Urbane bronze is VERY dark. I have my front door that color. It’s nice, more of a charcoal gray, but it’s dark.

Hahaa K R, if you are trying to say don’t do it I am open to other ideas! 😄Been driving myself crazy trying to find a color that would help me update this bathroom on a budget.

Thanks Marylee. I have considered all those colors. Pretty much every color in that family in fact. I would say the finalists were Urbane Bronze, Mohegan Sage, Aegean Olive, and Southern Vine. But now I need to select a wall color, which has been even more difficult. I was looking at SW Creamy, BM Soft Chamois, or Swiss Coffee. Creamy might be too bright. After posting my original question, I read that red and green enhance each other. So if I want to enhance the green in Urbane Bronze, would having an off-white with pink undertones help, or is it too little and too far to have an impact? Like Atrium White maybe.

Hi - the moments of greenness you read in Urbane Bronze is because of it being a dark near neutral, from the Yellow Hue Family neighbourhood heading over towards

Yellow-Red.

Almost like the experience of when viewing an actual bronze sculpture. Sometimes, it may appear almost charcoal, other times the warmth of the bronze shows through and yet again in different lighting, flashes of green can be perceived.

It maybe clearer on this infographic from the Land of Color.

But as the quality of light varies, day to night, autumn to winter, so will the colour. As it is a near neutral, it’s far more effected by changes in the different wavelengths of light than more colourful colours.

If you are wanting something with a more fixed sensation of green I would move further clockwise, into the Green-Yellow Hue Family.

Ashwood Moss is a similar Value (lightness) to Urbane Bronze and it has a very similar quantity of Chroma (colourfulness) but it sits in the Green-Yellow Hue Family.

The wood looks timeless and classy. I wouldn’t paint.

Marylee, thank you so much, that is sooo incredibly informative and enlightening. In my days and weeks of googling I was never able to find anything that explained it this well. Thank you so much! I will look into Ashwood Moss.

Sdnick, thanks for sharing that. I don’t know, maybe the whole thing together as a package looks old fashioned to me. And since I don’t want to change the fixed elements, the vanities are one of the few things I can update, that’s why I was thinking of painting.