The wall is almost certainly already some variation of Swiss coffee, which is like a drop of black and two drops of umber per gallon… juuuuust enough to give it a little color.

When I used to help people pick colors the primary advice I gave them was that once it’s on the wall you will never see the difference between the four shades of [color] you’re looking at because at scale your brain blends it in with the lighting and ambient color of the rest of the room.

Sheen makes more of a difference, and the answer is always satin/eggshell for living spaces and gloss for kitchens and bathrooms (because it’s more moisture resistant and washable). Flat can go fuck itself, it only exists as a cheap option for track homes who don’t care about your paint looking good for more than six months.

Source: worked at a paint store for several years, did a loooot of color matching by eye.

If you have kids or pets, or just have a tendency to be a clumsy person yourself, then glossy is much better from a practical standpoint. So much easier to clean with less risk of rubbing the paint off the wall. To be fair, I don't have much of an eye for style so it suits me just fine.

Definitely in with the non-white making a big difference, even if it's subtle. Especially if your trim is white white, which highlights that the walls are just light colored, but distinctly not white.

Look at that subtle warm white colouring. The tasteful edge detailing. Oh my God, it even has aligned brush strokes!

Funnily enough there's actually sexual dimorphism in human vision. While studies about exactly how different the structure of the eye is and how it might differ from an assumed objective commonalities is still not conclusive it's thought Female phenotypic people supposedly do tend to have higher color differentiation on average and are better at recognition of static objects while Male phenotypic people have better night vision and ability to interpret objects in motion.

So a guy holding up two paint swatches they can't tell the difference in and being confused is basically a cross cultural phenomenon.

Yeah but printers are optimized for trichromats and these color swatches are printed, so they should look the same to a tetrachromat as everyone else.

Which gives makes me feel bad for them cause all printed media, and any TV, monitor, or phone display that can't do 1000+ nit HDR must look very dull and unrealistic to a tetrachromat. Hell, even HDR 400 (the minimum standard) in of itself is still a relatively niche feature, let alone HDR 1000+.

Women are more likely to have more rods and cones in their eyes and are therefore more likely to be able to identify the difference between very similar shades and hues as well.

Wall has a cold, blue tone to me. Warmer cream tone is king.

You can see golden crust forming on the jpeg already. Don't look away or it'll get fry too deep

Some better lighting would help, for sure. OP's wife is clearly trying to use gaslighting, and it's just not working.

Honestly this. I began calling any white offshoot simply "Dirty white". Bring color into my life, I beg you...sadly, I live in small flat, so dark colors ain't an option.

Same. I've decided to do at least one mural in each room to live the place up more. I might paint my bedroom ceiling to look like space and stick some of those glow in the dark stars up there lol

Got to warm the room up by a few shades!

Seriously I would just get a led bulb and change color in room that way. Of course there is no nautral light where I live so maybe that doesn't work everyone.

What does this mean. 🤔

This isn't a painting problem. This is a lighting problem

It looks like it might be slightly a slightly warmer tone to me

Judging from this picture, I'm assuming it's 99.9% milk.