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Blush Entryway Palette — Soft Blush & Warm Clay

A welcoming 5-color scheme for entryways: a soft blush feature wall, warm greige backdrop, creamy trim, grounding clay-brown, and a deep plum anchor — every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By Jessica Williams · Color Stylist & Interior Editor

An entryway is the first breath of a home, and blush is the gentlest way to say welcome. This palette leads with a soft blush on the feature wall you meet head-on at the door — warm enough to flatter skin and morning light, never candy-sweet. Around it, a warm greige keeps the side walls quiet so the blush stays the star.

The trim and ceiling wear a creamy white with just enough warmth to avoid going stark, framing everything like soft matting around a photograph. To give the eye somewhere to settle, burnished clay grounds the room through a console table or wood floor, echoing the warmth in the blush from below.

Save dusk plum for the smallest, most deliberate surface — the front door seen from inside, or a bench. A single deep note is all an entry needs to feel layered rather than pale. Keep that darkest color to one element and let the blush do the welcoming.

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Soft Blush
Feature Wall
Kompozit Pout · 0125
#E4CCC3
LRV 64
Warm Greige
Walls
Valspar Warm Oatmeal · V179
#E1D9CD
LRV 70
Creamy White
Trim & Ceiling
Glidden Crisp Linen White · 61YY 89/040
#F6F1E9
LRV 89
Burnished Clay
Console & Wood
Diamond Vogel Flickering Flame · 1005
#AA734F
LRV 21
Dusk Plum
Door Accent
Behr Napa Wine · QE-63
#5B3F48
LRV 6

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Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Tap a swatch for its full guide or + to save it — take any SKU to the store, they mix on demand.

