Start with the documented color character
Boothbay Gray is a blue-gray with a noticeable midtone presence. Temperature is a useful description, but neighboring materials can change the impression. Boothbay Gray has enough blue-gray body to create a definite cabinet color beside white stone.
Warm oak is the large counterpoint to the cabinetry, so a floor-level view matters more than a chip held high on a white wall.
Use Mount Saint Anne as a control
Use a warmer and a cooler object already in the room to assess Boothbay Gray, keeping their real proportions visible. The target is a coherent relationship with oak flooring and white stone. Do not assume that every blue behaves alike or that all greens belong on the same side of a temperature label.
Boothbay Gray has an LRV of 43.26; Benjamin Moore Mount Saint Anne 1565 is 41.9. The difference is 1.36 points, with Boothbay Gray returning more light under the reference measurement. Mount Saint Anne is a blue-gray with medium depth. This supplies a named color control; the LRV gap alone does not identify the warmer, greener or pinker paint.
The condition for keeping Boothbay Gray
Evaluate a cabinet-sized panel at floor level so the blue-gray and oak form the intended contrast. The undertones and neighboring colors covers that related choice.
Judge the temperature description against the full oak flooring and white stone arrangement. A warm or cool label is a useful starting category; it cannot guarantee that Boothbay Gray agrees with every material assigned the same label. Before ordering samples, compare room-planning features in the paint color visualizer roundup.
Sources & notes
Color specifications: Benjamin Moore Boothbay Gray HC-165. The recorded LRV is 43.26. Named comparison values come from the respective manufacturers; material schemes are editorial suggestions.
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