Sherwin Williams Sea Salt and Rainwashed: Prettiest Colors For Your Home!
Don’t you hate buying paint and getting home and wishing you’d chosen another color?
Yep. Me too.
But I guarantee that’s not going to happen this time because, hands down, Sherwin Williams Rainwashed and Sea Salt are two of the prettiest, softest colors that never fail to disappoint.
I’m obsessed with these colors. In fact, three of my rooms are painted these colors:
- My master bedroom (Sherwin Williams Rainwashed)
- My foyer/entryway refresh makeover (Sherwin Williams Sea Salt)
- My master bathroom (Sherwin Williams Sea Salt)
Hopefully, stumbling upon these pics will help you to make a decision to use them, because they’re that fabulous!
Sherwin Williams Rainwashed
Rainwashed is probably my most favorite color of all times. When we moved into this old 1973 house in 2010, I couldn’t envision what I wanted my bedroom to look like. Our old bedroom was a soft buttery yellow with deep red accents. A little too “warm” for my taste in this “new” old house. Instead, I wanted something cool, soft, and felt like an oasis when I walked in! This is what my bedroom looked liked prior to its total overhaul, funky 70’s quilted drapes and all!
BEFORE
The wallpaper needed to come down first. That was a complete nightmare! I wouldn’t wish wallpaper on my worse enemy! (Well…actually, that could be satisfying, but I digress….LOL). We used an amazing wallpaper steamer that I bought from Amazon and it worked really well to pull down the wallpaper. But the wallpaper left a bunch of sticky glue
AFTER!
Once the wallpaper was gone…once I added the DIY crown molding…what resulted was this soft, prettiness! This is Sherwin Williams Rainwashed. AH-MAY-ZING…… What’s crazy is that in the years since moving in, not once have I ever felt like re-painting over the Rainwashed. Other rooms in my hous, however, have been painted over at last once or twice. But not this room. The color is too divine!
Here’s another shot of Rainwashed in my master bedroom. Isn’t it such a light shade of turquoise blue-green? Everything you see in the image below was thrifted or made my hand!
I had found this frame at the thrift store and figured out how to frame fabric with a picture frame. I love how it looks on my master bedroom wall with the Rainwashed.
Psst! Check out how I used Sherwin Williams Abalone Shell in my family room!
It’s funny, but when you look at it on a color card, it looks nothing like what it does on your walls, depending on the time of day. It’s like the magician of paint colors. According to this swatch, it’s in the green family, but sorry–my walls say something different!
When I walk into my bedroom, it feels like an oasis!
I installed the crown molding myself (I wrote a 52-page step-by-step guide on how to put up your own crown molding like a novice. Download a copy of the ebook).
Sherwin Williams Sea Salt
Sherwin Williams Sea Salt is another paint color that is a bit of a magician when on the walls.
This is what my master bathroom looked like when we moved in. It was a hot mess. But I knew that Sherwin Williams Sea Salt would look amazing in this room. It has a calming effect and looks good with shades of gray and white. Here’s what my master bathroom looked like before. In this room, it actually does look greenish:
BEFORE
AFTER!
What do you think? It looks like a very light seafoam color. Excuse the horrible pics :). These are old cell phone pics!
As much as I loved Sherwin Williams Sea Salt, later I wanted a change for my bathroom.
So I’ve since done a master bathroom makeover and it now looks like this!
RELATED: See how to make this master bathroom makeover, which doesn’t require hardware to stay in place, and you can move it up and down!
Anyhow, back to my foyer….
In my foyer, Sherwin Williams Sea Salt looks more light-bluish/turquoise in the afternoon sun!
BEFORE
AFTER!
In my foyer (click here to watch how I touched up the Sea Salt for an entryway refresh makeover), it sometimes looks a shade of blue, depending on the light. The color is very soothing and I can’t believe I ever chose a depressing, dark yellow.
Never again!
I love how fresh Sea Salt feels when I walk in! And what’s crazy is that when readers send me pictures of their house, showing off their projects to me, the minute I see Sea Salt on their walls, I’m like, “I know that paint color!”
Worried?
You probably found this blog post because you’re researching Rainwashed or Sea Salt. Don’t worry. They’re great colors that make the walls feel airy and pretty. Sometimes they look greenish. Sometimes they look blue. Maybe turquoise. And sometimes you do feel nervous when you’re about to paint and you’re not quite sure what you’re going to get. But I love these colors so much; they never disappoint.
Even my kids love them ;).
