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Southwold Blue

2026 Paint PaintSAP1136-42

Southwold Blue is a gentle, greyed blue with a calm coastal feel. In Sanderson’s 2026 Paint range, it reads as a restrained pale colour rather than a bright blue.

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About this colour

This shade sits in the cooler end of blue, softened by a good amount of grey so it does not look sugary or sharp. On a wall, #ACBFCD lifts the room without feeling stark, giving a light, breathable surface in Active Emulsion or Waterbased Eggshell. In north-facing light it can turn more muted and silvery, with the grey coming forward; in south-facing rooms it stays clearer and a little brighter, while still keeping its calm tone. It works well beside crisp white woodwork, pale oak, painted joinery and upholstered pieces in linen, ticking stripe or small-scale floral patterns with a faded character.

How to use it

Use it in bedrooms, sitting rooms or a hallway where you want a restful blue that does not overpower the space. It suits white-painted trim, weathered wood and upholstery in soft neutrals, blue-greys or deeper navy accents.

A pale blue wall colour that stays calm and usable rather than icy.

Sanderson 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Sanderson
Colour: #ACBFCD
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

Southwold 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.