I don't remember off the top of my head, but isn't chantilly lace more of a warm white? I have decorators white throughout my apt (with light stained white oak floors) and I feel like it's more of a Scandinavian look. DW is clean and fresh looking. I like how other colors in my apartment pop against it. But you should put up some samples before deciding. We had 4 or 5 colors up on the primed walls before making the final decision. I'm not a designer, btw.

Colors look different in different lighting and rooms. The best thing to do would be to purchase a sample size of each color and paint a large posterboard (or better yet, foam core board) with each color. That way you will have a large area of color and you can move it from room to room and look at it during different times of day/lighting conditions. Our perceptions of colors also change depending on what color(s) it is next to, so the tone of your furniture, view from the windows (a verdant park vs a brick high rise, for example), etc. For more hints, see How to choose and use color in your home.

@Val did you put the DW all over including ceilings? They keep asking me if I want same color all over and in my mind yes but then they keep saying the colors look diff depending on where it is. I get that but is there really no way to know until I've painted the entire place??

I have both of those whites in my home. Decorators white is on many of my walls (other walls are in shades of blues) and chantilly lace is what I used on my kitchen cabinets. I feel like the decorators white is colder than the chantilly lace, it has more cool grey in it than the chantilly lace. I like them both a lot, and I feel like they're easy to work with, but I'm drawn towards cool colors.

@skmom that's my dilemma. I prefer cooler colors too. But I also want something bright. On the swatches I have done it seems that Chantilly Lace is brighter. So I'm torn.

Definitely do samples on the wall. I think decorators white comes out bright. I used eggshell finish on the walls, same color in semigloss for doors and trim. I think the ceilings are just white. I don't remember. I was about to go with white dove (which is warmer) and I'm glad I went with DW. It's nice and crisp.

Left is Chantilly Lace, middle is Behr Bakery Box, far right is Decorators White.

Top Middle is Chantilly Lace, bottom left is Decorators White

Sorry in post above it is bottom right that's DW.

As you see from the photos. Chantilly Lace looks brighter. But I definitely see that it's slightly creamier.

Oh, and it's hard for me to tell if the chantilly lace would look slightly grey at night or not... my decorators white is in an eggshell finish and I don't have a lot of lights shining directly on them, while my chantilly lace cabinets are in a glossy finish and do have some lights really close to them with shiny backsplash tiles right next to them bouncing around more light. ;)

My ceilings are just a very flat ceiling white. They have a stomp texture on them I despise and I wanted to de-emphasize them as much as I can until we can do something else with them. My trim is just untinted white from a can, not a particular white...

You're not going to get an accurate feel for any of those whites with all that color still on the walls... it's throwing them all off. ;)

@skmom so what should I do to get the best feel?

Well, if you were going to use a separate primer first you could put that on first and then test... but most people don't do that anymore. Otherwise get some large sample boards would be easier than little sections of paint.
I think in your photos the decorators white looks a lot cooler/duller than it really is because it's surrounded by a yellow/tan color.

What do you think about the Bakery Box in the middle? I feel like it's a good compromise. The only thing is I have no concept of difference in quality between the brands. I am tight on funds though so if I can get the same look for cheaper that would be great.

I chose Decorator White for my cabinets, doors, and trim, in my kitchen and dining room. (I hope to extend that to the rest of the house, one day, but there is so much trim in my house, that may never happen!)

DW is a cool, crisp white. That was what I wanted for my kitchen, and it turned out perfectly.

Chantilly Lace is a tad warmer - not much though, really it's quite close to DW. I wanted the cooler color, because I knew I wanted another white for my bottom wall, that was warmer, but still white - that would pop out from the trim. So the lower wall is a warmer white - Snowfall White. Chantilly is probably between the two - but I needed more "room" between my cool and warm, without going too warm, on the bottom. I very much wanted to stay away from anything "creamy" looking.

By the way, the DW is the satin finish, in the BM Advance paint line. It looks like a semi-gloss, but it isn't. The walls are BM Regal Select, in eggshell. Both excellent paints to work with.

Well, I've used Behr paints for decades and I mostly had good results with them... until I moved to this house over 5 years ago. I started with the Behr paints (and some Valspar too) in this house too and I went with he satin finish like I'd always done before but in my current house I have smooth walls. My previous homes always had a knock down texture... I had no idea how many "sins" that knockdown texture was hiding. Sigh. I was having issues with my smooth walls with seeing wherever I had cut in with a brush, it looked different than where I'd rolled the paint. I was now also having issues with touch up paint... the sheen always looked different.

I didn't use a Benjamin Moore paint until I tried the decorators white because I was convinced they were just over priced... but I wanted that specific color and I wanted to try an eggshell finish, I'd never seen eggshell in Behr, just the satin. (I'd never tried one of those washable flat paints, and I'd never used flat on walls because I have 5 kids and I wanted to be able to clean it easily, LOL! My kids are older now, hence the white walls finally, LOL!) But now I won't use the other stuff... the BM is nice, easier to work with and I haven't had the issues I had with the Behr and valspar on these smooth walls.
Ps, my white walls have been very easy to clean... I just go around with a magic eraser a few times a year.

Looking at your pictures it looks like you have heavily textured walls??? I was always fine with Behr paint in my other homes. The smooth walls are more difficult to get things right.

This is the texture

Yeah, that's a lot more forgiving when it comes to painting. :)

I checked my paint cans and it looks like we did use decorators white in flat finish for the ceiling. Definitely do larger samples than those - either priming first or sample boards. In my last home, I did samples on mustard yellow walls and chose linen white, which looked really white against the mustard and my home looked yellow afterwards. I ended up repainting after one year because I hated it so much.

I just wanted to pipe in and say that Sherwin Williams is 40% off until the 23rd (I've used Lowe's and Home Depot and it just was never as good) Not many people realize that you can get the paint on sale and return it at a later date to be tinted.

It's on sale a lot, but just in case you're not sure when it might get done.

That is a great deal!

That's a really good deal. What would you all recommend as a comparable color in Sherwin Williams?

You have Orange Peel walls. BM decorators white is a slightly grey tone white loved by designers for its ability to blend with so many colors and styles. If you use it for your ceiling do the flat; for the walls do the washable Matt finish. It is a lovely , durable finish worth the extra $$ , with a soft , velvety finish. You will not get a correct read on these colors the way you are doing this . Get some sample boards at the paint store, paint them and then hold them up to the wall. Your current wall color is interfering with your ability to see these colors correctly, you would need to prime a large area and paint a much larger sample! The painted board will allow you to move it around to different areas of the room.

I recently painted most of my house including trim (minus a few rooms) white. I wanted a crisp fresh white. Choosing was SO hard. On the advice of a designer I engaged to help me with this decision, we settled on Benjamin Moore tinted to match Ball & Farrows "All White". It's very white, quite undertone free. Looks great.

You don't need to buy boards from the paint store. But you do need to see your samples differently than how you are doing it. Go to an arts and crafts store. But a large sheet of the heavier white poster board. Cut it into 8x10 pieces. Paint a sample color on it - 2 coats, and leave a 1 inch border. Tape those on the walls. You can move them around to different areas to see how the different lighting affects the color.

Thanks! I will try a different way to swatch

Chantilly lace is a cool white...