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Sara Hesikova

Farrow & Ball’s most popular neutral paint shade will surprise you – and no, it’s not off-white, beige or grey

A bedroom with a the top half of the wall painted in Farrow & Ball's Elephant's Breath with pink bed linen and curtains on the window.

Even though people are getting more adventurous with colour in their homes, neutrals are still the go-to shades, especially when it comes to wall paint colours. As Farrow & Ball is one of the most (if not the most) sought-after paint brands I was curious to know which are the most popular Farrow & Ball neutral paint shades – so I asked the experts.

While some of the answers fell into the category of ‘traditional’ neutrals - the shades that you would likely associate with the term such as off-white and cream - there was one particular paint idea that stood out from the rest as Patrick O’Donnell, brand ambassador at Farrow & Ball, named a surprising shade as one of the brand’s most popular neutrals. And that’s Setting Plaster, one of the paint colours most interior experts swear by.

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