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Greige & White Oak Dining Room Color Scheme

A warm greige and white oak dining room palette that feels modern and inviting, with crisp white trim to keep it fresh. Every shade is matched to real paint you can buy.

By David Chen · Formulation Lead & Resident Chemist

Start with Soft Greige on the walls. It is that easy, in-between shade that is not quite gray and not quite beige, and in a dining room it does something lovely: it warms up the whole space without ever feeling heavy. Soft Greige glows a little at night, flatters a set table, and gives you a calm, grown-up room that works just as well for a quiet weeknight dinner as it does for a long holiday meal.

Keep the trim and any built-ins in Crisp White so the windows, baseboards, and doors stay clean and fresh against the greige. Then let White Oak carry the warmth through your wood furniture, a sideboard, or open shelving, where its soft honey tone ties everything together. The simple plan: greige on the walls, white on the trim, and white oak in the furniture and accents.

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Soft Greige
walls
Behr Even Better Beige · DC-010
#D4CABA
LRV 60
Crisp White
trim
Dutch Boy Birched White · 004W
#F5F2EA
LRV 89
White Oak
accent
Diamond Vogel Season Finale · 0267
#C1A780
LRV 40

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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 Greige
#D4CABA · LRV 60 · walls
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9601 · ΔE 1.37
Behr · DC-010 · ΔE 0
Benjamin Moore · ES-78 · ΔE 0.43
Valspar · 5008-1B · ΔE 2.34
PPG / Glidden · PPG1019-2 · ΔE 1.83
Glidden · 45YY 58/094 · ΔE 1.71
Dutch Boy · 441-2DB · ΔE 0.53
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 3237 · ΔE 3.14
Dunn-Edwards · DEBN29 · ΔE 1.03
Magnolia Home · JG-156 · ΔE 0.89
Farrow & Ball · NO. 311 · ΔE 3.82
Diamond Vogel · 0231 · ΔE 1.42
Hirshfield's · 0231 · ΔE 1.03
Rodda · CA139 · ΔE 1.71
C2 Paint · C2-818 · ΔE 2.42
Clare · PNT100-LT-17 · ΔE 2.13
Portola Paints · HIGH CLIFF · ΔE 4.87
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 6.16
Backdrop · BD-RR · ΔE 2
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 10.3
Kompozit · 0231 · ΔE 1.03
Crisp White
#F6F3EC · LRV 90 · trim
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9541 · ΔE 0.98
Behr · HDC-MD-08 · ΔE 0.58
Benjamin Moore · 879 · ΔE 0.99
Valspar · 8007-4A · ΔE 0.95
PPG / Glidden · PPG1001-1 · ΔE 2.19
Glidden · 61YY 89/040 · ΔE 1.01
Dutch Boy · 004W · ΔE 0.52
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 4002 · ΔE 0.96
Dunn-Edwards · DEW381 · ΔE 0.97
Magnolia Home · JG-21 · ΔE 2.01
Farrow & Ball · NO. 239 · ΔE 2.04
Diamond Vogel · 0355 · ΔE 0.78
Hirshfield's · 0411 · ΔE 1.71
Rodda · R007 · ΔE 1.94
C2 Paint · C2-612 · ΔE 1
Clare · PNT100-LT-04 · ΔE 1.25
Portola Paints · ORIGAMI · ΔE 1.4
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 13.67
Backdrop · BD-TR · ΔE 2.04
Rust-Oleum · 285140 · ΔE 4.62
Kompozit · 0411 · ΔE 1.71
White Oak
#C3A983 · LRV 42 · accent
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6122 · ΔE 0.69
Behr · ICC-61 · ΔE 1.47
Benjamin Moore · 1061 · ΔE 1.06
Valspar · T578 · ΔE 1.17
PPG / Glidden · PPG1093-5 · ΔE 1.71
Glidden · 30YY 39/225 · ΔE 2.11
Dutch Boy · 316-3DB · ΔE 0.69
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2185 · ΔE 0.69
Dunn-Edwards · DE6200 · ΔE 1.49
Magnolia Home · JG-166 · ΔE 6.52
Farrow & Ball · NO. 240 · ΔE 1.9
Diamond Vogel · 0267 · ΔE 0.67
Hirshfield's · H0122 · ΔE 2.6
Rodda · CA108 · ΔE 3.05
C2 Paint · BD29 · ΔE 3.94
Clare · PNT100-DP-59 · ΔE 5.22
Portola Paints · CODA · ΔE 5.96
Annie Sloan · VERSAILLES · ΔE 5.61
Backdrop · BD-RO · ΔE 15.88
Rust-Oleum · 371674 · ΔE 12.16
Kompozit · 0281 · ΔE 2.69

Questions

Is greige too plain for a dining room?

Not at all. Soft Greige reads warm and calm under candlelight or daylight, and it lets your table, art, and dishes do the talking. It is a backdrop, which is exactly what a dining room wants.

Will white oak tones clash with my existing wood floor?

They usually play nicely together. White Oak is a light, honey-leaning wood tone, so it sits comfortably next to most floors. If your floor is much darker or very orange, bring the oak in through chairs or a sideboard so the two woods feel intentional.

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