Butter Tart vs Dayroom Yellow
Where Butter Tart belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Dayroom Yellow is a Farrow & Ball color. Both sit in the beige-yellow family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. Butter Tart (LRV 81) reflects noticeably more light than Dayroom Yellow (LRV 75), a difference of 6 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. The ΔE 6.1 gap is real but not dramatic — close enough to use together, distinct enough to matter as a choice. Below you'll find 1 real-room photo comparison where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Butter Tart vs Dayroom Yellow in Real Spaces
1 real room side by side. Butter Tart and Dayroom Yellow are close enough that the difference can be hard to judge from a chip alone — these photos show how each reads at scale, across different spaces and lighting conditions.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. Butter Tart reads slightly lighter here — a subtle but real difference in how open the space feels.
Color Details
Butter Tart vs Dayroom Yellow Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Butter Tart on one side and Dayroom Yellow on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
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