Laura Ellis
A Popular FLEXIBLE Warm Neutral: Benjamin Moore Ballet White Have you been scouring Pinterest looking for that one special color that makes your heart POUND with excitement?
Let me save you some time and stress and introduce you to Benjamin Moore’s Ballet White. Ballet White is at HEART, a warm cream paint color – but it’s not quite that simple.
Cream is a yellow paint color that has a neutral added to calm it down – and Ballet White has a LOT of neutral in it, making it what I fondly call a dirty cream paint color – and dirt has never looked SO good. If you’re not well-versed in LRV, I highly recommend you read this article as it’s a game-changer when it comes to choosing paint colors.
A typical cream paint color starts out as yellow and can sometimes grab a wink of orange, red or green. This means that in some rooms, you might see more of a warm, muted, but still slightly creamy look, while in others, you’ll see a more of a creamy-greige (mad love).
Ballet White is a great choice for an exterior as natural light really makes ALL of the aspects of Ballet White (yellow-cream-beige-gray) recede so that it generally looks like a soft, light, neutral color with no dominant personality or color shining through. Does Sherwin Williams have a paint color similar to Ballet White? Check out Sherwin Williams White Duck which has a VERY similar approach being kind of a hybrid between cream, tan and greige, however, it’s a touch LIGHTER and slightly less warm. if you’re looking for a slightly warm greige paint color, Ballet White might have TOO much yellow in it as it’s more cream than greige/tan.
Ballet White DOES have a reasonable grayish backdrop, which is what calms the yellow down, so if you don’t love this ‘dirtier’ look and prefer a more noticeable CREAM, check out Benjamin Moore Gentle Cream northern light can slightly enhance the gray undertones of Ballet White direct natural light will wash Ballet White out because of its higher LRV
Ballet White is a great ‘whole home’ color as it is light enough for hallways and interesting enough for larger rooms
