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Paint question for a new build

5 years ago

I’ve been putting off making paint selections for our new home build. We know we will be doing black fox SW for accents and interior doors.. I’m struggling with an overall paint color.. we know we want warm but bright.. does anyone have any experience with sherwin Williams Creamy? A darker option I was thinking of is shoji white SW? Anyone have any experience with either of these colors? Or a good sherwin Williams warm and bright color? (No pink undertones please)

Comments (15)

  • 5 years ago

    Exterior will also be accented in black fox and main body will be shoji white.

  • 5 years ago

    I thought shoji had a green undertone I didn't care for.

  • 5 years ago

    I think it'll be tough for anyone to offer you a good opinion without seeing your home's style and your proposed colors in direct sunlight. The best person to help you is probably your architect or perhaps pay for a consultation with Sherwin Williams.


    I believe that yo're home's pallete should be considered in the constext of the roof material, driveway material (e.g., pavers), shutters, window, garage doors, any neighboring houses, and the overall streetscape. It's a huge decision with which I currently struggle and, although I'm a year from completion, I need to make a descion before I submit for final review/spproval from the design review committee.


    Then again, if you post your elevations, then I'm certain you'll get tons of feedback.

  • 5 years ago

    @PPF I’m not sure how to directly respond to your comment or tag you but exterior will be black fox and shoji white.

  • 5 years ago

    These pictures are awful but that’s all I currently have on my phone but I hope this somehow helps.. in addition to shoji white, white duck is a contender as well.

  • 5 years ago

    These are not the greatest pictures but it is all I have on my phone at the moment. Hope this helps in someway.. we are also toying with replacing shoji white with white duck if the green undertone bothers me to much..

  • 5 years ago

    Sorry folks.. I’m having so much trouble with the app.. 😬

  • PRO
    5 years ago

    I’m not sure how to directly respond to your comment or tag you but exterior will be black fox and shoji white.


    If you have already chosen colors, what are you asking about?

  • 5 years ago

    I’m asking for interior colors on walls.. nothing has been turned in to sherwin Williams yet so even though I have colors In mind nothing is set in stone.. I misread your question thinking you were asking what we were using for our exterior colors.

  • 5 years ago

    We are building currently. I originally wanted white interior, but our rental has white walls and it changes the whites in EVERYTHING else. For example, the fiberglass shower/tub combo looks pink (DD even said "I have a pink tub!!!"). All of my white framed and matted art looks pink. I'm glad we didn't pick a white because of this problem. I'm not sure what white is on the walls, but it's a warm white.

    Our walls in our build are currently primed in the color we are painting. We did Drift of Mist, which is a very light gray (DH thought it was white). I am loving it so far. I know it will change once it's finished (and the flooring is in) but so far it's exactly what I was looking for (bright, warm). We are also south facing, so we get a lot of light. In north light it probably takes on a much grayer look. I have also seen SW Gossamer Veil, which is one darker on the strip. That is also pretty but definitely gray.

  • 5 years ago

    You cannot pick paint colors in isolation to ALL of the other materials chosen. Or in isolation to the location, latitude, and orientation, of the home. A bright turquoise looks great on a FL home with west facing semi tropical sunshine. It looks horridly garish on a WA foggy east facing low sunshine house.


    Hire a color consultant. Or provide about 6 tons more information and pictures than you have shared. And still end up guessing if all the well meaning non pro advice is going to work.

  • 5 years ago

    it seems I’ve asked a next to impossible question.. I will hire a consult, but thanks anyways!

  • 5 years ago

    Nobody is trying to be mean or unhelpful. Everything in each room is influenced by the flooring, the furniture, the window treatments, the countertops, the appliances, but especially the natural light you get in your particular home. I painted my laundry room BM Capitol White. Because we have a woods at that end of the house, the walls looked green. My husband was convinced I had used a green tinted paint. It was just a reflection of the trees! I have lived in five states and the sunlight is different in each area. In addition, light is different in each season. That’s why they are recommending a color specialist in your area. That person will need to know what your sofa,chairs, lamps, area rugs, tile, flooring are like. Everyone here seems to want to pick paint colors then complain they cannot find a sofa to go with their walls. That’s backwards. Plan the whole room, then pick the nuances of color for the walls. I had picked blu for the dining room, a deep red for the entry, and a beautiful dark, rich green for the library. I was shocked when the green looked awful. My BM paint dealer said I just hadn’t accounted for the west facing aspect. He added a touch, a tiny touch, of black to my custom green and -voila!- perfect. Color selection takes time and work.

  • 5 years ago

    SW has many lovely whites. I spent all summer staring at many of them for an exterior paint job. Any of us, pros or non- pros could throw out more paint names, but no one can guarantee you that Shoji White won't look pink in your home.


    I do disagree with anj_p's conclusion that all white interior schemes should be avoided, but her experience illustrates the variability of paint colors we're all posting about. That variability makes a consult a good option, especially in the decision whirlwind that is building a new home.


    In our first custom built home, I picked a truly terrible brick color. We still laugh about it 35 years later. Take care - it will be fine.


  • 5 years ago

    @barncatz I didn't mean to suggest all whites should be avoided... I was just trying to convey a particular issue with white that I had never thought about until I saw it firsthand, and I definitely didn't think about it when we chose our paint colors (dh just said he didn't want white, so I had to go with something else). So, *in my case* I'm glad we didn't choose a white because I'm pretty sure I would have messed it up. I think a color consultant is a great idea and I would absolutely hire one if I ever want to paint again (we're doing a tract build so didn't have the ability to choose paint after the walls were up).