BM Knoxville Gray

[memenee]

Wondering if anyone has used it and what you think of it. Pics would be great too if you have them. Looks pretty online but in some pics it looks blue, in some pics green and sometimes even a gray-blue. Would love your input if you have this color in your home! Thanks!

[aprilsails]

That is definitely one of those colours where you would want to put up large swatches on all four sides of the room you are painting.

So much of a paint colour depends on the undertones of lighting in the room, both interior, and exterior.

At our old house, all of our windows faced North or South (I’m also in Southeast Ontario). Rooms with windows to the North made paint look more blue or cool toned. Rooms with windows to the South made paint look warmer or more yellow, which would bring out green in that paint if I had used it.

Before moving in, we did a painting blitz quickly based on colour chips. Our master bedroom was supposed to be a medium grey. That window faced North and that room ended up being straight up blue. Like, denim blue somehow. It was grey as soon as the sun went down, but on a sunny day the blue undertone was strong.

I painted my sewing room BM Chantilly Lace. That window faced South through a big maple tree. In the summer, that room had a strong green undertone because of the tree foliage, in the winter, it was a yellow undertone that drove me crazy.

If your windows are all around or East and West or if you don’t live somewhere where the sun is always South of you I don’t think this effect is as strong. East and West windows tend to the warmer (yellower) side as well, but only for the morning or evening.

[memenee]

aprilsails thank you for all that great insight. I ended up getting a sample of Knoxville gray. It looked blue in the morning and green at night. It was crazy - like two totally different paint colors!

[aprilsails]

memenee I can believe that. It looks like a totally chameleon paint colour.
If you are looking for a true grey then you should find out the Hex code for the colour. The closer the three numbers are for RBG the more likely it is that there will not be a strong undertone.
Explainer here:
www.pluralsight.com/blog/tutorials/understanding-hexadecimal-colors-simple