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Does BM Edgecomb Gray Paint have a pinkish tone??

11 years ago

Hi All! We're building a house and FINALLY at the last stages...painting. We have an open concept kitchen/great room. The Kitchen has white cabinets with a gray island. The countertops are marble. I picked a paint color by Benjamin Moore called "Edgecomb Gray" for the downstairs (keeping the downstairs one color so that it looks larger and flows). After reading one review online, the person said that edgecomb gray looked pinkish/purplish when on the wall. I've seen it on many pictures online and love it, but now I'm a little worried.

Any thoughts, suggestions??

Comments (31)

  • 11 years ago

    Don't judge by photos on the computer. Both the photo and the monitor can distort the true shade. You need to see the color in your space, with your lighting, both in natural and artificial light, with your countertops and flooring, before you commit.


  • 11 years ago

    unfortunately, we don't have that option...they paint before the kitchen and floors go in :-(


  • 11 years ago

    OK then, get in there with a piece of drywall painted with two coats of the color and see how it actually looks in the space.


  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I had Ben Moore Elmira White in an east facing kitchen with a lot of natural light and it had a pinkish cast which I didn't like. I just covered it with Edgecomb Grey and if anything it has a slight putty undertone, not at all pinky/purple. It's a light warm grey, not a cool, cold grey. I find it doesn't change much depending on the time of day, and I like that. Just my experience.

  • 11 years ago

    Thanks! Sounds good. Do you like the color?



  • 11 years ago

    I've only had it for two days but am really liking it. It's very neutral.

  • 11 years ago

    Thanks!! My decorator had it in her home and I loved it. Never thought it looked pink or purple. However, I'm second guessing myself now that my husband read that online review. Your advice definitely helps! Thanks again


  • 11 years ago
    I painted my foyer, stairwell wall and upstairs landing edgecomb gray and if anything, it's a bit too brown for what I wanted. Def no pink undertones though
  • 11 years ago

    Good luck and congrats on your new home!

  • 11 years ago

    Yes, Amanda is right, if you're looking for a true grey, Edgecomb doesn't fit the bill. What Amanda considers brown is probably what I was referring to as a slight putty undertone. You can compare it to other Ben Moore greys and see it leans to the warm side.

  • 11 years ago

    bm gray owl is more neutral

  • 11 years ago

    I recently had our main floor painted and narrowed my choice down to BM edgecomb gray and SW accessible beige. I googled both and found a few discussing pink undertones with edgecomb gray too. When comparing the two cards, to me it looked like accessible beige was ever so slightly more gray than edgecomb gray. In the end, I worried about pink undertones and went with accessible beige. We're very happy with it, but I think it and edgecomb gray are both greige rather than gray.

  • 11 years ago
    I have revere pewter which is a little darker and love it! I think edgecomb will be perfect and in my experience there is not pink undertone.
  • 11 years ago

    Thank you!! I think we're going to take our chances and stick with the edgecomb gray. I've heard so many great reviews of the paint color and we want a "warm" gray.


  • 10 years ago

    EG is a great color. If it has undertones, I'd say it more yellow than pink.

  • 9 years ago

    I picked Edgecomb as the neutral in our house and started with the front hallway - moderate light, wainscoating painted BM Simply White. After completing painting, I started to get a pinkish vibe which absolutely drives me crazy! Thought it could be my setting but was at a friend's house that used EC too and saw the same undertones with extremely different environments. Although, we both have Edison lighting - not sure if that could impact. Also wish it was a tinge more gray because, honestly I only see beige in it. Pls note I got this paint at a BM dealer after experiencing a terrible experience with Home Depot trying to color match EC in Behr paint - it came out extremely violet! Now on the hunt for a paint a tiny bit more gray without the pinkish glow. Any suggestions?

  • 9 years ago

    I've had trouble with samples not matching the paint chips as well, various brands, but especially Valspar. I've been looking for a similar paint, clandhans97 - try BM fog mist - a hint lighter and a hint more gray to me and in my space.

  • 8 years ago
    We too used Edgecomb Grey (mixed by a Sherwin Williams dealer). Painted the exterior of our house and everyone noticed the pink/putty look to it. We repainted.
  • 8 years ago
    I don’t think I’ll ever go to another dealer when searching for a color, I’ve made a few errors by trying the “match”.
  • 6 years ago

    It’s in my home now... I do not see any pink under stone if any it’s a green grey and very neutral... once again I think color matching is for me not a safe option. I’ve had that go totally wrong.

  • 6 years ago

    We just painted our dining room with Edgecomb gray . It was mixed by Ben Moore. our dining room doesn’t have a lot of light but has some . The color changes from day to night and the weather also changes the color . sometimes it’s a nice light tan and or beige. But - unfortunately when the sun is out , the Edgecomb Gray is the “ pinky purple “ that people on this forum are describing . We’ve already painted the dining room numerous times as we are new to painting and so we’re just going to keep it and make peace with it . Also , we painted a large thin wooden poster board with a sample of the E.C.G. . I didn’t see the pink color on the sample board . We listened to a review about the color and they never mentioned the pink- purple cast about the color .

  • 6 years ago

    It’s definitely a chameleon color especially if you have you have a lot of light. It’s on my second floor.. there it looks beige /gray..

  • 5 years ago

    I thought edgecomb grey looks like a dirty color. Not at all pretty. We have a lot of wood. Pics looked lovely!

  • 5 years ago

    Reading comments. Our painter’s advice was to stick with the paint manufacturer. We tried both an eggshell and flat. The flat was much lighter. I wanted a lighter color than edgecomb and reading suggested Glacier white. Looked really pretty in my kitchen light, but in the morning it is awfully bright.

  • 5 years ago

    Painter painted one coat of edgecomb gray in our south facing LR, looked great in the evening. Next morning, I saw the pink! Looking for a greige that is not blue or green.... but not pink either! Agreeable gray? Colonnade gray? Help!

  • 5 years ago

    Responding to Simpsonc: We only have Edgecomb gray in our windowless bathroom and love it. Grays we like in other parts of the house: Winds Breath. Tyler gray. York gray. It just depends on the natural light in your house.

  • 5 years ago

    I have edgecomb grey in a bathroom with no windows and love it. So we just painted our basement family room in it. There are 2 medium size windows. It definitely has a pink undertone. Our lighting isn't the greatest downstairs, so I'm going to check that out when we can get back into a lighting store.


  • 5 years ago

    I painted some of a wall facing a wall with large north facing windows and we saw a pink undertone! So we didn’t go with it. I may try using it in our basement which has no natural light.

  • 4 years ago

    I also am considering Edgecomb Gray and with all the talk of seeing pink, my question is if my floor tile has an undertone of pink, would more pink be brought out or does it tone the pink down some? any comments?

  • 3 years ago

    I just painted our den with edgecombe grey today (we had it at our previous house and it was gorgeous), omg it looks terrible! This new context has a lot of natural sunlight, the walls now look like a beige salmon. My husband refused to believe me that it was edgecombe grey, I showed him the chip and the paint I put on it to check the match, so hard to believe/understand that it looks this wrong. Guess a whole bunch of testing colours on the wall is the next step. Sigh.

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