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Sherwin Williams Grayish SW 6001 (A Cooler Gray Paint)

Are you looking for a unique and cool gray paint color? Here are real-life examples and images to help you find the perfect gray paint for your home.

grayish painted walls with silver mirrors and new vanity top in bathroom.

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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

Compare Sherwin Williams gray paint repose gray, polished concrete, agreeable beige, grayish.

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

hex code for SW 6001 Grayish

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.

hand holding paint swatches.

Grayish Color Swatch

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.

behr charcoal blue painted light with SW grayish walls and silver mirror.

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.

black mirror, with stained cabinets next to glass shower in bathroom.

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.

painted bathroom vanity cabinets with mirror and painted light fixture.

Lighting Can Make A Difference

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

2 images bathroom with double vanity with lights on and off.

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.

sw 6001 in basement with white cabinets and tv

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.

oak molding with white doors and toys in basement and grayish painted walls

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FAQs about Grayish

Grayish has purple undertones, but we love cool colors, and why we probably gravitated toward this color. Make sure you fully test this color out either using Samplize, painting large boards, or even physically painting samples on the wall to fully see how it will look in your space.

People have had success with Alpaca as a nice color without purple undertones.

We are very happy with our Grayish painted spaces because it is light enough but also add some depth or richness with color. However, some people say that Grayish can be too purple or blue for them.

We tend to lean towards cool colors so that may be why we are happy to have used this color in several places. 

More Paint Color Help

We know finding the right gray paint can be hard but you can do it. Remember it is only paint!

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