My wife gave me the blessing to pick out the theater color. I'm going Tricorn black for the ceiling and wanted to get something dark but not too dark for the walls. We have a 2 year old and a 3.5 year old so while I do want it dark for movies I would probably want it a little cozy feeling when we're all in there, or when watching a sporting event with friends so you can see a little. There are four dimmable wall sconces. I settled on Garret Gray, which can be seen here:
http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW6075-garret-gray/
If you don't have a calibrated monitor (heh) it's a medium gray color with a little bit of brown in it. Very classy looking, if you ask me.
I get home and paint a section around the door where the trim will go so it's inconspicuous. I let it dry then tell my wife to come take a look. She immediately says it looks like dried mud. Uhhh....what the heck? That's no where what it's supposed to look like! I checked the sticker and sure enough, they have the right name on both gallons and the correct base. I had painted it on dried P4 Primer so I then tried on white paper and the same thing, mud. I then show my wife the color on the SW site and she still thinks it's too dark (left the color swatch on the counter at SW!). This could be a win-win for me here, as they improperly mixed it and it's not too late for me to change my mind.
I went through the completed theater sticky and it seems the majority of builders used relatively light to medium paints. I will have a screen wall with black fabric frames but also wanted to mitigate side reflections so the paint I chose was rated LRV 12, in egg shell. Having two young kids I had to get at least an egg shell finish.
So, I guess what I'm getting at is if you had to do it over again, would you have chosen the same brightness paint or went darker? Darker guys, would you have went lighter? I will be using a bunch of acoustic panels around the room that I could make dark if I decided to go with a lighter colored wall.
Thanks in advance for any input! This crap keeps me up at night like you couldn't believe!
http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW6075-garret-gray/
If you don't have a calibrated monitor (heh) it's a medium gray color with a little bit of brown in it. Very classy looking, if you ask me.
I get home and paint a section around the door where the trim will go so it's inconspicuous. I let it dry then tell my wife to come take a look. She immediately says it looks like dried mud. Uhhh....what the heck? That's no where what it's supposed to look like! I checked the sticker and sure enough, they have the right name on both gallons and the correct base. I had painted it on dried P4 Primer so I then tried on white paper and the same thing, mud. I then show my wife the color on the SW site and she still thinks it's too dark (left the color swatch on the counter at SW!). This could be a win-win for me here, as they improperly mixed it and it's not too late for me to change my mind.
I went through the completed theater sticky and it seems the majority of builders used relatively light to medium paints. I will have a screen wall with black fabric frames but also wanted to mitigate side reflections so the paint I chose was rated LRV 12, in egg shell. Having two young kids I had to get at least an egg shell finish.
So, I guess what I'm getting at is if you had to do it over again, would you have chosen the same brightness paint or went darker? Darker guys, would you have went lighter? I will be using a bunch of acoustic panels around the room that I could make dark if I decided to go with a lighter colored wall.
Thanks in advance for any input! This crap keeps me up at night like you couldn't believe!
