Evening Star vs Babouche
Where Evening Star belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Babouche is a Farrow & Ball color. Both sit in the beige family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. Evening Star (LRV 70) reflects noticeably more light than Babouche (LRV 57), a difference of 13 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. With a ΔE of 10.5, the contrast is hard to miss. These aren't variations on a theme — they're two different answers to the same question. Below you'll find 5 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Evening Star vs Babouche in Real Spaces
5 real rooms side by side. Seeing Evening Star and Babouche in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. The LRV gap is large enough that Evening Star will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Babouche would.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. Evening Star reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Babouche.
Kitchen
In a kitchen, colors are seen under bright task lighting that amplifies undertones — what reads neutral elsewhere can show its hand here. Evening Star reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Babouche.
Dining Room
A dining room lit by a dimmed pendant or candles is one of the most forgiving environments for paint — warm light softens almost everything. Evening Star returns significantly more light to the room — in a smaller or darker space, that difference in perceived brightness is hard to miss.
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. Evening Star reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Babouche.
Color Details
Evening Star vs Babouche Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Evening Star on one side and Babouche 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.
More Evening Star comparisons
See how Evening Star stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
With LRVs of 70 and 69, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 83 vs 70, White Dove is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 70 vs 6, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 52), opening up a space where Purbeck Stone encloses it.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 70 vs 52, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
Evening Star reads slightly lighter (LRV 70 vs 60), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 70 vs 58, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 70 vs 27, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 70 vs 55, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 70 vs 13, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 70 vs 44, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
Pure White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 70), opening up a space where Evening Star encloses it.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
A 4-point LRV gap (70 vs 66) makes Evening Star the marginally brighter of the two.
A 4-point LRV gap (74 vs 70) makes Shoji White the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 83 vs 70, Snowbound is decisively the brighter choice.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 51), opening up a space where Pigeon encloses it.
At LRV 70 vs 12, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 70 vs 8, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 70 vs 68), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 41), opening up a space where Dix Blue encloses it.
At LRV 70 vs 12, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 70 vs 45, Evening Star is decisively the brighter choice.
Evening Star reflects far more light (LRV 70 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.