Close-up of warm buff-beige textile with a subtle, even matte grain

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Kirkby Design

Smooth Buff

Smooth Iii Fabric

Smooth Buff is a warm, muted buff-beige plain with an even surface and a subtle textile grain. Its soft tan depth gives the colour a grounded, gently enveloping quality.

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About this fabric

The close-up shows a uniform plain surface in warm buff-beige, with a muted tan cast rather than a bright cream tone. A very fine, low-contrast grain is visible across the cloth, while the surface catches light with a soft matte response. No performance features are noted in the supplied information; visually, the dense smooth construction reads as an upholstery-oriented textile. The restrained texture keeps the colour calm and consistent across the swatch.

How to use it

Use Smooth Buff on a sofa, headboard or occasional chair to introduce a warm, understated neutral without the starkness of pale cream. Pair its tan-buff tone with walnut, natural timber, aged brass or deeper brown accents for a softly layered scheme.

A warm, quietly refined plain for upholstered pieces where a soft buff neutral is wanted.

Paint that goes with it

Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

To sit quietly behind it

Oxney Olive

Sanderson · #9a8c69

To stand against it

Rectory Red

Farrow & Ball · #a0404c

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