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12 Farrow and Ball Colors For The Perfect English Kitchen

Hi Guys,

Greetings from the charming town of Northampton, Massachusetts! That is if you did not see my HOT SALES love note, (I call it) on Friday.

Why am I here?

Ummm… cause New York kinda sux??? Or maybe, just Westchester. I guess that opens up a can of worms. I better put the lid back on. lol No, it’s because my darling son is here. And, I decided to come up here for a few weeks and get out of New York and my life of solitary confinement.

Social distancing and mask-wearing. Absolutely! But, living ALONE, except for my pet plant, is no Bueno.

And, thank you too, for all of the great suggestions for my plant, Joe.

Yes, he’s here with me. I have him by the sunniest window in my lovely Airbnb.

Thank you, too, for your terrific comments about last Wednesday’s post.

It really is a mega-post, and I should have it for you, for Wednesday. It was supposed to be for today, but to do it right takes more time. I promise that it’s going to be go,od.

So, today, we’re going to revisit an old post that is newly updated with new content about 12 Farrow and Ball Colors for the perfect English Kitchen.

Or, it could be an American kitchen or a Brazilian kitchen. I don’t think the location matters that, much.

When this post came out, there were several requests to know which Farrow and Ball kitchen cabinet colors do the De VOL kitchens use?

At the time, I tried to find out from DeVOL what their colors are.

Oh, pretty please with a dollop of clotted cream on top?
By the way, have you ever had authentic English scones with clotted cream? If not, then you’ve missed out on one of the most heavenly things you will ever put in your mouth.

Okay, this was the answer:

Regarding our Shaker colours, although they are based on those Farrow and Ball kitchen cabinet colours they are not the same. We mix all the paint ourselves so we would really prefer you not to publish this information as they’re similar but are not a colour match. I hope you understand. Best wishes, L

I had a feeling they wouldn’t let me know. Alas, I don’t love them any less for it.

So, these may not be the exact colors, but they s,hould be fairly close. Please, always test!

DOWN PIPE

Talk about the perfect English kitchen! Let’s begin with my tall, dark, handsome, mysterious hunk from De VOL that I’m mad about. Well, I’ve looked at many images, and I do know that the English are bonkers over Farrow and Ball Down Pipe.

And for a very good reason. It’s a wonderful color!

But, here’s the deal with Down Pipe;

it looks different in every photo I see. I’ve seen it look almost pastel to almost black. But usually, it’s a dark gray-blue-green or dark gray-green-blue.

De VOL Kitchens

SHADED WHITE – Yes, this is the same kitchen as on Wednesday with as Benjamin Moore’s Halo. Are they the same color? No, but pretty close.

Shaded White is one of those colors that changes from a kind of soft cream, to a dirty cream, to a warm gray-green. I love colors like that and it’s a wonderful color to warm up a dreary, cold kitchen.

De VOL Kitchens

RAILINGS

Railings is almost definitely one of the De Vol colors. The chip on the card looks like black, but it’s really the darkest navy possible.

Railings on an island in a kitchen by Humphrey-Munson who Emily T turned me on to after Wednesday’s post. OMG. You must check out their instagram account. But go grab a drool bucket first.

Note: Humphrey-Munson has their own proprietary colors. They say they are not from Farrow and Ball.

Okay, I won’t argue.

The perimeter cabinets are in Humphrey-Munson Half Windsor and the Island in Humphrey-Munson Helm

via One Kind Design

Designer: Theresa Rowe

More Railings. I think this would make a fabulous butler’s pantry with the black subway tile.

Lanna Mobler

Railings is a terrific color for exterior trim too.

Sarah Sherman Samuel

PIGEON

Seriously, this is the most clever thing ever. Sarah is installing custom doors over Ikea cabinets.

And yes, they are in Farrow and Ball’s Pigeon, which is a medium-gray-blue-green. There’s a lot of info in Sarah’s link about the process, the before images… Great blog!

Here’s the finished kitchen. The uppers are Wimborne White.

CORNFORTH WHITE

Humphrey Munson

Well, it’s not really white, but it sure is one of the loveliest grays in the universe.

(The paint color is Humphrey Munson Lapel)

A lovely kitchen from Maple and Gray.

Another UK manufacturer of bespoke kitchens. And they also give out their paint colors.