Soft Blush
#E6CBC2 · LRV 63 · Feature Wall
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6330 · ΔE 1.41
Behr · HDC-NT-10 · ΔE 1.74
Benjamin Moore · 037 · ΔE 1.9
Valspar · 2001-8C · ΔE 1.62
PPG / Glidden · PPG1058-3 · ΔE 1.61
Glidden · PPG1058-3 · ΔE 1.33
Dutch Boy · 306-2DB · ΔE 2.54
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2077 · ΔE 1.41
Dunn-Edwards · DE6051 · ΔE 2.18
Magnolia Home · JG-24 · ΔE 2.84
Farrow & Ball · NO. 230 · ΔE 3.3
Diamond Vogel · 0125 · ΔE 2.12
Hirshfield's · 0125 · ΔE 1.09
Rodda · R121 · ΔE 3.35
C2 Paint · C2-834 · ΔE 7
Clare · PNT100-LT-21 · ΔE 9.51
Portola Paints · GYPSY · ΔE 6.5
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 10.89
Backdrop · BD-AU · ΔE 3.53
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 3.84
Kompozit · 0125 · ΔE 1.09
Warm Greige
#E2DACE · LRV 71 · Walls
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9586 · ΔE 0.91
Behr · N210-1 · ΔE 0.9
Benjamin Moore · AF-55 · ΔE 0.91
Valspar · V179 · ΔE 0.23
PPG / Glidden · PPG14-07 · ΔE 1.56
Glidden · PPG14-07 · ΔE 1.99
Dutch Boy · 442-1DB · ΔE 2.22
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 4020 · ΔE 1.11
Dunn-Edwards · DEGR09 · ΔE 1.99
Magnolia Home · JG-112 · ΔE 2.02
Farrow & Ball · NO. 2009 · ΔE 2.4
Diamond Vogel · 0369 · ΔE 3.18
Hirshfield's · 0369 · ΔE 3.17
Rodda · CA049 · ΔE 0.95
C2 Paint · C2-850 · ΔE 0.52
Clare · PNT100-LT-19 · ΔE 2.49
Portola Paints · GEM · ΔE 2.73
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 8.54
Backdrop · BD-CC · ΔE 4.69
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 9.42
Kompozit · 0369 · ΔE 3.17
Creamy White
#F7F2EA · LRV 89 · Trim & Ceiling
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9503 · ΔE 1.19
Behr · RD-W09 · ΔE 1.62
Benjamin Moore · 879 · ΔE 1.47
Valspar · 8007-4A · ΔE 1.27
PPG / Glidden · PPG0998-1 · ΔE 2.08
Glidden · 61YY 89/040 · ΔE 0.21
Dutch Boy · 004W · ΔE 1
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 4002 · ΔE 1.23
Dunn-Edwards · DE6267 · ΔE 1.5
Magnolia Home · JG-21 · ΔE 2.98
Farrow & Ball · NO. 239 · ΔE 2.32
Diamond Vogel · 0355 · ΔE 1.5
Hirshfield's · 1020 · ΔE 2.32
Rodda · CA002 · ΔE 1.79
C2 Paint · C2-612 · ΔE 1.91
Clare · PNT100-LT-24 · ΔE 1.73
Portola Paints · ORIGAMI · ΔE 1.7
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 12.99
Backdrop · BD-TR · ΔE 2.32
Rust-Oleum · 285140 · ΔE 5.2
Kompozit · 1020 · ΔE 2.32
Burnished Clay
#A9714E · LRV 21 · Console & Wood
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7710 · ΔE 1.85
Behr · T11-9 · ΔE 1.14
Benjamin Moore · CSP-1075 · ΔE 3.68
Valspar · 2007-7B · ΔE 2.9
PPG / Glidden · PPG1070-6 · ΔE 1.34
Glidden · PPG1070-6 · ΔE 1.34
Dutch Boy · 314-6DB · ΔE 3.98
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 7701 · ΔE 5.07
Dunn-Edwards · DE5216 · ΔE 1.88
Magnolia Home · JG-35 · ΔE 4.41
Farrow & Ball · NO. 316 · ΔE 1.61
Diamond Vogel · 1005 · ΔE 0.8
Hirshfield's · 1005 · ΔE 1.23
Rodda · CA224 · ΔE 6.89
C2 Paint · C2-616 · ΔE 2.9
Clare · PNT100-DP-30 · ΔE 13.6
Portola Paints · MIEL · ΔE 2.96
Annie Sloan · COCO · ΔE 13.28
Backdrop · BD-OS · ΔE 19.81
Rust-Oleum · 398640 · ΔE 9.57
Kompozit · 1005 · ΔE 1.23
Dusk Plum
#5B404A · LRV 6 · Door Accent
Sherwin-Williams · SW 72 · ΔE 3.47
Behr · QE-63 · ΔE 0.67
Benjamin Moore · AF-645 · ΔE 4.57
Valspar · 8003-2G · ΔE 2.63
PPG / Glidden · PPG1048-7 · ΔE 2.94
Glidden · PPG1048-7 · ΔE 2.67
Dutch Boy · 401-7DB · ΔE 5.19
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 3011 · ΔE 4.68
Dunn-Edwards · DET409 · ΔE 1.91
Magnolia Home · JG-155 · ΔE 5.15
Farrow & Ball · NO. 222 · ΔE 2.59
Diamond Vogel · 1215 · ΔE 4.82
Hirshfield's · H0067 · ΔE 3.03
Rodda · R119 · ΔE 2.22
C2 Paint · C2-504 · ΔE 1.15
Clare · PNT100-DP-77 · ΔE 4.06
Portola Paints · POE · ΔE 5.05
Annie Sloan · BURGUNDY · ΔE 11.62
Backdrop · BD-IT · ΔE 13.08
Rust-Oleum · 285144 · ΔE 17.66
Kompozit · 1222 · ΔE 2.31

Questions

How much blush is too much in a small entryway?

Let blush carry one wall — the one you see straight on as you walk in — and keep the rest in warm greige. On every wall it can feel sugary, but on a single plane it reads soft and intentional.

What undertone of blush works in a north-facing entry?

Reach for a blush with a warm peach or clay undertone like this one, not a cool pink. North light is bluish and cool, and it will gray out a true pink, while a warmer blush holds its glow.

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