By Michelle Marceny, Certified Color Expert and founder of The Color Concierge
Learn all about Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter (HC-172) in this paint color review.
BM Revere Pewter is one of those colors that has been iconic for many years. It’s very similar to Sherwin-Williams’ popular Agreeable Gray. But frankly, it’s even better! It’s crisper and cleaner, even though it’s darker than Agreeable Gray.
Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter (HC-172) is also called Ice Formations (973). We actually chose Ice Formations for a client project featured in this post, not realizing it was an alternate name for Revere Pewter!
This paint color works best in a room with lots of natural or artificial light. It can look a bit gloomy in cool light, much like many of the darker greige colors.
Learn more about Revere Pewter paint and discover if this classic color is right for your home in the rest of our color guide. All photos in this post are from a real online color consulting client project.
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What Color is Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter?
Revere Pewter is a medium greige paint color with green undertones. It’s warm, crisp, and clean, and perfect for many different interior and exterior paint projects.
What is the BM Revere Pewter LRV?
The LRV of BM Revere Pewter is 55, which makes it a medium gray. Since it’s over 50, it’s still considered reflective. It’s light enough to use in just about every room of the house, but also has plenty of pigment. As a warm greige, it won’t look washed out in bright sunlight – and actually looks best in rooms with lots of light.
What undertones does Revere Pewter have?
Revere Pewter has strong green undertones. It doesn’t have the fleshy tones that you sometimes see with Agreeable Gray, which has green undertones with flashes of violet. Check out this color in the Agreeable Gray Color Review post.
Like many gray paint colors, the undertones of Revere Pewter aren’t always obvious until it is placed next to a gray with different undertones.
You can see in the graphic below how Revere Pewter (green undertones) compares to Stonington Gray (blue undertones) and Collingwood (violet undertones). You can learn more about these colors in the Stonington Gray Color Review post and our Collingwood Color Review article.
Is Revere Pewter warm or cool?
Revere Pewter is a warm greige paint color, thanks to its green undertones. It looks best in rooms with warm light and pairs well with clean white or off-white trim paint.
Is Revere Pewter grey or beige?
It’s really a combination of both! We consider Revere Pewter a greige paint color. It has warm beige tones but is much more muted (with much more gray) than a typical beige paint color.
Is Revere Pewter outdated?
Revere Pewter is one of those timeless paint colors that never really goes out of style. While warm beige paint colors are really trending among homeowners (and paint color consultants) right now and gray paint colors are not quite as popular, Revere Pewter is still going strong because it walks the line between both options.
It’s a great paint color if you’re ready to move your home away from the cool gray hues of the early 2010s but don’t want to jump straight into a cream or warm beige hue.
Is Revere Pewter still popular in 2026?
Yes, it is! As paint color consultants, we still use Revere Pewter in many homes and find homeowners specifically seeking it out.
Should I Sample Revere Pewter?
We always recommend testing your paint colors in the space where you will be using them. All designers do this, and anyone who paints any surface should too. You can order a peel-and-stick paint sample of Revere Pewter below.
Using Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter Interior Paint
Revere Pewter is a classic, versatile gray paint color that can be used in just about every room of the house, from living rooms and kitchens to bedrooms and bathrooms. Explore the best ways to use Revere Pewter in your home.
Can I use Revere Pewter as an interior trim color?
You can use Revere Pewter as an interior trim and door color with a lighter wall color. It’s a beautiful effect, and very in style right now, especially when it’s done well. Make sure that it pairs well with your hard finishes and decor. The downside to using Revere Pewter on your trim is that when it goes out of style, or if you get tired of it, the cost to change to white trim is very high because of the labor.
In my opinion, Revere Pewter looks more timeless when used with contrasting white trim.
Can I use Revere Pewter to color drench a room or a whole house?
You can use this color to drench an entire room, including walls, ceilings, trim, and doors, if it’s paired with the appropriate decor and the room has lots of natural or artificial light. I prefer to pair it with colorful decor and rich colors.
Learn more about color drenching in our post, Color Drenching 101, Tips and Tricks.
I wouldn’t drench a whole house with Revere Pewter, or any other greige. It’s way too much gray and can end up looking like a battleship. Just not my cup of tea.
Can I try Revere Pewter kitchen cabinets?
Revere Pewter cabinets are gorgeous! This is a great option if you want a light and bright kitchen but don’t want to go with a traditional white cabinet color. Revere Pewter would also look lovely as the lower cabinet color in a tuxedo kitchen design. Learn more about the best white cabinet colors and how to create a tuxedo kitchen in our posts.
