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Colour guides · Blue
Between blue and green lies a family of colours that belongs to neither: teal, peacock, petrol, deep water green, dulled turquoise. They are the colours of water, feathers and old enamels — and they have a rare quality: they shift with the light, blue in the morning, green at night, without ever tiring.
Here are our ten blue-greens side by side, from palest to deepest, with their lean — bluer or greener — and the room that suits them.
Updated September 2026 · by the Mylands France colour team
The short answer
Our blue-greens run from pale — Notting Hill No.213, Hawksmoor No.112, Bridge Blue No.222 — through mid — Stockholm BH.11, Enamel Blue No.78, Eaton Square No.232, the reference teal — to deep — Maritime No.236, Midnight FTT-017, Market Green No.38, Deep Green FTT-012. The greyest (Hawksmoor No.112, Maritime No.236) suit north-facing rooms; the most saturated (Enamel Blue No.78, Midnight FTT-017, Deep Green FTT-012) need light.
At a glance
| Colour | Family | Tone | Light | LRV ≈ | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notting Hill™ No.213 | Blue | Pale tone | South | 54 % | Lean: green. For bright rooms; facing north it becomes a pale grey-green, very pretty too. |
| Hawksmoor™ No.112 | Blue | Pale tone | South | 55 % | Lean: grey. For north-facing sitting rooms and bedrooms, hallways. |
| Bridge Blue™ No.222 | Blue | Mid tone | South | 45 % | Lean: balanced. For bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens. |
| Stockholm BH.11 | Blue | Mid tone | South | 28 % | Lean: blue. For kitchens, dining rooms, painted furniture. |
| Enamel Blue™ No.78 | Blue | Mid tone | South | 34 % | Lean: blue, saturated. For south-facing bathrooms, doors, furniture. |
| Eaton Square™ No.232 | Blue | Mid tone | South | 24 % | Lean: balanced. For everything: sitting rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, front doors. |
| Maritime™ No.236 | Neutral | Dark tone | North | 15 % | Lean: grey. For studies, libraries and bedrooms, north- or south-facing. |
| Midnight FTT-017 | Blue | Dark tone | South | 17 % | Lean: blue, saturated. For dining rooms, libraries, cloakrooms, doors. |
| Market Green™ No.38 | Neutral | Dark tone | North | 7 % | Lean: green. For bathrooms, studies, hallways and colour drenching. |
| Deep Green FTT-012 | Green | Dark tone | South | 17 % | Lean: green, saturated. For bright dining rooms, bathrooms and kitchens. |
LRV: light reflectance estimated from the on-screen shade, from 0 (absolute black) to 100 (absolute white). Light: the orientation in which the shade looks its best.
10 colours
Pale · the pastel blue-green
A pale, powdery blue-green, the colour of the pastel façades of the district it is named after. It leans slightly to green, which makes it softer than a sky blue, and it enlarges a room as a white would while adding a watery freshness. Bedrooms, bathrooms, seaside kitchens.
Our tip — Lean: green. For bright rooms; facing north it becomes a pale grey-green, very pretty too.
Pale · the greyed blue-green
A pale grey tinted with blue-green, the colour of the Portland stone of Hawksmoor's churches on a rainy day. It is the most discreet of our blue-greens — almost a neutral — and therefore the easiest: it holds in a north-facing room without turning cold, and it makes a calm ground for dark furniture and coloured fabrics.
Our tip — Lean: grey. For north-facing sitting rooms and bedrooms, hallways.
Pale · the Thames blue-green
A light-mid, greyed blue-green, the colour of the Thames on a sunny day — neither truly blue nor truly green. It has more presence than Notting Hill and more colour than Hawksmoor, and it stays luminous: a blue-green that can go on every wall of a bedroom or bathroom without darkening it.
Our tip — Lean: balanced. For bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens.
