Among the finer points when it comes to choosing a paint: whether it has warm or cool undertones (which can have a surprisingly big effect on a room, adding an extra complication when it comes to choosing a shade).
We asked the experts in the Remodelista Architect & Designer Directory for their favorite cool-toned whites and neutrals, all with undertones of green and blue, rather than red and yellow.
The selection ranges from crisp white to ice-colored to distinctly blue-toned when painted on a wall.
MLK Studios tends to go for DKC-68 by Donald Kaufman Color when looking for a cool white paint.
Scavullo Design Interiors favors ICI Paints Winter s Day which provides a lovely shade of white with a blue undertone and very clean color Note English company ICI Paints no longer exists it was bought by Akzo Nobel
which also owns Dulux but a paint shop can mix the color if you tell them that you want Winter s Day 50GG We had ours mixed at Lowe s
Nickey Kehoe uses Farrow & Ball’s James White for a paint that “has a lovely slight blue-green cast.” (The shade was “first created for the pretty garden room of a discerning Dr. James with a fresh underlying green tone,” the company says.
Ellen Hamilton of Hamilton Design Associates considers Farrow & Ball’s Wevet a favorite cool-toned white.
Michael Howells from Howells Architecture and Design recommends Farrow & Ball’s Cabbage White as a cool-toned white paint “with the slightest hint of blue,” Farrow & Ball says.
Patriotic White by Benjamin Moore is a favorite of Kriste Michelini Interiors.
Jon Call of Mr.