Gray paint looks blue --what's the fix?

[Anonymous]

I chose a gray gray -- zero blue in the mix but on the walls it looks blue. The furniture is black, gray bedding. Any ideas what paint color to shoot for to cancel out the blue look?

[Anonymous]

Probably your options would be another gray entirely, or white. You can't make this color look different, but you can change the color.

[Anonymous]

Try yellow bedding to make the paint look more greenish? What color paint did you use?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to remember the color name but I know the formula included black green and gold. I'm going to repaint but wonder how to choose better

[Anonymous]

you could change the lighting- if it is too warm or cold the paint looks totally different.

[Anonymous]

Change your lighting. You need to put in yellower warm light bulbs.

Did you try a sample on the wall? Every paint looks different on your actual walls.

[Anonymous]

Whats the make/name of your color?

I could have written this post....I wanted a gray kitchen and, after 2 coats of a paint from the Behr "Gray and Neutral" sample book, it's totally light blue. We changed the lights (from a bulb with some yellow in it to bright white LEDs), which helped a little but not a ton.

In the end, the issue was the high gloss sheen that was in the paint base that I selected....it reflected SO much light. We went back and painted with the same color in a FLAT base and now it's grey....

[Anonymous]

OP here. The color is SW Boothbay Gray in eggshell finish.
One pp suggested adding yellower lights and another pp suggested adding whiter lights.
Any ideas? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Lighting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lighting

Whiter? More yellow?

[Anonymous]

If you don't like the color, repaint. And be sure to swatch a big section Grays can go yellow, green or blue. I like BM gray owl, but it always depends on the light in the room.

[Anonymous]

I have the opposite problem! I have been looking for a very muted blue gray and picked Krypton by Sherwin Williams. I did not want anything bright or light blue. From looking at the swatch and pictures online, Krypton looked perfect! I bought a sample and painted it on the wall: it appears completely gray with no blue whatsoever. Grays are so hard to predict!

[Anonymous]

All grays have different undertones. You simply picked one with heavy blue undertones. You sound like you want more of a greige which will have brown undertones that help it show as a "true" gray. We recently repainted our house and in small bathrooms I have SW Windstorm which is a light gray with some blue undertones. But in the rest of the house we have SW Agreeable Gray and SW Requisite Gray and these are both greiges that are very truly gray on the walls. Highly recommend either of those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. The color is SW Boothbay Gray in eggshell finish.
One pp suggested adding yellower lights and another pp suggested adding whiter lights.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Images show it as a medium gray. We have extensive gray experience. I had 12 samples all in the finish we would use-that does change slightly. We had to do wall samples over other paint [medium cream color] and the area for gray got vastly different lighting [natural].

What happened? Differences from daylight to evening from shadows to bright all changed the color [tints of blue, green, purple, greige]. But fortunately some painnt stayed gray! Here's the stay gray cover cream in one coat. All BM aura. Classic grey [store can darken it by adding more black], white dove[too light], revere pewter.

Looking at your original color I'd go with classic gray. Buy the gallon. Put up a sample-6 by 6 in. Take the can back to the store and get 1/2 shot of black. Sample on wall. If that's not dark enough continue adding black.

[Anonymous]

Curious that any "muted" paint color would be named Krypton.