Garden Seat vs Duck Green
Where Garden Seat belongs to Cloverdale Paint's range, Duck Green is a Farrow & Ball color. Hue-wise, Garden Seat belongs to the beige-yellow family and Duck Green to the green-grey family. Garden Seat (LRV 79) reflects noticeably more light than Duck Green (LRV 8), a difference of 71 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. With a ΔE of 56.3, 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.
Garden Seat vs Duck Green in Real Spaces
5 real rooms side by side. Seeing Garden Seat and Duck Green 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 Garden Seat will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Duck Green 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. Garden Seat reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Duck Green.
Kitchen
In a kitchen, colors are seen under bright task lighting that amplifies undertones — what reads neutral elsewhere can show its hand here. Garden Seat reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Duck Green.
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. Garden Seat 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. Garden Seat reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Duck Green.
Color Details
Garden Seat vs Duck Green Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Garden Seat on one side and Duck Green 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 Garden Seat comparisons
See how Garden Seat stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
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At LRV 79 vs 6, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
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Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 52, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 60), opening up a space where Agreeable Gray encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 58, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 79 vs 27, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 55, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 79 vs 13, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 79 vs 44, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
Pure White reads slightly lighter (LRV 84 vs 79), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 21), opening up a space where Artichoke encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 66, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
A 5-point LRV gap (79 vs 74) makes Garden Seat the marginally brighter of the two.
A 4-point LRV gap (83 vs 79) makes Snowbound the marginally brighter of the two.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 51), opening up a space where Pigeon encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 12, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
A 11-point LRV gap (79 vs 68) makes Garden Seat the marginally brighter of the two.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 41), opening up a space where Dix Blue encloses it.
At LRV 79 vs 12, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 79 vs 45, Garden Seat is decisively the brighter choice.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.
Garden Seat reflects far more light (LRV 79 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.