Help picking a light grey from Sherwin Williams

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Anonymous wrote:We just finished a big open kitchen LR/DR renovation and painted all the walls BM Light Pewter. I love it. It's a light, warm grey that errs on the side of greige depending on the light. We're going to paint the rest of the house in this, once we recover from the kitchen reno.

PP who painted her house lavender here, this was my solution and it did not look purple! It has a bit of a yellowish undertone imo

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Thanks to everyone who weighed in. I think my next step is to borrow the fan deck and try out the colors in my kitchen. I appreciate you all. Have a wonderful evening!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to everyone who weighed in. I think my next step is to borrow the fan deck and try out the colors in my kitchen. I appreciate you all. Have a wonderful evening!

A suggestion. We have found that those little sample squares on the fan deck are often not enough to really tell how well it works. So we pick a few, like 4-5 colors that we think will look good and have SW mix up a small sample size (costs like $3-4 each). Then go to Michael's and buy a pack of poster boards (the 11x17 size). Or you can just cut up boxes that are heading for recycling and cut side panels off the boxes. Paint a square at least 8x11 or larger the color and then tape them up on each wall. Check how the panels look in the morning, afternoon, dusk and night with your lighting.

Colors that look good on a small sample chip in the fan deck in the store (or even at home) can look completely different in larger sizes up on the walls, in various degrees of direct or indirect light, at different times of day, etc. We found this very helpful in avoiding the painter's remorse (I swear that looked more gray/less purple/more beige/whatever).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to everyone who weighed in. I think my next step is to borrow the fan deck and try out the colors in my kitchen. I appreciate you all. Have a wonderful evening!

A suggestion. We have found that those little sample squares on the fan deck are often not enough to really tell how well it works. So we pick a few, like 4-5 colors that we think will look good and have SW mix up a small sample size (costs like $3-4 each). Then go to Michael's and buy a pack of poster boards (the 11x17 size). Or you can just cut up boxes that are heading for recycling and cut side panels off the boxes. Paint a square at least 8x11 or larger the color and then tape them up on each wall. Check how the panels look in the morning, afternoon, dusk and night with your lighting.

Colors that look good on a small sample chip in the fan deck in the store (or even at home) can look completely different in larger sizes up on the walls, in various degrees of direct or indirect light, at different times of day, etc. We found this very helpful in avoiding the painter's remorse (I swear that looked more gray/less purple/more beige/whatever).

Op here! Thanks. I appreciate this recommendation. We have spent close to $100 on sample pots and paint decals over the course of a month. I even noticed the decals are just printed (like one large paint chip) so it makes me nervous to trust it as I know that sheens will also change paint colors. I’m going to use the fan deck as a guide. Probably should’ve done that first. 😏

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Gray screen

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to everyone who weighed in. I think my next step is to borrow the fan deck and try out the colors in my kitchen. I appreciate you all. Have a wonderful evening!

The SW fan deck only costs $15 (unless my guy messed up). It was a great purchase for me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at Benjamin Moore Pale Oak? Depending on your lighting it can read more of a grey greige but never purplish. Not sure the SW equivalent but it's so popular that there must be one.

FWIW we have Agreeable Gray and it reads very cool in our house. If I had it to re-do I would have done something lighter and more on the taupe side, but I've lived with it for 4 years now and I'm not re-doing it anytime soon. I think any color can be on-trend if styled correctly.

I like pale oak as well. It’s a lovely color.

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I just hired a painter and used SW. we originally wanted a light gray and put up Analytical Gray, Mindful Gray and a few other swatches. Then we went on the SW website, uploaded pics of our rooms and tried out the paints in the pictures. Oh my goodness, the grays were SO dark and off putting. We would have never thought to go lighter if it hadn’t been for the website. We ended up with accessible beige and it looks different in every room, but we are happy with the warmth and depth of the color.

Also SW was out of samples to mix at two stores in nova. They had peel and stick for some colors. Good luck!

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The peel and stick were very accurate. Also BM and SW can easily match each other’s colors. As a designer I don’t recommend fan deck. The sample is much too small. And influenced by the other colors and choices. Your room will only be one color. The larger the sample size the better.

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Anonymous wrote:The peel and stick were very accurate. Also BM and SW can easily match each other’s colors. As a designer I don’t recommend fan deck. The sample is much too small. And influenced by the other colors and choices. Your room will only be one color. The larger the sample size the better.

But the fan deck helps cut down trips to the store to get the little squares. Maybe I’m extraordinarily indecisive but I like to see lots of colors in my house