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

Settled, side by side

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

Wabi

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

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Hex
#E6DFD3
176 · 155 · 140
RGB
230 · 223 · 211
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Undertone
Soft off-white with a touch of umber and black; a pale taupe in limewash
Pink
Family
Beige
Colour Card
Collection
Lime Paint

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Dead Salmon is a pink, Wabi a beige.

How they read

In their own words

Dead Salmon takes its name from an eighteenth-century decorating bill at Kedleston Hall, where 'dead' meant matte rather than deceased. The color is a muddy pink-beige — salmon left in the sun until only the memory of pink remains. At LRV 35 it is a real mid-tone with unusual depth for a neutral.

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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