Behr Home Sweet Home MQ2-19
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| Code: | MQ2-19 |
| Name: | Home Sweet Home |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Home Sweet Home?
Behr Home Sweet Home MQ2-19 is a muted medium brown with warm taupe and soft clay-like undertones. Its earthy depth gives walls more presence than a pale neutral, while the restrained saturation keeps it from reading overly dark or heavy. In bright daylight, this shade can appear like a softened sandy brown; under warm lamps, its brown undertones become more pronounced. It suits living rooms, dining spaces, and bedrooms paired with creamy off-whites, oatmeal textiles, warm wood, black metal, or aged brass. Home Sweet Home can also give cabinetry or a front door a grounded, natural-looking finish.
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What are Behr Home Sweet Home undertones?
Home Sweet Home is a midtone, muted caramel orange. The HEX sample leans orange; this describes its measurable digital hue direction, not a hidden paint pigment. Warm bulbs can make it look creamier or more golden, while cool daylight may mute that warmth and pull it closer to beige or greige.
HEX value:
RGB code:
155, 126, 101
Is Behr Home Sweet Home cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 28°, this brown reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
MQ2-19 Home Sweet Home HSL code: 28, 21%, 50%
Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is expressed as a percentage. At 0%, it appears as a shade of grey, and at 100%, it is in full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.
How light temperature affects Home Sweet Home
Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.
In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:
| Direction of sunlight | Visible temp. | Hue | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | Cool | Bluish | All day |
| East | Warm | Yellow | Before noon |
| West | Warm | Orange-red | After noon |
| South | Warm | Orange-yellow | All day |
Artificial Lighting. When choosing bulbs, pay attention to their color temperature in Kelvins.
Use the slider to see how this brown shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Home Sweet Home:
Monochromatic color scheme
This scheme consists of various shades, tints, and tones of a single color. While it offers a perfect combination of hues, without accent décor it may become monotonous.
Lighter shades
MQ2-19
Home Sweet Home
Darker shades
MQ2-19
Home Sweet Home
Complementary color scheme
This color scheme is a combination of two shades that are opposite each other on the color wheel. The high contrast between these colors creates a vibrant and dynamic visual effect. For the color Home Sweet Home with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 208, such as Behr Nor'Wester and Absolute Zero.
LRV of Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home has an LRV of 23.19% and refers to Medium colors that reflect a lot of light. Why LRV is important?
Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.
Simply put, the higher the LRV of a paint color, the brighter the room you will get.
The scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting all light).
Act like a pro: When choosing paint with an LRV of 23.19%, pay attention to your bulbs' brightness. Light brightness is measured in lumens. The lower the paint's LRV, the higher lumen level you need. Every square foot of room needs at least 40 lumens. That means for a 200 ft2 living room you'll need about 8000 lumens of light – e.g., eight 1000 lm bulbs.
Color codes
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Not sure what the difference between HEX and RGB is? We break down color models in plain language. Understanding color models
| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| HEX | #9b7e65 |
| RGB Decimal | 155, 126, 101 |
| RGB Percent | 60.78%, 49.41%, 39.61% |
| HSV | Hue: 28° Saturation: 34.84% Value: 60.78% |
| HSL | hsl(28, 21, 50) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 18.71 Yellow: 34.84 Key: 39.22 |
| YIQ | Y: 131.821 I: 25.315 Q: -1.645 |
| XYZ | X: 23.328 Y: 22.831 Z: 15.486 |
| CIE Lab | L:54.898 a:7.457 b:17.839 |
| CIE Luv | L:54.898 u:20.343 v:21.477 |
| Decimal | 10190437 |
| Hunter Lab | 47.782, 3.528, 14.231 |
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