Tell me about your grey painted rooms

[mrspez07]

We're trying to pick a primary color for our open floor plan house. I'm worried the grey will be too much (of course the latte color has been too much since we moved in!)
so far we've got colonnade grey and repose grey from SW as our top 2. They both lean cool with blue/green undertones. We plan to do some accents with blues and blue greens, so maybe that's ok?
anyone do a large area with a cool grey? Pics?

i also welcome any other thoughts. The pic is only a part of the vaults and open plan in working with. And the couch is now covered with a dark grey slip cover

[Deleted]

I have Ellie gray @ 75% saturation in my great room and I don't feel like it is too much. That might be because one wall has two windows and a sliding glass door and all have curtains so it is broken up quite a bit. That room might look nice with a slightly darker gray on the wall behind the couch and a more neutral gray on the other walls.

[mcfelix]

We have a warm grey in most of our house and love it. If I remember correctly, it's SW Agreeable Grey.

[kaylie]

I have SW Conservative Gray in my kitchen, foyer and upstairs hallway. It's definitely not too much. It's actually very light. I do wish I had gone with a warmer gray like BM Revere Pewter. I didn't realize at the time that I prefer just a touch of warmth in my wall colors. I'm lazy thought and not willing to repaint.

[lavender444]

I like the warmer grays, too. We have Revere Pewter, Ashley Gray, Amherst Gray, Kendal Charcoal and Stonnington Gray (all Ben moore) painted in our house. (I'm just realizing how many different colors we have in our house!) For your space, I would try Ashley gray. It's a muted medium tone that reads warm and slightly brownish depending on lighting.

[auntie]

I have SW Front Porch in my library- you don't see much of it because of the bookcases. It's lightish and cool.

www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW7651-front-porch/

[Ramz-ee]

We have SW Morning Fog in our open floor plan house. To me it seems like a true gray. When it first went up, I thought it had a purple tint to it, but with our furniture and flooring, I see only true gray.







And for reference, this is what SW Anew Gray looks like in our house:

[rooster222]

We have BM Gray Owl in all our main areas downstairs.

[Deleted]

I have Ace Hardware winterstorm in 2 bedrooms and a mudroom of my house and I LOVE it. So much so that when our addition is done in the spring it's my top pick for that. Our house's main areas will also need a repaint in the next couple years and I think I'm going with that all over too.

It looks very much the same on my monitor as penguins' actually. It's just has a nice undertone to it that doesn't sway one way or the other. I see a lot of white undertones if nothing else. Once in awhile in the right light I can see hints of blue/green or purple but it's not common or all that obvious.

[mrsemilys]

This is an old picture of our dining room, which is Behr Ultra Ashes.  It is a silvery gray



I love griege for a warmer gray.  I have one I love in DS' nursery.  Let me know fi you want pics.

[dr.girlfriend]

It's a warmer grey/griege, but we have BM Pashmina in our living room and I like it a lot.

[Rainyday]

We have BM Whitestone in our entire downstairs open floor plan. There are plenty of windows with good light, almost every wall looks like a different color/shade of grey.
Like PP said it almost looked a lavender tone until we put in the hardwood. That made a huge impact, it's on the cooler side of greys.

[lumberjill]

We have SW Versatile grey. It is more of a greige color which works well since our carpet is light light tan.

[house]

Jan 18, 2015 11:46:27 GMT -5 lumberjill said:

We have SW Versatile grey. It is more of a greige color which works well since our carpet is light light tan.

I love SW Versatile grey! This is what we used in our LR in the last house.

[bunnies]

I have SW Passive in my main areas.

Old pic here, before my dog died. :-( And before I replaced all the door handles and removed the carpet and refinished the floors!


I have SW Gray Matters in the bedrooms (same paint card, 2 shades darker)

[memenee]

Definitely depends on the gray you choose. And the lighting in your home. Grays were so hard for me to get right. We did do samples because the grays seemed to have so many undertones. I found I did not love a true gray in our home. We ended up with Revere Pewter which is very warm and I absolutely love it but not a true gray.

[TBM]

I thought that grays were difficult when I was looking for gray at our old house. Definitely try samples.

Our bedroom was SW Lazy Gray. It matched our gray sheets perfectly (not planned) and was a cool, but pretty true gray, although in the bedroom at certain times of the day (and only on certain walls) it looked slightly bluish. In the master bath, which had a window that faced a different direction, it read gray all the time.

We painted the main spaces of the house (open plan) SW Versatile Gray), which is kind of a greige. It was a good neutral that was more gray than beige.

In this house we have BM Whisper. It is more what I think of as 'stone' color rather than a true gray. On the exterior of our house it looks like a pale gray. Inside our house it looks different on every wall and different with every change in light during the day. Right now in the living room, looking at the corner, one wall looks like a warm gray and the other one looks white...or at least like a much lighter gray. The kitchen is visible from the living room, and in there it looks like a cooler gray. In the afternoon it will all look completely different. At least it still goes with everything, no matter how it changes.

[EmmieB1025]

Jan 16, 2015 23:31:52 GMT -5 mcfelix said:

We have a warm grey in most of our house and love it. If I remember correctly, it's SW Agreeable Grey.

This is what we just painted the majority of our new house and I love it.  It's very neutral.

[lmdbww]

Jan 17, 2015 8:45:16 GMT -5 Ramz-ee said:

That^^ is gorgeous!!!

Our guest room is grey (don't know the color, it's left from previous owners but I liked it). It's very pale grey. IMO the accent colors is what makes it, ya know? (I did white, cream, turquoise).

[msmerymac]

We have natural gray by Behr in our master bedroom (pics in my bio), but it's only 12x16 and an enclosed room, obviously. I will say that I feel like we could have gone even darker to be more dramatic! It's quite neutral. We also have taupe in the living spaces (Behr classic taupe). So it's more beige than gray, but it's neutral and works well, IMO.