No. 229

Elephant's Breath

Elephant's Breath is rated 4.7 out of 5 by 15.
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75 Years of Perfecting Paint
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A warm mid grey

This warm and contemporary grey is renowned for its characterful paint name, originally created by John Fowler, the notable English interior designer. Elephant's Breath reads as an uplifting mid grey with its hint of magenta, but can become almost lilac in the cooler light of west facing rooms. Try offsetting with Charleston Gray and London Clay for an invitingly earthy scheme with more intense accents, or pair with other Contemporary Neutrals such as the softer Strong White for a sense of neutrality and calm.

Complementary white: Strong White

Key features

The finest ingredients

The finest ingredients

We’re dedicated to perfecting the art of paint. At our home in Dorset, we combine the finest ingredients, 75 years of experience and technical precision to help you create beautiful spaces that stay beautiful. Even in our colour rich paints, less than 8% of the tin is the colour. The other 92% is what creates the quality, depth and extraordinary response to light that transforms your home. 
 
Paint is like coffee. The colour is the froth on the top, but it’s the quality of the rest of the cup that makes it taste good. 
– Richard Ball, Farrow & Ball Co-founder 



We use twelve exclusive pigments, all specifically selected for their colour intensity. We take colour seriously, so naturally, we only accept the very best. By using these same pigments to make every colour in our palette, all our shades combine effortlessly, making it easy for you to put together a cohesive colour scheme. 

Deeper, richer colours

Deeper, richer colours

Packed with pigment for an extraordinary response to every kind of light.

We add generous helpings of rich pigment to create our signature look – deep colours with complex undertones. The same space that feels bright and airy in morning sun, can feel cosy and intimate by evening. Our teams design each shade under every kind of light, so it will be perfectly balanced in every setting.

Extraordinary response to light

Extraordinary response to light

We spend months carefully crafting and testing each of our paint colours to make sure they share our signature extraordinary response to light. This beautiful reaction to changing light, like bringing out different undertones or shifting intensity, is what makes our paint so special.

Interior and exterior finishes

Interior and exterior finishes

From walls, floors and furniture to radiators, skirtings and sheds, our range of paint finishes can help you transform almost any surface in your home (and outside it, too).

We even have multi-surface finishes like Dead Flat® and Full Gloss, so you can tackle walls, woodwork and metal at the same time. 

Our comprehensive range is comprised of paint finishes that not only look beautiful, but offer different practical benefits. Designed for a variety of different surfaces, each finish is compatible with our high-performance Primers & Undercoats to ensure exceptional coverage, adhesion and depth of colour. 


Elephant's Breath Colour Story

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Our carefully curated palette of 132 shades, with an intriguing story behind each colour name, will help you to choose colours you love for your home.

Complementary White

Complementary white: Strong WhiteComplementary white: Strong White

Strong White

Every colour in the Farrow & Ball palette is paired with a specific shade of white,
These are selected to celebrate a shared undertone and create harmonious spaces alongside your chosen colour.


Find your perfect finish:

Available in new
Dead Flat

 

Walls, woodwork
& metal

Kitchen walls & ceilings

Bathroom walls
& ceilings

Ceilings

Interior
woodwork

Interior
flooring

Front doors
& woodwork

Exterior
metals

Exterior walls

Traditional plasterwork

Intricate mouldings



Colour Schemes

#C7BEB3
#DBD5CA
#B7AFA9
#DBD5CA
accent Colour Skimming Stone
No.241
#B7AFA9
trim Colour Dove Tale
No.267
#C7BEB3
#736660
#9A9087
#736660
accent Colour London Clay
No.244
#9A9087
trim Colour Charleston Gray
No.243
#C7BEB3
#F6F6F2
#E4E2DC
#F6F6F2
accent Colour All White
No.2005
#E4E2DC
trim Colour Strong White
No.2001


Need Some Advice?

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Rated 5 out of 5 by from I've always wanted to use Elephants Breath Elephants Breath is perfect! My new dream kitchen in cashere was fitted, splashbacks and worktops in place and all it needed was the painting... Elephants Breath is, in my opinion, the perfect neutral! My kitchen was almost entirely in a Greige using the Cashmere on both splashbacks and cabinets. The worktops are a light white-grey, floor mid grey, yet I didn't second guess using yet another neutral for the walls and I'm not kidding when I say it literally brought everything together. This colour is beautiful... rich, warm and classy. I can't imagine ever getting tired of adoring it. Everyone loves the whole colour scheme. For years I've looked at this colour and wondered where it would work best. Now I want to use it somewhere else. I've used with white doors and a warm stone trim, but I can imagine this would look amazing next to everything from navy to burgundy, let alone a neutral scheme. I will definitely use it again. Totally recommend it.
Date published: 2024-03-13
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Beautiful colour and finish This is a beautiful, warm colour. It did need 3 coats (probably best with one undercoat and 2 coats of the paint, as advised by Farrow & Ball) to achieve the final finish, but the end result is stunning.
Date published: 2023-12-17
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