PPG • PPG1025-6

Sleeping Giant

Name: PPG Sleeping Giant PPG1025-6
Brand: PPG

Often used for its genuinely dark qualities, Sleeping Giant remains a staple for PPG designers. It is widely considered one of the best colors in its class to anchor a room without demanding the spotlight. We've gathered 10 real-home scenarios to help you visualize this color alongside our expert data.

Hex

#786d5e

LRV

16.00

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Light Reflectance Value

16.00

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Sleeping Giant's Color Strip

Sleeping Giant is the sixth shade on this 7-color strip, sitting between Dark Ash and Coffee Bean. The strip spans from Commercial White at the lightest end to Coffee Bean at the deepest. Strip PPG1025 puts these related shades in sequence, making it simple to find the tone that suits your room.

1Commercial White 2Silent Smoke 3Whiskers 4Sharkskin 5Dark Ash 6Sleeping Giant

7Coffee Bean

Sleeping Giant in Real Rooms

Sleeping Giant has a low LRV of 16 — it absorbs light and reads as a genuinely dark, enveloping color.

1 Front Door Photo

Choosing Sleeping Giant for your entry is an exercise in restraint and elegance. It suggests a home that is well-cared for and curated, setting a high bar for the interior design before the door is even opened.

bold front door featuring Sleeping Giant by PPG

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1 Bathroom Photo

In a powder room, Sleeping Giant can be used floor-to-ceiling to create a dramatic, high-impact experience for guests. Because these rooms are small and transitional, they can handle the full intensity of the color's personality without feeling overwhelming.

Sleeping Giant — vintage bathroom

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1 Home Office Photo

Sleeping Giant works exceptionally well with "warm" tech—leather desk pads, brass lamps, and wooden monitor stands. It bridges the gap between modern technology and traditional home comfort, making the office feel like part of the house.

PPG Sleeping Giant in a moody home office

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1 Bedroom Photo

Lighting is key in a bedroom, and Sleeping Giant reacts beautifully to dimmers. As you lower the lights for sleep, the color takes on a velvet-like quality, losing its daytime crispness in favor of a smoky, mysterious depth that is incredibly conducive to relaxation.

A industrial bedroom painted in Sleeping Giant

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1 Dining Room Photo

Using Sleeping Giant in the dining room allows you to go bold with your lighting fixtures. An oversized chandelier or a modern sculptural pendant will look even more dramatic against the rich, steady background of this particular shade.

Sleeping Giant paint in a moody dining room

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1 Living Room Photo

There is a specific "glow" that Sleeping Giant takes on during the golden hour in a living room. As the sun sets, the pigments react with the low-angled light to create a hazy, ethereal atmosphere that feels incredibly high-end. It's a color that rewards those who use the room during the transition of the day.

A contemporary living room painted in Sleeping Giant

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1 House Photo

Using Sleeping Giant on an exterior allows you to be more creative with your landscaping. The color provides a dark, rich backdrop that makes the greens of boxwoods or the colors of perennials look much more vivid and professional.

Sleeping Giant color — mediterranean house inspiration

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1 Patio Photo

Outside, Sleeping Giant takes on a completely different life. Whether on deck boards, patio furniture, a fence, or a garden wall, it weathers beautifully and holds its character in open light. It is a natural companion to stone, weathered wood, and greenery.

warm patio featuring Sleeping Giant by PPG

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1 Mudroom Photo

Sleeping Giant handles the visual noise of a high-traffic entry point with ease. Coats, shoes, bags — the color grounds all of it without making the chaos worse. It's also incredibly forgiving of the scuffs and marks that come with daily use.

Sleeping Giant paint in a classy mudroom

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1 Kitchen Photo

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. Sleeping Giant manages to bridge all three lighting scenarios with ease, which is a rarer quality in a paint pigment than it sounds.