If you love Farrow & Ball’s Drawing Room Blue but want it from a more widely stocked range, you have options — it’s a deep purple. PaintDial’s closest match from another UK brand is Indigo Night by Dulux (very close), with every other close match ranked below.
Indigo Night by Dulux is the closest match from any other brand (very close) — and it holds Drawing Room Blue’s lightness, warmth and saturation alike. The closest value-tier option is Deep Ocean Floor by Valspar (very close), slightly cooler and slightly more saturated. A cooler match reads cooler still in a north-facing room, where the light is indirect. Only one of the 8 other brands manages a near-identical match, which makes Drawing Room Blue fairly distinctive. LRV is estimated from each brand’s swatch, so order testers before committing.
Below is every genuinely close match to Drawing Room Blue from the other eight brands — ranked purely by closeness, so where one brand has several near-misses, they all appear. For the single best match per brand, see the Drawing Room Blue colour page.
The nearest Dulux colour is Indigo Night (very close). It won’t be pixel-perfect, so order a tester before committing.
Of the close matches, Deep Ocean Floor by Valspar is the best-value option (value, very close).
The list shows every genuinely close match from other brands, ranked nearest-first by perceptual colour difference — including several from one brand where they’re all close. Screens differ from paint on a wall, so treat these as a shortlist and always order tester pots.
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See the full Drawing Room Blue colour page →