Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Lamp Room Gray
Farrow & Ball · No. 88
Calke Green
Farrow & Ball · No. 34
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Hex
#77866A
177 · 177 · 170
RGB
119 · 134 · 106
Cool
Warmth
Neutral
Lamp Room Gray is cool; Calke Green is neutral.
Traditional blue-grey, softened; the lived-in grey of lamp rooms
Undertone
Muted mid-green with gray and a little yellow; a country-house green
Gray
Family
Green
Colour Card
Collection
Colour Card
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersLamp Room Gray leans cool where Calke Green reads neutral. Lamp Room Gray is a gray, Calke Green a green.
How they read
In their own wordsLamp Room Gray is what Farrow & Ball calls its 'most traditional blue grey' — a mid-light grey with a soft blue cast that feels older and more settled than a modern cool grey. It takes its name from the rooms where oil lamps were once trimmed and stored.
Calke Green takes its name from the breakfast room at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and it has the settled, slightly faded quality of a color that has been on a wall for two hundred years. It is a mid-tone green with enough grey to stay calm and enough yellow to stay warm — the green of gardens rather than forests.