Sherwin Williams Creamy or Dover White?

10 years ago

I am trying to decide between SW Creamy or Dover White for my kitchen cabinets. I almost went with SW Westhighland White because it is my favorite white paint color - perfect bright white but warm too. It has deep gold as the only tint in it so it is nice & warm. I am leaning away from WHW now though because it is pretty light and I am thinking I need something just a little bit creamier with more pigment for my kitchen. I looked at Steamed Milk but think it's a little too pink/grey.
The two I have settled on to decide between are Creamy & Dover White. Has anyone compared them? Any main differences?

Please don't suggest any other whites because I have taken so long to get it down to these two and don't want to consider any others at this point (#crazedbywhiteapaint!). Please only post if you have advise on which to choose between Creamy & Dover White :) Thanks!

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aleksbates
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10 years ago

So I decided on SW Creamy for the cabinets (Dover White was just a tad lighter and more yellow-almost an undetectable difference though) and then SW Westhighland White for the walls. It all turned out beautiful! Here is a before and after. One "after" shot is during the daytime in mainly natural light and the other is in the evening with our lighting.

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User
10 years ago
I am in the process of priming and painting four kitchen cabinet doors with two shades(different from yours) of SW white. Reason? Wife cannot decide which color she wants, so, I will primer/paint four of the doors and rehang them so she can see the two colors in place during all hours of the day/night with different lighting.

What other folks think really has no bearing on your decision. Putting the two colors in place allows you to actually see them in the space.
User
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
These colors are the same neutral light gray but one is slightly darker than the other. To me neither is very "creamy" or warm.

The choice should depend on the rest of the materials and finishes in the kitchen so you should put samples of all of them together and look at them in different levels of natural and artificial lighting before making a decision.
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03_Aggie
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
The only experience I have is with Dover White and that is only because we have Divine White and someone confused the two and purchased a gallon of Dover instead of Divine when doing some work at the house.

Sorry, I know that isn't really helpful. We did look at Dover originally as it was recommended by SW as one of their more popular whites.
sherrys
10 years ago
Great choice! Amazing how it changes the tone of your flooring.
klem1
10 years ago
" I will primer/paint four of the doors and rehang them so she can see the two colors in place during all hours of the day/night with different lighting."

It's guys like you Mac that make life hard for the rest of us husbands. ):
Julia Hart
8 years ago
love how they turned out!
meadow1652
8 years ago
They turned out great!
luscious111
8 years ago
Looks great!
kim4000
7 years ago
I am debating the same two colors. All my exterior and interior trim and doors and fireplace are Dover White. It's a very calming white and my favorite white. Will always use Dover when repainting the trim, doors, and firplace. Wondering to go with Creamy for kitchen cabinets or match them to the trim to keep the unity?. hard choice. From the pictures online it seems that Dover White is slightly brighter than creamy.... can't really tell
HU-675075872
5 years ago
2year ago now its july 2021 wondering what color you painted your kitchen cabinets i have all my trim fireplace dover white to how crazy and want to do creamy fir kitchen cabinets and not sure if i should just do dover to keep it all the same paint or go for a little more cream so hard to choose