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Help light silver sage RH dining room help

3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago

I have Light Silver Sage from RH in my dining room. looking for a complementary color for living room across the foyer. it has a chair rail so I could paint one or two colors. want something more saturated and brighter. Everything I look at is to blue or green. i am putting curtains in dining room with blues, greens, tans and poppy coral red.

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  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Light Silver Sage belongs to the Blue-Green hue family.



    Technically a complementary color would be a color directly across from BG (blue-Green) on the color wheel. In Light Silver Sage's case that's the 'warm' side of the Red hue family. For example.



    want something more saturated and brighte. Everything I look at is to blue or green.


    Depends on what you mean by more saturated and brighter - because that statement kind of contradicts "too blue or green".


    Let me explain why I'm asking.


    Saturated usually means more Chroma, colorfulness. So more saturated is saying you want something bolder, more colorful and not as neutral as Light Silver Sage.


    Brighter or brightness is technically about lightness. So if you want something brighter than Light Silver Sage, it's going to have a higher Value and look lighter.



    HU-370033250 thanked Lori A. Sawaya
  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Lori A Sawaya, thank you for the info. I was thinking something in the blue green family just darker like the picture showed. what color is that in the room picture? never mind I was able to enlarge and see it. . I do want to pull in the red as accents. I have a lot of coastal blues in the rest of my house but I don’t want everything the same. Leaning towards blue with a hint of green. i am probably creating a mess. lol

  • PRO
    3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Interesting color fact: Wedgewood Gray HC-146 is so close you could call it a color match for Restoration Hardware's Light Silver Sage, not just a dupe.


    I was thinking something in the blue green family just darker like the picture showed

    Sounds like you're looking for a darker version of Light Silver Sage. That would be a good, cohesive color plan - not creating a mess at all. 🙂

    The Restoration Hardware paint was discontinued a while ago. One might think that if there was a Light Silver Sage then there would be a dark one too. There wasn't.

    But here's a light to dark range of colors from other brands that are similar to LSS in terms of DNA, just darker. Some are greener, some are bluer. I recommend grabbing as many chips as you can and compare.


  • 3 years ago

    Lori A Sawaya thank you so much. this is exactly the information I needed. When I looked at the old RH blue sage which is there next dark color it was not the right shade. you have saved me so much guess work and my husband painting more than once. thank you

  • PRO
    3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    You're welcome. :)