Can you post a photo of the bedding? What is on the floor and in addition do you know the name of the aqua that was used that she would like to keep?

Really depends on the tone of the aqua light or mid tone? Also the bedding IMO.

Lazy Gray as seen on the bottom???

Depends completely on the tone of aqua and what else is in the room is all. The undertones of gray are blue, green, violet and taupe. So, that will play a factor in what else is in the room as gray is very tricky!

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I think Worldly Grey is very popular this year. Subtle and soft.

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In person the wall color is brighter and more blue green than it reflects. It's actually SW 6767 Aquarium

It will for sure be a shade of gray, her furniture and curtains are white.

I agree with Jan about the white. However, I do understand if she's set on gray. Maybe the lightest, softest gray in the bedding.

Use a gray from the bedding.

Cute! Use the lighter grey from bedding.

You need a gray from the same hue family as Aquarium.

I like Zero Gravity better than Blue Springs but both work well with Aquarium.

Lori, so would that be a gray with a blue undertone?

The sample that I have of SW Lattice has blue undertones

Is her carpet brown? If so, the grey you choose will need to be significantly lighter than the carpet so as not to clash. I would match the lightest grey in the bedding. Toss various paint chips on the bed; the one you can't see is the one to choose lol.

The carpet is a light taupe. But we'll be recarpeting our upstairs, so that will change. Thank you.

Lori, so would that be a gray with a blue undertone?

:-D

No, I don't do the undertone thing because that's not how color works. Undertones are purely subjective visual evaluation - it's just somebody's opinion of what they think a color looks like under whatever the lighting conditions happen to be where ever they are.

Hue and hue family comes directly from a color's DNA. It's an objective color attribute - which is very different from the theories swirling around the word undertone.

Every color belongs to a hue family - every color of white and every color of gray - they all belong to a hue family. And you can find a gray from every single hue in the spectrum because every vivid hue can be grayed down in neat, uniform, consistent steps all the way down to a true neutral gray.

That's what I did with Aquarium. I knocked back the colorfulness, the chroma until it was a near neutral gray. And then I changed the lightness so I could give you one lighter and one darker option.

The new gray needs to relate to something in the room. Pulling a gray from the bedding is a good idea - except that wall of Aquarium is quite bold. And bossy. So, I would try grays that relate specifically to the Aquarium color first because that color relationship is going to take up the most visual space. Which is why I suggested Zero Gravity and Blue Springs.

Hope that helps.

Gray is difficult as is white paint. You might select a couple u like at SW and test the colors AM to PM so to see different lighting on a white poster board leaving the edges of the poster board white so whatever ever wall you’re painting if it’s not white your eye can best see the color accurately as possible. Naturally u can cut the withe poster board in half and try 2 colors u lean toward. Nice thing about SW is they sell larger paint sample cans so the reproduce to gallon cans much more accurately than say a very small sample. The BM dealers within 25 miles to me don’t sell sample cans however I still have my Benjamin go to colors from trial and error.

I’m not certain I would lean blue gray with Aqua as shown as at some point in the day most likely you will have a lighter blue and an aqua...

That is as u mentioned u wanted a lighter tone gray. It could lean baby blue during part of the day according to lighting or in PM with lights on.

I agree. I wouldn't want it to look baby blue

I agree. I wouldn't want it to look baby blue

Just because Zero Gravity and Blue Springs belong to the blue hue family -- like Aquarium - that doesn't absolutely translate to "blue undertones" or "blue-gray".

Like Aquarium, the grays are actually closer to the end of the blue-green hue family than they are the 'true blue' region of the blue hue family.

No need to borrow trouble before you even get samples - or make assumptions about what might happen.

Get some chips/samples and see how they behave in context of the bold, Aquarium color.

When you understand that gray is categorized by hue family, it's a lot easier to manage. You're starting with grays from the blue-green to blue region of the spectrum. If they don't work, then you know to try grays from a different hue family neighborhood - like grays with more greeness.

If one strategy doesn't work, you try another. An organized system according to hue family helps keep it simple.

Just an example of what I was trying to explain last night. Try to sample your colors using this method so your eye isn't also trying to discern the gray with the current color on the wall. It can really make a difference how you see the true color in your space keeping a white border.

Thank you, Claire. She wants more of true gray, not a blue gray.

Go to the SW website and use their ColorSnap Visualizer. You can pick colors fro SW and pair them with your Aquarium.