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SUDBURY YELLOW
Farrow & Ball
Renowned interior designer
John Fowler chose this rich,
saturated yellow to surround
the grand staircase of
England’s Sudbury Hall.CLASSICAL YELLOW
Sherwin-Williams
Whether on a charming
Colonial or a stately Georgian,
this sunny yellow has been
used as a signal of friendship
and joy throughout history.
MUSTARD
Old Fashioned Milk PaintThis just-add-water powdered
hue is based on the age-old
practice of mixing natural
yellow ochre pigment with
one’s own milk and lime.
SUNSET GLOW
Valspar
The bold mustard shades
rooted in Colonial period
paints were made of yellow
ochre pigments mixed with
iron oxide.LAKE FOREST
Pratt & Lambert
A tradition originating in the
deep South, “haint blue”
painted porch ceilings have
been warding off evil spirits
for centuries.SMALL DINING
ROOM GREEN
Fine Paints of Europe
George Washington had his
Mount Vernon dining room
painted this “grateful to the
eye” verdigris-green in 1785.ARUGULA
Sherwin-Williams
In 1805, portraitist Gilbert
Stuart suggested that
Thomas Jeff erson paint
Monticello’s entrance hall
fl oor a “true grass-green.”DE NIMES
Farrow & Ball
Long before Levi Strauss’s
“denim” jeans, the French
were making blue-hued
workware from cloth called
“serge de Nîmes.”RANDOLPH BLUE
Benjamin Moore
Historians based this
Colonial Williamsburg
collection color on
pigments found in 18 th-
century wallpaper.SPLENDID BLUE
Valspar
This soft, dusty blue
has adorned Wedgwood
china since the 1700 s.CANTON CHINA BLUE
Fine Paints of Europe
Blue-and-white Canton ware
was the everyday china
for George Washington and
his family, inspiring the Mount
Vernon collection color.WRIGHT BLUEBIRD
PPG Paints
This is one of the 36 colors in
architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s
original 1955 color palette,
Taliesin, named after his
Wisconsin house and studio.CLASSIC SHUTTER
California Paints
Spot the Historic Colors of
America collection’s olive
green on the shutters of
Massachusetts’s 1907
Beauport house museum.CARLYLE AUBERGINE
Fine Paints of Europe
Designer Dorothy Draper
chose this deep purple for
her New York apartment at
the famed Carlyle h otel.PITCH BLACK
Old Fashioned Milk Paint
Collected lamp soot and
carbon were used to create
this pitch-dark pigment in
Colonial America (and even
earlier in Europe).BEDROCK
Pratt & Lambert
Post Civil War, Charleston, SC,
residents rebelled, adding yel-
low and blue to government-
provided black paint, creating
“Charleston Green.”