Benjamin Moore Beach Glass | Paint Color Spotlight
Benjamin Moore Beach Glass is a beautiful medium blue-green gray paint color. This versatile paint color balances warm and cool tones nearly perfectly to match with many paint colors and wood tones, and Beach Glass looks great in all lighting conditions, too! See if this classic coastal-inspired paint color is right for your home.
Learn more about what a transitional paint color is and see our picks for the best paint colors that work with wood flooring and trim.
Benjamin Moore: Beach Glass
Hi Remodelaholics! It’s Cyndy from The Creativity Exchange back with my monthly paint color inspiration.
Rather than share a whole color paint palette (like I usually do), I wanted to do a “Color Spotlight” to focus on one really awesome and versatile paint color that is quickly becoming one of the most popular colors out there.
It’s very rare for one paint color to universally work for every lighting situation and at the same time also be the perfect transitional color but Beach Glass from Benjamin Moore is about as close as we can get. It’s one of the top paint color favorites for a reason!
paint color stats // BM 1564
Benjamin Moore Beach Glass
- Light Reflectance Value (LRV)*: 49.7
- Hue Family: Blue-Green (with Gray Undertones)
- Related Shades: Healing Aloe | Quiet Moments
*LRV is a value (0-100) commonly used by design professionals to represent what percentage of the light a surface reflects. LRV 0 is absolute black and LRV 100 is pure white.
Where to Use Benjamin Moore Beach Glass
Beach Glass is one of the few paint colors that can be used in pretty much any room in the house, any lighting situation. This blue-gray paint color is ideal for anywhere you want a calming spa vibe.
Before I go into the science of why this color universally works so well, let me show you Beach Glass at its best in different rooms of a home. There’s a reason why it’s part of the Classic Color Collection and also one of Benjamin Moore’s most popular colors!
Beach Glass used in a bedroom:
used in a bathroom:
in a kitchen:
used in a child’s room:
Beach Glass used in a laundry room:
used in a living room:
What Sheen Paint to Use Where
Paint sheen refers to luster: how shiny the finished painted surface looks. A paint’s sheen is related to its durability. There are 5 commonly used paint sheens that are used for different applications. Pick the sheen of your choice for your project:
- Flat or matte sheen is commonly used for ceilings or other uneven surfaces to hide imperfections on less-than-perfect surfaces. Flat paint can only withstand very gentle scrubbing with soap, so it’s best used in low-traffic areas where minimal washing is needed.
- A flat enamel paint has the look of a flat finish and is formulated to have a protective barrier at the surface, making it more durable than a plain flat paint while maintaining the look of a matte finish.
- Eggshell sheen is the middle of the sheen spectrum: mostly matte, low shine, and moderately durable. It can be used on walls and ceilings and is a great option for added durability while still minimizing imperfections — great for bedrooms, hallways, and living rooms. Most paint samples come in eggshell.
- Satin or pearl sheen is a low-gloss versatile luster, the most popular finish, and our Remodelaholic pick for most of our home. The slight glow looks great and makes for an easy-to-clean surface. Satin paint is food for a wide variety of surfaces and durable for high-traffic areas like kitchens, high-humidity environments like bathrooms, and kids’ rooms.
- Semi-gloss sheen is a mid-gloss with extra durability. Cabinets, doors, base moldings, window frames and trim are commonly painted with semi-gloss paint with beautiful results.
- Gloss or high-gloss sheen is shiny, beautiful, and durable — and will also show even slight imperfections and fingerprints. Gloss paint is typically used in high-end finishes for homes and commercial applications.
Use Beach Glass in Low Natural Light and Artificial Light
The fact that this color works so beautifully in almost any room in the home in itself a reason to use it but what is even better about the color is it also looks amazing in poor lighting situations.
Little natural light in a dark bedroom:
Beach Glass doesn’t change color much and looks beautiful in spaces with predominate artificial light (little or no natural light):
You can really see it best here below in this bathroom that has no natural light and only poor artificial light:
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Transitional Beach Inspired Hues
- Sherwin-Williams Sea Salt
- Benjamin Moore Healing Aloe
- Benjamin Moore Aegean Teal
- Benjamin Moore Wythe Blue
Why Beach Glass is the Perfect Paint Color
Beach Glass works so well because it’s a near perfect 50/50 balance of warm and cool undertones. It’s also a perfect mix of gray/blue/green, which gives the color rich depth and it makes it an ideal transitional color that can work with almost any color or wood tone.
Finding colors for warmer wood tones is always a challenge but Beach Glass rises to the task and perfectly compliments wood trims and floors:
If you’re looking for a really safe bet and gorgeous color for a room in your home, Benjamin Moore Beach Glass is certainly one of the most versatile colors to consider.
