SW Austere Gray looks green, too. Lighting and other things in the room make a big difference to how colors read.

Yes. At times it can also turn baby blue depending on your lighting. I have it in a bedroom and it is gorgeous. Tried it in my 2 story living room, and it did not work at all. Depends on your lighting, I believe. What room are u using it in?

I haven't seen that particular color, but I do spend a lot of time looking at paint colors as I love color, and can tell you that a lot of grays have a green undertone to them. I'm sure that probably does, and you're not getting rid of it short of painting.

That being said, I find the green undertones very pretty.

It's in my hallway and it starts on my first floor and goes up to my third floor with no breaks. It has been a light tan color for years and I'm trying to head to the muted warm grays. I really thought Gray Owl was a winner...now...not so much. The third floor hallway is almost done and I think I should cut my losses and start over before the painter heads down the stairs. The woodwork is not painted yet but I'm using BM White Dove. Not sure how I could have been so wrong...I painted a white painters board and held it up about a zillion times in the different lights and different parts of the halls and stairways.

I've used BM's Revere Pewter, and Edgecombe Grey...they are wonderful 'warm muted bray's....the kind you are seeking. I think they'd look great!

Me too! I painted my kitchen gray owl after seeing the most beautiful kitchen here on hours with gray owl. I like green and blue but oh my! There was no gray to be seen only a greeny/ blue. My husband is now painting over it. Playing it safe and painting the walls cloud white same as cabinetry and I figure I can transition to a colour later. Still need to get finishing touches in.

Greene Mint light UGH!!!!!!!!

"I painted my kitchen gray owl after seeing the most beautiful kitchen here on houzz with gray owl."

That's why judging colors on a computer monitor never works--they aren't calibrated and they all look very different. Didn't you actually look at the color in the store? Try a sample? Get a paint chip?

You might take a look at BM China White.

Check BM Intense White also, with white dove, it's very subtle.

As an oil painter, I mix gray for my paintings and I know that I can create a gray color many different ways. Gray is usually made up of several colors (it's not just black and white as many people think). Depending on which ones you use to create a gray, it will have a element of those colors in it. Also as others have pointed out your lighting (natural and artificial) makes a big difference. You could repaint (get a sample this time and try it in the room) or try swapping out your light bulbs. Light bulbs can make a big difference in the way colors appear in your room. Many artists use daylight bulbs for their studios to reflect colors properly.

BM Metro Gray is the best. Cut it with 25% or 50% white to get the color you want

I had my office painted a beautiful grey (sorry, I don't know the exact color), close to the color of my Mac laptop. With light beige floors with slight grey streaks, Atrium white woodwork, and red and blue accessories, it is wonderful. Foolishly, I asked the painter to use the same color in my guest bedroom, which has a sage green carpet. You guessed it--the walls look green. It's not too bad, just not what I had expected.

We just painted with Gray Owl and are saddened to learn that our rooms all look green! Completely disappointed with this color.

Have you tried changing out your light bulbs?

We do plan on changing out all the bulbs and light fixtures in the rooms. Just surprised that the walls all looked green rather than gray. The house is still being remodeled.

I used SW mountain road, which I observed to be gray on the sample, but turns out more like a slate green/gray which also varies with lighting.

I always ask what pigments are in a paint...it helps me to understand the paint color...I am not a professional but it has worked for me.

Green Owl does have some in green in it. Also, if your room gets light from the north, the green will be more obvious. You need to get some samples, paint them on white cardboard and hang them on the wall. Only then you can see how the color looks in your light

Same! Those undertones are crazy. In one corner it's grey (see photo below)... but check out the green in the main room! This is only one coat so far...It's a very pretty green but not what I was expecting. I was thinking it would be more of a blue undertone if anything. I'm hoping once the grey tiles are exposed and our furniture goes in it will take on the grey. Funnily enough the corner which is closest to the glass doors is much more grey...

Again, this is only one coat so I think it will go more gray with the next layer.

It is helpful to look at the fandecks of colors at your paint store ( I know Benj. Moore has them) to understand your chosen color. Always ask what pigments are in your color because those color pigments form the basis of your color. I went on line, checking out Colorography as noted above. Lots of info on color...

Not happy with gray owl in my bedrooms. Our walls have a greenish tint and we are so disappointed because it's brand new construction and now need to pay out of pocket to re-do.

Susie, so sorry that happened. It's not much but maybe the Gray Owl experience has helped you understand the light in the space a little better so you know what to look for, what you want for the repaint.

I have to respectfully disagree about trying to decipher color appearance based on the formula. I find it more frustrating and confusing than helpful.

While referencing the colorants sounds like it should be a logical approach, fact is it's anything but. This source simply describes why that's true:
“Unfortunately, the color mixture “predictions” made by subtractive color theory are often inaccurate, because the light absorbing properties of a colorant are affected by its physical state — its particle size, transparency, density, dispersion or medium, the color of the substrate, the other colorants it is mixed with, the thickness of the color layer, and so on. I call these problems substance uncertainty: because of them, the color of ingredient substances does not determine the color of their mixtures.
Often, colorants must be physically mixed in order to find out what their mixture color will be.” ~Bruce MacEvoy (handprint.com)

Gray owl also turned very blue for me, the room faces somewhat north and has little real light in it. I am very disappointed as I painted 2 coats of primer and two coats of gray owl, lots of hard work out into this already.

I need a new color recommendation!!

What undertone are you aiming for and do you still want to paint with grey?

