Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams is a timeless green neutral color with deep gray undertones. One of the most popular Sherwin Williams green paint colors, SW Sea Salt is a coastal color that also shares synonyms with slate green, slate gray, misty green gray color, muted neutral, and soft green blue paint color. Sherwin Williams Sea Salt is a beachy paint color that feels soft and calming and leans more towards the green and gray than blue. No wonder, why sea salt color is also one of the best-selling neutrals by Sherwin Williams.

So, if you’re looking for a cool-toned green-gray-blue neutral paint color that is also light and airy – Sherwin Williams Sea Salt it is! It feels quite refreshing, soothing, and tranquilizing – hence, very close to making your space feel closer to nature. And know that sea salt color paint is also quite a chameleon! In a well-lit room, this greenish gray color can showcase the various undertones (green, gray, and blue) and make your space appear unique – all day long!

What Color is Sherwin Williams Sea Salt?

Sherwin Williams Sea Salt is a beautiful green paint color with deep gray undertones. With just a touch of blue undertones, SW Sea Salt is a pale, soft, and muted color that can work wonderfully in coastal design style, beach homes, transitional, French Country, and modern farmhouse design styles. The blue undertones are not very dominant though! I’d highly recommend that you use this color sea salt as a base, neutral, or accent. (Don’t worry, I am going to reveal how to style with SW Sea Salt slightly later in the blog)

Sea Salt from Sherwin Williams is a versatile paint color that can be used for both warm and cool-toned color palettes. This popular green gray color is a gateway to a beachy and coastal vibe – hence if you’re looking for a paint color so light, calm, and airy – Sea Salt it is! 

I’d recommend that you try this ready-to-order swatch in different rooms with different lighting conditions to determine how Sea Salt color will truly feel in your home.

Click here to get a peel & stick sample of Sherwin Williams Sea Salt

Is Sherwin Williams Sea Salt Blue or Green?

SW Sea Salt is a green gray neutral paint color. It has a minor touch of blue undertone which isn’t quite dominant! Sea Salt SW lies somewhere between the green gray (Sherwin Williams Aloof Gray) and green blue (Sherwin Williams Rainwashed). So, in my books, Sea Salt color is definitely green and nowhere close to being blue. If you compare a swatch of all three colors, you’re quite likely to observe the difference in the undertones.

Even based on the natural incoming lighting conditions and existing architectural elements, the sea salt paint color can either incline towards the green or gray undertone. 

Is Sherwin Williams Sea Salt Cool or Warm?

Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams is DEFINITELY a cool-toned muted green gray color. The cooler colors have green, gray, or purple undertones unlike the warm-toned colors that have red, yellow, or orange undertones. Since Sherwin Williams Sea Salt has green and gray undertones, it makes a beautiful cool-toned paint color.

If you compare a swatch of Sherwin Williams Sea Salt, Sherwin Williams Aloof Gray, and Sherwin Williams Liveable Green, you’d feel how cool, calm, and composed the former color feels.

What are the Undertones of SW Sea Salt?

Sherwin Williams Sea Salt undertones are quite a chameleon! With a notable touch of gray undertones in the neutral Sherwin Williams green paint color – this color tends to feel quite spa-like and relaxed. So, SW Sea Salt is a lighter-toned, greenish gray color that may shift the undertones as the natural light hits. In some cases, this paint color sea salt can also showcase a touch of blue undertones.

And due to these undertones, there’s one tricky characteristic of SW Sea Salt that you may not want to miss. Well, SW 6204 Sea Salt color can potentially alter its appearances as the day goes by! Long story short, expect this timeless grayish green color to appear slightly different at different times of the day. Yes – natural light can drastically change the way a color looks. Let’s discuss how this color behaves in different lighting conditions – 

• In the north-facing rooms, SW Sea Salt can appear quite ‘neutral’ due to the incoming muted natural light entering.
• In the south-facing rooms, SW Sea Salt can potentially look much lighter and brighter with the incoming warm early afternoon light. The ‘gray’ in the color is what seems to take backstage and the ‘green’ is what shows up!
• In the east-facing rooms, Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams will offer a bright ambiance in the morning but as the sun sets, the muted ‘blue’ undertone in this color will seem to come forward.
• In the west-facing rooms, Sea Salt Sherwin Williams will appear ‘green’ almost all day long!

