We're trying to decide what color to paint our living and dining rooms. We just moved in and the walls are a wreck!
Top row: revere pewter and edgecomb gray
Bottom: seashell gray and misty moonstone
Paper is meant to represent white trim
We're trying to decide what color to paint our living and dining rooms. We just moved in and the walls are a wreck!
Top row: revere pewter and edgecomb gray
Bottom: seashell gray and misty moonstone
Paper is meant to represent white trim
coconut / 8475 posts
I like seashell grey. I think the others may be too dark and moonstone seems too blue my personal taste. I love white trim.
blogger / honeydew / 7081 posts
I love either the revere pewter or seashell grey. Our living room/dining room is a similar colour to the pewter.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I like the edgecomb gray, it looks both beige and gray at the same time.
squash / 13208 posts
I like gray - just painted our LV and Guest room gray!
So I pick seashell gray!
pineapple / 12234 posts
I love the Revere Pewter but it looks tan and I just read gray is the new tan...
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
bottom 2! I have a light gray all over my house as well and I LOVE the color! So light, refreshing and versatile!
pomelo / 5509 posts
I think seashell gray. The top two, I think, may be too dark for an entire room. We painted our walls gray in our living room and we thought we were going with a light paint, but it seems too dark now that it's done. Seashell gray looks light with just a hint of gray and will still contrast nicely with the white trim!
pomegranate / 3895 posts
I have revere pewter on my walls currently -- we cut it with white (50/50) and LOVE it. It was recommended by the people at the paint store.
honeydew / 7504 posts
I like either one of hte top 2. The bottom 2 look pretty blue to me.
cherry / 197 posts
Revere Pewter is such a gorgeous color in person. If it's reading too dark for you try having the paint store cut it with 50% white. My friend did that in her house and it's beautiful... warm and neutral.
Generally I really like Edgecomb Gray, but it's reading really green in the picture. But maybe it doesn't do that in person?
ETA: is that your couch in the bottom right? If so I'd definitely go with Revere Pewter or Revere Pewter cut by 50%.
GOLD / coconut / 8266 posts
Revere pewter. The edgecombe gray looks yellowy to me. The bottom two are bluish. We painted our LR cappuccino originally (Martha Stewart Living color) and have a mocha couch. We just got new carpet yesterday that's a dark beige (whipped cocoa) so now we are painting the LR green! Too much beige going on.
pear / 1998 posts
Are they separate rooms or more open-floor plan.
I like the Revere Pewter, but I tend to go for more pigmented colors. The Edgecomb Gray is the most versatile and like other posters have said, reads as both grey and beige.
If they are separate rooms, I suggest the Revere Pewter in the dining room (I think they generally can handle deeper, more cozy colors) and the Edgecomb Gray in the living room.
I think the blue-undertone greys seem more trendy to me. I like the earthiness of the other two colors better, but I think all of your choices would work.
bananas / 9357 posts
I like either of the top two and edgecomb gray the most out of all four. The bottom two look really blue to me.
grapefruit / 4311 posts
I always vote revere pewter. Your picture does not show it the color it looks in our house at all though.
It reads differently depending on light, I attached two pics - one where it's more gray and one where it's more beige.
pomegranate / 3895 posts
@runnerd: I thought the exact same thing! My revere pewter has a gray tint to it for sure. I couldn't find any pictures that show the walls though.
pineapple / 12526 posts
I think we're leaning pretty strongly towards seashell gray, to be honest.
@LC: That is a temporary couch, not our permanent one. Thank god. lol
@runnerd: See, that;s what I wanted Revere Pewter to look like... Im pretty sadly disappointed. It's reading really dark and brown on our walls.
honeydew / 7916 posts
@loveisstrange: I wonder if the problem with the Revere Pewter is the sample? This is what it looks like with some bad evening light:
nectarine / 2690 posts
I really like the misty moonstone, personally. Probably because my house is like yellowish tan and I can't stand it. I like tan, but the flippers did an awful job picking the paint colors!
pear / 1657 posts
We used both Revere Pewter and Edgecomb Grey in our house and we LOVE them!
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
@loveisstrange: yea I think your lighting in that room is really throwing off the RP. I voted for seashell gray!
papaya / 10560 posts
We have revere pewter in our living room and love it!!!!!! I say go with that because it looks so good in all lights.
cantaloupe / 6164 posts
@loveisstrange: I prefer the bottom two. I always lean more towards cooler colors on the walls. Makes the room seem bigger, lighter, fresher.
grapefruit / 4311 posts
@loveisstrange: don't forget that the current wall color can schew how samples look. The RP looked straight up tan with no gray until we painted all the walls.
pomegranate / 3350 posts
Based on the photo I vote for seashell grey. I wonder if the lighting in your house is similar to ours. We tried Revere Pewter and it looked like your photo not the other ones posted here and on a larger scale it was pretty bad. We painted over it with Nimbus (not Nimbus Gray) - it's a lighter gray also with beige undertones. We absolutely love it.
pineapple / 12526 posts
@runnerd: It looks straight brown right now for us. Lol. It could be the current wall color. They used to be white.... Like 20 years ago. I know they have not been painted since 1997, when DHs dad bought the house.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
hmmm I tend to prefer warmer gray tones...we used BM revere pewter in our house and i LOVE it. But I agree- it does look a tad brown based on the photos. the edgecomb gray looks too yellowy to me. i like seashell gray the best based on the photos.
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