Lewis Alderson

PAVILION GRAY

Farrow and Ball’s Pavilion Gray stays pretty true to gray and is absolutely gorgeous. Just like this exquisite English kitchen.

Sustainable Kitchens

This is a really nice website and they DO give a lot of the Farrow and Ball cabinet colors that they’re using for their kitchens.

Well, I don’t see the big deal. If folks want to work with the company, they’ll still work with the company and if they ne,ver were and are only repainting or something, it’ll make them think fondly of the vendor and perhaps recommend them to someone. Just my thoughts.

Lewis Alderson is another beautiful English cabinet company. Someone said again that they are worried that in a kitchen with no uppers, there won’t be enough storage. No, there is usually MORE storage. Or, perhaps I should say, more efficient storage. This unfitted pantry is a wonderful example of that.

Essex Shaker kitchen from DeVOL

VARDO

This is one of Farrow & Ball’s colors that came out a few years ago.

Neptune Kitchens

FRENCH GRAY

French Gray is similar to Pavilion but with a soupcon of blue-green which is also very, very pretty and classic; just a little more color. And please check out Neptune Kitchens. Really pretty!

STUDIO GREEN

In any case, Everyone loves this De VOL kitchen even if they don’t like dark green. There’s just something inviting about this English kitchen.

By the way, did you know that De VOL spelled backwards is LOVED? It’s not intentional, I don’t think.

I looked at all of the greens. Hmmm… I even looked at the archived greens. Hmmm… again.

The one I kept going back to was Studio Green, but it is VERY dark on the chip and quite dark in most images. But the one below, came from the Farrow and Ball Website and looks like an exact match. So, let’s just go with that one.

For reference, please also check out Melissa Tardiff’s gorgeous green kitchen.

I’m not saying that it is… Please test. For Studio Green to lighten up this much, it would need to be in a very bright room!

However, tonight, I found another color by accident.

It’s from a company by the name of Motor City Paint called Delray Moss. I think it’s a pretty close match.

Sometimes Studio Green looks like this. Sorry, not sure of the original source of this image.

Lisa Gutow

CROMARTY

Cromarty is a pale watery, gray-green which was introduced to the line about a year ago.

If you want to see the other eight new colors, please click here.

original source unknown.

LAMP ROOM GRAY

Oh my, how handsome is this English kitchen with Lamp Room Gray Cabinets!

Lamp Room Gray is another classic– a rich sophisticated gray with just the right amount of blue and green.

De VOL Kitchens

WIMBORNE WHITE

Wimborne White is my favorite F & B white. It’s just warm and lovely. A true white classic. It’s counterpart in Benjamin Moore is Simply White.

Another stunner from Humphrey Munson. Love the white on white. And the wood pantry is a stunning addition. I also love the antique mirror backsplash behind the range.

The cabinets are Linen by H|M and the accent wood Westminster Oak (a custom smoked oak finish)

Another beauty from DeVOL Kitchens

HAGUE BLUE

Farrow and Ball’s Hague Blue is my favorite navy, if I had to pick a favorite. There is no exact match in Benjamin Moore. It’s a rich, saturated navy with a welcome note of green, but stays just shy from being teal.

Is this similar to the graphic I made a few days ago? Yes, it is. But, those were for the perfect American kitchens and these are for the perfect English Kitchen. Of course, there isn’t a whole lot of difference in my world.

***Oh, an update in March 2021. Did you know that you can now purchase Farrow and Ball paints, samples too, and wallpaper ONLINE? Yes, you can, so if you go to their website, you can have access to this wonderful line.***

xo,

PS: If you are looking for the Benjamin Moore Equivalents to these Farrow and Ball Colors,

Please Click Here for the 2018 updates.

PPS: Please check out the newly updated HOT SALES. Lots of great early Memorial Day sales going on.

All colors in English

Which is correct: color or color?

Modern English allows two spellings of this word: color and color . They are pronounced exactly the same. In the UK, we will see color more often, while color is the American version. The word coloring , derived from color , can also be spelled differently, depending on the variant of English. By itself coloring means the process of coloring something, and in conjunction with the noun book is translated as “coloring”.

• This new hair salon focuses purely on hair coloring. — This new barbershop only does hair coloring.
• My child adores coloring books! — My child loves coloring books!

