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Balmory Blue

2026 Paint PaintSAP1005-44

Balmory Blue is a poised, softened blue from Sanderson’s 2026 Paint range. It has enough grey in it to feel settled rather than bright, with a cool, airy character.

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About this colour

In #8AADC1, Balmory Blue reads as a muted blue with a gentle sea-glass cast and a reassuring softness on the wall. It reflects light well enough to keep a room open, but the greyed base stops it from feeling crisp or icy. In a north-facing room it can turn cooler and more subdued, bringing out its grey-blue side, while in south light it feels clearer and slightly brighter. It sits neatly beside pale oak, painted joinery, linen-look weaves, and deeper navy or charcoal upholstery, where its softened tone gives those pairings room to breathe. In Active Emulsion or Waterbased Eggshell, it works well on walls or woodwork when you want colour that stays calm and easy to live with.

How to use it

Use Balmory Blue in a sitting room, study, or bedroom where you want a restful blue with enough body for walls. It suits cream or off-white woodwork, warm timber, and upholstery in taupe, stone, ink blue, or muted green.

A softened blue with grey depth that stays calm on the wall.

Sanderson 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Sanderson
Colour: #8AADC1
Colour family: 2026 Paint
Finish: Active Emulsion, Waterbased Eggshell
Product type: Paint

Specification as published by Sanderson. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Order it with the cloth

A pot comes off the same order as the fabric, so the wall and the chair in front of it are chosen together. The making is ours: cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage.

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Pairs well with

Balmory Blue is a wall colour, so these are the cloths that sit against it: one of them on the curtains, the paint behind. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.