On the other hand, I am so happy with Revere Pewter and I’m excited to show you more pictures of it as we progress. At least that is my goal and I didn’t have that LOVE factor with Agreeable Gray. I’m sure that if we left it, it would have been just fine, but I believe everyone should walk into their home and love the color on their walls.
I would be really curious to see how Agreeable Gray would have changed once we got our flooring, trim, and lighting in. Sometimes so much that it looked like some rooms and walls were completely different colors. In our house it is what you would call a chameleon gray. Again, you can see that Revere Pewter is a little warmer.īottom line, Agreeable Gray is a great neutral, but definitely has some taupe undertones depending on the lighting. Here are the two colors side by side, Revere Pewter is on the left and Agreeable Gray is on the right. You can see that Revere Pewter has a lot more Deep Gold, which helps warm the color as well. These are the paint formulas for a 5 gallon bucket of paint. Can you see the taupe undertones of Agreeable Gray? Agreeable Gray is the color on each side of the blue tape and Revere Pewter is the color that you can see in the kitchen and great room. This picture is of both Agreeable Gray and Revere Pewter. It’s a great color, but if you compare it to Revere Pewter below, it is slightly cooler and has some taupe undertones which tend to bring out purple. Now these pictures that I am going to show you may look identical to you, cameras can be really tricky picking up the undertones, but I hope you can see what I am talking about. How does that compare to Agreeable Gray? Agreeable Gray has an LRV of 60, just a smidge higher which means it reflects just a touch more light. A great transitional color, it’s perfect for an open floor plan.” (Light Reflective Value) A light gray with warm undertones, this classic shade creates a unifying look that calms and restores. 🙂 (source)Īlso, Benjamin Moore describes Revere Pewter as having an “LRV: 55.51.
It is warmer and it looks great in every light of our home. SO, our new color is Revere Pewter by Benjamin Moore. I didn’t initially go with color because it has been so popular and I wanted to change things up a little bit, weird I know, but I should have listened to my gut. So my patient husband amazingly told me that if I didn’t like it, now was the time to change it, so without sampling I went down to the paint store and got the color I have loved in every home I have seen it in, one that I have recommended to numerous people, and the most popular color on my blog. But then on another wall, in a different light, it DID look a little purple, sometimes blue, and definitely cooler. Now I’m not saying Agreeable Gray is a terrible color or that you shouldn’t use it, because it’s a great neutral and in some lights I LOVED it, it was exactly what I was looking for, a warm gray that didn’t have any crazy undertones, most importantly purple, and I was happy for the decision I made. It can totally change the look and undertones. That is the trickiest part of paint is the lighting. I loved it at first, but the more we painted and got on the walls, and as I looked at it in different lighting, I felt like it was a completely different color. So I decided to go with Agreeable Gray, and I bought 15 gallons.
I had seen it in some homes before and have actually recommended it to others. 🙂Ī little background, a few weeks I posted these samples on Instagram and had so many people tell me they loved number one, which was Agreeable Gray. The competitors? Agreeable Gray and Revere Pewter. Man, paint can be so agonizing! So today I am showing you how a slight color change can make the world of difference on undertones and the look and feel of a room. But I am so happy that we changed when we did and I love our new color. 🙂 Not that we did that, actually if you have been following me on Instagram, you know that we did EXACTLY that, ha ha.
That comes with advantages and disadvantages, but one of the advantages is that when you paint 15 gallons on a wall and decide to change the color, you can do it without paying the painter thousands of dollars, only if you have a very patient husband of course. A couple of weeks ago I posted about our new home and mentioned that we were doing all of the painting ourselves.
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