Spanish Olive
Spanish Olive is a Gray paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. Its beige, greige and yellow classifications hint at the directions it may take as daylight, lamps and neighboring colors move around it. The manufacturer's description below offers one reading; the room imagery leaves space for your own.
Hex
#C5C3AELRV
52.54
Spanish Olive in Rooms
Follow Spanish Olive from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 10 sourced room photos offer a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
2 Kitchen Cabinets Photos
In cabinetry, where color becomes part of the room’s architecture, the most interesting quality of Spanish Olive (1509) may be the way it responds to countertops, hardware, splashbacks and flooring. Its yellow undertone may become clearest at the boundary between paint and a contrasting finish.
Kitchen cabinets in Spanish Olive provide timeless, sophisticated storage solutions.
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Cabinet surfaces finished in Spanish Olive deliver classic, elevated kitchen style.
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7 Misc Photos
7 misc images place Spanish Olive (1509) in an assortment of spaces that reveals the color outside a single design formula. An LRV of 52.5 lets the color hold its identity across both brighter and more shaded parts of the room.
Storage solutions painted Spanish Olive combine functionality with muted elegance.
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1 Bedroom Photo
These 1 bedroom image show how Spanish Olive (1509) can sit beside bed linen, timber, wool and upholstered textures. Its yellow undertone may become clearest at the boundary between paint and a contrasting finish.
Deep Spanish Olive walls wrap this bedroom in sophisticated, grounding warmth.
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Coordinating Colors
At LRV 89 vs 53, Mountain Peak White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 80 vs 53, Floral White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 53, Cloud White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 53 vs 16, Spanish Olive is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 55 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 4-point LRV gap (57 vs 53) makes Wind Chime the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 54 vs 53), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 53 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 53 vs 9, Spanish Olive is decisively the brighter choice.
Spanish Olive reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 22), opening up a space where Luxe encloses it.
At LRV 53 vs 14, Spanish Olive is decisively the brighter choice.
Violet Sparkle reflects far more light (LRV 69 vs 53), opening up a space where Spanish Olive encloses it.
At LRV 53 vs 18, Spanish Olive is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 53 vs 7, Spanish Olive is decisively the brighter choice.
Spanish Olive reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 39), opening up a space where Yukon Sky encloses it.
Lighter Colors
Intense White reflects far more light (LRV 73 vs 53), opening up a space where Spanish Olive encloses it.
Dusty Miller reads slightly lighter (LRV 59 vs 53), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Winter Orchard reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 53), opening up a space where Spanish Olive encloses it.
With LRVs of 53 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Darker Colors
Spanish Olive reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 34), opening up a space where Thicket encloses it.
Spanish Olive reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 35), opening up a space where Cypress Green encloses it.
Spanish Olive reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 40), opening up a space where Elemental encloses it.
At LRV 53 vs 35, Spanish Olive is decisively the brighter choice.
Spanish Olive reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 39), opening up a space where Dried Basil encloses it.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
With its faded olive notes, this mid-tone offers just a touch more character than your basic gray.