In morning, noon and night, on gray days and bright sunny days. Get some reusable, peel & stick paint samples and look at them in the room itself and in various lighting conditions. This is why it’s so important to use the right methods to pick your paint colors with confidence: In my lighting in the pic below (south facing) it has a green undertone. It’s a warm greige color that has a purple-brown undertone but in some lighting it will have a blue or even green undertone. Repose Gray is a very popular neutral paint color. In various lighting they will look completely different.

Grays can be the most difficult to identify undertones. Here’s Sherwin Williams Dover White – It’s also a white and has an obvious yellow undertone. The mass tone is white and when laid on the printer paper you can see it has a slight creamy yellow undertone. Here’s Sherwin Williams Pure White ( I used this color in my bedroom!). I took several paint chips and placed them on a sheet of printer paper. The undertone will reveal itself when the paint chip is compared to the white of the printer paper! Place a paint chip on a sheet of white computer paper. This is a technique that a Sherwin Williams paint rep taught me and is the method she uses and recommends – and it’s simple! Don’t do this! You have to compare it to one of three things to see its undertone. The big mistake that people often make is that they look at the paint chip color in isolation. Sometimes you need two or three of these methods to see it. Sometimes you can see it using one of these methods.

There are three ways to help you determine the undertone of a paint color. So how do you know if a paint color is warm or cool?Ī warm paint color with have a pink, beige, or yellow undertone.Ī cool paint color will have a blue, green or purple undertone.Ĭheck out my Instagram stories – I often talk about popular paint colors there! How To Identify A Paint Color Undertone These undertones will make a color look warm or cool. Understand The Color Wheel & Color Schemes To Become A Better Decorator

No wonder an undertone can really mess up the look of a room! Undertones can vary from pink, beige, blue, yellow, purple and green. It’s easy to see a paint color’s ‘mass’ color tone – that’s the first color you see when you look at a paint color on the paint chip.Ī paint color’s undertone is the underlying color.

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