What’s the LRV of SW Sea Salt?

SW Sea Salt has an LRV of 63 – hence, neither too light nor too dark. Of course, you can use this color as a base on all the walls of a room or even as an accent on the wainscotting, furniture, ceiling, or cabinets. Light Reflectance Value or LRV is an important aspect to consider when choosing the best neutral paint color for your home. This value determines how light or dark the paint color is – on a scale of 0-100. Hence, the lighter the paint color, the higher the LRV is! I’d personally use this color in a small to medium-sized room.

Is Sea Salt still a Popular Color?

Sea Salt color paint is one of the best-selling neutral paint colors by Sherwin Williams. It’s also under the TOP 50 colors that have also proved to be quite versatile and timeless for a home. Especially for interior design styles like modern farmhouse, coastal, beach homes, Scandinavian, and French Country – this color makes a popular choice! This soft and muted green gray color can work beautifully in warm or cool-toned color palettes.

Is Sea Salt a Good Color for the Living Room?

Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams wouldn’t be my first choice for a living room – but, if you have an inclination for a beachy and coastal vibe, then why not? Pair the beautiful sea salt color with clean white trim, moldings, and ceilings along with built-in cabinets. Your living room furniture could be off-white, cream, beige, gray, or dark blue. Fabric accents could be light yellow, medium gray, and off-white!

Is Sea Salt a Good Color for a Bedroom?

SW Sea Salt is my absolute favorite color for a bedroom! Since this is a personal space that requires utmost attention – a calming color like SW Sea Salt will definitely make a beautiful statement. I’d recommend you also check out my article – 10 Sherwin Williams Calming Paint Colors.

What is One Shade Darker Than Sea Salt?

Sherwin Williams Comfort Gray is a shade darker than SW Sea Salt. If you’re looking for a greenish gray color that is slightly deeper and darker, SW Comfort Gray or SW Oyster Bay can make a beautiful choice. All of the above-mentioned colors have similar undertones!

Can I Use Sea Salt Sherwin Williams For The WHOLE HOUSE?

Sea Salt paint color Sherwin Williams can make a beautiful, airy, and beachy statement as an ACCENT or BASE in any home. Whether it’s the bedroom walls, kids’ play areas, bathroom vanity, wainscotting, ceiling, cabinets, built-in shelves, or an accent wall paneling – this color only makes a stunning statement when used. You definitely can’t use this color as a ‘whole house’ color scheme or on all the common walls of your home.

This color is ideal for smaller, medium, or larger-sized homes. For smaller or medium-sized homes, you can use this color as an accent on the wainscotting, ceiling, cabinets, vanity, and accent wall. For larger spaces, you can experiment with painting all your room’s walls in SW Sea Salt.

How To Use SW Sea Salt Paint?

I’d personally like to use SW Sea Salt as an accent or base in a home. The true beauty of this sea salt paint color is to use it as a base or accent in various areas of your home for a cohesive palette. For instance, you can use this color on the entryway door, a bedroom’s accent wall, kitchen island or lower cabinets, kids’ play area, or the accent wainscoting in a bathroom. Too much of this color can feel quite boring and monotonous. And that’s why I’d say that you restrict the use of this color ‘everywhere’.

Here’s a well-curated pre-made color palette that I have created for SW Sea Salt on Etsy! It enlists all the exact colors that pair with Sea Salt color including how and where to use them in your whole house color palette. I have included 5 color palettes (with Sherwin Williams Sea Salt and complementary hues) along with how to use each of those paint colors in various areas of your home. You’ll also get the detailed MATERIAL and FABRIC palette with each of SW Sea Salt color palettes! Another bonus is PAINT PLANNER and a detailed guide on paint sheens for various areas of your home.

