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Settled, side by side

Margaux

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

Costes

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

#7B3D3B
Hex
#B07A62
123 · 61 · 59
RGB
176 · 122 · 98
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Deep burgundy red; wine-dark in limewash
Undertone
Dusty rose-terracotta; clay with a pink heart
Red
Family
Orange
Lime Paint
Collection
Roman Clay

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Margaux is a red, Costes a orange.

How they read

In their own words

Margaux is Color Atelier's bold, deep red — a burgundy with the depth of the Bordeaux it is named for. In lime paint the colour is never uniform: it pools darker in the corners and lifts to a dusty rose where the light hits.

Costes is a Portola Roman Clay — a hand-applied plaster finish rather than a paint — in a dusty rose-terracotta. Because Roman Clay is troweled on, the color is never flat: it moves between pale pink and deep clay across a single wall, and the surface has a soft, suede-like depth that photographs like stone.

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