Benjamin Moore Tea Room AF-270
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| Official page: | Tea Room AF-270 |
| Code: | AF-270 |
| Name: | Tea Room |
| Brand: | Benjamin Moore |
What color is Benjamin Moore Tea Room?
Benjamin Moore Tea Room AF-270 is a muted clay-rose with a grounded, lightly brown cast. Its medium depth and softened saturation keep the pink-red tone from reading sugary, giving it a weathered, earthen appearance instead. In warm daylight, Tea Room can show more of its rosy warmth, while lower or cooler light may bring out its dusky gray-brown side. It has enough presence for a dining room, powder room, or bedroom walls, and it also makes a considered choice for painted cabinetry or a single accent wall. Pair it with creamy off-whites, deep charcoal, aged brass, walnut, and natural linen for a layered finish.
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What are Benjamin Moore Tea Room undertones?
Tea Room is a midtone, soft earthy red. The HEX sample leans red; 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:
160, 110, 104
Is Benjamin Moore Tea Room cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 6°, this dark red reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
AF-270 Tea Room HSL code: 6, 23%, 52%
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 Tea Room
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 dark red shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Benjamin Moore Tea Room:
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
AF-270
Tea Room
Darker shades
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 Tea Room with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 186, such as Benjamin Moore Aegean Teal and Blue Lace.
LRV of Tea Room
Tea Room has an LRV of 20.24% 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 20.24%, 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 | #A06E68 |
| RGB Decimal | 160, 110, 104 |
| RGB Percent | 62.75%, 43.14%, 40.78% |
| HSV | Hue: 6° Saturation: 35.0% Value: 62.75% |
| HSL | hsl(6, 23, 52) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 31.25 Yellow: 35.0 Key: 37.25 |
| YIQ | Y: 124.266 I: 31.723 Q: 8.71 |
| XYZ | X: 22.572 Y: 19.626 Z: 15.692 |
| CIE Lab | L:51.412 a:19.065 b:11.369 |
| CIE Luv | L:51.412 u:33.536 v:11.276 |
| Decimal | 10514024 |
| Hunter Lab | 44.302, 13.42, 10.01 |
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