Color of the weekCalke Green · Farrow & Ball No. 34

Settled, side by side

Clay

Little Greene · No. 39

Wabi

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

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Hex
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212 · 197 · 156
RGB
230 · 223 · 211
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm mid-stone neutral with ochre
Undertone
Soft off-white with a touch of umber and black; a pale taupe in limewash
Beige
Family
Beige
Colours of England
Collection
Lime Paint

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Both belong to the beige family.

How they read

In their own words

Clay is a Little Greene mid-stone neutral with more ochre than its predecessors — warm, sandy and quietly elegant. It is the colour of dried river clay: not quite beige, not quite yellow.

Wabi is a Color Atelier lime paint — a soft off-white with a tiny addition of umber and black that pulls it toward pale taupe. Because it is a limewash, the colour is mottled and cloudy, moving between chalk white and warm stone across the wall.

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