Thanks everyone for your comments! It was June 2015 when I was completing this project. I had tried Gray Owl in my hallway which is very large...it looked mint green and was horrible. Fortunately, I caught them after just one partial wall...changed the whole hallway to Revere Pewter which in certain lights look light tannish and certain lights looks gray...all in all a great neutral but definitely not a true gray. Maybe a greige with a tad more beige than gray. Having said that, I did use the gallon of Gray Owl we had left in a small bathroom and it is very pretty. My other bathroom has one of my favorites BM Stonington Gray...it's a great color! Everyone should have that somewhere! ;)

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I'm glad that you found a color that worked! Smgerth happened to find this thread recently and added onto it asking for a color recommend, in hindsight I probably should have suggested they start a new one to ask. :)

Oh, no problem! I have a whole list of colors that are perfect! BM Chelsea Gray...don't be scared of it being too dark because it's not once you get it up on the wall; BM Coventry Gray...perfect; BM Stonington Gray...beautiful with blue undertones but NOT too much blue; SW First Star...very, very light gray; Behr Dolphin Fin; SW Light French Gray; SW Big Chill...just to name a few great grays. ;)

I live in California which is one of the states where Dunn Edwards operates, last year I had my home repainted throughout but Smgerth mentioned that the color they chose looked too blue for their liking and blue was the undertone I *wanted* when I chose the grey I did. :P I went over and had them make up several sample containers to try, once I'd painted some rectangles on the walls I knew which one I wanted (Silver City mixed 10% darker) which has a subtle bluish tone and looks lovely with the color scheme and furniture in my home.

If Gray Owl is too green toned for your room, (like how it looked in my family room) try using Benjamin Moore Cement Gray 2112-60. It was definitely cooler and a better gray match. It took us several samples to get to the right gray and we finally found it - although we lightened the color by 75%. I recommend it ;)

I want to paint my kitchen cabinets so im trying greys on this desk to test. This is chelsea grey. It looks quite green to my eye in the room, but in this picture it looks perfect. ????

I read a designers comment somewhere that gray owl was a color he had a lot of difficulty with. In the right space, like any color, it's gorgeous.

Don't feel bad... I went with bm's best selling color, Revere Pewter, in my northwest facing room and BLECH... it's the ugliest color I've seen in my life and this one convinced me that I don't care for muddied colors.

The only time I like it is at night with ambient lighting when it seems to have a bluish cast. During the day I stayed out of the room as much as I could. It looks like blah concrete sort of greenish and it's waaay too muddy for me. Looks great online in others homes though, lol. Maybe it's the orangish natural woodwork here that cast it into ugly land.

The pic here is revere pewter. I even tested it but apparently a small swatch on the wall doesn't quite cut it. Not what I envisioned AT ALL.

We are in the middle of new construction, and after already changing my first gray color (it was too dark), I have Gray Owl in my living room/kitchen. I do not like it, as it has the green and blue undertones, depending on lighting. I painted the bathrooms and bedroom White Wisp, which is the lightest color on the same swatch as Gray Owl. Again, a blue undertone. I'm hoping that furniture and decorations will help make a difference. If not, it looks like I will be spending my summer painting. Update...i don't know why it posted the same pic twice, and the color does look grayish in the pics. However, it does not look gray with my cabinets.

I loved the sample for gray owl. I went to the store and they gave me a green/teal looking gray ( did not like it). I came back 5 minute later the remixed ahhh much better. I made it home and thw color looked tealish gray. So the next day I went to the Benjamin Moore store by my job and I got exacly like the one in the sample. The formula at rhe first place is not the same as the one at the BM store ( both are BM but one is the harware store that sells BM). I love the color. This is a small project and I am doing it by myself after work and cooking and etcetc so its taking a long time. But I am pleased. With Gray Owl. the first stick and the first can is the wrong color hope they will exchange it for me.

Been there! I was painting shelves to go in a bedroom I had just painted Gray Owl, which turned out more blue since the room faces east. I painted the shelves in a west facing room and wondered what the heck was going on...they looked green! Sure enough when I brought them back into the bedroom they changed to looking blue. Oh the tricks light plays on us!

Wish I had found this before I painted. Just finished double coating our Master bedroom and closet in Gray Owl.......... I would rename the colour "depression" if I could! The rest of our house is done in BM Edgecomb Grey and BM Penthouse and the contrast when you walk into our bedroom is very unattractive. The color looks grungy!

Glad to find this thread. I'm in paint color purgatory! I'm looking for a neutral clean pale gray for east facing rooms. My home is in the forest, so not much natural light, with maple flooring and brilliant white trim/doors/ceilings, Nantucket Grey (which reads a pretty sage green) What a nightmare this is! Has anyone tried Classic Grey?

Classic grey is a faint khaki. Get a sample and you will see. Try revere pewter or repose grey but repose will pull blue in a room with out a lot of natural light.

Grays are very tricky! Edgecomb Gray turned violet blue In my house & we have tons of windows & sun year around (coastal So California). Expensive mistake. I gave up & had it repainted. My new house will all be white, more on trend since gray is considered passé in my area anyway.

I've been going through this, trying to find a white to brighten my east facing rooms. I believe (with lots of feedback and research) that I am going to use Paper White. I tried samples of Grey Owl, Classic Grey...well...looked so bleh and depressing. I have Revere Pewter in my office, and I LOVE it, but the lighting here can't work it.

After looking at Gray Owl color sample, I've discovered SW Aloof Gray would be exactly 25% darker. I have it in my bed/bathroom. It is Gray/blue and very pretty.