Santorini Blue Undertones: What to Compare Beside Your Finishes

Start with the documented color character

Santorini Blue is a cool blue with gray undertones. A physical comparison is needed to decide how that character works with your own finishes. Santorini Blue's cool gray undertone offers a subdued blue alternative to a clearer, more saturated scheme.

Why the linen upholstery and medium walnut relationship matters

Medium walnut and plain linen supply enough structure that nautical patterns are optional rather than necessary to explain the wall color.

Santorini Blue has an LRV of 44.67; Benjamin Moore Boothbay Gray HC-165 is 43.26. The difference is 1.41 points, with Santorini Blue returning more light under the reference measurement. Boothbay Gray is a blue-gray with a noticeable midtone presence. This supplies a named color control; the LRV gap alone does not identify the warmer, greener or pinker paint.

Use Boothbay Gray as a control

With Santorini Blue, identify the hue you want to retain rather than trying to eliminate all undertones. Place the sample with linen upholstery and medium walnut and compare Boothbay Gray. A blue-green, rosy or earthy paint may need a different color direction if its defining character is unwelcome.

Separate a persistent cast from a comparison effect

Let the wood and plain fabric establish the scheme before adding patterned blue accessories. The warm-versus-cool comparison covers that related choice.

Keep, compare or change direction

If the unwanted cast remains beside a permanent finish under normal light, that is a practical reason to replace Santorini Blue. If it appears only beside an unused sample, remove the comparison and assess the intended palette alone. Before ordering samples, compare room-planning features in the paint color visualizer roundup.