Gray Paint for Kitchen Walls?

16 years ago

Can anyone share recommendations/photos for a gray paint? I'd like one with greenish rather than beige undertones. I have creamy cabinets and soapstone counters--the soapstone is Julia with a lot of green in it. Am currently looking at BM Horizon Gray.

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camarogranny

16 years ago

My best tip for getting the exact color you like....vist your local craft store. Pick out 2-3 shades in a color you think you'll like (in your case a mix of grays and green)in the small 99cent bottles. Take them home and mix and play until you get an exact shade that you like. Paint it on a piece of white paper/matte side of wax paper and then take that to your local paint store and have them do a custom paint match. This saves so much time, money, and disappointment. No wasted time running back and forth with tiny paint chip samples, no wasted money on a wrong color or buying paint store pints, and you get to see the color and mix your own perfect shade.
***A bottle of white and black are also handy if you have the right color but just want to lighten or darken it a bit.
Plus there's an added bonus of having complimentary colors around that can be used to make coordinated crafts or to retool other items for use in your decor.

teri

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arlosmom
16 years ago
Take a look at BM Sandy Hook Gray (HC-108). It's a lovely gray with definite green undertones.
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bkinsey
16 years ago
We just painted our kitchen gray, we also will have creamy cabinets and (hopefully) soapstone counters. We ended up on going with SW Dove Gray...love it! I had decided on SW Gauntlet Gray but at the last minute decided to go up a shade to the Dove Gray and am so glad I did, I just love the color.
carriea
16 years ago
We painted silver marlin bm and love it. Cabs are white dove, will try to post pics next week.
lindiver
16 years ago
I've been back and forth to the paint store, literally for months choosing colors for all of the rooms. The kitchen has been my biggest hurdle--I'm not good with the sample chips, have been spending a small fortune on sample jars, etc... Today I saw the suggestion for sandy hook gray and it is the one! I went back to the paint store and got a sample, put it up and fell in love with it. Thanks, arlosmom, for the suggestion. The folks at the paint store are happy, too. I think they thought I would never select the color!
What a happy day! :-)
Rudebekia
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks for your suggestions. I'm going to look at all of them. Right now the two that seem most promising are BM Horizon Gray and BM Gray Horse. For the life of me I can't tell much difference between them. Anyone with a good eye and a fan deck? Also, if anyone has photos to post I'd appreciate it!
skoo
16 years ago
HA!!! Those are exactly the 2 paints I was choosing between (BM Horizon Gray or BM Gray Horse). The Gray Horse is a much truer gray, whereas Horizon Gray is more of a greenish gray. We opted for the Horizon Gray because we used Costa Esmeralda for our counters and have a gray tile floor, so we wanted a green gray as well.

I don't have a recent picture, but hopefully this should give you some idea of what it looks like on our walls: