interior wall color help ASAP please

[Anonymous]

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Annandale/4102-Yerkes-Pl-22003/home/9620455

Hardwood floors being installed in days (finally!) but need to get paint up first in main living area. Several walls already a bluish-gray (Behr's Coastal Vista) --- what goes with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.redfin.com/VA/Annandale/4102-Yerkes-Pl-22003/home/9620455

Hardwood floors being installed in days (finally!) but need to get paint up first in main living area. Several walls already a bluish-gray (Behr's Coastal Vista) --- what goes with it?

Just do sherwin williams accessible beige. Behr has the recipe in their computer. It’s a beautiful neutral color. I’m so mad I didn’t do it when my contractor rushed me to choose paint colors. I hate my colors in several rooms. Oh well.

[Anonymous]

This really isn’t a good way to pick paint colors. You knew there were walls - what happened?

The best bet is to go and pull a bunch of sample cards. Look for any little brochures with off whites and make a list of “best off white colors” from the internet and be sure to grab those. You didn’t tell us what brand of paint but just use that brand’s colors.

Then bring them home and look at them with the blue you want to keep, your trim color (this is crucial) and a sample of the new hardwood. Do it at night with artificial light and during the day.

You should really do samples after that but if you don’t have time, as long as you pick an off white you should be okay. Try to identify the undertones in your trim color and go with something that has similar undertones.

[Anonymous]

The sample cards are good but imo you will get a much better idea of the paint if you buy small samples and paint 1' square patches on 3 or 4 different walls so that you can see the paint colors in different parts of the house and with different light. The house you linked to has a lot of windows in the public living space and your color will look different in different parts of the room.

I would do the floors first and paint second. If you're sanding during the staining and sealing process, you don't want all the dust messing up your paint. Yes, painting second is a pita for the painters. Ask me if that is my first concern ...