Sorry this has happened! As Jan indicated, always paint on a large piece, not the wall, prior to painting. I use a piece of ultralight drywall. A matboard is fine also.

All paints have an rgb value (red, green, blue content.) Here is sea salt.

Sea salt RGB Value: R-205 | G-210 | B-202

Here is a similar color, but with more green.

SW 6456 Slow Green · More Info

Look for that when purchasing a paint. Also, as Jan indicated, the surroundings can affect a paint. So, simply changing the paint may not solve your issue. East-facing rooms tend to make a paint look more blue, for example.

What direction does the room face? Finally, what other colors are in the room?

Have a peaceful and hopeful Memorial Day.

The addition of yellow.........is the antidote to the blue in the sea salt. You're simply adding a dab of a primary color (yellow), to a tertiary color ( sea salt is blue hued green .....to make it more so!!

Even adding some yellow towels will have an effect on the color. But if you have enough paint to do another coat Jan’s suggestion woulld work but you need to have enough paint in one can to do the job because you will never mix it the same twice.

Start with a NEW gallon!!! OF THE SEA SALT, you are only using the old for a comparison, and even with standard chip formula, some variation can occur, so use your beginning paint for the visual you want "improved". A new "formula" will be created as the mixer adds drop by drop yellow to the new "sea salt". That formula, which can be printed on a sticker to go on the new can, will mean at ANY time , more can be mixed to exactly match. It is beyond simple. It really is.

If you want a greenish cast, I would suggest a different paint color.

Thanks everyone. Yes, we have all white stuff in the room, grey floor, marble countertop and perhaps a few natural wood accents like mirror and shelves. I am thinking we should have the sea salt customized for more green. The room is east facing. The large swatch I painted on the wall looked great. But when the whole room got done, it ended up very very blue. like 100% blue. Thanks for taking the time to reply and give me your input - much appreciated!

This can happen with any color of paint because the lighting has so much influence. It can look different from one wall to the adjoining wall. That's why it's always good to test on the actual walls.

Yes I did test large amounts on the actual walls.

Hi. As I mentioned above, east-facing rooms tend to take on blue tones. You will notice this especially in the morning.

Consider also that LED bulbs tend to look more blue.

There are so many paint colors available, I don't feel it is necessary to create a custom paint. Also, what a paint looks like in a store can be very different once you are in the actual room (as you have discovered).

If you could provide a photo of the room, that would be helpful. I wonder if the grey floor might have blue undertones.

Well. In 25 years of design I have used possibly three straight from the formula colors. Why? I'm picky? Could be!! But most to the mass brands/ colors are not complex enough, or may need a bit of "graying off" or as I said I am plain ol' picky. Farrow and Ball has the subtle and complex undertones, but a more limited distribution in stores.......so, alas I tweak. It is SUCH a simple process at the paint counter, and these are always the "customized by me" colors that a client is then asked "what is the name/number of that gorgeous color?" I say "share if you desire, it's YOUR color, and it will, just like a chicken casserole recipe, have a different result in her "oven" .Just sayin......: )

What color would you use on the ceiling of a bedroom with sea salt walls?

Pale Powder by Farrow and Ball is blue with more green. Very pretty, but expensive.

SW Contented is a greenish gray.

I have Sea Salt in my well lite kitchen and love it! I suggest changing light bulbs to get rid of the blue. Mine is green during the day because of my skylight but once it gets darker it’s more green grey, never had it look blue.

Have a look at Benjamin Moore Grey Wisp (BM - CC-670) Others on the same card are Raindance (BM CC-680) and Piedmont Gray (BM CC-690). These are more definitely green with grey undertones.

The Grey Wisp is a nearly perfect match for Restoration Hardware Silver Sage. I have it in two bedrooms, one that gets a lot of light and it is most definitely greenish. The other room faces North east and gets less light - more grey in that room but still greenish.

These might be the colours you are looking for.

Sea Salt is a lovely colour but I nearly always see blue when I see it used.

Try some samples as others have suggested and definitely try changing your light bulbs which can make a big difference.

ginsha, do you happen to know what color ceiling and trim you paired with sea salt walls? Your room looks beautiful!

YES - I was so disappointed. However, I have cream trim in the bathroom, and I wonder if the yellow in that pulled away from the yellow in the paint color, making it look more blue. We used the same paint in my Dad's bathroom, and it was the color I wanted it to be. He has white trim.

You see color by comparison. Yes, white trim is a big difference. As is lighting.

I used sea salt on one house, loved it. It pulled more green. I used it on a second home & it pulled more blue. Disappointed. I’m thinking it’s the position of how the sun hits the room. I have white trim in both homes.

I had the same problem. I used topsail in my kitchen and I’m not in love, less in love with the idea of repainting so I’m going to keep it. Wanted more of a green tint for my bedroom since it has been so dark (beige and brown) for so long) I went with sea salt. I had so many girlfriends say they liked that color so I felt more comfortable going with it but I put it on the wall and eeeeeek it’s so blue. The spot I painted in the bathroom looks nothing like the bedroom. I changed out the light bulbs and it looks more green now. Also we re-did our floors two years ago and when we did that it changed the wall color from beige to ugly green, Hence the change. Good luck. I’ll post a picture when it’s all done.

maybe try gray mirage?

