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Looking for the perfect warm gray

6 years ago

I've been going nuts these past few weeks trying to find a good gray for this room. I wanted it warm enough so that it didn't look obviously cold/blue with all my warm furnishings, but i wanted it gray enough to cool off the reds and yellows in my room. As usual, I look to something that is in the yellow/gray range. After swatching a few colors and spending way too much time on this, I chose BM Coastal Fog. It looked good in the smaller swatches, but on the whole wall it looks like pea soup! I really hate green walls. It's making me crazy that even swatching a fairly large area isn't enough to get a feeling for how the whole room will look. Part of it is the fact that my eyes are seeing it next to the existing color on the wall, so that screws up the perception. I'm happy with the LRV of Coastal Fog, but I'd like to shift to something that feels more neutral in here without looking brown, pink, purple, green or blue. Colors I'm considering now are a slightly darkened versions of Revere Pewter (maybe too brown/pink?), Cumulus Cloud (maybe too blue/lavender?), Seattle Mist (maybe too green) or Apparition? My room is southwest facing, but i don't get much direct sunlight because of the house next to me. Just some direct rays in the afternoon, but I don't need to consider them, as it's pretty transient. Any color suggestions?




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