![]() ![]() With so many great options, you might find yourself wondering, “how do I choose the best gray paint?” Well, we got you covered. It is a part of the Pottery Barn Teens Collection – Fall/Winter 2019. It is a popular choice for doors and cabinets. Dorian Gray, SW 7017: This is a mid-tone gray that is slightly darker than Mindful Gray.It is what you might call a typical gray and is good for darker spaces. Big Chill SW 7648: This is also a slightly cool gray with a hint of stormy blue undertones which is calmer than icy blue.It is sharp and clean but is meant for a well-lit room. Silverplate SW 7649: This is another cool gray but it might be heavy for a dark room.It provides a nice shift to the room when you switch the light on and off. Tinsmith: This is a light-medium gray with slightly blue undertones.It adds depth and personality to the room. But the overall look is soft and calming. Ellie Gray SW 7650: This has lovely blue and green undertones which makes it a brave and stormy choice.It is also a great shade for interiors and exteriors. Amazing Gray, SW 7044: This is a bit darker than Worldly Gray and is good against white trim.It has a little more red than green and blue but is still a neutral color. So it is on the lighter side of mid-tone gray and is great against white trims and furniture. Mindful Gray, SW 7016: This is slightly darker than Repose Gray and lighter than Dorian Gray.It is a part of the Historic Color Collection and is generally considered a good neutral color for outdoors and indoors. Light French Gray, SW 0055: This one is a mid-tone gray with a slight blue undertone which makes it a cool gray.This too has LRV above 50 percent and reflects more light than it absorbs. Repose Gray, SW 7015: This is cooler than Agreeable Gray and was picked for Pottery Barn Kids – Fall/Winter 2019 collection.It is warmer than Repose Gray and its LRV shows that it reflects more light than it absorbs. Agreeable Gray, SW 7029: This is a warm shade of light greige and is quite popular.All you need to figure out is which part of the room is being painted and how to match it with the LRV of your choice of gray. It can look really lovely on cabinets and doors too. But don’t underestimate the power of gray. Sometimes, a touch of the shades of Sherwin Williams’ gray on your walls is all you need. Colors with LRV more than 50% will reflect more light than what they absorb. A good guideline is that colors below 50% LRV absorb more light than what they reflect into the room. That’s how manufacturers decide color palettes for certain surfaces. Remember that a color shade with low LRV absorbs too much light and retains too much heat. This is also something you could keep in mind yourself while picking a color. They make lighting plans for the color of your choice by taking daylight into account before finalizing it for a certain surface. They use LRV in the planning stages to work out which shade looks the best on a certain surface. How do we know the LRV of the paints we choose? Well, this is where the likes of color consultants, designers and architects come in. This is why the same color looks different on a hand railing outside the house versus on a wall in the basement. In fact, some yellows measure in the high 80s and 90s. ![]() ![]() Now, nothing exists in absolutes so the blackest of black has an LRV of 5% and the whitest white is 85% LRV. It goes from 0 to 100%, 0 being absolute black and 100% assumed to be a perfectly reflective white. LRV is a way to measure the amount of light reflected or absorbed by a color. It means, whatever the shade you pick, there is a chance it might look different after painting because of the amount of light in the room. It is defined as the total quantity of visible light that a surface reflects in all directions (and at all wavelengths) in the presence of a light source. And there is a term for it in the business called light reflectance value or LRV. When it comes to painting, light plays the same role. You have probably seen this disclaimer while shopping online which says, colors may appear slightly different due to the various monitor display settings. ![]()
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