Photography by Mel Walbridge for Remodelista.
With endless paint colors to choose from, sometimes it can be best to stick with the basics—like a versatile white that will go with anything. Here are their picks, all of them from two favorite (and easy-to-find) brands.
For both Medium Plenty and Sonoma-based Amy A. Alper, Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace is a “go-to” pure white.
Howells Architecture & Design‘s go-to pure white: Farrow & Ball’s Strong White.
Brooklyn firm Made chooses the softly warm White Dove by Benjamin Moore.
Santa Monica–based MLK Studio also swears by Benjamin Moore’s Super White.
Scavullo Design Interiors and San Francisco–based Marie Fisher Interior Design both like Farrow & Ball’s All White: “We’ve found that this is the best pure white with no other pigment in the mix. We use this often where clients are showcasing art,” says Marysia Rybock of Scavullo Design Interiors.
Both Kriste Michelini of Bay Area-based Kriste Michelini Interiors and Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe of Nickey Kehoe opt for the brighter Simply White by Benjamin Moore.
Jon Call of Mr Call Designs swears by Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White, because, he explains, “it just works.”
Ellen Hamilton of New York City–based firm Hamilton Design Associate likes the soft Cloud White by Benjamin Moore.