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Style guide
The swatches we are willing to specify.
Ten colours, named the way we say them on site. Use them as a starting edit. The sample on your plaster still wins.
Colour library
A short deck, not a department store
These are the colours we actually specify. Hex is a label. The sample on the wall is the decision.
Plaster 01
#E7E0D6The house neutral. Warm enough that white woodwork still looks like a decision.
Almost every room · MatteChalk 00
#F7F3ECA soft white for ceilings and the upper half of a hall. Not a clinic white.
Ceilings, halls · MatteClay 04
#C45C26Burnt sienna for one wall, a door, or the inside of a bookcase. Too much and the room closes.
Living, dining · MatteClay dust
#E7C3B2Clay diluted by plaster. Useful when a full terracotta would fight the sofa.
Bedrooms, nurseries · MatteSage 02
#5E6E4CA garden green that stays civil in north light. Best tested beside the timber in the room.
Bedrooms, baths · MatteMist 05
#D5DDD4The pale partner to sage. Reads as air rather than as a statement.
Bedrooms, studies · MatteHarbour 09
#1F3A4DA deep blue-green for evenings. Keep the ceiling light or the room sinks.
Dining, kitchens, doors · Eggshell on joineryCanal 06
#3E6D78Clearer than harbour, good on a front door or a single run of panelling.
Doors, panelling · Satin or eggshellOchre 03
#C8963EWarm and a little golden. Lovely in a nursery, loud if it wraps a small bath.
Nurseries, living · MatteInk 12
#1C1916Not a black. A brown-black for a door, a fireplace reveal, or lower hall panelling.
Doors, dados · Eggshell
How to test
Two large patches, one evening.
Paint samples bigger than a postcard, on two different walls. Look with the ceiling light off. If a colour only works in the tin, it will not improve in November.