Don’t confuse Sherwin-Williams Sea Salt with Benjamin Moore Sea Salt. They are not even close! BM Sea Salt is a gray with violet undertones.
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Use Sea Salt when you want a splash of color. I love to use this color in mud rooms, laundry rooms as well as calm and peaceful bedrooms. It looks amazing with muted terra cotta floors as well as with crisp white color. A little bit goes a long way. Unless you are absolutely in love with this palette, my preference is to avoid it for large common spaces.
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What are the best trim and ceiling colors to pair with SW Sea Salt?
I like to match trim and ceiling colors. All of the trim and ceiling colors in this post are Extra White SW 7005, which is a bright white with invisible blue undertones. Sea Salt also works well with clean whites such as SW High Reflective White and off-whites such as SW Alabaster and SW Greek Villa. I would not go creamier unless you have to.
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How does it look in darker spaces?
Sea Salt can take a bluer tone in darker spaces, or with North facing light. You still see tons of the green though.
What is the closest Benjamin Moore Paint Color to SW Sea Salt?
Benjamin Moore Gray Cashmere (2128-60), and its a pretty good match. Don’t try to match the color. Learn more about matching paint colors here.
The Verdict
Sherwin-Williams Sea Salt is a colorful and lovely color that rarely disappoints. Use it in small doses, unless you LOVE a blue-green color throughout. Pair with crisp whites and off-whites for trim and ceiling colors.
No matter what, don’t forget to test your paint colors. It’s a standard best practice. Whenever I test my paint colors, they are perfect, and when I don’t test they turn out wrong. Learn how to test your paint colors here.
NEVER, EVER use paint matches from a different brand than the one specified. Results are poor and there are no standards for the sheens. Even though your painter may truly believe it can be done, don’t do it. See results from paint matching here.
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I love Sea Salt I have it in my master suite and my guest suite. It’s very calming. We did the ceiling with the Sea Salt but added a little white to lighten it. With our large white crown molding it looks great. We tried the white but it looked like it was missing something and actually the molding just blended in. So using the lightened Sea salt was perfect.
This is my all-time favorite color!! I painted my whole house this color and the reactions I would get were always positive! I was told they felt like they were in a spa. I don’t live in that house anymore but couldn’t resist painting my new bedroom in Sea Salt!
Hi Jayce and Carol
I saw your comments on Color Concierge and wanted to ask you a question about SHERWIN WILLIAMS SEA SALT.
I have white kitchen cabinets and a black glass kitchen table with black chairs. Would it be okay you think to paint the kitchen in SEA SALT? I’m asking you because it seems most of the photos I see of SEA SALT have it paired with a white color, not black. I just purchased my black glass kitchen table too 🙂
Hi this color will go very nice with Black and with the white cabinets it will look very nice!