Art for Bancha walls
Bancha (Farrow & Ball No. 298) is a deep olive green. Here is what we would aim for on a wall painted in it, and pieces we made for rooms with walls like it.
Measure your own wallBancha
Farrow & Ball No. 298, approximately #686A47 on screen
Matching or standing out
A wall with this much colour in it gets a mix leaning towards colours that answer it, with a couple that keep to its own shades.
Colours that match Bancha
- Deep olive
- Pale khaki
Colours that stand out on Bancha
- Terracotta
- Dusty rose
- Ochre
- Deep burgundy
Both black and natural wood work on a mid-tone wall; pick the one that repeats something else in the room.
Rooms with walls like it
Our example rooms whose measured walls are closest to Bancha. The rooms are illustrative; the pieces are real output.
Lone tree on a hill
Painterly Landscape, woodblock style
Soft mist and oak tones suit your room
Dunes with sea grass
Painterly Landscape, gouache style
Sandy tones and plum lift the sage
Ochre sun disc above two soft bands
Warm Abstract, risograph style
Ochre sun echoes your mantel objects
Large circle split by a vertical line
Mid-century & Deco, screenprint style
Terracotta warms the sage and white mantel
Wheat fields and a farm track
Painterly Landscape, soft pastel style
Echoes your jute rug and linen
Low dark band under a wide pale sky of colour
Colour Field, soft pastel style
Calm light that suits limewash
Figure carrying a bunch of flowers
Figures, charcoal on paper style
Browns match your plaster and books
Bold curve balanced by one small dot
Warm Abstract, risograph style
Terracotta picks up your clay pot
Other paint colours
Colours on screen are approximate, and paint changes with the light in each room. Quiet Wall is not affiliated with Farrow & Ball; the paint name is theirs and is used only to say which colour this page is about.
See it on your wall
Painted in Bancha, or anything else? Send a photo and we measure the colour your wall really is in your light, then make eight pieces for it.