Art for Setting Plaster walls

Setting Plaster (Farrow & Ball No. 231) is a warm, pale plaster pink. Here is what we would aim for on a wall painted in it, and pieces we made for rooms with walls like it.

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Setting Plaster

Farrow & Ball No. 231, approximately #DBC2B0 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 Setting Plaster

Clay
Pale clay

Colours that stand out on Setting Plaster

Deep burgundy
Sage green
Patina blue
Terracotta

Most frames work on a pale wall. Black gives a crisp edge; natural wood keeps it soft.

Rooms with walls like it

Our example rooms whose measured walls are closest to Setting Plaster. The rooms are illustrative; the pieces are real output.

Highland loch under low cloud on the wall of a yellow living room — Yellow living room. Wall measured as #D39E1E. Hung to scale at 20 × 28 in. The room is illustrative; the pieces are real output.

Highland loch under low cloud — Yellow living room. Wall measured as #D39E1E. Hung to scale at 20 × 28 in. The room is illustrative; the pieces are real output.

Wheat fields and a farm track on the wall of a limewash bedroom — Limewash bedroom. Wall measured as #857869. Hung to scale at 20 × 28 in. The room is illustrative; the pieces are real output.

Wheat fields and a farm track — Limewash bedroom. Wall measured as #857869. Hung to scale at 20 × 28 in. The room is illustrative; the pieces are real output.

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 Setting Plaster, or anything else? Send a photo and we measure the colour your wall really is in your light, then make eight pieces for it.

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