As a reminder, even though Beach Glass is extremely versatile, be sure and get a sample and paint on poster board and tape to your wall before buying it just to make sure it’s exactly what you’re looking for.
Also, you can always have more white added at the paint store if you want to lighten the color as well.
HOW TO TEST A PAINT COLOR
When you’ve chosen the perfect color (or several) — be sure to test it out before splurging for the gallon of paint!
- Get a sample tester or, even easier, a peel and stick paint sample swatch!
- Use an online paint color visualizer or paint color mobile app to test the paint color using a photo of your room.
- Follow our paint expert’s tips here for choosing and testing a paint color.
If you would like to see more of my favorite versatile paint colors, you can check out my color palette of the new transitional colors on my blog paint palette Also, I have a board on Pinterest called paint palette filled with more than 500 paint colors and examples of colors in spaces, if you’re looking for even more ideas and inspiration.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Cyndy
Benjamin Moore Beach Glass FAQs
What color is Benjamin Moore Beach Glass?
Beach Glass is an refined calming blue-green paint color with a gray undertone. The balance of warm and cool tones means Beach Glass is fitted to a variety of spaces and lighting conditions, adding color to a neutral space while still being neutral enough to be part of a whole home paint color scheme.
Is Benjamin Moore Beach Glass warm or cool?
Beach Glass leans cool, and is a nearly perfectly balanced transitional color with both warm and cool tones.
What colors go with Benjamin Moore Beach Glass?
Due to the gray undertone and balanced warm and cool tones, many colors pair well with Beach Glass.
- Benjamin Moore Snow White (cool white with blue undertones)
- Benjamin Moore Super White (cool off-white)
- Benjamin Moore Midnight Blue (deep gray-blue)
- Benjamin Moore Sea Haze (medium gray with green undertones)
- Benjamin Moore Man on the Moon (creamy yellow)
- Benjamin Moore Grenadier Pond (medium green with gray undertones)
Sample paint colors the easy way!
GET A PEEL AND STICK PAINT SAMPLE
It’s the no-mess, no-stress way to quickly and easily test a paint color.
Looking for more great paint colors? Try these Benjamin Moore paint selections:
and these curated palettes:
More transitional colors (work well with both warm and cool tones)
Choosing the perfect white paint color
Calculate: How much paint do I need?
Making an extra trip back to the paint store in the middle of the project is such a drag. Calculate how much paint you need for your walls with the simple math of the following formula:
Calculate the total wall area:
- Measure the length of each wall you are painting, end to end – and add those lengths together for the total perimeter of the room, in feet.
- Measure the wall height, in feet (round up if needed).
- Multiply the length x height for the total square footage of the walls.
Then, figure doors and windows to account for the actual amount of wall area.
- Subtract 20 sq ft for a standard door.
- Subtract 15 sq ft for a standard window (3x5ft).
- To calculate a non-standard door or window size, multiply width x height and subtract that from your original calculation.
One gallon of paint covers 350-400 square feet *for one coat of paint*. (Primer will cover 200-300 square feet.) You can also check the label to see the specific manufacturer info about coverage.
Divide the square footage of the wall space by 400 (and then round up if needed). This is the amount of wall paint, in gallons, that you need for one coat of paint.
Most walls will need 2 coats of paint, unless you’re recoating with the same color. So double the number of cans to get the right amount of paint for your room.
Paint coverage varies slightly by application method (brush vs roller vs spray), but the differences aren’t typically large enough to factor in, so this rough estimate number serves us well.
TIP: While you’re painting, grab a paint touch up pen or no-mess paint brush can and fill with paint. Label it and store it so you’re ready for a quick paint touch-up when you need it.
I love this color! Oh my gosh, it is exactly what I’m looking for for some of the rooms in our house. Thank you for this helpful post.
Thank you so much for this post! We’re in the process of building a house – getting ready to pour the foundation, so I have a while to think about paint colors – but this one is going on the short list for the kitchen/breakfast/living room. Love it!!
Great article and photos were very helpful. It is always so hard to visualize a paint in different situations. Would love to see similar articles for both interior and exterior. I plan to use this paint in several rooms already!
Thanks for the feedback! We’d love to see pictures when you paint!
I’d like to use Beach Glass in my living room where there is not a lot of natural light. Would you use Super white as a trim color to brighten it up, since the room is on the darker side?
What do you think about paintingng the exterior of a Bungalow style home in Beach Glass? Would love your advice.
Thanks
I’d like to paint my exterior in Beach Glass as well. How did your home come out? I’m thinking of a navy blue color door too. What did you decide to do?
