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Starling

2026 Paint PaintSAP1138-45

Starling is a muted taupe grey from Sanderson’s 2026 Paint range, with a steady, softened look. It sits between grey and beige, giving walls a settled, easy tone.

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About this colour

This shade reads as a warm grey with a gentle brown undertone, so it feels calmer than a cool grey and less sandy than a beige. Its #B9B0A9 value lifts light lightly rather than bouncing it back, so it keeps a room feeling composed and quietly enveloping. In north-facing rooms it can lean more stone-grey and slightly cooler, while in south-facing light the warmth comes forward and the colour looks softer and more rounded. In Active Emulsion or Waterbased Eggshell, it works well on walls and woodwork beside natural oak, dark walnut, and upholstery in sage, ink blue, or deep rust tones.

How to use it

Starling suits sitting rooms, bedrooms, and hallways where you want a calm backdrop that still has enough warmth for timber and framed pictures. It sits neatly with painted joinery, linen curtains, and upholstered furniture in muted greens, blues, or camel shades.

A calm taupe grey like this gives a room a settled, easy background without feeling flat.

Sanderson 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Sanderson
Colour: #B9B0A9
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

Starling 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.