Just Walnut vs Simple White
Where Just Walnut belongs to Dulux's range, Simple White is a Sherwin-Williams color. Both sit in the beige-greige family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. They have nearly identical light reflectance values (72 vs 70), so they'll read as similarly Light in most lighting conditions. Both lean warm, so they'll behave similarly in mixed or changing light conditions. At ΔE 1.1, these are close — the kind of difference that matters when choosing between them, but doesn't read strongly in a finished room. Below you'll find 3 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Just Walnut vs Simple White in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Just Walnut and Simple White are close enough that the difference can be hard to judge from a chip alone — these photos show how each reads at scale, across different spaces and lighting conditions.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. The two are close enough that the choice comes down to finer qualities — undertone, texture, what the color sits next to.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. At this scale the difference is subtle — you'd need them side by side, as shown here, to reliably tell them apart.
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen cabinets are constantly compared against adjacent materials, which means subtle differences between these two become much more visible. At this scale the difference is subtle — you'd need them side by side, as shown here, to reliably tell them apart.
Color Details
Just Walnut vs Simple White Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Just Walnut on one side and Simple White on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
More Just Walnut comparisons
See how Just Walnut stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
A 11-point LRV gap (83 vs 72) makes White Dove the marginally brighter of the two.
Just Walnut reads slightly lighter (LRV 72 vs 69), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 72 vs 6, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 52), opening up a space where Purbeck Stone encloses it.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 72 vs 52, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
Just Walnut reads slightly lighter (LRV 72 vs 60), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 72 vs 58, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 72 vs 27, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 72 vs 55, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 72 vs 13, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 72 vs 44, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
Pure White reads slightly lighter (LRV 84 vs 72), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
A 6-point LRV gap (72 vs 66) makes Just Walnut the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 74 vs 72), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 11-point LRV gap (83 vs 72) makes Snowbound the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 72 vs 12, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
A 4-point LRV gap (72 vs 68) makes Just Walnut the marginally brighter of the two.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 41), opening up a space where Dix Blue encloses it.
Just Walnut reads slightly lighter (LRV 72 vs 68), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 25), opening up a space where Treron encloses it.
At LRV 72 vs 12, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 72 vs 45, Just Walnut is decisively the brighter choice.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 24), opening up a space where Cement grey encloses it.
Just Walnut reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 57), opening up a space where Guilford Green encloses it.