Picking a paint color

[stellarose]

Ugh I am so bad at making decisions regarding paint color. I know grey is super trendy, but I'm going with grey walls in our bedroom. I work with color professionally and think greys can be do hard to get right.

My bedspread is black lace over ivory (old but I'm not able to change out just yet). I've always done black, ivory red and now I'm doing grey walls, grey sheets, ivory tufted headboard and some very luxe finishes. I want it to feel like a beautiful hotel room.

Problem is, I know I shouldn't match the paint to my sheets but I want it close to that color because its the perfect grey in my head. But they have more of a blue tone by day in the uv light and a slight red undertone by night in the soft light. So whichever grey I pick for the walls matches pretty good at one point in the day and then clashes at another time if day. You only see it on the pillow cases during the day. And perhaps a headboard will give enough separation between the two greys.

Thoughts?

[stellarose]

And do you paint all four walls the same color or do 1-2 accent? I'm sure pictures would help, but not sure if I can from my phone.

Since I want to go with a medium grey, I'm wondering if I should only do it on one to two walls verses all four? Our setup is a long rectangle with the door and bed on opposite short walls. One long wall has about a 10' window and the other long wall has a bathroom door and a closet door. And two windows above our bed, so not super dark.

[TBM]

Our walls match our sheets, but it was an accident. It isn't like the sheets actually show much when the bed is made...I actually like it.

Our walls are SW Lazy Gray. In my house it reads as a pretty true gray, but there are two walls in my room where at certain times of the day it looks either slightly bluish or slightly plum (which to me means there is a slight reddish cast rather than a true purple). Even before the plum painted bed was in the room the walls had that look...it just happened to be perfect for the color we had chosen to have as an accent to go with the black/white/gray thing we had going on. Our master bath is the same Lazy Gray color, but it has different light and stays truer gray.

I think whether you do an accent wall really depends on the room....and what you are accenting. In a bedroom it is usually the bed, but the bed tends to stand out as a focal point anyway.

We don't have an accent wall. Our iron bed frame is pretty tall, and it is painted a blackish plum, so an accent wall might actually compete with it rather than accent it. Maybe if we had done a darker version of the same color as the walls it would have worked, but we didn't think of it at the time.

[sratsey]

My bedroom reads teal,navy and black depending on the time of day.
I'm currently having an island that is being painted aqua and in the daylight it is true but at night it reads slate blue and clashes with everything. LOL. So I understand your dilemma.

For my kitchen, I picked a color that would match for the majority of time I'd be looking at it...I'm in the kitchen most during the day.
I'm going to try and switch out the light bulbs though to those daylight ones and see if that fixes it.
If it's a light thing, you could always go that route. Otherwise I'd probably pick the color that works the best for when you'll actually be in the room...and for a master, that's probably in the evening.

[niknik]

I used BM Revere Pewter in my house. It's our main color. It reads beige, it reads gray, it changes with the light and I am in love with it. It goes with everything. We have khaki color couches and gray chairs and avocado chairs. It looks good with everything.

[auntie]

I always match or coordinate paint with my fabric.

Maybe it makes sense to select a gray based on sheets, but to use ivory bedding or a mix of the two.

[stellarose]

Thank you, this is all very helpful!