In this color consulting client’s kitchen, Revere Pewter paint keeps the space looking fresh and updated while also adding warmth and keeping the cabinets from looking too stark against the earthy finishes.
The color pairs well with this home’s classic kitchen design elements, tying together the more modern white tile backsplash with its warm granite countertops and tile floors. Get 15 Classic Kitchen Design Ideas from this post about classic kitchens and their elements.
Is a Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter living room a good idea?
Yes, Revere Pewter is a fantastic living room paint color! For this client’s living room, they wanted a color that would complement their beautiful stone fireplace. BM Revere Pewter totally fits the bill.
It pairs beautifully with the warm stone and natural wood floors throughout this space. It’s light enough that the room feels bright and airy, but still has a good amount of color on the walls.
Would a Revere Pewter bedroom look good?
A Revere Pewter bedroom is gorgeous! In the client’s bedroom featured below, the color looks warm and inviting, even though the room has lower lighting and more shadows than we would normally expect with this paint color.
When we were looking for a color for this unique room, we found Benjamin Moore Ice Formations (973). We didn’t realize it was the same color as Revere Pewter until later, but it works so well in this space.
The warm green undertones in Revere Pewter look beautiful paired with the room’s wood ceiling, wood floors, and stone fireplace. Get more ideas for calming bedroom paint colors in the linked article.
The lighting in this space also shows the versatility of this warm greige paint color. The color looks much brighter around the fireplace, where there is lots of natural light. But it still looks warm and lovely in the more shadowy corners of the room. If you are looking for more ideas about this color family, check out our blog about the 8 Best Taupe and Warm Greige Paint Colors.
Is a Revere Pewter basement a good idea?
Yes, Revere Pewter can be a great color for a basement, especially if there’s plenty of light (natural or artificial)! It’s very similar to Sherwin-Williams Agreeable Gray, which is one of our picks in the best basement paint color blog post. It’s warm green undertones help it look cozy and inviting even in slightly lower light.
The basement room below is painted with SW Agreeable Gray. A Revere Pewter basement room would look very similar.
Is BM Revere Pewter a good whole house color?
Revere Pewter could absolutely work as the foundation for a whole house color palette. This light warm greige can be a foundation wall color throughout a home or just one room. Learn how to create a whole-house color palette in this post.
In this client’s home, we used Revere Pewter walls in the room next to the kitchen, with Revere Pewter cabinets, to tie the two spaces together. In an open-concept home like this one, it’s a fantastic neutral color that can be used throughout the living spaces.
Using Revere Pewter Exterior Paint
Yes, you can! Revere Pewter would be a lovely whole-home exterior color for a homeowner who wants a light exterior but doesn’t want to risk using a white exterior paint color, as shown in this post, that might look too stark under direct sunlight.
But keep in mind – if your home has a lot of green foliage around it, they could bring out the green undertones of Revere Pewter and make your home look greener than you intended.
BM Revere Pewter is also a great choice for exterior trim. On homes with very dark body paint, it could be used as a light trim color (especially in bright sunlight). We also like to use it within low-contrast exterior color palettes like the one used on the home pictured below.
In this exterior palette article with low contrast Revere Pewter accents, we paired Revere Pewter trim and shutters with Swiss Coffee siding for a soft color palette that looks seriously gorgeous!
When should I avoid Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter?
Avoid BM Revere Pewter in rooms with very cool light or a lack of light overall. This color is just dark enough that it may appear a bit gloomy in these kinds of spaces. It really needs a lot of light (natural or artificial) to show its full potential on the wall.
Avoid Revere Pewter in the same room with grays that have violet undertones such as Collingwood, Repose Gray, and Balboa Mist. They can be in adjacent rooms.
Best Revere Pewter Coordinating Colors
BM Revere Pewter is a lovely neutral paint color that pairs well with many other colors and finishes. It looks fabulous with beige colors that have green undertones, such as the light beige color shown in this Manchester Tan Color Review.
It also looks fantastic with rich, jewel-toned colors. One of my favorite museums in the world is the d’Orsay museum, where they have a similar color to Revere Pewter on the walls. This color makes the colorful impressionist art from Monet, Degas, and other famous painters come to life.
Does Revere Pewter go with blue?
Revere Pewter looks amazing with dark blues and teals like the chairs in the photo below, thanks to its warm, green undertones.
We especially love Revere Pewter with very deep blues shown in our Hale Navy color review. It also looks lovely with mid-tone teals shown in this BM Mount Saint Anne Color Review, which is a gorgeous muted blue color.
Does Revere Pewter go with white?
