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Color gurus: SW Accessible Beige or Wool Skein?

10 years ago

For a small east facing studio apartment? Or your favorite beige/greige?

We used Manchester Tan in my oldest's apartment, but hers faces south.

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  • 10 years ago

    I'd use BM Natural Cream or the Wool Skein. After the morning sun, the Accessible Beige, I think would turn pink. It's got a lot of pink in it.

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  • 10 years ago

    Accessible Beige throughout in our home. The entry faces east and gets lots of morning sun, but I don't see pink in it. I tend to notice at certain times of day more gray and at others more beige. I'm very pleased with this color. It just has a nice neutrality to it.

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  • 10 years ago

    Even split! Tibb, I will look at Natural Cream as well. It's a tiny studio, so we would like to keep it as light and airy as possible.


  • 10 years ago

    BM Natural Cream, SW Wool Skein, SW Accessible Beige

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  • 10 years ago

    BM Edgecome Gray? (and the Natural Cream as a comparison)

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  • 10 years ago

    Accessible Beige really DOES have a pinkish hue in that sample on my monitor. I'm not detecting that on my walls though. Color is WEIRD, I tell ya.

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  • 10 years ago

    It is weird! Lighting is everything!

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  • 10 years ago
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    I have Wool Skein in my east facing master bedroom and Accessible Beige in my connecting west facing master bathroom. I love them both! The Wool Skein is really a pale neutral. It is the lightest creme I would go for in any room. The Accessible Beige is a bit darker and warmer and makes more of a statement. I have no pink undertones in my bathroom, but it is on the west side. They are both lovely colors though and coordinate nicely. Here is AB in my bath. It is a nice warm complement for my gray marble.

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  • 10 years ago

    I have accessible beige throughout my house. I prefer it in the east and north side of the house. Here it is in the north side.

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    Here it is on the south facing side.



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  • 10 years ago
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    The color is gorgeous in your home, akt!

    Here's A. Beige in my east-facing foyer, mid-afternoon:

    This is our interior living room, which doesn't get a ton of natural light. I like the way A. Beige reads warm in this part of the house:

  • 10 years ago

    Auntjen, I didn't know you also had A. beige. The paint looks great in your spaces. I really love your living room and how the color looks in there.

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  • 10 years ago

    i have AB in our laundry room... no pink tones show... the wool skein is lighter and has a more of a yellow/tan tone --- I have a gallon sitting in our hall to paint an upstairs bathroom, but haven't painted it yet... AB is definitely more greige than WS.

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  • 10 years ago
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    I agree with busybee3. AB has some greige to it. The WS works well with yellow undertones. My master bedding has red, creamy yellow, and antique green and the WS is perfect with it.

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  • 10 years ago

    Thanks everyone. The kitchen is separate but of course you can see it. It's an Ikea kitchen in a green color. I think I'm leaning toward Wool Skein or the Natural Cream.

    The bathroom too has some green in it too.

  • 10 years ago

    We have Accessible Beige in some rooms in our office and there is no hint of pink. The windows in one room are north and west facing.

  • 10 years ago

    Kswl, now you have me on the fence again! The thing is, I learned first hand how lighting is everything. I once tried to paint my bedroom with the same yellow toned paint that was in our ground level TV room. It was a pink upstairs. I brought the paint stick down and it looked yellow down there. Magic.

    Our luck, the accessible will turn pink at night!

  • 10 years ago

    Ellindi, if you want to avoid pink undertones then I would not use A. Beige. It does have pink undertones in certain lighting. It can also look sort of cold and grayish in certain lighting. I have it throughout my home so I have seen the differences in different rooms with various lighting.

    Just my two cents.

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  • 10 years ago
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    I would never recommend a specific color in anyone else's home or office and that's why I never do :-)

    Color is affected by everything from the orientation of the room to the height of the ceilings, the flooring, amount of fenestration, type of overhead lighting and wattage of lamps, and your location's latitude. It's a complete mystery to me how people can pick a color off a chip or use a paint because someone else has it in his or her home. Perceived undertones are just as affected by all of the above. Our accessible beige looks gray at night!

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  • 10 years ago

    Very true Kswl! My water closet has a window which faces east and the A. Beige looks quite tan. However, it's a small room.

    The only way to choose a color is to test it on different walls and look at it at different times of the day and with various lighting (lamps, pot lights) etc.

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