When Alabaster appears cream

[jloww]

We've been using Alabaster universally in our house for trim, doors and ceilings, but we have one room where it looks pretty cream and dingy.

I'm not quite sure where to go from here.  I really noticed it when I changed the wall color, so it could just be the specific paint color I'm using?

Should I go try to find a brilliant white or something?

[housegeek]

You want to change the trim in just one room?

[cjeanette]

Odd, We have that color on the outside of our house trim and I was just commenting to H this weekend how impressed I was that it has stayed so white since they updated the trim in 2008. I would guess maybe it just looks that way from the color on the wall?

[Susie]

SW Alabaster, or another brand?

We use SW Alabaster for our trim, but I haven't experienced that - at least not yet. I don't think I would change the trim for just one room. I wouldn't want to figure out where to draw the line on which pieces of trim to paint which white, collect the extra gallons, etc.

Is it the light, or could it be paint that wasn't mixed well or something?

[jloww]

The a good can of SW Alabaster. We've been using it around the house and it looks white everywhere else. It could be the lighting. It's just odd I didn't notice it when it was aqua, but now that it's lavender it looks really dingy. It's not dingy paint.

So, yeah, I want to change the trim color of one room because of lighting I guess. I'll take a picture when she wakes up.

[sierramist03]

Lighting different maybe?

[jloww]

Definitely a lighting difference, but what do you do when it's trim paint?

[policegirl402]

I had the same problem. I initially had the painter paint a spare bedroom using BM cloud white on the trim and BM mannequin cream ( a light yellow color) on the walls. In the rest of the house it looked fine, but next to the mannequin cream, it looked dirty. I worked with a Maria Killiam "true color expert" in picking the colors. She explained to me that mannequin cream is a "clean" color and that was why the cloud white looks dirty next to it. She recommended a "cleaner" white, chantilly lace. The chantilly lace has a blue undertone, and worked much better! So much so that I had the painter repaint the trim in the rest of my house with it ..... But that is another story!! Hope that helps!!

[lavender444]

I wouldn't go with a bright white when everything else is Alabaster. It will make everything else look yellowed. Was the paint mixed well when it went on? Or did it freeze prior to going up in that room?

I'm not familiar with SW colors, but I really like Ben Moore's White Dove (oc-17) Its the white I use everywhere. Its nice and clean without being too stark.

[Susie]

Apr 15, 2014 17:36:12 GMT -5 jloww said:

Definitely a lighting difference, but what do you do when it's trim paint?

I see what you mean.

That would probably bother me to look at, and it would also bother me to have different trim in one room.  So I'd probably repaint the walls something in the same family as what you've got (is it lavender?) but something less icy-blue, and more muddy, that would look better next to the trim.

[jloww]

Does it change the general consensus if I mention this is my daughters bedroom on the second floor?  It's not like I'm talking about changing the trim color in the living room that is connected to other rooms.

i will have to try a different white I think.  I'm married to the wall color.  I absolutely love it.

wall color is SW silver peony if that helps.  I'm going tomorrow to get ceiling paint for her room so I think I'm going to go with Chantilly lace and I'll get some semi gloss too to try out on the trim.

[cjeanette]

I don't see the harm in changing the trim in one room.

[policegirl402]

I say go for it, since you love the wall color. I don't think you will even be able to tell it is a different trim color, especially since it is upstairs in a bedroom.