Often, going with a pure, bright white paint for your interior walls can make a space feel stark and overly formal. It's a look that works well for retail stores and art galleries, but in a home ...

The dining room ideas for this more formal entertaining space leave the pure white walls behind and include some warmer shades, including a softer white for the walls, and rich-toned woods and rattan.

And watch out if you go with a pure white untinted by any other hue ... When you put a piece of art against a white wall, it isolates the painting so it becomes like a postage stamp — a thing ...

Pure White from Sherwin Williams has been applied to the plaster walls. We went with a flat sheen for walls and ceilings If it isn’t daunting enough to pick paint colors from thousands of options, you ...

Because of course white is almost never pure white. While undertones are subtle, they have a big impact. The biggest trick is to assess what other colors you have in the space, McGarity said.

What can work, he says, “if you really like white,” is to choose a warm white for walls in a flat sheen, then a high-gloss trim of the same color. “It’s a very sexy, subtle thing to do ...

And watch out if you go with a pure white untinted by any other hue ... When you put a piece of art against a white wall, it isolates the painting so it becomes like a postage stamp — a thing ...