Since it depends on lighting, which is better for repose grey, more natural light or less And which do you have?

Not to throw a wrench in anything, but this is my living room with Revere Pewter on the walls. (sea salt in kitchen) I had originally wanted Repose or Agreeable Grey, but I went with RP. We have warm wood floors too and I think it works well. Best wishes!

I've had Repose, 75% Repose, 50% Repose, Agreeable Gray, and Revere Pewter in my last two houses. We even painted our brick exterior Repose Gray.

This was my Revere Pewter master bedroom:

Revere Pewter in my kitchen:

75% Repose in my living room:

Agreeable Gray in bedroom with lots of natural light:

I have Agreeable Gray in this house now and it reads much more "beige" especially in artificial light. However, as you can see, they are all very, very similar and lighting makes 99% of the difference. Overall, I'd say Revere Pewter is the best "chameleon" of the colors and the one I've been happier with in more applications than the other colors, BUT in areas with not a lot of natural light it can read green. It did that in my MIL's basement.

currently very muddy...

I once worked with someone that lightened a color into different shades to paint different walls in the same house to make it appear like more light was hitting the shaded areas. I have no idea how to do this or if it works but thought it was an interesting idea.

We are cue in a rental while our house gets Reconstruction done from water damage. This house has repose gray and silver shadow accents. I love it so much I’m going to repaint our house in these colors. the main source of light in these photos is northern... ignore the mess, we are still moving stuff over and cooking for tomorrow.

Looks great. Do you know the trim color they used?

Sugar dust from Lowe’s

Here it is at night...

In a lot of ways, yes. But it can look warm and cool at the same time depending on the light on the wall even at the same time of day.

I'm just worried with my very orangey floors that it will clash :(

I just chose Sherwin Williams Modern Gray for a property that has orange wood. They are in the process of painting now so work in progress therefore nothing to share yet. But it seemed to be the best choice of SW gray to me. It has a little bit of warmth to it.

Here is a perfect example...see how it looks warmer in the kitchen where the light is hitting it?

Hi CC, I'm not sure why the photos didnt go through before, but I'll try again. Revere Pewter in living room at my house :)

lori when lightening repose gray by 75% what does it do exactly to the colour?

Whenever you change a paint color formula, all 3 dimensions of color are affected: hue, value and chroma. Not just the one part or thing of the color you don't like changes -- the entire color changes.

And there is no way to know which dimensions will change or by how much until you have it cut, let it dry and look at it.

Thinking only one "part" of the color (the part you want to change) is going to magically happen just by having a paint store person divide some number is ridiculous.

Yet, most people think that's how color works.

I've lost track of the number of paint colors that we've measured and proven the marked difference between the original and the cut formulas.

It's not a matter of opinion that the cut versions are completely different colors with little to no relation to the original color, we can measure it and quantify those differences in detail.

We can measure how the colors differ in terms of hue, value, chroma, LRV, blueness, yellowness, redness, and greeness.

The majority of the time, the cut versions of original paint colors will be obviously and markedly different in at least one of those categories.

Value/Lightness is measurable, it's a quantity. It answers the question how light or dark is that color. For example, both colors have a Value of 8.

Brightness is visual assessment. It answers the question how light or dark does that quantity of value/lightness look. Both Agreeable and Repose are mid tones, they're in the middle in terms of brightness.

So, yes, they are similar in terms of brightness and we know that by looking at Value and/or LRV (light reflectance value)

I hope you keep us updated

just want to show everyone where the 2 colours will meet. walls are accessible beige on main level and when I do paint the hallway and bedroom upstairs you will still see the 2 colours side by side even though they are on separate levels. hoping despite the difference in colours that they still will mend well

Since color is very dependent on light in the space, these analysis are done with D65 illuminant, which means as close to natural light as possible. Your light in each space and from each direction will be different and will affect YOUR PERCEPTION of the color. (btw, you cannot do a good comparison with cardboard sample or painting on the wall, the background color bleeds through and will change the color). So, in answer to the question which color will be most likely perceived as lightest, the LRV helps us see that. This analysis shows that Agreeable Gray(AG) has an LRV of 63 and that makes it the most reflective of light or some say the "lightest". It is the "perception" of the color brightness. The scale is 0-100 and the closer to 100 the most reflective. Accessible Beige(A
B) has a LRV of 58 and Repose Gray(RG) is 59. So they are all fairly close in LRV.

I will try to post the photos of the comparison (been having trouble with Houzz being able to post, so give me a minute).

Haha - patience my dear. Here are the rest of the data.

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current paint, floors, dresser

C C - have you purchased any paints to sample yet?

sorry for the delay everyone, we ended up going with Mindful gray. the others looked too light. this is artificial lighting after just painting it. will post a picture when everything is back in its place and during daylight! :)

thoughts?

anyone?

I'll go with white curtains for sure!

hi everyone! its been a while. here is an updated photo of the bedroom
any suggestions or advise?