Help me choose a white paint

[Anonymous]

Powder room, walnut vanity, this wallpaper (light green jungle leaf) on two walls, brushed gold mirror and faucet. I was thinking super white white paint. But there are so many to choose from! Also, what color flooring would you choose? Thanks, a terrible home decorator in need of help!

https://www.potterybarn.com/m/products/tropical-jungle-green-leaf-wallpaper/

[Anonymous]

Does it have to be white?

[Anonymous]

I thought so, yes?

[Anonymous]

Maybe simply white? (Which is pretty neutral, neither yellow or too stark).

[Anonymous]

Hi OP, I just went through this. White is basically the hardest paint choice because they all have some pigment giving them undertones, and the lighting and other things in the room heavily impact how they look. I can’t recommend a white because how it looks in my living room has almost nothing to do with how it will look in your bathroom. I did none sample patches of different whites before choosing one, and when you looked at them next to each other, it was like “oh that one is pink, that one is green, these three look dull gray, this one looks to bright white, this one works.” There is just no telling.

You might try to color match the white in the background of the wallpaper. That’s where I would start. But also ask the paint store to pull a couple whites with similar profiles, or to identify their most popular whites for you, and them put up sample patches on the wall with a piece of the wallpaper right next to it (make sure your lighting is already installed, too, this is extra important for bathrooms).

[Anonymous]

Thank you! Great idea to bring the wallpaper in. I hate home decorating.

[Anonymous]

sorry you'll only have this wallpaper on two walls??? and you want white on the other two? seems a bit odd.

pairing it with white is going to look like you forgot to do those walls. it seems better to match the pale green from the wallpaper if you don't paper all the walls. for the ceiling as well, paint it the same pale green, otherwise it's going to look forgotten.

[Anonymous]

for flooring: lots of people continue the wood floors to powder rooms now. but if not, i'd think a tonal green tile or black and white, or even gray will work -- if you are not continuing wood floors then i would go for contrast. in other words, don't go for a brown toned tile that could be confused with not matching the wood floors.

[Anonymous]

Wallpaper all four walls

[Anonymous]

in a powder room do the wallpaper on all 4 walls. If you dont want floor to ceiling pattern, do chair rail and paint below and the paper above.

[Anonymous]

Agree with either wallpapering all 4 or doing a chair rail. I just used bm white dove in a bathroom with no window and it worked well.

[Anonymous]

Wallpaper all four walls or none at all. This "accent wall" wallpaper thing is an abomination born of catalogue photography and simpering imitations of good taste.

[Anonymous]

You can ask the paint store to look up what colors are added into the whites. Helps immensely. I chose pure white- white with a drop of gold.

[Anonymous]

I would never do super white. It will look like a doctor's office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can ask the paint store to look up what colors are added into the whites. Helps immensely. I chose pure white- white with a drop of gold.

This. I like pure white. it's a sherwin williams color. it's often used on trim but can also be on walls.