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Lavender Living Room Palette — Soft Lavender & Deep Purple

A calm, airy 4-color scheme for a living room: soft lavender walls, clean white trim, a grounding greige, and a deep purple accent for depth. Every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By Jessica Williams · Color Stylist & Interior Editor

A lavender living room can feel like a deep breath — soft, airy, and quietly calming. This scheme starts with a soft lavender on the walls, a pale purple with just enough gray to stay grown-up and serene instead of sugary.

A clean white on the trim and ceiling keeps everything fresh and lets the lavender feel like light rather than color. Warm greige grounds the room through floors, a rug, or wood furniture, and its warmth balances the cool of the lavender so the space never feels chilly.

Then a deep purple accent adds quiet depth — pillows, a throw, an accent chair, or the back of a bookcase. In small doses it anchors the pale walls and pulls out their purple side. Lavender sets the calm, white keeps it bright, greige warms it, and deep purple gives it a little gravity.

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Soft Lavender
Walls
Diamond Vogel Lilac Luster · 1280
#D5CEDC
LRV 63
Clean White
Trim & Ceiling
Rodda Tinted or Not? · R007
#F5F4F1
LRV 91
Warm Greige
Wood & Floors
Glidden Desert Dune · PPG1023-4
#B5AB9C
LRV 41
Deep Purple
Accent
Behr Baritone · 680F-7
#3C304F
LRV 4

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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 Lavender
#D6CEDD · LRV 64 · Walls
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6821 · ΔE 2.18
Behr · N110-1 · ΔE 1.54
Benjamin Moore · 2072-60 · ΔE 1.98
Valspar · 1001-6B · ΔE 0.72
PPG / Glidden · PPG1175-3 · ΔE 2.24
Glidden · PPG1175-3 · ΔE 2.41
Dutch Boy · 345-2DB · ΔE 2.35
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 1416 · ΔE 2.18
Dunn-Edwards · DE5925 · ΔE 3.99
Magnolia Home · JG-98 · ΔE 5.44
Farrow & Ball · NO. 277 · ΔE 9.75
Diamond Vogel · 1280 · ΔE 0.61
Hirshfield's · 1280 · ΔE 0.9
Rodda · R103 · ΔE 5.61
C2 Paint · C2-786 · ΔE 7.89
Clare · PNT100-LT-31 · ΔE 7.91
Portola Paints · GYPSY · ΔE 7.7
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 20.46
Backdrop · BD-RR · ΔE 16.07
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 8.02
Kompozit · 1280 · ΔE 0.9
Clean White
#F8F6F2 · LRV 92 · Trim & Ceiling
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9500 · ΔE 1.69
Behr · W-B-600 · ΔE 1.22
Benjamin Moore · 2121-70 · ΔE 2.16
Valspar · V148 · ΔE 1.24
PPG / Glidden · PPG1001-1 · ΔE 1.9
Glidden · PPG1001-1 · ΔE 1.78
Dutch Boy · 001W · ΔE 1.69
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 4001 · ΔE 1.58
Dunn-Edwards · DEW358 · ΔE 1.41
Magnolia Home · JG-21 · ΔE 1.69
Farrow & Ball · NO. 2005 · ΔE 1.01
Diamond Vogel · 0011 · ΔE 2.88
Hirshfield's · 0011 · ΔE 2.38
Rodda · R007 · ΔE 0.74
C2 Paint · C2-756 · ΔE 1.22
Clare · PNT100-LT-04 · ΔE 2.14
Portola Paints · ONE DROP · ΔE 4.64
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 14.95
Backdrop · BD-TR · ΔE 3.41
Rust-Oleum · 285140 · ΔE 3.12
Kompozit · 0011 · ΔE 2.38
Warm Greige
#B6AB9B · LRV 41 · Wood & Floors
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7644 · ΔE 2.59
Behr · PPF-33 · ΔE 1.95
Benjamin Moore · 997 · ΔE 1.02
Valspar · 6006-1C · ΔE 1.43
PPG / Glidden · PPG1023-4 · ΔE 0.94
Glidden · PPG1023-4 · ΔE 0.52
Dutch Boy · 421-3DB · ΔE 2.59
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2475 · ΔE 2.13
Dunn-Edwards · DEC771 · ΔE 2.36
Magnolia Home · JG-157 · ΔE 1.97
Farrow & Ball · NO. 5 · ΔE 2.91
Diamond Vogel · H107 · ΔE 1.59
Hirshfield's · H0107 · ΔE 0.8
Rodda · CA080 · ΔE 1.42
C2 Paint · C2-812 · ΔE 1.79
Clare · PNT100-MD-48 · ΔE 8.4
Portola Paints · HAVANA · ΔE 7.11
Annie Sloan · PALOMA · ΔE 7.56
Backdrop · BD-LF · ΔE 9.67
Rust-Oleum · 371674 · ΔE 8.21
Kompozit · 0189 · ΔE 2.68
Deep Purple
#3F2F52 · LRV 4 · Accent
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6559 · ΔE 2.68
Behr · 680F-7 · ΔE 1.75
Benjamin Moore · 2068-10 · ΔE 4.19
Valspar · M224 · ΔE 6.43
PPG / Glidden · PPG1165-7 · ΔE 9.62
Glidden · PPG1165-7 · ΔE 9.82
Dutch Boy · 243-7DB · ΔE 4.06
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2411 · ΔE 4.06
Dunn-Edwards · DEA191 · ΔE 6.63
Magnolia Home · JG-102 · ΔE 9.36
Farrow & Ball · NO. W24 · ΔE 10.97
Diamond Vogel · H101 · ΔE 17.13
Hirshfield's · H0066 · ΔE 7.55
Rodda · CA210 · ΔE 13.79
C2 Paint · BD49 · ΔE 11.74
Clare · PNT100-DP-54 · ΔE 19.86
Portola Paints · DANCING SHOES · ΔE 7.62
Annie Sloan · NAPOLEONIC BLUE · ΔE 10.57
Backdrop · BD-LC · ΔE 11.61
Rust-Oleum · 285144 · ΔE 17.36
Kompozit · 1215 · ΔE 9.85

Questions

will soft lavender feel too cool?

This lavender has a touch of gray that keeps it gentle rather than icy, and the warm greige floors and furniture balance the cool wall. Together they read calm and airy, not cold.

where does the deep purple go in a living room?

Save it for the smallest surfaces — pillows, a throw, an accent chair, or the backs of bookshelves. Used sparingly it gives the soft lavender something to lean on without darkening the whole room.

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