a flat tile of warm pale parchment paint

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Pale Parchment

2026 Paint PaintSAP1111-45

Pale Parchment from Sanderson’s 2026 Paint range is a soft, warm parchment shade with a quiet beige cast. It sits easily on walls and woodwork, giving a room a light, settled feel without looking stark.

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About this colour

This #EADCBF tone reads as a creamy parchment with enough warmth to feel inviting, but not so much yellow that it turns heavy. It reflects light gently rather than bouncing it around, so it helps brighten a space while still keeping a calm, grounded look. In a north-facing room it can appear a touch deeper and more biscuit-toned, which suits it well if you want the room to feel less cold. In south-facing light the colour opens out and looks softer and more luminous, with its pale beige side showing most clearly. It works well beside natural oak, painted joinery in deeper stone or clay shades, and upholstery in oatmeal, linen, or muted sage.

How to use it

Use Pale Parchment in sitting rooms, hallways, or bedrooms where you want the walls to feel warm and understated. It pairs neatly with timber joinery, cream-painted woodwork, and upholstery in dusty greens, warm greys, or washed neutrals.

A warm, pale parchment shade that brings a room a gentle, settled light.

Sanderson 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Sanderson
Colour: #EADCBF
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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Pale Parchment 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.