Creamy White
Behr's orange-family off-white, reviewed honestly: the Home Depot trim-and-ceiling cream, the west sun that turns it yellow, and why it is not Benjamin Moore Creamy White.
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- 1Classic Gray74
- 2Alabaster82
- 3Creamy White92
- 4Ultra Pure White97
The Fast Verdict
Creamy White is the millwork white Home Depot actually stocks as ceiling paint and as cabinet-and-trim enamel. At LRV 92 it is almost a true white; Behr files it in the orange family, which is the honest tell — a quiet yellow-beige, creamy rather than stark. On casings, doors, and ceilings in a house with oak floors it reads finished and warm. On four west walls, or next to Ultra Pure White, it looks like cream you did not order. And it is not Benjamin Moore Creamy White. That one is a deeper bisque.
Trim, ceilings and cabinets in oak-and-brass houses · north and east rooms · porch ceilings · one-color millwork with only a sheen change
Your main room takes hard western sun · trim stays Polar Bear or Ultra Pure White · counters or floors are cool grey · you meant Benjamin Moore Creamy White
- LRV 92 — bright enough for trim, cabinets, and ceilings without blue-white glare
- Honest yellow-cream that flatters oak, walnut, brass, and honey oak
- Home Depot already sells it as ceiling paint and as cabinet-and-trim enamel
- One-color millwork works; the sheen change is enough
- Genuinely good in north light, where cooler whites go grey and flat
- Turns visibly creamy-yellow in hard western and late-afternoon sun
- Looks dingy the moment Ultra Pure White, Polar Bear, or Chantilly Lace sits next to it
- Easy to confuse with Benjamin Moore Creamy White, which is 20 LRV points deeper
- Clashes with cool grey quartz, Carrara-look stone, and grey LVP
What Color Is Creamy White, Really?
A very bright warm white with a yellow-cream, yellow-beige undertone — not grey, not peach, not the bisque cream that shares its name at Benjamin Moore. Behr files W-D-710 in the orange family, which is the useful fact hiding on the chip: this is a cream built on a yellow-orange base, spread thin enough that it still passes as white on millwork and overhead. Independent matches describe a quiet yellow-beige and low chroma — creamy rather than bright or stark. Home Depot sells the same SKU as a ceiling flat and as a cabinet, door, and trim enamel, which is how the color actually gets used. Design blogs barely mention this number. Swiss Coffee and Polar Bear get the posts; Creamy White gets mixed at the tint machine for casings.
At LRV 92 there is almost no headroom above it. Polar Bear sits at 94 and Ultra Pure White at 97; those are the only common Behr whites that are clearly brighter. That is why this color works as trim, cabinets, and ceilings — it reflects like the top of the deck — and also why you cannot rescue it with a whiter neighbor. A cooler or brighter trim does not add contrast. It just makes Creamy White look like unwashed cream. Benjamin Moore Creamy White (OC-7) sits at LRV 72, a full twenty points deeper, and reads as a tan-cream with real body. Same words on the chip. Different paint.
Undertone in one line: yellow-beige, cream-range, never pink and never green. In north light the yellow is mostly cancelled and the millwork reads as a quiet white. In west sun and under 2700K lamps the yellow is the whole story. If the sample already looks a little creamy on the chip, believe it — Behr put it in orange for a reason. If it looks dingy, look at the trim next to it before you blame the gallon.
Where It Shines
Give it oak floors, brass, and no brighter white nearby, and it does the job a yellow-cream is supposed to do: look like painted woodwork, not plastic-bright builder white, without going butter. Trim, doors, and ceilings are the surfaces Home Depot already mixed this SKU for. Semi-gloss Creamy White on casings is kind to honey oak and walnut; satin on cabinets brightens a wood-and-brass kitchen; flat overhead stays high without the blue-white glare Ultra Pure White throws against warm walls. A porch ceiling in the same gallon is the old Southern trick, and this color is bright enough to bounce light and warm enough not to go icy in shade.
Where It Fails
Almost every unhappy Creamy White story is a yellow-white story, or a namesake story. The cream is real, it is small on the chip, and three situations make it loud. None of them are a bad mix — but if your room matches one, this is not your white, and another coat will not hide it.