Help! My SW Sea Salt turned out to look like a washed-out paste, light BLUE instead of the oceanic blue-green that I was hoping for. What kind of lighting/light bulbs should I consider? What about decor? What can I do to bring out the green? Also, the space is small with natural light that comes through small-ish windows that face West and another window that faces East. Thanks!

I too thought Sea Salt would be exactly what I was looking for in my master bedroom. It definitely wasn't! It was waaaay too blue for me and actually a deeper color than I had thought it would be. Then I tried Filmy Green. That was better but still darker and with more color intensity than I wanted. I finally ended up painting it a completely different choice--Shoreline Haze from Valspar.

My bedroom is tricky. In a heavily wooded setting with a wall of windows on the north and one window on the west. I know it is the setting that makes the difference. And, of course, during the course of the day the color changes dramatically.

I know nothing about lighting, but it would make sense to me that if you installed bulbs with a yellowish cast, the blue would change to more of a green (I think).

I painted my bathroom Sea Salt thinking I was getting a spa green, just like the above picture. It looks icy blue...not an ounce of green color to it. its pretty, but frustrating,

I just had a guest room painted with Sea Salt. I was so excited to come home and see the finished product only to be disappointed. It was more blue than anything. I have a South facing room with pretty good natural light i read that would give the green hue i was looking for…no luck. After that I painted patches of Sea Salt in my bedroom, which is North facing. Again, it was blue. I was thinking about changing light bulbs but not sure what type I need. Was wondering if the fact I painted it over a dark color could affect the outcome?

Possibly. But more likely the quality & quantity of your available light.

Moving out of Sea Salt’s Hue Family neighbourhood to find something similar would be a good move & will help not to repeat the problem.

So finding a colour either further anti-clockwise into the Green-Yellow Hue Family or deeper clockwise into the Green Hue Family. Sometimes you need only move a few degrees and other times you might need to go a deal further.

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If the colour shift only happens at night, than altering your light bulbs can help to a degree. But if it occurs in the daytime too, then that is of little help.

These each sit increasingly further anti-clockwclockwise on the Color Strategist Color Wheel to SW Sea Salt.

Even viewing a large chip in various points of the room can be a good indicator of how they might behave.

I remember when one of the big paint companies used to print something like a formula on the back of the sample card. I found this helpful because you could tell by the formula that a color had a higher or lower bit of what ever color in it. By using that info you would have been able to know the percentage of blue color that was in this paint. You could see the balance of tints that were used.

I think it was SW because I remember that I used to buy that brand.

I suspect, but dont know for sure, that the computer has all of that info nowadays and the person mixing does not have to select the tints.............just a guess.

I found that info to be so useful when trying to determine the dominant tint in a can of paint, or what tint was lurking there to come out, unexpectedly.

It's completely my fault that I don't like the outcome. I knew it was a "Chameleon" beforehand. I really don't want to repaint since it's just a guest room and I don't have to look at it every day. I was hoping I could change lightbulbs or something to bring out the green...lol. I appreciate everyone's words and advise. Maybe it will grow on me, otherwise I'll probably wait until I'm bored during the winter months and repaint it.

We had the same experience in our LR; the room looked blue UNTIL we hung a painting with a blue sky above the mantle and…the room turned green!

Change to warm white light bulbs and see how it looks. It was far too green in my north facing bathroom and I had my painter re paint the room. Good luck!

Thank you! I will try changing the lightbulbs. I'm also going to experiment with the colors I decorate with to see if that will make any difference.

As mentioned above, it may sound counter-intuitive, but if you want the walls to appear less blue then sitting more saturated blue elements nearby will make the walls appear more neutral by comparison. Paintings, a chair, lampshades, a rug, curtains etc

That's what mine looks like too. Not at all green. In the a.m. it looks a little more gray but absolutely no green. So disappointing!

north facing LR and DR. Sea Salt looked icy blue.

YES! We have cream trim in our bathroom and the walls with this sea salt look baby blue - however, when we used the SAME color in the SAME can at my Dad's, who has white trim, it was the color I wanted! It just is not that color due to lighting and the yellow in the cream trim. I am not about to paint all of my trim white, but that would be the solution! I was really sad...but since it was the correct color at my Dad's I know they did not make a mistake mixing...

I’m trying to pick a color for my living room and I was sure sea salt was it…until I tried it and in the northern light it was a muddy blue. Same with all the popular blue/greens - rainwashed, beach glass, etc.

After reading everything I could find on north facing rooms and paint, I think I’m going with Liveable Green at 50%.

Paris Rain by BM. I have that in my master bath and SW Sea Salt in master bedroom.

I feel you. We've all regretted paint color choices.

I've been wanting to use Sea Salt for literally years but it's a complicated color. Depending on the time of day and lighting, Sea Salt can look blue, grey, or green. So I bought paint samples of Sea Salt and five other similar shades. I checked on them throughout the day for a week. I kept liking Sea Salt best so I went with it.

I like it so much that I used the color drenching technique. Satin on the walls and ceiling and semi-gloss on the doors and trim. It takes 30 days for SW Emerald semi-gloss paint to fully cure It's finally cured.. It's crazy how the same paint color can look so different depending on the sheen.

I hope that you find the right color for your walls. What I can say is that SW Emerald is over $100/ gallon and painting is exhausting.

SW and Benjamin Moore sell larger paint sample stickers that are a ton cheaper than $36/ quart to sample.

You've got this!!!