This topic has had a lot of discussion. I have looked at old post and pictures.
I am looking for a sage green, but I do not mind if the color changes with light. The Gray Wisp (close cousin to Silver Sage by RH)sounds awesome.
The paint is for a bathroom with cream tile, grout is terra cotta (reddish dark brown) with dark oak vanity (hint of red in the stain) and linen closet. The faucets and lights are brushed nickel; the crown molding and baseboard are white enamel.
In your opinon (for those who had seen Gray Wisp) is it blue, gray or sage ..or all three depending on the light.
With my description of colors will this work in my bathroom?
Our ACE carries BM and will mix the gray wisp in Ace paint what is your opinion of letting Ace use the formula for Gray Wisp in their base? (I think they will do this???)
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In the Restoration Hardware stores, I always think the color is green but they have very bright white halogen light. I can see the blue in it some on the chip. It is a purdy color.
Why, if you have BenM at the Ace Hardware, would you want to use the Ace Hardware paint? (sorry, Faron) The cost difference is only about $10.
i have gray wisp mixed in valspar, it seems pretty close when match on the chip but i don't mind if it's not 100% exact.
the room faces east and south so plenty of natural light in the morning. i have incandescent lights in there. it really is a blue-green. sometimes i see blue, sometimes i see green. and it really depends on the person too as my husband first thought it looks minty green and i didn't see minty green at all? i don't really read it as gray, but it's definitely a muted color (more like with a gray undertone, rather than seeing it as a gray color, if that makes sense?).
it's a pretty color and i can see why people like it. it just takes me a little while to get used to it because i have dark color in other rooms and this is the lightest room i have so far! (apart from the off white walls the previous owner painted in the kitchen/dining room). i have brown curtains in there (didn't mean to do the whole trendy blue-green room. those brown curtains were supposed to be for the basement, but they didn't work there, and since i can't return them, i use them in the gray wisp room instead since the other rooms don't need curtains). my trims are orangy oak brown. the computer tables we have in there are ikea birch color. i also have gray cabinets in there and walls and the gray cabinets look good together but they are not the same shade.
I think the gray wisp reads very blue/gray, but it depends completely on the light! Our Ethan Allen store painted one room vignette with gray wisp. It's in the middle of the store and doesn't get any natural light, and that may be why I don't see much green in it--no reflections from trees, etc. Good luck!
Okay, BenM has its own Silver Sage and this photo is labeled "Silver Sage" and not "Gray Wisp"...however it looks like Gray Wisp to me. The BenM SS is quite gray. And this looks green:
Horrible, horrible, cheap paint. Doesn't cover well. It's drippy. It dries too fast and leaves latex spaghetti on your roller. Stick with BenM. That's why we've worked so hard to translate all the RH colors (which are lovely) to BenM colors.
I'm back from a day of looking at paint. Our ACE will make Silver Sage, but the formula is a lot different than BM's Gray Wisp.
BM's Gray Mist when broken down is 1 ounce black, 9 small portions of a mustard color and only 1 or 2 small amounts of green (this formula is added to 1 gallon of white base). The ACE's Silver Sage has no green instead of the green it is burgandy.
I'm going to check Behr & Valspar for a sage I like.
If there are any opinions on Behr or Valspar... please let me know.
I've seen more versions of Silver Sage than I can count. Behr, Valspar, Sherwin Williams, PPG, Ellen Kennon, ICI, even Muralo.
THE best reproduction of Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage is Benjamin Moore's Gray Wisp #1570.
An upgrade is #1570 mixed in Aura. Ellen Kennon's H2Ahhh (that's really the color name) is pretty as well and color shifts more than any of the other versions.
The mix out of Sherwin Williams is my least fave -- too green.
Here's a pic of #1570 - if I remember right is was mixed in Regal Matte. If your monitor is calibrated to a decent degree, you should be hard pressed to make a definitive color call on Silver Sage, as in is it green or is it blue because the answer is it is both.
The quality of light decides if it leans more green or more blue.
i haven't taken any pics of the room yet because it's still a mess in there with furniture etc.
it's close to the pic funcolor posted, than the one casey posted. the one casey posted looked too saturated?
right now in my room it looks a bit more green, but as i said i have incandescent lights so yellow + blue looks more green. but it doesn't really scream green green. it really is a color that someone will think it's green and someone will thin it's blue (and depends on lighting).
This just shows you what a little chameleon SS is...The pic I posted has a ton of natural light. fc's pic is more subdued light and looks way more blue to me. ummmm has yellow light and it looks green. Restoration Hardware has very white light and it looks green. That's what makes these kind of chameleon colors so interesting.
What I don't understand is why you're dancing all around the BenM paints with every other brand. I would definitely select it in Regal Matte rather try to get a poor colormatch.
i have the paint mixed at lowes with valspar paint, and they found the formula in their computer?! i didn't have a chip for them to match at the time. i don't know why BM can't find it in their computer? do they have a fandeck? it should be in the fandeck (but it is not part of those paint chips on the rack).
Gray Wisp is on BM's website, but they cannot find it on the store computer.
If it is a Ben Moore dealer and you are giving them the info of Gray Wisp #1570, there is absolutely no reason under the sun why they could not find it and mix it for you.
A friend of mine used it last month. It was in the computer then. I always have a hard time finding the chip because of the way they've got their colors organized (not always numerical but color-toned). But it's in the computer.
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I called our Ace Hwd. store and talked to a different person in the paint department. This man had NO problem finding Gray Wisp and the formula. He left the formula, paint color and my name so I could walk in and have it mixed!
