Meditation
Often used for its versatile qualities, Meditation remains a staple for Benjamin Moore designers. It is widely considered one of the best colors in its class to add character and warmth to any space. We've gathered 3 real-home scenarios to help you visualize this color alongside our expert data.
Hex
#ABA38C
LRV
36.48
Meditation in Real Rooms
Meditation has a medium-high LRV of 36.48 — present enough to register on the wall without making a room feel heavy. It's neutral in temperature, making it adaptable across different lighting conditions and room orientations. Grouped in the Gray and Neutral family, the photos below show it applied in a kitchen.
3 Kitchen Photos
The challenge with kitchen color is longevity: it needs to look right at 7am under bright task lights and at dinner with the pendants dimmed low. Meditation manages to bridge all three lighting scenarios with ease, which is a rarer quality in a paint pigment than it sounds.
Kitchen cabinetry painted in Meditation brings sophisticated warmth to cooking spaces.
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Soft walls in Meditation create an airy, open kitchen atmosphere.
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Kitchen walls in AF-395 establish a serene, inviting cooking environment.
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Coordinating Colors
At LRV 87 vs 36, Powder Sand is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 36, Paper Mache is decisively the brighter choice.
Tranquility reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 36), opening up a space where Meditation encloses it.
At LRV 81 vs 36, Man on the Moon is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 38 vs 36), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 36 and 35, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 37 vs 36), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Complementary Colors
Meditation reflects far more light (LRV 36 vs 24), opening up a space where Bachelor Blue encloses it.
At LRV 36 vs 9, Meditation is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 36 vs 34), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 36 and 36, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 36 vs 14, Meditation is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 36 vs 12, Meditation is decisively the brighter choice.
Meditation reflects far more light (LRV 36 vs 8), opening up a space where Hale Navy encloses it.
Lighter Colors
With LRVs of 37 and 36, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 10-point LRV gap (46 vs 36) makes Cosmopolitan the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 39 vs 36), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Northern Cliffs reads slightly lighter (LRV 46 vs 36), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 50 vs 36, Shale is decisively the brighter choice.
Darker Colors
At LRV 36 vs 20, Meditation is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 36 vs 24, Meditation is decisively the brighter choice.
Meditation reads slightly lighter (LRV 36 vs 27), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 36 and 35, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 36 vs 21, Meditation is decisively the brighter choice.