The word "color" in Russian is often combined with the name of the color itself, we say: "Blue skirt". You can't say that in English. The name of the color in English is most often not accompanied by the word color : The skirt is blue or a blue skirt .

To name a color, we do not need the word itself color , we use only the verb to be .

• The seagull is white. - White seagull.
• The clouds are grey. — Gray clouds.

If we still want to write the word color in conjunction with the name of the color, we will use the preposition in :

• The wall is green in colour. - Green wall.

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Synonyms of the word color

”, “tone”, “nuance”. In English, the word color can be replaced by the words tint or shade . Tint - a shade of any color after adding white, that is, a lighter, whitened color. Shade - the shade is darker, deeper, it turns out if black is added to the main color. In the case of adding gray, we already use another word - tones (different tones, shades). Professionals working with a color palette use the word - hue (base colors and shades in the palette).

Primary colors in English

Rainbow and its colors

Color is quite a subjective concept. The spectrum of colors cannot be clearly divided, because the colors and shades have no boundaries, they smoothly flow into each other. The idea to divide the light spectrum into its component parts belongs to the famous scientist Isaac Newton. It was he who first decomposed the rainbow - visible light radiation - into seven colors and gave each a name: red (red), orange (orange), yellow (yellow), green (green), blue (blue), indigo (indigo), violet (purple).

In Russian, we also divide the rainbow into separate colors, and to remember them we use the phrase: "Every Hunter Wants to Know Where the Pheasant Sits. " There are similar phrases in English: "Richard (red) Of (orange) York (yellow) Gave (green) Battle (blue) In (indigo) Vain (violet) " . Translated into Russian, it will sound like this: "Richard of York gave the battle in vain." You can also use this phrase:0005 "Run Off You Girls, Boys In View!" - "Run, girls, boys are coming!"

Basic colors in English

Of course, the rainbow does not consist of seven colors, there are many more. For convenience, people divided the palette into the so-called primary colors, they are also called basic. In any language of the world, the base color must comply with three rules:

1. Often and regularly used.
2. People have the same understanding of the word for color.
3. One word is used for one color.

Basic colors in English:

These are the basic English words familiar to many from school. Colors, basic color names ( english colors ) and Russian names, as we can see, practically coincide. But in English there are 11 basic colors, and in Russian there is one more. We highlight the blue color. In English, this color can be called the word azure - blue, but it is rarely used in everyday speech, much more often we will hear bright blue (bright blue) or light blue (light blue).

Formation of shades in English

Composite colors

We have just seen how to designate shades in English with the example of blue. The principle is quite simple: add the words dark, light and bright to the main color. Dark red color in English would be: dark red, light green - light green , and bright yellow - bright yellow . In Russian, such words are always written with a hyphen. In English, the rules are different:

1. If the color name comes before a noun, then we write the color name with a hyphen.
   • A light-green lawn. - Light green lawn.
   • Bright-yellow lemons. - Bright yellow lemons.
2. If the color name comes after a noun and describes the noun, then the hyphen is not needed.
   • The jeans are light grey. - Light gray jeans.
   • The fabric was dark red. - The fabric was dark red.

If you want to diversify your English speech, then in addition to the words dark, light, bright you can use their synonyms:

Using the suffix

Quite often we can doubt how to name a color if it is not pronounced: grayish sky, pinkish clouds, yellowish skin. Such shades of color in English will be formed using the suffix -ish .

Words-shades

There are a huge number of independent words to designate shades in English, we will list only a few of them with translation into Russian.

Degrees of comparison

The names of colors and shades in English are adjectives. Therefore, we can compare them with each other. The same rule for the formation of degrees of comparison applies to the names of colors as to other adjectives: for the comparative degree, we use the ending -er , and for the superlative degree, do not forget about the article the and the ending -est .

Idioms and phraseological units using color

People all over the world use the names of colors not only in an applied sense, but also in a figurative sense, in idioms and phraseological units. English speakers, for example, might use the following expressions:

Out of the blue - Out of the blue

Red-Handed -

Grey Area -incomprehensible situation

Black Sheep -Parshvya Sheep

Have A Green Thumb -Come Talent to Hardeliness

000 Born ALVER spoon in one's mouth - To be born in a shirt / have great privileges from birth

Green in English is associated with youth, youth, the beginning of something. Green years - this is how you can say figuratively about a young age. To give the green light - give permission, green light. The phrase green hand means a young man, inexperienced. Green in English can be not only youth, but also such a thing as jealousy green-eyed monster or envy be green with envy - turn green with envy, envy.

