The cost of BM is why I used a SW color for the condo we painted before selling, if you are having it professionally painted the contractor will get SW paint at 40% of the retail cost of the paint (so $24 a gallon instead of $60 for flat). I don't know what the contractor price is for BM. It looked beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you use bm when selling

You don't have to. Home Depot/Lowe's/Sherwin Williams can all mix BM colors using their own cheaper brands of paint. I offered BM colors because I have a BM Off-White Colors fan deck sitting next to me on my bedside table. I'm in the process of picking colors for our house. OK?

If this is for your own house and you have a picky eye for color, be careful having BM colors mixed elsewhere, especially the more subtle/"muddy" colors. Honestly I've never once been 100% satisfied doing this, now if I want a BM color I just pay the money and get it from a BM store. A painter once explained to me that BM colors can even vary slightly from BM store to BM store... Sherwin William colors are much more standardized though. Search online and you can find MANY stories of people trying to have BM neutrals and grays color-matched with unsatisfying results.

Benjamin Moore's Grant Beige

Anonymous wrote:Why would you use bm when selling

You don't have to. Home Depot/Lowe's/Sherwin Williams can all mix BM colors using their own cheaper brands of paint. I offered BM colors because I have a BM Off-White Colors fan deck sitting next to me on my bedside table. I'm in the process of picking colors for our house. OK?

Anonymous wrote:SW Accessible Beige

+1. A warm color. Not really beige, don't worry!

I've used Ralph Lauren's Chalk White in several rooms and different houses, north and south expoures, rooms with large windows and hallways with no windows, rooms with painted green wood floors and slate gray black floors, and it's always been such a beautiful, warm neural cream color in every case. Never seems, gray or pink or yellow.

Why would you use bm when selling

BM Pale Oak or Balboa Mist.

SW Accessible Beige

Valspar Tempered Gray is pretty.

Don't do Mascarpone unless you have lots of natural light. I have it in my dining room and hate it. It looks dingy and yellow though it looked delicious in the shop

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking for a nice creamy white or similarly warm color that would look good with belgian linen furniture, traditional medium tone wood floors, and white molding. Nothing too yellow. No cool greys or blue-greys, please!

Any Benjamin Moore favorites? Do any realtors have standbys they recommend to sellers looking to repaint prior to listing? I know I've seen some gorgeous examples during open houses, but now can't think what they really looked like!

Creamy whites that are not yellow or grey are masparone and mayonnaise. Some whites pink up and these do not. A darker creme is cream fleece. http://atlantahomesmag.com/article/neutral-territory/

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Anonymous wrote:Agreeable gray. It's a great greige that looks good with browns and blacks.

Plus 1. I used this on our condo that we just put on the market and sold with multiple offers in the first weekend. I did a lot of looking into the griege category.

. This is a SW color.

Anonymous wrote:Agreeable gray. It's a great greige that looks good with browns and blacks.

Plus 1. I used this on our condo that we just put on the market and sold with multiple offers in the first weekend. I did a lot of looking into the griege category.

SW Collonade Gray