The palette Hay circulated on 4 August 2026, checked against 296 colour readings taken off real objects across the property. Each of her colours sits beside its nearest measured neighbour — the object it came off, the room that object is in, and the distance between the two, computed.
The larger of the two Live Room rugs reads this colour. At 0.62 apart, the two are closer than this system's threshold for calling two readings of one object separate colours.
The second Live Room rug, a few feet from the first. Both of her browns land in the same room, off the same pair of rugs.
The triangle tapestry in the log cabin hallway, and the raw wood of the Live Room wall — the same colour on cloth and on timber, in two different buildings.
The Brazilian guitar in the Yellow Room carries the deepest reds measured here; the studio hallway tapestry is the same red on cloth.
The near-white on the Orange Rhodes is the palest reading taken anywhere on the property — eleven points of lightness clear of the next one — and the closest the building comes to her paper.
The oil painting in the Yellow Room, and the face of a guitar pedal in the same room — the two strongest measured yellows.
The only one of the seven with no close measured neighbour. The log cabin ottoman is the nearest green the property owns, and it is 8 apart — a different, darker, greyer green.
Her palette states a COLOR JOB for each colour. This system assigns each colour a role. Neither list was written with sight of the other.
| Colour | Her color job | Role here | Nearest measured object |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnt Umber | logo, umbrellas | anchor | Live Room Rug 1 ΔE00 0.62 |
| Burnt Amber | fire pit, rust | dominant | Log Cabin Hallway Triangle Tapestry ΔE00 2.31 |
| Mustard | dishes, textiles | accent | Yellow Room Oil Painting ΔE00 4.50 |
| Barn Red | set, outdoor paint | secondary | Instr - Brazilian Guitar ΔE00 3.90 |
| Sage | cool counter | cool counterweight | Log Cabin Ottoman ΔE00 8.00 |
| Brown Grey | leather, stone | anchor | Live Room Rug 2 ΔE00 1.64 |
| Bone | paper, bunks | light ground | Instr - Orange Rhodes ΔE00 4.11 |
The seven colours already proposed at /recommended were derived before this palette arrived. Nothing in the two sets collides: the closest any proposed colour comes to any of hers is ΔE00 6.28 (Gallery Cream and Bone), and the gate those seven had to clear was ≥ 6 from every measured reading.
| Proposed colour | Role | What it adds | Nearest of hers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallery Cream #DFD2C8 | light ground | walls, linen & bedding | Bone ΔE00 6.28 |
| Tobacco Umber #2E2313 | house dark | type & wordmark, metalwork | Burnt Umber ΔE00 16.98 |
| Console Slate #5186A7 | cool counterweight | one object per room, wardrobe piece | Brown Grey ΔE00 26.41 |
| Dusty Plum #8F5A77 | wildcard | wardrobe, art & florals | Brown Grey ΔE00 23.41 |
| Warm Stone #BD9F8A | mid ground | sofas & headboards, rugs & curtains | Mustard ΔE00 19.33 |
| Slate Quiet #6E8494 | cool counterweight · quiet twin | woven blanket, canvas | Brown Grey ΔE00 20.64 |
| Clay Ember #B87C73 | warm lift | bedding accents, lampshades | Burnt Amber ΔE00 16.43 |
Her palette runs from L* 31 (Burnt Umber) to L* 91 (Bone), and its one cool note is a green. The proposed set reaches below it — Tobacco Umber at L* 15 — and is the only place a blue appears in any form.
How to read the numbers. ΔE00 is the standard measure of how far apart two colours are. Below about 1.5, two readings off one object are treated here as the same colour. Below about 2.5, two swatches printed side by side stop reading as two colours. Above 5, they are separate colours that belong to the same idea.
Everything marked measured was read off a physical object with a hand-held colorimeter under a 5000 K reference light. The same wool reads warmer under evening tungsten and cooler under north daylight — these values are a reliable anchor, not a promise about a given room at a given hour. Her seven are reproduced as sent, on 4 August 2026.