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

Settled, side by side

Lamp Room Gray

Farrow & Ball · No. 88

Silver Metallic

Meoded · Decorative plaster

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Hex
#B7B4AE
177 · 177 · 170
RGB
183 · 180 · 174
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Traditional blue-grey, softened; the lived-in grey of lamp rooms
Undertone
Warm pewter with a pearl sheen; the color changes as you move
Gray
Family
Gray
Colour Card
Collection
Decorative finishes

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Both belong to the gray family.

How they read

In their own words

Lamp 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.

Silver Metallic is a Meoded decorative plaster rather than a flat paint — a pewter-toned finish with a pearl sheen that shifts as you move through the room. In daylight it reads as a soft warm grey; at night, with candles and lamps, it glimmers like brushed metal.

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