Sherwin Williams Grayish SW 6001 (A Cooler Gray Paint)
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When you look up the best gray paints by Sherwin Williams you will find that Accessible Beige (a greige color), Agreeable Gray, Silver Strand, and Repose Gray keep popping up. While they all have their own followings (hmm, Joanna Gaines) there is one color that you don’t hear all about but might want to consider.
Grayish SW 6001 by Sherwin Williams has been used in our house in two different bathrooms and our whole basement (which doesn’t get natural light).
Grayish is a tough color to fully commit to due to its ability to look different in other spaces. However, we love that it is just not the same old gray that everyone else has on their walls.
Comparing Sherwin Williams Popular Grays

Here is a chart we shared in a post about popular gray paint colors. You can see how grayish appears to be a more neutral gray than some of the other more beige or greige paint colors.
What is the hex code for SW Grayish?
#D0CAC7 Hex Color Code

Why do hex codes matter?
When looking at the hex codes of paints, you can see the surrounding colors. You can see that for Grayish, the left side of the surrounding colors leans towards purple, but the underlying main color is warmer. It is an interesting mix of where warm meets cool. Which in our opinion can make this a pretty modern and different color.

Grayish Color Swatch
- Essential Gray SW 6002
- Proper Gray SW 6003
- Mink SW 6004
- Folkstone SW 6005
- Manor House SW 7505
Why do some grays look purple and others appear more brown?
Any gray paint is going to lean more warm or cool depending on the mixtures of the colors. All paints will look different depending on the undertones and lighting. It is always important to test your paints in your specific lighting. Your perception or the way you see color will also factor into the undertones you are seeing.
Need help with testing out paints? We wrote a full review on how we used large peel-and-stick paint samples to help us choose an island color recently.
Color Schemes for Grayish
According to the Sherwin Williams website, Alaea, Snowfall, and Roman Column are great coordinating colors with Grayish SW 6001.
However, we think this color is neutral and light enough to go with any color scheme you may want to add.
We have Behr Charcoal Blue Cabinets and Grayish on the walls in our upstairs bathroom. The cool-colored bathroom cabinets play well off the wall color. In addition, we have stained reclaimed wood with industrial pipe shelving and the contrast of warmer tones also works well.

When Would A Warmer Gray Work Better
In the larger bath, we should have chosen a warmer gray like Agreeable Gray. When you have a can of paint left over you just use that. The soothing Grayish works, but I am sure we could have something that had slightly more brown undertones to complement the slate tile.

Grayish in Small Bathroom
Grayish is light enough that it does not seem to shrink the space. We chose to add more color to the cabinets as something different in order to keep the walls this light and airy neutral paint color. You can read all about how we modernized this bathroom and what it looked like before.

Lighting Can Make A Difference
The warmer tile walls don’t mix as well with this paint color. Not bad, but not great.

You can see how the paint color appears different with the light fixture on.
Grayish In A Basement
In our basement, we have some original oak molding showing with white painted trim using Sherwin Williams Proclassic Latex Enamel in Pure white.

The white molding looks clean against the nice Grayish Paint color. If you need help choosing a white paint color, we have some great examples of the most popular white paints in this post.

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