Here’s where you can download the palette – Sherwin Williams Sea Salt

Where To Use SW Sea Salt Paint in Your Home?

As mentioned, Sea Salt from Sherwin Williams can make a beachy and calming appearance as an ACCENT or BASE in various areas of your home. You can certainly use the sea salt color in approximately two, three, or four spaces for a cohesive color palette. To name a few, here’s where you can use this paint color sea salt in your home –

• Bathroom Vanity
• Bathroom Wainscotting
• Entryway Door (Exteriors or Interiors)
• Exterior Shutters
• Interior Doors
• Bedroom Accent Walls
• Kitchen Cabinets
• Living Room Walls
• Dining Room Walls
• Kids’ Rooms
• Built-in Shelves
• Mudroom Cabinets
• Laundry Room Cabinets
• Accent Furniture

What Color Goes Well With SW Sea Salt?

Sea Salt Sherwin Williams coordinating colors are icy gray, cool or warm white, white with yellow undertones, blush pink, dark green gray, teal blue, midnight blue, charcoal gray, mustard yellow, or even warm white.

Here’s a list of Sherwin Williams white colors that go with SW Sea Salt –

1. Sherwin Williams Spare White
2. Sherwin Williams Extra White
3. Sherwin Williams Snowbound
4. Sherwin Williams Whitetail

Here’s a list of Sherwin Williams medium and dark gray-green colors that go with SW Sea Salt –

1. Sherwin Williams Retreat
2. Sherwin Williams Pewter Green

Now, here’s a list of Sherwin Williams greige and beige that goes with Sea Salt Sherwin Williams –

1. Sherwin Williams Accessible Beige
2. Sherwin Williams Kilim Beige
3. Sherwin Williams Anew Gray
4. Sherwin Williams Modern Gray

Here’s a list of Sherwin Williams gray colors that go with SW Sea Salt –

1. Sherwin Williams Big Chill
2. Sherwin Williams Passive
3. Sherwin Williams First Star
4. Sherwin Williams Peppercorn

Here’s a list of Sherwin Williams medium and dark gray-blue colors that go with SW Sea Salt –

1. Sherwin Williams Storm Cloud
2. Sherwin Williams Naval
3. Sherwin Williams Cyberspace

What Trim Colors Go With SW Sea Salt?

With SW Sea Salt, I’d pair the neutral or cool and crisp white colors so the undertones can show up beautifully! You can avoid choosing white colors with gray or blue undertones since that might mess up with the undertones of sea salt color. Here are some examples to illustrate!

• Sherwin Williams Alabaster

Sherwin Williams Alabaster can make a beautiful and creamy statement with SW Sea Salt on the trims, moldings, and ceiling. This creamy base color is slightly darker than a clean white trim color – hence, will make SW Sea Salt slightly cooler.

• Sherwin Williams Pure White

SW Pure White is a great trim color (and my first option) to go with SW Sea Salt. In fact, this is one of the best trim paint colors to go with any color. This neutral white color will help create a clean look without going overwhelming with the undertones. Due to the lack of undertones in SW Pure White – this color definitely makes a great choice.

• Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace

BM Chantilly Lace is another clean and bright white paint that works wonderfully with SW Sea Salt paint color. In the case of contemporary, Scandinavian, and modern design styles – this trim color will never disappoint you! 

• Behr Ultra Pure White

Lightest and cleanest of them all, Behr Ultra Pure White is clean and bright white paint that makes the ceilings appear higher and your dull corners brighter. A must-recommend for SW Sea Salt paint color! 

• Sherwin Williams Sea Salt

Why not? If you’re looking for a seamless and dramatic statement for transitional and Neoclassical design styles, SW Sea Salt can make a beautiful all-in-one on the ceilings, moldings, and walls. However, allow ample natural light to enter so the space doesn’t feel dingy. 

Sherwin Williams Sea Salt Equivalent Colors

Comparing colors is always helpful since you get the idea of the true undertones of a paint color. After all, that’s how we know how a paint color is lighter/darker or warmer/cooler than the others! 

