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

Settled, side by side

Silver Metallic

Meoded · Decorative plaster

Clay

Little Greene · No. 39

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Hex
#D4C59C
183 · 180 · 174
RGB
212 · 197 · 156
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Silver Metallic is cool; Clay is warm.
Warm pewter with a pearl sheen; the color changes as you move
Undertone
Warm mid-stone neutral with ochre
Gray
Family
Beige
Decorative finishes
Collection
Colours of England

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Silver Metallic leans cool where Clay reads warm. Silver Metallic is a gray, Clay a beige.

How they read

In their own words

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.

Clay is a Little Greene mid-stone neutral with more ochre than its predecessors — warm, sandy and quietly elegant. It is the colour of dried river clay: not quite beige, not quite yellow.

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