Issues with RAL 9010
We’ve had ready-painted timber windows installed , the colour is RAL 9010, described as. Pure White, but has turned out to be off white, bordering on cream - and I hate cream. We’d planned on white walls and woodwork but that‘s now going to look weird with the windows. Really don’t want everything in this cream shade, so I’m wondering if it’s possible to find a paint with the same undertone as RAL 9010 but closer in shade to a white, so they would harmonise better. Or is there a better solution? We don’t want to repaint the windows. Difficult to show in a pic but this shows the RAL 9010 frame colour against the existing sill which was painted white
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Juliet Docherty
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It’s a pain that paint colours don’t share more useful information about their colours.
And the colour names they do share are poor indicators of what to expect.
They possess those details in house in order to make the colours in the first place, but the useful data rarely (never) makes it into their marketing Information.
RAL 9010 Pure White is actually quite a chromatic (colourful) white belonging to the Yellow Hue Family. The colour you detect is not an undertone, but an inherent part of its colour DNA.
These colours are from the same Hue Family neighbourhood but with decreasing quantities of Chroma (colourfulness).
In order for RAL 9010 to appear more ‘white’, choosing an exterior colour from the same Hue Family but with MORE Chroma, will make the windows/trim appear whiter by comparison., because it will actually be MORE neutral.
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3 years agoCoincidentally, just now, a lady who was having similar trouble to yourself just reposted.
Her trim was even more colourful than yours, (Nacre) and it ran through the whole house.
Where it caused her problems was in a double height Great Room, which she had hoped to paint a very light white. Only it made Nacre look positively yellow!
Manchester Tan was one of the colours we suggested to make her trim appear more neutral by comparison. She still finds it just that bit too dark, but her husband was adamant he wanted contrast.
It’s definitely done the trick! But if you find a similar resolve too dark & colourful for you, then I think painting the walls & trim the same is certainly your better option.
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