Has anyone used Farrow and Ball Pigeon for kitchen cabinets?
I (think) I love this color, but the pictures I find vary quite a bit. It could be the lighting, but different pictures seem to show this differently. Sometimes it leans more neutral gray, sometimes more sage-y and warm, sometimes more blue-gray? It seems the closest paint match from other manufacturers is Behr Urban Nature and Ben Moore Ananthus Green. Also based on https://encycolorpedia.com/b9beaa, F&B's Pigeon consists of more Green and Red than Blue.
Obviously, we'll have to have some samples made up to look at it in our space, but wondered if anyone had any pictures they'd be willing to share from their spaces? :-)
Thanks!
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Marylee H
3 years agoAll your observations about this colour can be true, depending upon the quality of light available to it and the surrounding context.
F&B Pigeon is a greyed, relatively low Chroma, (near neutral) colour from the Green-Yellow Hue Family.
That a sense of greenness can be apparent in some settings isn’t so surprising, as green is an essential part of its colour DNA.
What can be decidedly more unexpected, is that in some imbalanced light settings, low Chroma, near neutral colours from this Hue Family neighbourhood are prone to shifting blue. Pigeon isn’t blue and doesn’t have blue ‘undertones’. If it app that way in a particular room it’s simply an effect of light and context.
You won’t know how this colour will render until you test in your space with your lighting.sampling on boards rather than the walls can help as you can move them into both light and shadow.
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