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

Settled, side by side

Margaux

Color Atelier · Lime Paint

Dead Salmon

Farrow & Ball · No. 28

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Hex
#B09B8C
123 · 61 · 59
RGB
176 · 155 · 140
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Deep burgundy red; wine-dark in limewash
Undertone
Muddy pink-beige; a rose that has faded into taupe
Red
Family
Pink
Lime Paint
Collection
Colour Card

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Margaux is a red, Dead Salmon a pink.

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.

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.

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