Sherwin Williams announced it’s Color of the Year for 2022 (#COTY2022) and it’s Evergreen Fog 9130. I have opinions!
First, their thoughts:
And “organic gray green”. Aren’t we done with gray gray everywhere? While I acknowledge a green gray is a step forward, Sherwin Williams Evergreen Fog is only a baby step.
There are so many hues in an evergreen forest and fog can either mute them or enhance them. Apparently muted is the choice SW prognosticators made. This first image is clearly the very close to the being an Evergreen Fog hue:
But do we want to live here?
Personally, I prefer a warmer and brighter palette. I spent some time pulling together other close green colors from Sherwin Williams that I feel are a better choice for most interiors.
Let me take a moment to note that it’s always incredibly important when selecting paint colors to see samples of the actual paint on the walls where it will go. Images on a computer screen vary greatly from screen to screen. And printed paint chips are just that – printed representations of the actual paint. Samplize is a great service to order 12×12 real paint samples that can be temporarily adhered to walls.
A little more on Sherwin Williams Evergreen Fog:
I find that the Sherwin Williams Color Visualizer is really quite accurate on my screen. I looked at each color in the Color Visualizer (top right) as well as created a rendering (bottom pic) with each of the alternate (aka prettier to me) paint colors.
Here are the paint chips I’ve selected:
Willow Tree and Clary Sage are very similar to Evergreen Fog, but there’s just a bit more green in them which brings a warmer as well as brighter color.
Rookwood Jade and Artichoke are both much more saturated without being dark and foreboding.
It goes without saying that all the other elements in a space – color of floors, woodwork and ceilings, furnishings and ambient light will really affect how any wall color will look. And I’m sure there are many of you who really love Sherwin Williams Evergreen Fog.
In full disclosure, I took a poll on my Instagram last week the day the color was announced what people thought of it:
So there you have it. I don’t like. Maybe it’s because I really love green so I want lots of green in my green! But I’m clearly in the minority, at least on my Instagram!
What do you think? Is Evergreen Fog a winner for you?
Editing in 2022 to add the Sherwin Williams #COTY 2023 – have you seen the color yet?
Editing in 2023 – According to this article in Better Homes & Gardens – Sherwin-Williams reports that Evergreen Fog is their 4th best selling paint color ever. So – apparently I continue to be in the minority when it comes to this color!
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So very tired of a gray {design} world. PLEASE bring back color and imagination. I’m beginning to think that happiness and a little edge has vacated the interior design world. I can appreciate a neutral pallet, but color is NOT the enemy. Brighten your world and enjoy a little something less dismal!
Right on sister!
We just used 2 similar shades (Rodda Paint Horizon and Marble Green, 0454 and 0457) and love the effect on the house. It’s a smidgen less grey than Evergreen Fog; it feels like the moment the sun rises through trees on a bright overcast day. As the light changes through the day, it feels both soothing and uplifting. The yellow accents probably help.
So perhaps SW was onto something, but slightly missed the tone.
That sounds pretty and so poetic!
Hello Linda, In your renderings, I found the the more green in the paint, the more I liked the color, but the less I liked it for a living room. The grayish green looked better in the living room then the purer greens, but I would prefer another color, even the common off-whites, to almost any shade of gray, of which as you say we have seen enough lately. I think that the Sherwin-Williams (a Cleveland company!) Evergreen Fog is an ok color, depending where it is used.
–Jim
Interesting you don’t like the more saturated greens in a living room. I showed a friend these paint chips and renderings and he had the same reaction. He didn’t love the darker greens as a living room color. I personally love it – but that’s why we have millions of colors!
When I was a kid these sagey greens were the it color. We used to call it booger green. ‘Nuf said.
Well, that’s descriptive! And true!
Haha – well, I like it better than some of the more gray grays to be sure! I think it would make a pretty good exterior color in a fair number of instances, and I think it works as a neutral really well for some spaces, but for me personally, I like the greener and warmer tones! I am definitely on the #tiredofgray train!
Choo Choo!
We just painted our cabin, and considered using both clary sage and artichoke (among others), but they just didn’t look organic or “earthy” enough, with all the honey oak and stone. We landed on Evergreen Fog (before it was selected as color of the year!). In all honesty, I don’t think I’d choose to use it in my primary home, where we prefer more vivid colors, but in a log cabin it looks amazing!!! (Wish I could upload a picture!)
Hi Gigi – thanks for commenting and sharing how Evergreen Fog looks in your cabin!
Hi Linda- what do you think about SW Acacia Haze which is a similar color. Thanks
I love evergreen Fog
Don’t right that gray green can be beautiful .
Like it better then the other greens you showed
Hi Nancy – this is of course why there are so many colors – something for everyone! And the majority of my IG readers agreed with you when I posted my poll. Thanks for your comment, Happy New Year!
We are building a new home and I would love kitchen cabinets in a great shade of sage. I am staining the island as well as the vent hood. What green would you suggest? Evergreen fog looks too blue/gray to me.
Hi Tammy – I’d look at some of the other colors I suggested here like Clary Sage or Willow Tree – it all depends on how things look in the actual space because color changes depending on the light sources, etc. Good luck!
So tired of everything grey!!! I am painting a large den and thought Evergreen Fog would be a soft, sophisticated green. Nope. It’s dark and dismal and grey grey grey in my room.
I wish I could find a green right between Ben Moore October Mist and SW Evergreen Fog. That would be my color of the year!
I hear you on the gray front Katid! Getting down to specific shades always requires selecting the color in the room where it’s going. I would just experiment with different colors – maybe Clary Sage is a good choice. Or Willow Tree – take a look at how those look in your den.
I fell in love with the color as soon as I saw it! I am still living in a grey world but I have accent colors in every room. I have SW Foggy Day in my dining room atop board and batten and Unusual Gray in the office. Evergreen Fog just really meshed with those colors (even though not adjoining) and it’ll go in the den as an accent wall.
Hi Tiffany – this is what makes the world great – something for everyone! I’m sure in the right place it’s great. (Just not my place!)