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Mint Home Office Palette — Garden Mint & Warm Linen

A fresh, focused 5-color scheme for a home office: soft mint walls, warm linen backdrop, crisp trim, grounding walnut, and a deep forest accent, with every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By Jessica Williams · Color Stylist & Interior Editor

Garden Mint
Walls
Kompozit Cool Spring · 0735
#BBD9C3
LRV 64
Warm Linen
Backdrop & Built-ins
Kompozit Onion Skin · 0418
#EBE8DC
LRV 81
Soft Chalk
Trim & Ceiling
Kompozit Sugar Dust · 0011
#F8F6ED
LRV 92
Walnut Brown
Desk & Wood
Kompozit Alpha Male · 0193
#715A45
LRV 11
Deep Forest
Shelving Accent
Kompozit Clover Patch · 0431
#464A3B
LRV 7
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A home office should help you settle in and think, and Garden Mint does exactly that. It is a soft, slightly grayed green that holds the walls quietly in the background, fresh in morning light and restful by late afternoon. It is the kind of green you stop noticing in the best way, because it never pulls focus from the work in front of you.

Around it, Warm Linen softens any built-ins and keeps the room from feeling too green, while Soft Chalk on the trim and ceiling adds a clean breath of light. The real anchor is Walnut Brown on the desk and wood, a grounding, lived-in tone that gives the mint something warm to lean on.

For the smallest surface, a run of shelving or the back of a niche, reach for Deep Forest. Used sparingly it deepens the whole scheme and makes the mint look intentional rather than sweet. Keep that darkest color to one small spot, and let the mint and warm neutrals carry the room.

Buy These Colors

Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Kompozit first; take any SKU to the store — these mix on demand.

Garden Mint
#BFD5C0 · LRV 62 · Walls
Kompozit Cool Spring · 0735 ΔE 2.42
Backdrop Real Real · BD-RR ΔE 11.92
Behr Riverdale · N410-3 ΔE 1.34
Benjamin Moore Nob Hill Sage · 450 ΔE 1.82
Clare Two Scoops · PNT100-LT-46 ΔE 4.17
Dunn-Edwards Garden Statue · DE5646 ΔE 1.84
Farrow & Ball Teresa's Green · No. 236 ΔE 5.13
Magnolia Home Emmie's Room · JG-13 ΔE 7.82
PPG / Glidden Malted Mint · 1139-2 ΔE 2.62
Sherwin-Williams Reclining Green · SW 6744 ΔE 3
Valspar Sunlit Sea · M323 ΔE 1.5
Warm Linen
#ECE7DA · LRV 80 · Backdrop & Built-ins
Kompozit Onion Skin · 0418 ΔE 0.96
Backdrop Don't Eat the Yellow Snow · BD-DS ΔE 4.07
Behr Exclusive Ivory · HDC-MD-11 ΔE 1.99
Benjamin Moore White Down · 970 ΔE 0.88
Clare Like Buttah · PNT100-LT-62 ΔE 2.89
Dunn-Edwards Abstract White · DE6232 ΔE 0.68
Farrow & Ball James White · No. 2010 ΔE 1.87
Magnolia Home Antique Rose · JG-23 ΔE 0.56
PPG / Glidden Enduring Ice · 1102-1 ΔE 0.99
Sherwin-Williams Futon · SW 7101 ΔE 1.55
Valspar Canterbury Cream · V163 ΔE 0.52
Soft Chalk
#FAF8F4 · LRV 94 · Trim & Ceiling
Kompozit Sugar Dust · 0011 ΔE 2.43
Backdrop Tabula Rasa · BD-TR ΔE 3.54
Behr Ultra Pure White · PPU18-06 ΔE 1.01
Benjamin Moore Snowfall White · 2144-70 ΔE 3.11
Clare Whipped · PNT100-LT-02 ΔE 1.23
Dunn-Edwards Milk Glass · DEW358 ΔE 1.41
Farrow & Ball All White · No. 2005 ΔE 0.5
Magnolia Home True White · JG-21 ΔE 1.78
PPG / Glidden Delicate White · 1001-1 ΔE 2.02
Sherwin-Williams High Reflective White · SW 7757 ΔE 1.61
Valspar Ultra White · 7006-24 ΔE 1.23
Walnut Brown
#7A5A3F · LRV 12 · Desk & Wood
Kompozit Alpha Male · 0193 ΔE 3.59
Backdrop Buenos Aires · BD-BA ΔE 2.11
Behr Molasses · S220-7 ΔE 2.35
Benjamin Moore Marsh Brown · 2164-20 ΔE 2.19
Clare Coffee Date · PNT100-DP-53 ΔE 11.14
Dunn-Edwards Burns Cave · DE6098 ΔE 4.78
Farrow & Ball Salon Drab · No. 290 ΔE 8.01
Magnolia Home Cognac · JG-164 ΔE 2.34
PPG / Glidden Maple Syrup · 1084-7 ΔE 1.52
Sherwin-Williams Burnished Brandy · SW 7523 ΔE 1.1
Valspar Muddy Mississippi · 3004-9A ΔE 1.1
Deep Forest
#33483B · LRV 6 · Shelving Accent
Kompozit Clover Patch · 0431 ΔE 7.5
Backdrop North End · BD-NE ΔE 2.73
Behr Sycamore Tree · 480F-7 ΔE 4.62
Benjamin Moore Hunter Green · 2041-10 ΔE 3.18
Clare Blackish · PNT100-DP-54 ΔE 12.57
Dunn-Edwards Refined Green · DEA181 ΔE 6.84
Farrow & Ball Off-Black · No. 57 ΔE 12.8
Magnolia Home Arches · JG-97 ΔE 13.19
PPG / Glidden Dark As Night · 14-05 ΔE 8.53
Sherwin-Williams Dard Hunter Green · SW 41 ΔE 2.37
Valspar Peacock House · 5010-4 ΔE 3.52

Questions

will mint walls feel too cold for a home office?

Not when you warm them the way this palette does. Garden Mint sits against linen, walnut and a soft chalk trim, so the green reads calm and grassy instead of icy. The warm wood is what keeps the room from feeling clinical.

how do i keep a mint office from looking like a nursery?

Ground it. Pair the mint with the deep walnut desk and a few forest shelves, and use real wood and brass over plastic. That earthy weight turns the mint from sweet into a grown-up, focused workspace.

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