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Advice for a white color for basement

6 years ago

Our basement has two big ground level big west facing windows and a neutral carpet that has a lot of green in it. What white for the walls? We have SW Creamy upstairs but I'm worried it might be a shade too bright in the basement? I'd like to keep it bright but not boring white.

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JudyG Designs
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
For west light I always recommend B.M. Patriotic White…just enough blue in it to balance the sun, but it is still a white.
sjeschke thanked JudyG Designs
fnmroberts
6 years ago
https://beta.photobucket.com/u/treeshouse/a/43b4c1a6-fce4-4847-855c-018e5622ddad

This is a link to an album of photos of our basement. Many of our walls are a basic white and we used bold colors to identify different spaces within a Great Room. success depends on lighting.
sjeschke thanked fnmroberts
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