Tap the swatch to see it full screen. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Sanderson

Oakeley Slate

2026 Paint PaintSAP1104-42

Oakeley Slate is a restrained grey-blue with a slate note, from Sanderson’s 2026 Paint range. It sits neatly between grey and blue, giving a room a calm, composed backdrop.

soft cool grey plain none smart both

Ask Simon about this colour See it in your room

See this colour on Sanderson's own site, then order it through us.

About this colour

This shade reads as a cool, balanced mid tone with enough grey in it to keep the blue quiet and usable on larger wall areas. In north-facing light it will feel more slate-like and slightly deeper, with the blue softened by shadow. In south-facing rooms it lifts a little and the blue becomes clearer, while the grey keeps it from feeling bright. It sits well beside pale oak, painted white woodwork, and upholstery in stone, linen, navy, or faded teal. In Active Emulsion or Waterbased Eggshell, it suits both walls and joinery where you want a steady, grown-up colour.

How to use it

Use Oakeley Slate in a sitting room, study, or hallway with painted skirting and doors in a clean white or a softer putty tone. It works especially well with natural timber, deep buttoned upholstery, and fabrics in oatmeal, indigo, or muted green.

On a wall, Oakeley Slate gives a room a calm grey-blue presence without feeling stark.

Sanderson 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Sanderson
Colour: #7F7F89
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.

More from 2026 Paint

The same book, other colourways.

Devon Green

2026 Paint

Airlane Blue

2026 Paint

Wisteria Falls

2026 Paint

a flat tile of warm muted rosewood paint

Inkwood

2026 Paint

Snowy Owl

2026 Paint

Blue Clay

2026 Paint

Cadet Blue

2026 Paint

Sky Grey

2026 Paint

Silver Mint

2026 Paint

Rain Lake

2026 Paint

Iron Grey

2026 Paint

Chiswick White

2026 Paint

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

Oakeley Slate 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.