Is your Parma Gray F&B paint light blue?

[Anonymous]

I’m debating buying a Parma Gray Farrow and Ball paint sample.

If you have this color, does it read more light blue or gray?

I have a north west facing room that doesn’t get a lot of natural light. I prefer light blue almost a muted robins eggs/duck egg color. Not gray. Don’t want to unnecessarily paint a sample on the wall. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

This is a good question. The name throws me off. I’ve seen it used on instagram and it looks blue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a good question. The name throws me off. I’ve seen it used on instagram and it looks blue.

This is OP, same here, but then I saw a painted sample in the store and it looked light gray. I don’t trust how colors are presenting on different screens now…

[Anonymous]

You can buy a large painted sheet from the F&B shop in. Bethesda. I have one and it looks light blue to me.

[Anonymous]

If you go to the blog “cup of jo” and look at her house tour, she painted her dining room
Parma gray and says it reads blue (and it appears blue in the pictures). (Finally, some of the seemingly useless info taking up so much space in my brain has come in handy!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you go to the blog “cup of jo” and look at her house tour, she painted her dining room
Parma gray and says it reads blue (and it appears blue in the pictures). (Finally, some of the seemingly useless info taking up so much space in my brain has come in handy!)

Here’s a link: https://cupofjo.com/2022/05/31/dining-room-makeover/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you go to the blog “cup of jo” and look at her house tour, she painted her dining room
Parma gray and says it reads blue (and it appears blue in the pictures). (Finally, some of the seemingly useless info taking up so much space in my brain has come in handy!)

I love you!

[Anonymous]

OP I painted my baby’s room BM “gray sky,” which is probably too light for you but my experience with finding a “blue” paint is that you definitely want it to look gray on the swatch. It magnifies so much once it’s on the wall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you go to the blog “cup of jo” and look at her house tour, she painted her dining room
Parma gray and says it reads blue (and it appears blue in the pictures). (Finally, some of the seemingly useless info taking up so much space in my brain has come in handy!)

Here’s a link: https://cupofjo.com/2022/05/31/dining-room-makeover/

Beautiful color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I painted my baby’s room BM “gray sky,” which is probably too light for you but my experience with finding a “blue” paint is that you definitely want it to look gray on the swatch. It magnifies so much once it’s on the wall.

Very helpful! Thank you!

[Anonymous]

You can also order a big sticker that color from samplize so you can see it in your space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can also order a big sticker that color from samplize so you can see it in your space.

+1

But I’ve always thought of it as a light grayish blue

[Anonymous]

If you're looking for a light blue like you describe and you are sampling Farrow and Ball anyway, I would also look at Borrowed Light. It's definitely blue (never gray), a soft and very light color that varies with the light but is reliably blue. I'm using it in a room with very little natural light. Parma Gray may work in your space, but in low light it may be grayer than you want

+1 to Samplize samples. They're bigger than the sample cards from F&B and less trouble than painting a sample yourself. You'll want to see how the colours work in your space in different kinds of light.

[Anonymous]

Another to try is BM Bunny Gray

[Anonymous]

I have used Parma gray as an accent color in a room that receives little natural light and it definitely reads blue. I’ve also used borrowed light for a room and really love it! It changes a lot based on time of day but is always blue!