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

Settled, side by side

Little Falls

Benjamin Moore · 1621

Shelter

Portola Paints · Lime Wash

41.07
LRV
#9EADB7
Hex
#8E9B8A
158 · 173 · 183
RGB
142 · 155 · 138
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Dusty steel blue with grey; a denim that has been washed many times
Undertone
Mossy grey-green; lichen on stone
Blue
Family
Green
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Lime Wash

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read cool. Little Falls is a blue, Shelter a green.

How they read

In their own words

Little Falls is a mid-tone, grey-softened blue with the ease of well-worn denim. At LRV 41 it holds its color in daylight without ever becoming bright, and its grey base keeps it from reading as nursery blue. It is calm without being cold.

Shelter is a Portola Lime Wash in a mossy grey-green — and because it is a lime wash, not a paint, the color is cloudy and alive, drifting between pale sage and deep moss across a single wall. The finish is chalky and matte, and it takes light the way stone does.

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