Here, other closely related similar paint colors are Sherwin Williams Silver Strand, Sherwin Williams Rainwashed, Sherwin Williams Fleur de Sel, and Sherwin Williams Comfort Gray.

Let’s see how they differ!

Sea Salt vs Silver Strand

Sherwin Williams Silver Strand is slightly darker than SW Sea Salt with an LRV of 59. When compared closely, you’ll observe that Silver Strand color also has more gray to it than green. Hence, if you’re looking for a paint color that has slightly more chroma to it – Sherwin Williams Sea Salt it is! 

Sea Salt vs Rainwashed

Sherwin Williams Rainwashed is a neutral color that has a perfect blend of blue, green, and gray undertones. When observed closely, SW Rainwashed has a little more color and chroma to it – as compared to SW Sea Salt. This cool-toned, coastal and breezy green-blue color has an LRV of 59 – thus, darker than SW Sea Salt.

Sea Salt vs Fleur de Sel

Sherwin Williams Fleur de Sel is a light gray or off-white paint color with dominant green undertones. With an LRV of 72 – this color is way lighter than SW Sea Salt and can be used as a whole house color as well. This cool, serene, and calming color is more gray than green!

Sea Salt vs Comfort Gray

A shade darker than SW Sea Salt, Comfort Gray has an LRV of 54. This color has slightly more depth and dimension to it – hence, can be used as a base or neutral for any home. When observed closely, this green gray color has a touch of blue as well!

Where To Use Sherwin Williams Sea Salt in Your Homes?

SW Sea Salt can make a beautiful and organic statement in any corner of your home. Well, if you’re excited to have a look at some inspirations of how this color has been used creatively, here’s a list to follow!

Sherwin Williams Sea Salt Bedroom

Sea Salt paint color Sherwin Williams in the bedroom will play absolutely calming and soothing. You can choose to paint all the walls in SW Sea Salt or even as an accent on the wainscotting, ceiling, or furniture. Especially for design styles like Coastal, Beach homes, and transitional – this color is bound to play fun-loving. Pair with beige, mustard yellow, and gray furnishings for the best results!

SW Sea Salt Exterior

Do you have a coastal-style home? Or maybe a beach cottage to flaunt and style? Well, Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams can truly make a beautiful appearance. You can choose to paint all the exterior walls in Sea Salt or even add an accent on the entryway door and shutters. 

Sea Salt Sherwin Williams Bathroom

Your bathroom is a personal space for utmost serenity and calmness. Sea Salt bathroom paint makes a wonderful cool-toned option if you embrace a breezy and coastal vibe. This color can be best paired with creamy or cool whites on the vanity, trims, and ceiling. The lighting fixtures and hardware could either be satin chrome or satin brass. 

Sea Salt Kitchen Walls

Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams on the kitchen walls can make a beautiful and tranquil experience. You can choose to paint the kitchen walls in SW Sea Salt and cabinets in SW Pure White or SW Extra White. 

Sea Salt Kitchen Cabinets

SW Sea Salt cabinets can play quite soothing and calming. Whether kitchen cabinets or laundry room cabinets – this green gray hue can play a different role in different lighting conditions. You can best pair this color with satin brass, matte black, or even satin chrome finish on the hardware and pull handles. 

Sea Salt Nursery

Trust me, your kids’ are going to love this color in their room. Whether a boy or girl – SW Sea Salt nursery is absolutely blissful and tranquilizing! You can choose to paint all the nursery walls in SW Sea Salt or even style an accent wall, wainscotting, or wall paneling in this green gray color. 

SW Sea Salt Living Room

I’d only recommend sea salt-painted walls in the living room if you have a coastal or beach-style home. This color pairs beautifully with walnut, beech wood, or white oak cabinets and furniture. Style with printed fabrics, indoor green elements, and organic hues to complete the look.

SW Sea Salt Takeaway

Well, are you excited to incorporate this color into your home? Sherwin Williams Sea Salt is definitely one of the best and most popular green gray paint colors to have in your home. So, without any delay, paint that fresh coat of this green-gray color and let your home feel soothing and calm again! 

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