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[quote=Anonymous]I just painted my whole enormous house in Sherwin Williams simply white.  I knew about the color because I had done it in a bathroom in another house And I loved how it felt warm and light and not stark. I hate stark white.  That said, I test it about six different colors on the wall first. My new house faces east and south.  The East room gets really dark after the morning. So the simply white looks nice and bright. And it looks great in my sunny south facing rooms as well.  For the trim, we just used a glossy finish of simply white, and it looks great. My dining room has chair molding, and we painted the chair molding Behr silver drop. The whole effect turned out really pretty, but there’s no such thing as the perfect white, the perfect white is the one that goes with the lighting in your house, so if you have the opportunity to test a few samples, do that. I am also a person who dislikes having a different paint color in every room.

In my previous home, we had egret white, which I think is a Benjamin Moore color. I absolutely love that in my previous home, and actually was thinking I would just use it in the new house. But when I put it in the new house, it seemed muddy and kind of clay looking. And that’s because the new home does not get as much light.  But it’s a great color.

There’s also a color called dulce de Leche, I forget who makes it. It’s really pretty and warm looking.[/quote]

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