentle cream. Dont get me wrong, its LOVELY, but its definitely one of the more affordable wood options I wouldnt be adverse to painting it at all! He wears green and purple and thinks hes wearing blue and red. Benjamin Moores Powell Buff is a beautiful color. ), So, let me know how those work for you. Shop sophisticated and endlessly versatile white paint at Johnson Paint in MA, NH, and ME. Here, youll find hundreds of articles on how to create the home of your dreams. This way I can take a good look at your photos/send out a questionnaire, and come up with ideas that are specific to your space and tastes! Any advice? I understand what you are saying about the weight of the colors. First of all, if you dont want to paint again heres a few thoughts. Absolutely beautiful, very peaceful looking. Not as good for low-light/shadowed rooms as it can get a bit flat, THE BEST SHADES OF BLACK FOR WALLS, DOORS, CABINETS, & MORE Im back, and Im back in black (ACDC reference for all you headbangers). You might really like it or you might find it is too close to Sundial.

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