We can find a huge number of idioms with blue, white, red colors in the English language. Brown is very rarely included in English phraseological units, but still occurs. For example, as brown as a berry - brown as a berry, that is, a very tanned person. Brown is associated with sadness and sadness: "Brown study" - the Englishman will say, referring to a depressive mood or heavy meditation.

English Color Name Chart

Conclusion

A study by sociologists at the University of Maryland showed that most Americans prefer blue to any other color. Scientists have not specified what shade of blue, but, as we found out today, there are a considerable number of them. Of course, it is not necessary to memorize all the names of colors in English: remember the main colors and a few shades that you love the most.

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• • blackish - blackish
  • reddish
  • greenish
  • pinkish
  • This berry is red . This berry is red.
  • This berry is redder . This berry is redder.
  • This berry is the reddest . - This is the reddest berry.

Colors in English with translation into Russian 🌈

Russian-speaking children memorize the sequence of colors in the rainbow with the help of a mnemonic trick - the phrase "Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant is sitting. " And young Englishmen for the same purpose memorize the phrase Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain (“Richard of York gave the battle in vain”).

In addition to the colors of the rainbow, the list of basic shades includes:

• Brown - brown (brown) [braun]
• White - white (white) [waɪt]
• Black - black (black) [blæk]
• Pink - pink (pink) [pɪŋk]
• Gray/grey [ɡreɪ]

Translation of colors from English into Russian can be allegorical. After all, figurative meanings have also been attached to different colors in the culture of peoples from time immemorial.

For example, in Russian “red” often means “beautiful”, and “black” means “gloomy, tragic, bad”. English also has color associations: the word green (green) often refers to someone inexperienced and young (green workman is an inexperienced worker).

Blue (blue) is sometimes translated as "sad, dreary" - hence the name of the music blues. Gray (gray) can also be translated as "gloomy" or "cheerless" (grey thoughts - gloomy thoughts). White (white) is often translated as "innocent, harmless" (white lies - an innocent lie, a white lie).

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Shade Dictionary: shades in English

Now you know the main colors in English. But this is not enough to make your speech accurate and figurative. It would also be nice to remember the names of shades that are very often used in English speech. To make it easier for you, we have broken these shades into primary colors.

Red

• Carmine
• Auburn - reddish chestnut
• Burgundy - wine
• Crimson - raspberry
• Scarlet - scarlet
• Ruby

Pink

• Magenta
• Coral - coral (coral) [ˈkɒrəl]
• Raspberry color
• Salmon - pink-orange, salmon

Orange

• Copper
• Flame - fiery orange
• Tangerine - tangerine

Yellow

• Golden
• Amber
• Sand
• Saffron - saffron
• Cream

Green

• Emerald
• Olive
• Lime - lime
• Mint

Blue

• Navy blue
• Sapphire
• Ultramarine

Blue

• Turquoise - Turquoise
• Azure - Azure
• Aquamarine - Aqua

Purple

• Lilac
• Purple
• Lavender

White

• Ivory - ivory
• Eggshell - eggshell color
• Snowy

Gray

• Silver
• Ashen - Ash
• Platinum

Brown

• Beige
• Ecru - grayish beige
• Rust - rusty
• Maroon - red-brown
• Fawn - Tan
• Khaki - Khaki

Sometimes it is difficult to translate the names of flowers from Russian into English and vice versa. For example, in Russian “blue” and “blue” are two different colors, while English light blue and dark blue are shades of the same color.

And speaking of a person red (red) or ginger (ginger), the British want to say that he is red. The perception and description of colors is a delicate matter, and even a professional translator sometimes encounters difficulties.

Now you know all the main colors in English with translation, do not confuse purple and pink and easily remember what color oranges are.

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Describing the intensity of a color

Sometimes the name of a color in English does not quite convey the shade you want to describe. Adjectives come to the rescue, which will allow you to accurately determine the color - it is advisable to learn them too.

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