Yellow-beige at LRV 92 has nowhere to hide once the late-day flood hits a whole wall. From about four o'clock the paint goes creamy, too warm, almost yellow — the same complaint that follows Simply White around, just with Behr's orange-family base doing the work. If the room you live in faces west, keep this color on the trim and ceiling, sample the walls at 5pm, or pick a cleaner white. Chantilly Lace (OC-65, LRV 90) holds that sun without going cream.
The most common Home Depot pairing mistake: Creamy White walls or millwork, Ultra Pure White (W-B-500, LRV 97) on the other plane. The brighter white wins, and Creamy White looks dingy. Polar Bear (W-F-200, LRV 94) and Chantilly Lace do the same trick — the temperature gap, not just the brightness, is enough. Run Creamy White on trim, ceiling, and any walls you paint, and let eggshell / semi-gloss / flat separate the planes.
Benjamin Moore Creamy White is a bisque cream at LRV 72, the trim white nobody searches for by name. This Behr can is a near-white. Buy the wrong one and the room is either much brighter or much deeper than you planned. Separately, grey quartz, Carrara-look stone, and grey LVP sit at the opposite temperature and shove the yellow into the open until cabinets look nicotine-cream. With cool floors and counters, use a cleaner white and keep Creamy White for a warmer room.
Room by Room
Semi-gloss on casings, doors, and base. At LRV 92 it still reads as white woodwork, and the yellow-beige keeps millwork from looking plastic the way Ultra Pure White can. Kind to oak, walnut, and brass. Do not park Polar Bear or Ultra Pure White next to it. One color, two sheens.
Home Depot sells W-D-710 as a ceiling flat, and that is the tell. LRV 92 is ceiling-bright, and the whisper of cream stops the plane from reading blue against warm walls — the exact complaint with builder-grade Ultra Pure White overhead. Flat sheen; same color as the trim if you can. Porch ceilings take it too.
Satin on shaker doors brightens a brass-and-butcher-block kitchen without the clinical edge of Ultra Pure White. Oak floors, walnut, terracotta, warm quartz: all fine. Grey quartz and a wall of stainless: the yellow shows, and you will wish you had sampled a door against the slab. Urethane-fortified cabinet enamel either way.
East and north living rooms are its home turf: bright, quiet, slightly warm, especially when the job is trim and ceiling over a greige wall. A west living room with this on four walls is the skip. Eggshell only if you commit to the one-color rule so the casings do not grow a dingy halo.
North and east bedrooms stay clean and restful. Under 2700K lamps it turns creamier at night, which some people want and some people call dingy. 3000K–3500K keeps it closer to white after dark. If the bedroom faces west, keep Creamy White on the ceiling and pick a quieter white for the walls.
Warm marble, cream tile, wood vanities, brass: it looks settled. Grey porcelain, blue-grey subway, chrome-and-Carrara: it argues, and the wall goes yellow. Satin or a bath-rated eggshell for wipe-down. This is a better vanity-and-trim color than a four-wall bath color unless the stone is warm.
Your Light Is the Risk
Cool grey daylight cancels most of the yellow and leaves a clean, quietly warm white on millwork and ceilings. This is the exposure where Creamy White still reads as white.
From about four o'clock the yellow lands hard and whole walls go cream. Sample this hour, or keep the color on trim and ceiling only.
South rooms stay softly creamy all day and warm a step through the afternoon. West rooms make the shift all at once at golden hour. Most people like it on woodwork; few like it as a west wall.
2700K lamps pull the yellow-beige forward — cozy on a porch ceiling, dingy on four walls if you wanted white. 3000K–3500K keeps it closer to true white. Cool LEDs flatten it. Swap bulbs before you swap paint.
Most complaints about Creamy White are a light mismatch. Upload a photo of your actual room and see it on your walls — then ask for the same wall in north light or evening lamps before you buy a single sample.
Need It From Another Brand?
