Inspired by Willow Crossley's Living Room, painted in Farrow and Ball's Elephant's Breath (what a name!), here is another colour study...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath living room |
Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath is soft, calming, warm neutral...here's the lowdown! Colour toning paint suggestions: (from top) Farrow and Ball All White, Slipper Satin, Elephant's Breath and Charleston Gray
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| Farrow and Ball |
{For information on my other Colour studies, click away...
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| Elephant's Breath bedroom |
Farrow and Ball's paints are chalky, matt and delicious BUT are notoriously changeable in different lights.
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| Bedroom in Elephant's Breath (Farrow and Ball) |
This acts as a positive (enormous depth of colour, and instantly recognisable) but also makes some of colours pretty tricky to predict.
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath kitchen |
I've tried to eliminate this unpredictability as much as I possibly can for you by sourcing images that best reflect the results you should expect in different conditions.
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath kitchen |
In soft (by which I mean overcast!) daylight, Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath can appear greige - a gentle mix of grey and beige...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath in dark Victorian hall |
However, give Elephant's Breath even a glimmer of lamplight and it can go in two different directions....
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath in artificial light |
either a bruised lilac shade....
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath bedroom |
or a peachy brown...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath under light bulb |
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath under light bulb |
Under cool, white halogen-type light, Elephant's Breath looks grey with delicate lilac undertones...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath kitchen |
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath under halogen lighting in Victorian hallway |
It's the unknown line between these variations that means Elephant's Breath gets VERY mixed reviews from shocked home-owners who haven't realised that this paint has a mind of its own!
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath bedroom |
Farrow and Ball's description Elephant's Breath as 'an interpretation of this famously named colour by John Fowler. Use as a colour in its own right, or as part of a 'stone' scheme.'
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath |
What? What does that even mean?
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath under dado rail in Victorian hall |
'Stone' is usually a euphemism for warm, brown-based neutrals, which will work beautifully with natural materials, think rattan, linen and wood, but less well with cool greys...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath on bathroom tongue and groove panelling |
It's worth being aware when looking at images like this...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath kitchen |
...that special lighting techniques will have been used, which may give a false impression of the real colour.
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath kitchen |
Even though the room has the lights on, more cool light will have been added from an off-picture source to give an additional effect.
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath panelling |
This image below demonstrates what I mean. In the first room, the Farrow and Ball paint appears as a warm gray but if you peer carefully into the second, you'll see that in places, the paint takes on a definite lilac hue.
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath undervarious lighting conditions |
Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath is dark enough to work well as a floor colour...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath painted floor |
or as a darker woodwork foil to an airy room...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath woodwork |
but still light enough to be used as an exterior wall paint colour. Here is Elephant's Breath with a Farrow and Ball Charleston Gray front door...
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| Front door is Farrow and Ball Charleston Gray with Elephants Breath house exterior walls. |
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| Front door is Farrow and Ball Charleston Gray with Elephants Breath house exterior walls. |
So whether your room is flooded with natural light, for a warm grey...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath bedroom |
...or whether your intended room will need artificial lighting, which make Elephant's Breath lean towards a richer purple-toned brown...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath bathroom |
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath |
...or, if you're looking, like me, for a new front door colour (the stark outside light giving a pale taupe finish to this front door in Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath)...
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath front door |
...you'll end up with a sophisticated, modern, yet pretty and warm space....
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| Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath kitchen |
...with Farrow and Ball Elephant's Breath.
Images via: Willow Crossley, Wealden Times, idhomes, broad oak, woodwork, adam rogers, turquoise textiles, houzz, Bibsnbraces, BibsnBraces, paradise design, claire mcfadyen, klausandheidi, dcdesigncenter, unknown, inspired living, unknown, Hill Farm, The Wall Panelling Company, g, Willow and Stone, Willow and Stone, Beautiful Homes, Stone and Chrome, chalk farm home, murdoch joinery
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23 comments :
I always have my Farrow & Ball colour chart nearby when I read your blog and even on the tiny chip, elephant's breath has taupy-lilacy undertone in my cottage's lighting. As usual, this was a brilliant study.
I like the look of this colour very much - I have made a note of it!
Thanks, Sarah, dear neighbor, for doing the hard work for us. I have always loved the funny names of paint colors. When we lived in MN, we painted our interior trim ... vanilla ice cream.
