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Accessible Beige or Agreeable Gray..help!!

6 years ago

Need to decide between these two colors for our entire house. I like agreeable gray but worry it doesn’t go with our beige flooring and our decor is more on the earthy/brown side. Excuse the dirty house but here are pictures.

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  • 6 years ago

    Accessible beige on the left and agreeable gray on the right.

  • 6 years ago

    Pretty house! What color is on the walls now?

  • 6 years ago

    Aw thanks! It’s white duck SW

  • 6 years ago

    I would keep current wall color.

  • 6 years ago

    You seem to have some grey and beige colors in your tile, but it's difficult to tell from the photos. Since you have white cabinets and a very light floor, I think the new wall color, being a hint deeper, will look great.


    Having painted a room a white with the wrong undertones in the past, I would definitely paint a sample of each on the wall where you have the frames (including low on the wall near the baseboards) and take it from there. You'll want to see how the colors tie into the flooring, and how they looks at different times of day. It might become very obvious choice to make.

  • 6 years ago

    Thank you for the advice. I actually did to that, just in a different room. Accessible Beige on the left and Agreeable Gray on the right. I’m starting to think the beige is a better fit with existing colors in the home.

  • 6 years ago

    The beige looks really promising based on this photo. It would be my pick as well.


    I would go for it, just buy enough paint for one room and make sure it works with your flooring and that you love it with two or however many coats you need. Only because it would be a shame to paint the whole house and decide it's just not quite right.


    Please share the results!

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    IMO the colors your have selected have too much red undertone to work with your home.

    Here are your colors and some other colors so you can see how they compare to your existing paint color which I like very much.


  • 6 years ago

    We bought a new build house 5 years ago and painted most of the rooms Agreeable Beige. I still love it. It’s so neutral and works in every room. Before painting I tried samples of Revere Pewter and Pale Oak. They are beautiful colors, but the Agreeable Beige worked better in our house.

  • 6 years ago

    Oops, I meant Accessible Beige.

  • 6 years ago

    My entire house is accessible beige, and looking at your photos I see it would blend well with the warm coloring of your furniture, flooring and all the black accents you have going on with windows, artwork, and flooring, the grout in the kitchen floor, etc. It's a very soft clean neutral, whereas the grey you're considering seems to contradict with the neutral warm shades you already have going on. For our entryway hall, I even did the ceiling with the Accessible Beige and wow, what a difference, with all the crown moulding in SW Aesthetic White. Why do we stress over stuff like this as if we'll never ever paint again, lol.

  • 6 years ago

    We painted our main living areas Accessible Beige and love it. In your home, however, I think your current wall color looks perfect. I wouldn’t change it.

  • 6 years ago

    If anyone has pictures of accessible beige in their home, I would love to see!

  • 6 years ago

    Also, for those with AB in their home, do you agree that it sometimes looks gray? I like that feature

  • 6 years ago

    If you have lots of brown and tan tones in your home already, I’d stick with that. So get accessible beige.

    It can be a very slippery slope to get a gray tone to look good within a setting of browns and tans.

  • 6 years ago

    I would go for it. It’s nice to change things up once in a while.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Here is Accessible Beige in my living and dining rooms. I love the color. It can look ever so slightly gray in some rooms, depending on how the light hits it.




  • 6 years ago

    Accessible beige won! I think it will work very well with our furniture and decor. Thanks for all the help!

  • 6 years ago

    Here are some of my Accessible Beige shots. Hallway shows using it for both walls and ceiling. Livingroom/Kitchen is open plan, with Kitchen in Lemongrass next t AB.




  • 6 years ago

    i think you made an excellent choice

  • 6 years ago

    It looks very nice! We have Accessible Beige throughout our house and sometimes it looks gray.


  • PRO
    6 years ago

    Both colors are a light shade of brown, so both would have worked.

  • 6 years ago

    I tend to like Agreeable Gray better but it can and does look different depending on the light. I've used it in one house and it was a really pretty soft warm gray. In another house, it threw off a hint of peach in lower natural light.


    I think Accessible Beige looks really nice in your laundry room. My MIL has it in her dining room and living room and really likes it.

  • 6 years ago

    It's gorgeous! Well done!

  • 6 years ago

    Thanks everyone!

  • 6 years ago

    Painting was completed last week and we are very happy with accessible beige! Thanks for advice everyone.

  • 6 years ago

    One more.

  • 6 years ago

    Looks great. BTW, I still can't see the "dirty house" in the original pictures. If only my house was that dirty. :-)

  • 6 years ago

    Perfect!

  • 6 years ago

    What color white trim did you go with?

  • 6 years ago

    What color is your trim?

  • 6 years ago

    I’m not sure, I’m sorry. The painter supplied it but it’s a super white for sure.

  • 2 years ago

    Thank you for posting these beautiful photos, Michele Baker! It was the final deciding factor for me -- my painter is coming tomorrow to paint our home in Accessible Beige, after 13 years of being stuck in the "dark goldish tan" side of things!