Another paint color help

[rubytue]

I want to paint my sunroom white. But, filed under things the H doesn’t understand, of course not white white. 

I got a sample of BW icicle. Which I thought looked just on the gray side of white in the app, and it turns out to be the exact same shade of gray I painted the rest of the house. 

so, throw out your favorite white, leaning toward cool/blue/gray.

A few pictures. The listing photo, of the complete room before (cream, stucco fireplace). We’ve had to basically rebuild the room due to termite damage in the walls. And we cleaned off the stucco and and in the process of redoing the fireplace. It’s a granite surround and will have a black/gray tile above. 

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[rubytue]

Because I love it so much, here is the fireplace again, with the tile we are going to use going up. Although I’m leaning toward running it horizontally. Once we decide about a mantle, we will install it. We were thinking a custom mental mantle from the guy H knows that does ironwork, but he hasn’t gotten back to us. I’m debating sticking with the metal and finding someone else, or bringing in some natural something, like maybe splurge on a live edge mantle. 

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[simpsongal]

That will be so nice - I think I'd lean towards the wood mantle b/c of the tree view, but I could see how metal would look cool too - definitely a more modern take if you go that way.

As for whites...I don't know too many other than my trim color (BM Dove White). I would probably just swatch a few based on designer critiques. I just picked BM classic gray for my bathroom based on designer comments b/c I didn't have time to swatch it. It's going to be such a nice space!

[orval]

Fireplace looks great so far!
I used SW Ice Cube - a gray white -as a ceiling paint in my bathroom. Also in my son's computer room on the walls.
This blog has a bunch of examples of it in different rooms.
knockoffdecor.com/sherwin-williams-ice-cube/

[rubytue]

Side note, the house was build in 1968. The sunroom, best we can tell, was an addition. We don’t know when exactly it was added, but I keep guessing 1982-1985, based on the stucco and pink marble hearth 😂 I kept looking at it thinking someone at one point was looking at it thinking “I love it!”

But yeah, out style is much more modern/contemporary. I want to say we are going for mid century modern, but the MCM FB groups have schooled me on that. I’m more “MCM inspired” that true MCM.

[lessel]

I love SW Alabaster. It's a slightly warm white. We had a MCM house and painted the walls Alabaster and I loved it. It blended well with the wood in the house. Let me try to find an old post with some pics.


Scroll to end of this one to see SW Alabaster + Agreeable Gray in our current family room (kinda bad lighting): pandce.proboards.com/thread/612731/help-colors-update-final-thread

Kitchen pics:
Old house



New house cabinets:


Laundry room cabinets:

[woowoo]

I would suggest Alabaster as well. Something about it just feels like a warm, neutral white.

[dr.girlfriend]

I have a room that is Benjamin Moore's Sand Dollar. I really love it, it looks like a perfect creamy white to me but not cold.



We also have big built-ins in the bedroom that are Chantilly Lace, and that's a nice white also:

The wall color in the bedroom is Pale Oak.

[dancingirl21]

I sampled one million whites and grays in our new kitchen. We did the trim and all of our bookshelves in our open family room BM Simply White. It can look pretty true white, or lean just very, very slightly more creamy. It's really pretty and looks white without being super stark white.

I wanted our kitchen walls to also be white (cabinets are Repose Gray) but decided last minute that I wanted the trim to pop more. We did BM Silver Satin. It's pretty much the lightest gray I could find without being white.

I had over 15 samples on the walls and they looked different in every light and time of day. White/Gray are hard. There's so many undertones, depending on your space.

[rubytue]

Nov 22, 2021 13:10:10 GMT -5 dancingirl21 said:

For real!!

[aprilsails]

Just a head’s up that I did Chantilly Lace in a bedroom at my old house that had a large tree in front and a Southern exposure. That room was yellow all the time, and read green during the summer. I just found that paint to have a really strong yellow undertone that I didn’t like.

I bet if I had used it on a North facing room (blue or cool toned natural light) it would have been totally fine.

[rubytue]

Nov 22, 2021 18:43:59 GMT -5 aprilsails said:

Just a head’s up that I did Chantilly Lace in a bedroom at my old house that had a large tree in front and a Southern exposure. That room was yellow all the time, and read green during the summer. I just found that paint to have a really strong yellow undertone that I didn’t like.

I bet if I had used it on a North facing room (blue or cool toned natural light) it would have been totally fine.

Very useful! This is south and west. And I don’t want any yellow-ish.

[rubytue]

We tried both BM and SW pure white. Neither worked with the warm walnuts. Decided on SW Snowbound. We are getting so close! 

eta: you can’t see what I mean by warm walnuts in this picture 😂 The floors and the trim for the windows, which is still in the basement. Also, this picture reads more gray than it does in real life. It’s a slightly creamy, but bit of a cooler cream. 

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[rubytue]

It’s all back together!

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