What was the wall color before painting? Have you done 2 coats

The wall color was a standard off white color. Maybe swiss coffee or something? Only one coat of repose gray

Does a painted wall (completely dry) match the color chip? Even with primer you may need two coats.

I just painted an entire rental property the SW repose gray and it totally looks baby blue...I was wondering the same thing. It's so crazy.

I'm having the same problem. I just applied my first coat of repose gray and it looks bluish to my friend and I (both color blind). My other friends say that it's gray but understand why I think it's blue (not sure what that means). Would a second coat help or should I try another grey?

Some greys have more blue undertones. Also some lighting can accent the blues. Direct sunlight shows the true color. Different light bulbs can help tone down the blue.

Ask the paint store for a less blue toned grey. A neutral grey. There are many shades of grey.

I have no experience with that color but do with a grey turning blue. We chose Bher River Rock for our living area and 20 ft ceilings. It was completely grey on the card. Testing would have been a good idea but this was before they sold the sample sizes. I came home to find my walls baby blue. I cried. But we finished them and added Bher Wheat Bread (which turned out to be grey) to some walls and I loved it. But if you don’t want blue, select a different color.

I'm seeing PLENTY of blue undertones. Very soft blue/gray. I would expect this gray to turn bluish in many situations (and I'm a flooring gal...not a designer).

The underlying wall colour could be interrupting the overall colour. This is why I recommend throwing down a coat or two of PRIMER before painting. Primer is CHEAP and it allows you to throw on one coat of the expensive paint+primer (never believe them that they cover in one coat). Thus making your project CHEAPER than 2 coats of the $80/gallon stuff.

That being said, the DIRECTION the room is facing is a HUGE indication of how the undertones will read. A north facing room (in the northern hemisphere) will turn everything blue. Or if there are blue undertones they will be made STRONGER by a north facing room. Think of what a colour looks like in the SHADE verse what it looks like in BRIGHT GOLDEN sunlight (ahem...gold is yellow = warm = opposite of blue).

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that you have something in this space that is encouraging the Repose Gray to show as blue. The fact that this is blue in natural daytime lighting is the hint. And BTW: winter daytime light is vastly different than summer daytime light (cloudy days = blue; sunny days = yellow).

If you don't want the blue, then you are probably better off by choosing another colour. And before you put that up, please use a coat of primer to cover the Repose Gray. It is MUCH cheaper than two coats of expensive paint.

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The blue is coming through because it is produced using blue tones in the black/white mix. It is as simple as that. You can attempt to decorate around it....or look at painting once again. Undertones are just that....they are UNDER the colour and often are hard to see unless you've played the "spot the undertones" game for years.

It took me 6 months working in women's retail to "spot" the undertones. Once you can spot them, you can always spot them. But until then, you could be guessing what you are going to get.

That's why many people will paint a 3ft x 3ft board (like artist's board) in the colour they like and then place it in different rooms at different times of the day. Only after viewing the colour in all 5 lighting situations will you be able to see the "true colours" in the paint you have chosen.

I have this color in my entire house. Depending on light, shadows, time of day, furniture, it changes. Sometimes it is more gray, other times it is more blue. We have a spot that my husband swore was painted a completely different color. It gets very little light, and at night, it looks dark gray.

Yep. As I stated above, the 3ft x 3ft painted artist's board would have shown you these changes. There are 5 times of day: early morning/first light, mid-morning/noon, after noon, evening (natural + artificial lighting) and night time (artificial lighting only).

Then you MULTIPLY the 5 times of day by the number of ROOMS you have. If you have 5 rooms, you will have an equation that looks like this: 5x5 = 25. With 5 rooms you will have 25 possible lighting combinations.

And then we look at flooring (oh dear). If you have one type of flooring throughout, then the equation is the same. If you have 3 different floors in those 5 rooms, you will then multiply 25 x 3. Now we have 75 possible options.

Whew. That's a LOT of investigation. What you are describing is quite normal for gray paint. I'm sorry you are not in love with it. Personally, I would suggest you keep the rooms that you LIKE (the colour is exactly what you wanted) and then choose new paint for those other rooms.

If you choose to go this route, I HIGHLY recommend purchasing 5-10 artist's boards and 5-10 samples of paint so that you can paint up a board and leave it in the rooms you wish to paint (you would also cover the current walls with white primer so that you can get a TRUE read of the colours without influence from the old).

Most of the SW grays are blue in my SW facing house. Even Agreeable gray shows blue. I have Gossamer Veil, Agreeable Gray on a paint board. Both pulling out lots of gray/blue. Not sure where to go on my color fan deck. Thinking of more beige or cream.

Weird that it shows blue?? I have SW Repose Gray in my son's room and it looks almost beige. We used 3000K warm white LED light bulbs. Maybe that is the difference?

If you have a SW color fan, compare Repose to Aloof Gray and you can see the subtle purple in Repose. Exact same LRV

I just painted a sample of repose grey on the wall and I’m seeing the same thing. Very blue. Living room faces south. I googled pics of repose grey and I see pictures that don’t look anything like each other- “I like that repose grey... oooo not THAT repose Grey.” The first pic is a no go... the second pic is what I love. I’m no designer but I’m seeing a warmer color with more green undertones in the pic I like. I guess repose is just not for me. 😓

This is a pic of it on my walls- right one is repose Grey and the left is a random Lowes color- villa grey by Valspar.

Just painted my walls with repose grey and what color do they look baby blue. The half bath same color looks light grey and the livingroom/dining looks light baby blue. Sucks cause I did my research.

You may find this illuminating reading,,,,

https://thelandofcolor.com/repose-gray-sw-7015-by-sherwin-williams/

Repose Gray is definitely shifty.

I just painted my entire downstairs and it looks like a baby boys nursery. I hate it!

Sherwinn williams should give us all our money back or a new color lol.

Buy the Sherwin Williams color fan deck! Super helpful!! You can use it in the future to compare paint colors. I got mine free because I buy a lot of paint.