Fondly,
Glenda
We painted our bedroom in Elephant's breath, and were surprised with how pale it came out. However, I love it so much that we have now painted our drawing room in it too! I wanted a soft, warm grey and after loads of dofferent testers looked too blue or cold, I decided to go with Elephant's Breath again as I knew what it would look like. It is so soft and calming - totally love it. I would paint my whole house in it of husband would let me!!!
We have a lot of Elephant's Breath in the house, and you're right, it does change in every room and light.
A great neutral colour.
Hope you have a lovely weekend,
Liz x
Have just found your lovely blog! I have painted the whole of our open plan downstairs in Elephant's Breath and it is indeed very changeable! Fortunately I love every shade throughout the space and time of day. I always use F & B on client projects too. A lovely colour to live with!
Sophia
Hello, I love this blog. In the picture of the hallway, where there is panelling on the bottom half of the wall and a table with two lamps, do you know what the colour is of the main walls? I'd like to combine this with the farrow and ball elephants breath, as per the picture
I'm not sure, I'm afraid - but Farrow and Ball Skimming Stone would create a similar effect.
Sarahx
I love this color and really want to use it on my west facing master but there's not a whole lot of natural light and my furniture is a natural linen upholstered bed and metallic silver finished side tables and a cosmopolitan style dresser with champagne and silver finish and a large painting with a tree with gold leaves. I wanted a neutral interesting paint color but the lilac undertones scare me. Do you think I should try another color, maybe skimming stone. I really want a grey!
الآن عن طريق التواصل مع شركة تنظيف خزانات بمكة المتخصصة التي تقدمها شركة العنود ستتمكن من الحصول على خدمات تنظيف خزانات بمكة باقل الاسعار و اقوى الخصومات في السعودية
تتم خدمات الصيانة التي تقدمها مراكز صيانة الكتروستار المعتمدة على يد فريق متخصص و ذو مهارة و خبرة في اصلاح جميع اعطال اجهزة الكتروستار الكهربائية المتنوعة بدقة
الآن عن طريق التواصل مع شركة كشف تسربات المياه بالدمام التي تقدمها شركة ابراج دبي ستتمكن من الحصول على اقوى الخصومات على الخدمات المنزلية المتنوعة التي تحتاجها لمنزلك
يمكنك الآن الحصول على اقوى خدمات صيانة فريش التي تحتاجها بأقل التكاليف في مصر من شركة دليل الصيانات الشامل ، و التي تقدم ايضًا خدمات صيانة يونيفرسال التي يحتاجها العملاء
بادر الآن بالحصول على اقوى الخصومات التي تقدمها الشركة الفرنسية على خدمات مكافحة الصراصير و خدمات مكافحة البق و اي حشرات اخرى قد تتواجد في منزلك و تسبب لك الازعاج و الضيق ، حيث تقدم ايضًا خدمات ابادة النمل للتخلص منه نهائيًا
بادر الآن بالحصول على اقوى الخصومات التي تقدمها شركة البدر لفترة محدودة على خدمات تركيب قرميد اسباني بتصميماته المتميزة و المتنوعة ، حيث تقوم الشركة بتصنيع تصميمات قرميد متنوعة تناسب جميع العملاء
الآن عن طريق التواصل مع شركات صيانة معدات مطاعم المتخصصة التي يقدمها موقع دليل التجهيزات و صيانة المعدات في مصر ، ستتمكن من الحصول على خدمات صيانة ايس ميكر بأقل الاسعار
الآن من خلال التواصل مع شركة مكافحة الصراصير بمكة المتخصصة ستتمكن من الحصول على جميع خدمات مكافحة الحشرات من شركة العنود و التي تعتبر شركة مكافحة البق بمكة ذات خبرة في القضاء على البق و جميع الحشرات .
و تعتمد شركة مكافحة النمل بمكة التي تقدمها شركة العنود و شركة مكافحة العته بمكة للقضاء على جميع الحشرات على استخدام افضل المبيدات الحشرية
الآن من خلال التواصل مع شركة العنود ستتمكن من الحصول على خدمات تنظيف سجاد بالبخار بمكة بأقل الاسعار ، و تقدم الشركة ايضًا خدمات تنظيف موكيت بالبخار بمكة بإستخدام افضل المواد المنظفة الآمنة على جميع المفروشات
نحن في شركة تنظيف منازل بالدمامنهتم باعمال التنظيف لكافة غرف المنزل ولدينا في شركة تنظيف شقق بالدمامارخص الاسعار في السوق ويسرنا ان نقدم لكم في شركة مكافحة حشرات بالاحساء اعمال مكافحة متميزة لجميع انواع الحشرات موقعنا الالكتروني:
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