Any paint counter can custom-tint Behr W-D-710 directly. If you would rather stay in one brand's own deck, these are the closest stock matches, measured as ΔE2000. Under 2 is a difference you will not see on the wall.
| Brand | Closest color | ΔE | LRV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwin-Williams | High Reflective WhiteSW 7757 · Sherwin-Williams | 3.7 | 93 | Color page → |
| Benjamin Moore | Crisp LinenCSP-305 · Benjamin Moore | 1.2 | 92 | Color page → |
| Valspar | Betsy's Linen7005-16 · Valspar | 0.9 | 90.1 | Color page → |
| PPG / Glidden | White ChipPPG15-06 · PPG / Glidden | 1.5 | 87 | Color page → |
| Glidden | Linwood Beach White71YY 87/078 · Glidden | 1.4 | 87 | Color page → |
| Dutch Boy | Ultra White002W · Dutch Boy | 3.7 | 91 | Color page → |
Similar Behr Colors
The nearest shades to Creamy White within Behr's own range, ranked by perceptual color distance — useful when you want the same look a touch lighter, darker, or warmer.
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Creamy White vs the Colors You're Also Considering
Every Creamy White sample board has the same rivals on it. The numbers show the real lightness gap — then it comes down to which risk you would rather live with.
Pick this when you want a near-white with a yellow-cream whisper, mixed at Home Depot, not a tan-cream you can see across the room.
Benjamin Moore OC-7 · LRV 72Creamy WhitePick this if you actually want bisque cream with body — the BM namesake is a trim white twenty LRV points deeper, and it is not this paint.
Pick this when you are at Home Depot and want ceiling-bright cream millwork without switching brands.
Benjamin Moore OC-117 · LRV 90Simply WhitePick this if you want the famous bright warm white designers already know — same yellow tell, two LRV points softer, a hair less orange.
Pick this when you need bounce at LRV 92 and Swiss Coffee would read like a color on the ceiling.
Behr W-B-700 · LRV 87Swiss CoffeePick this when you actually want cream — it is the warmest of the safe off-whites, and it shows, especially at night.
Pick this when you want the cream to show on millwork. Polar Bear next to this color will make it look dingy.
Behr W-F-200 · LRV 94Polar BearPick this for a cleaner everyday white with less yellow — Behr's dependable mix, not quite the White Dove stand-in people search it for.
Within Behr, the near-neighbors are extremely close. Fragrant Jasmine PWN-21 at #FBF6E7 and LRV 92 differs by a single digit in the blue channel, which no eye will catch on a wall. Whipping Cream PWN-20 at LRV 91 is a shade less reflective, and Sweet Coconut Milk M230-1 at #FCF5E5 and LRV 92 is a touch warmer. Clear Moon PWN-30 at #FAF6EA is the calmest of the group.
Across brands, Valspar Betsy's Linen 7005-16 at LRV 90.1 has a deltaE of 0.87 and Benjamin Moore Crisp Linen CSP-305 at LRV 92 has a deltaE of 1.16, so both are visually identical in normal room light. Dunn-Edwards Antique China DE5490 sits at deltaE 0.92 but a lower LRV of 85, so it will look slightly less bright.
The real fork is toward cooler whites. Farrow and Ball All White No. 2005 at LRV 92 has a deltaE of 4.49, and Magnolia Home True White JG-21 at LRV 92 is 4.28. Same brightness, clearly less warmth, and easy to tell apart on a wall.
Creamy White Coordinating Colors
Stay on the warm side of the fence and never introduce a brighter, cooler white. Creamy White flatters warm greiges, easy sages, deep navies, and near-blacks — and it argues with icy greys, blue-grey stone, and any trim white that out-brights it. These are the partners that keep showing up in rooms that work:
Not Benjamin Moore Creamy White
This is the mix-up that will waste a weekend. Type Creamy White into a search bar and Benjamin Moore OC-7 comes up first: a warm bisque at LRV 72, filed in the Off-White Collection, the trim white nobody searches for by name because painters already know it and design blogs never photographed it. Behr W-D-710 is a different can. It is twenty LRV points lighter, filed in Behr's orange family, and it behaves like Simply White's Home Depot cousin — a near-white with a yellow-cream whisper, not a tan you can see from the hallway.