Thanks, Bunny
I’m going to use Beach Glass in our mudroom/laundry room, the room has only a little natural light, but it’s east facing, and the cabinets are white, along with trim, and the floor is a natural type stone tile with neutral colors. The lower walls (2/3s) is white wainscoat. I’ve loved this color for over a year, and I’m convinced that it’s going to be perfect! Our kitchen is being painted BM Sandy Hook Gray (have medium toned maple cabinets), and white wainscoating on lower third of the walls. The living room and dining room are BM Oakwood Manor, and this goes up the stairs into the upper hall as well. The family room next to the kitchen is BM Bridgewater Tan (great deeper color, and we have white bookcases and white trim, crown, chair rail in there too. I can’t wait to see how it all looks together…Thank you so much for your post here, it really helped me ‘seal the deal’ with the BM Beach Glass!!
It sounds lovely, Terri! We’d love to see pictures when it all comes together!
I LOVE this color, do you think it’s tacky that if I’m thinking of painting the whole interior, to just paitn most of the whole house this color, kitchen, living room, dining, hallway, bathrooms, would it be too much? The only thing I wouldn’t paint this color would be the kids’ room and then I plan to do a little wainscoting in the hallway and dining room in white. Just wanted to get your thoughts, as I was thinking especially if this goes so well in poor lighting situations!
Love this color…tried about 10 different colors and I love this color, goes so well with my grey and white quilt. Need to buy lamps (white or silver) and drapes…
Thanks for the comment, Shelia! It sounds lovely!
Love the BM Beach Glass color. But, I need the order number at my local OSH store to mix it. Do you have it ? Greatly appreciate your help .
Beach Glass
1564
Thank you, Kim!
If I use Beach Glass in my living room what color can I use for the hall, kitchen and family room? I don’t want to continue in blue as it is a cold color and I live in a cold state. I was thinking of Revere Pewter or edgecomb gray??
I have revere pewter in my south facing room with a moderate amount of natural light along with BM Pale Oak and I love it. It is neutral but also warm and soothing. However, it was a little to light for my well lit room. I also tried it in a bathroom with only artificial light and it went dull.
This format is the best thing I have ever seen for color! Showing the same color in all the various lightings, wow, I am choosing paint colors right now for a low light room and an artificial light hallway and I can’t even thank you enough, because the color visualizers on the various paint sights don’t spotlight it like this!
I am going to paint the bedroom with bm beach glass. What white trim paint color should I use to make it pop out and look classy?
Thanks
Cindy
Hi Kim,
Do you think beach glass is too dark for an upstairs hallway with very little natural light? Have you ever reduced the strength to say 75% with good results?
Thanks.
Tim
sorry meant for Cyndy or anyone else.
I din’t think it would be too dark. I just painted bedroom…seems more on the blue side than grey green. What about quiet moments which is one tone lighter?
Just painted my bedroom in BM Beach Glass. Pictures on internet can be deceiving. While it is a nice color, I thought it would appear more grey/green/blue. It appears more on the blue side. Wondered if it is suppose to be this way??
This color is a true chameleon, and I love, love, love it for exactly that reason. I used it in my office and dining room. It turns from gray to blue to green as the light changes over the course of the day. So cool!
Yes it is great….goes well with a grey house pallete as well. We ended up going with 65% tint beach glass…since we used it in hallways and stairway up…so it was a little too dark at 100%….looks awesome….somedays its greenish…but mostly a blueish grey….very nice indeed. We also used colors like abalone, revere pewter, healing aloe in upstairs bedrooms, and the beach glass hallways compliment well….
It’s a great color! Perfect color choice for your home color palette!
What color of white would you suggest using with beach glass paint in bedroom? The flooring is a light colored natural carpet, natural wood trim around windows and door.
A number of years ago I came across this color and fell in love with it! Since then it has been one of my main colors in my house. It’s such a perfect neutral that can help change a space instantly!
I have a huge (tall) double story living room and stairway and am trying to decide between Quiet Moments and Beach Glass. I am afraid that Quiet Moments is a little too light, and Beach Glass seems a little too dark! Lol. Do you happen to have similar pictures for comparison for Quiet Moments, or any suggestions between the two for a very large space with a TON of natural light? Thank you!!
Hello! I know this post is from a few years ago but wanted to THANK YOU. I have a north/west facing condo and was looking at various coastal colors to brighten up and give my space a fresh feel. Your post inspired me to use this color for my office and I LOVE IT! I used a matte finish and it’s beautiful. Not too dark and not too light.
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I painted my living room / dining room / kitchen beach glass 5 years ago and still love the way it looks. My open adjoining stairwell is currently painted Manchester Tan, which needs to be repainted. What color would complement the Beach Glass? At the moment, I’m attracted to greys (I have Gray Owl in a bedroom). However, I am uncertain which color complements Beach Glass the best.