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If you want to use a blue paint color in your home but you don’t want it too dark or so light that it’s almost white, medium blues have you covered. Medium paint colors fall in the Light Reflectance Value (LRV) range of roughly 40–60, meaning that they reflect roughly half of the light that […]
What makes a light blue “light” in terms of paint colors? Its Light Reflectance Value (LRV). That’s the scale used to determine how to classify the lightness or darkness of paint colors, and it’s based on how much light a paint color reflects back on a scale of 0–100. The general understanding is that dark […]
Medium greens don’t get enough praise. As a dark green lover myself, I rarely venture into the medium shades, but there are some good ones out there. And I may have a few bookmarked for a future project…! But first, what is a medium paint color? It’s a color with a Light Reflectance Value (LRV) […]
Whether you’re looking for navy, teal, or blue-black, Sherwin-Williams has some of my favorite dark blues out there. Technically, any paint color with a Light Reflectance Value (LRV) of 0–40 falls in the dark paint color spectrum. But to me, dark is dark, so this list will cover dark blues that hover on the lower […]
Exterior paint colors are a tricky thing. They can look completely different from the paint chip you see in the store and will change based on the light. Not just sunlight throughout the day, but also based on shade from trees with or without leaves in different seasons… and the quality of sunlight changes throughout […]
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