If a contractor, a Pinterest pin, or a leftover chip says Creamy White, confirm the brand and the SKU before anyone tints. OC-7 on walls next to W-D-710 trim will look dirty. W-D-710 on walls next to OC-7 millwork will look like you ran out of cream. They do not substitute. Sample both if you are genuinely deciding; most people who wanted the BM one wanted body, and most people who grabbed the Behr one wanted bounce.
Creamy White With Wood Tones and Floors
Oak is why this color exists as a millwork white. Honey oak, red oak, builder oak with an orange lean, walnut, cedar, and butcher block all sit comfortably against the yellow-beige — the cream meets the wood halfway, which is the thing a stark white refuses to do. If your floors are orange-leaning builder oak, Creamy White on the trim is one of the few bright whites that softens the orange instead of amplifying it.
The one flooring that needs a sample first is cool grey LVP or grey-washed wood. Grey plank pulls the yellow into relief, and the millwork can read slightly nicotine against it. Warm rugs and brass fix it in some rooms; they will not rescue a whole kitchen of grey quartz and grey plank. Metals are easy: unlacquered brass, antique bronze, and matte black all work. Polished chrome is the one that leans cold against it.
Three Ready Palettes Built on Creamy White
A color is never alone on the wall. These are complete combinations in the 60-30-10 pattern, with the reason each one holds together. Every one opens in the visualizer.
Accessible Beige is the safest warm neutral until the light goes cool, and Creamy White millwork is the temperature match it wants — not Polar Bear, which would cut a cold line. Hale Navy on the door is the single dark note, and it stays navy as long as the entry has light.
Try this palette in your roomAgreeable Gray is the safest greige in decent light, and a warm cabinet white keeps it from going cold over oak floors. Iron Ore on the island is a true black at LRV 6 — respect that depth, give it light, and the brass hardware will look expensive.
Try this palette in your roomOne cream at three sheens is how you use LRV 92 without inventing a dingy halo around the trim. Kendall Charcoal is the best-behaved dark gray in the BM deck for a door — skip it only if the entry is a dim cave.
Try this palette in your roomCreamy White FAQ
Is Behr Creamy White the same as Benjamin Moore Creamy White?
No. Same words, different paint. Behr W-D-710 is a near-white at LRV 92 with a yellow-beige whisper. Benjamin Moore Creamy White (OC-7) is a bisque cream at LRV 72 — twenty points deeper, with real tan-cream body, the trim white nobody searches for by name. If a painter says Creamy White, ask which brand before anyone tints a gallon.
Is it warm or cool?
Warm — the yellow-cream kind. Behr files it in the orange family. At LRV 92 the yellow is spread thin enough that north and east rooms still read as a finished white on millwork. North light cancels most of it; west sun and 2700K bulbs put it back. It is never icy and never grey.
Is it good for ceilings and trim?
That is the job it was mixed for. Home Depot sells this SKU as a ceiling flat and as a cabinet, door, and trim enamel. LRV 92 is ceiling-bright, and the whisper of warmth keeps the overhead plane from going blue-white against oak and greige walls. Use flat on ceilings, semi-gloss on millwork, and do not introduce a cooler white on the other plane.
What trim white goes with Creamy White walls?
Creamy White itself, in semi-gloss. Ultra Pure White, Polar Bear, or Chantilly Lace next to it makes the walls look dingy — the most common mistake with a yellow-cream this bright. There is almost no brighter white that still matches its temperature. If you want contrast, go darker on the door, never brighter on the casing.
Will it look yellow?
In west afternoon sun, yes. Under 2700K lamps, a little. Next to a cooler white, it will look cream even if the light is fine. In north or east daylight on trim and ceiling, most people never call it yellow. The chip can already look a hair creamy — believe that, and sample a big board at 5pm in the actual room.
Does it work with oak floors?
That is its best company. Honey oak, red oak, walnut, and butcher block all sit comfortably against the yellow-beige — the cream meets the wood halfway instead of turning it orange the way a stark white can. The one flooring that needs a sample first is cool grey LVP or grey-washed oak, which will shove the yellow forward until the millwork looks nicotine.
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