Sherwin Williams Abalone Shell and City Loft
I absolutely love Sherwin Williams paint colors! I recently completed a family room refresh and I used Sherwin Williams Abalone Shell as a blush pink accent wall, and the rest of the walls are a gorgeous Sherwin Williams City Loft, which complements it so well! Click here to see the entire family room makeover here.
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How to Pick Awesome Color Combos
Choosing colors that look good together is tough. If you need more help picking color combos, then check out my other post: How to Pick Awesome Color Combos
Watch the Video!
If you want to check out Sea Salt in action, watch my video, where I’m demoing the Home Right EZ Twist paint stick. Maybe you can get a hint of what the paint looks like.
Sherwin Williams Window Pane
I can’t help but mention, I also love Sherwin Williams Window Pane, which is one color lighter on the same color card as Rainwashed (see above). It’s also a very turquoise paint color. I have used it in my reading room, and it’s just as beautiful and soft. And yes, that was a baby on my back. LOL
BEFORE
Same “yuck” beige in the reading room….
IN PROGRESS!
A gentle hint of greenish turquoise paint on the walls. Ahhhh….LOVE IT!
Psst…Check out these other projects in my master bedroom!
Have you used Sherwin Williams Rainwashed or Sea Salt in your house? What did you think? Leave a comment below and let me know!
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I love rainwashed and sea salt, but I have tile around tub and on floors that have tans in them. Not sure how these beautiful grayed colors will look with tans, especially without much natural light. Sea salt color chip looks pretty light gray in there, but it is only small chip. What do you think?
Where did you get your duvet cover from in this post https://thriftdiving.com/sherwin-williams-sea-salt-and-rainwashed/? My cousin loves it and wants it for her room!
Serena– love your blog and I, too, am using these colors in our home. I have a dilemma and maybe you have an answer…! I painted the dining room in SW Watery and I LOVE it… it’s very dramatic with white trim and wainscoting. The problem is, I now need to paint my kitchen something that goes nicely with Watery, since the rooms are adjoining. I was thinking Sea Salt… but I’m not sure. In kitchen: black granite countertops, medium birch cabinets, wood floors. I’m more of a blues/greens kind of girl and don’t really like hues in yellows. I feel like I should do something to contrast the Watery, though. Thoughts?
What you have will be great with sea salt. I’m almost finished with my sea salt kitchen redo, natural maple cabinets, slate flooring. Sea salt changes with the light. I LOVE IT. Black, white, grey, and brown shades all look great. I’m toying to accent color in dark red
Which one did you use? Super paint or Cashmere ? What finish is this eggshell or satin? I like both rain washed and sea salt. I was looking for master bedroom and your blog is very helpful
That color looks amazing! What a huge difference between the before and after photos 🙂 Now I have another color to recommend to others.
Well, maybe you are the one to help me! A Sherwin Williams color consultant came over and suggested Sea Salt for my black and white kitchen, and suggested Hazel for my yellow and burgundy tile bathroom. The more I look at these colors the more I dislike them, so I was very happy to find someone who likes Sea Salt!! The rest of my house is very bright and I cannot imagine Sea Salt anywhere. So sorry I already purchased two gallons of it. However…I happened to see something on your blog here that combined a bright pink or fuchsia with Sea Salt and thought….hmm….I perhaps could live with that. What do you think?
Hey there, Kell!
Yeah, Sea Salt is a pretty color! I first saw it in my Realtor’s laundry room and fell in love with it. It’s definitely a soft color, in the “green” family, but takes on more of a light turquoise color. You have two gallons of it? I would recommend painting an area and then test it with the Sea Salt to see how you like it. I think it could work with fuchsia! Let me know how it works out for you. I’ve been wanting to do a post about colors that work well with Sea Salt, so I think you have just sparked me to do it! 🙂 Stay tuned!
Would either look good with off white trim, like Navajo white, think it’s Behr. I have that shade of trim throughout the house and have been looking for a good color to go with it foreEVE, like years. Also trying to make it work with a maroon oriental carpet in DR/ maybe LR.
Hi, Karen!
Yep, that sounds like a nice combination with the Navajo White! Wow, maroon oriental carpet would be hard to match. If you did the Sea Salt, that might look nice since Sea Salt is a slight greenish color. Red and green look good together!
I DID find you looking for Rainwashed 🙂 Your rooms look GREAT!!
We painted our open floor concept living, dining, kitchen, entryway and hallways SW worldly gray and used rainwashed on the wall connecting the kitchen and dining space. We also painted our master rainwashed. It is absolutely amazing. The gray is very warm and the combination is beautiful. I’m going to paint my master bath sea salt as soon as I have a free weekend.