Mauve Desert
Mauve Desert begins as a purple color on paper, then shifts with every surface, shadow and neighboring material. Its grey classifications hint at the directions it may take as daylight, lamps and neighboring colors move around it. Move between the room imagery, color measurements and coordinating shades to build a fuller sense of how it might live in your space.
Hex
#B1A2A4LRV
37.77
Mauve Desert in Rooms
Follow Mauve Desert from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 4 sourced room photos offer a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
1 Bathroom Photo
In a compact setting where tile, fixtures and color sit close together, the most interesting quality of Mauve Desert (2113-50) may be the way it responds to tile, stone, glass, timber and metal fixtures. Its red undertone may become clearest at the boundary between paint and a contrasting finish.
Bathroom walls painted in Mauve Desert foster a tranquil bathing environment.
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3 Misc Photos
Mauve Desert (2113-50) brings its purple character into an assortment of spaces that reveals the color outside a single design formula. Its warm classification can feel inviting beside tactile, natural materials.
Wall surface in Mauve Desert offers muted, sophisticated color.
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Walls finished in Mauve Desert deliver calming, natural-inspired hues.
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Wall paint in Mauve Desert provides a gentle, restful backdrop.
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Coordinating Colors
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 38), opening up a space where Mauve Desert encloses it.
Mauve Desert reflects far more light (LRV 38 vs 11), opening up a space where Temptation encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 38, Venetian Marble is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 38, Alabaster is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 40 vs 38), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Mauve Desert reads slightly lighter (LRV 38 vs 32), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Dusk to Dawn reads slightly lighter (LRV 42 vs 38), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 40 and 38, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
With LRVs of 38 and 38, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Mauve Desert reflects far more light (LRV 38 vs 16), opening up a space where Jack Pine encloses it.
A 4-point LRV gap (38 vs 34) makes Mauve Desert the marginally brighter of the two.
Mauve Desert reflects far more light (LRV 38 vs 25), opening up a space where Aegean Teal encloses it.
At LRV 66 vs 38, Blue Lace is decisively the brighter choice.
A 3-point LRV gap (38 vs 35) makes Mauve Desert the marginally brighter of the two.
Mauve Desert reflects far more light (LRV 38 vs 5), opening up a space where Black Forest Green encloses it.
Lighter Colors
A 10-point LRV gap (48 vs 38) makes Victorian Mauve the marginally brighter of the two.
Darker Colors
Mauve Desert reflects far more light (LRV 38 vs 20), opening up a space where Cinnamon Slate encloses it.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
A heavy dose of gray gives this purple a moody, mysterious allure.