Mid · the Scandinavian blue-green
A greyed mid blue leaning to green, designed by Beata Heuman after the Gustavian interiors of Stockholm. It is bluer than most of our blue-greens, with the powdery softness of an old paint, and it is superb on woodwork and painted furniture as much as on walls. The blue-green of country kitchens and dining rooms.
Our tip — Lean: blue. For kitchens, dining rooms, painted furniture.
Mid · the enamelled turquoise
Our brightest blue-green: a saturated mid turquoise, the colour of an enamel or a swimming pool. It has no grey in it, and therefore asks for light and nerve — but in a south-facing bathroom, on a door or a wardrobe, it has a cheer nothing else matches. With white and brass it is the Mediterranean.
Our tip — Lean: blue, saturated. For south-facing bathrooms, doors, furniture.
Mid · the reference teal
Teal as one imagines it: a muted, greyed mid blue-green, exactly halfway between the two colours, tipping from one to the other with the hour. It is our most requested blue-green — deep enough to envelop a sitting room, soft enough for a bedroom, superb on kitchen cabinets and doors. It loves wood, brass and off-white.
Our tip — Lean: balanced. For everything: sitting rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, front doors.
Deep · the sea blue-grey
A deep blue-grey, the colour of the North Sea under an overcast sky. It leans to grey more than to green, which makes it the most sober of our deep blue-greens — and the one best suited to a north-facing room, where it becomes a very elegant bluish slate. Studies, libraries, adults' bedrooms.
Our tip — Lean: grey. For studies, libraries and bedrooms, north- or south-facing.
Deep · the petrol blue
A deep, saturated blue-green with no grey, the colour of a peacock feather or petrol. It is the most intense of our dark blue-greens — it doesn't recede, it radiates — and it was made for a room you want spectacular: a dining room, a library, a guest cloakroom. With brass and dark wood it is sumptuous.
Our tip — Lean: blue, saturated. For dining rooms, libraries, cloakrooms, doors.
Deep · the night green-blue
A very dark green leaning to blue — on the other side of the border from Maritime. It is the colour of an old shopfront or deep water at night, and the most enveloping of our blue-greens: on every wall of a bathroom, a study or a hallway it makes a jewel box of a room. It loves white, marble and aged brass.
Our tip — Lean: green. For bathrooms, studies, hallways and colour drenching.
Deep · the emerald green
A saturated, bright and joyful blue-green, the colour of an emerald or old swimming-pool tiles. It is the green counterpart to Midnight: no grey, luminous even when dark, made for rooms of celebration. A dining room, a bathroom with white marble, a kitchen with brass — anywhere shine is wanted rather than calm.
Our tip — Lean: green, saturated. For bright dining rooms, bathrooms and kitchens.
Two questions are enough. Greyed or saturated? The greyed blue-greens — Hawksmoor No.112, Eaton Square No.232, Maritime No.236, Market Green No.38 — are everyday colours: they hold in any light and never tire. The saturated ones — Enamel Blue No.78, Midnight FTT-017, Deep Green FTT-012 — are occasion colours: they ask for light or lighting, and they make the room. Bluer or greener? The blue side (Stockholm BH.11, Enamel Blue No.78, Midnight FTT-017) is fresher and crisper; the green side (Notting Hill No.213, Market Green No.38, Deep Green FTT-012) more natural and enveloping. In the middle, Eaton Square No.232 and Bridge Blue No.222 do both depending on the hour.
A north-facing room cools blue-greens: choose them greyed (Hawksmoor No.112, Maritime No.236) or frankly dark, which don't depend on sunshine. A south-facing room warms and saturates them: that is where Enamel Blue No.78 and Notting Hill No.213 are at their best. We say more in how light affects colour.
Blue-greens love warm off-whites — Lots Road No.24, Sleet No.91 — rather than pure white, which makes them look cold; natural wood; brass; and their complements, pinks and terracottas. For proper blues, see our deep blues compared and our blues for a bedroom; for greens, our greens for a bathroom; for all things blue, our ideas in blue.
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