Yes, Revere Pewter can pair well with many white paint colors. It works best with clean or off-white paint colors that aren’t too cool or too warm. Benjamin Moore White Dove is our top pick for a white paint color to pair with Revere Pewter.
Does Revere Pewter go with earthy finishes?
Yes, Revere Pewter works really well with some granites and other earthy finishes, as seen in our client’s kitchen and living room featured above.
While many gray paint colors are too cool to pair with earthy finishes, Revere Pewter’s warm green undertones coordinate well with the warmth of these finishes.
Does Revere Pewter go with wood?
Revere Pewter looks beautiful with natural wood floors and other wood accents.
In our client’s bedroom, it looks lovely with the unique wood paneled ceiling, wood furniture, and wood floors.
What are the Best Trim and Ceiling Colors For BM Revere Pewter?
Use Revere Pewter with clean white and off-white trim and ceiling colors such as Chantilly Lace, Simply White, Cloud W, and White Dove. You can go as warm as Swiss Coffee trim paint, but it wouldn’t be my first choice. You can learn more about these white colors in our post about the 7 Best Benjamin Moore White Paint Colors.
Best Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter Alternatives
Not sure if Revere Pewter paint color is right for your next project? See how it compares to other similar colors.
Revere Pewter vs Agreeable Gray
Sherwin-Williams Agreeable Gray is very similar to Revere Pewter, but does look different on the wall. It is lighter than Revere Pewter, with an LRV of 60. And while both colors have green undertones, Agreeable Gray can flash violet and appear fleshier than Revere Pewter.
Revere Pewter vs Skyline Steel
Sherwin-Williams Skyline Steel is another warm gray paint with green undertones. It is darker and warmer than Revere Pewter, with an LRV of 52. Much like Agreeable Gray, it looks fleshier than Revere Pewter. It is the closest Sherwin-Williams equivalent to Revere Pewter.
Revere Pewter vs Repose Gray
With an LRV of 58, Repose Gray is just slightly lighter than Revere Pewter. It has violet undertones, which make it look cooler than Revere Pewter. Learn more about this Sherwin color in our Repose Gray Color Review.
Revere Pewter vs Accessible Beige
Accessible Beige is just a bit lighter than Revere Pewter, with an LRV of 58. It has similar green undertones, but is warmer than Revere Pewter and looks much more beige than gray. Learn more about this beautiful color in our Accessible Beige Color Review.
Revere Pewter vs Edgecomb Gray
Edgecomb Gray has an LRV of 63, and is a good bit lighter than Revere Pewter. It is substantially lighter and warmer than Revere. When you compare them, Edgecomb looks beige, but it’s not. Both grays have green undertones. Learn more about this beautiful color in our Edgecomb Gray Color Review post.
Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Light enough to use through the whole house, but also has plenty of pigment.
- Warm green undertones without the fleshy tones of some other warm grays
- Pairs beautifully with warm stone and natural wood floors and furniture
- Contrasts nicely with clean white or slightly warm off-white trim and ceiling colors
- Works well as a trim and interior passage door color if contrasted with off-white or lighter wall colors
Cons:
- Not the best for exteriors if you have lots of green foliage, which can bring out the undertones and make your home look greener than intended
- Avoid in rooms with very cool light or lack of light; it can appear gloomy
- Don’t use with grays that have violet undertones
- It can look dingy is used in a whole-house drench.
Key Learning Points
Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter is a warm, neutral paint color that can work in just about any room of the house. It’s a great option if you’re looking for a foundation color for a whole-house color scheme.
- Revere Pewter is a warm, gray paint color with green undertones. It looks best in spaces with lots of warm natural or artificial light and can look gloomy in cool or low-light situations.
- Revere Pewter is a beautiful kitchen paint color for either walls or kitchen cabinets. It pairs just as well with clean white subway tile as it does with earthy granite countertops.
- This warm, gray paint is also a great option for living rooms and open-concept spaces. It can work well as a foundational wall color throughout an entire home.
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About the Author
Hi, I’m Michelle Marceny, founder, owner, and Principal Color Designer at The Color Concierge. I believe a fresh coat of paint can completely transform a space. The Color Concierge was born out of my drive to help clients fall back in love with their homes. My clients trust me to help them find the perfect paint color — whether that’s a whole-house color scheme or ideas for a single room.
Since founding The Color Concierge in 2017, my team and I have completed 1,000s of color consultations, online and in person. I’m a Certified Color Expert with nine years of experience creating interior and exterior color palettes throughout North America.
Every color review on this site comes from colors we’ve specified in real homes and photographed on location during our own consultations — not from a fan deck or a manufacturer’s website.
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