Sunbaked Terracotta vs Purbeck Stone
Where Sunbaked Terracotta belongs to Dulux's range, Purbeck Stone is a Farrow & Ball color. Sunbaked Terracotta reads as beige, while Purbeck Stone reads as greige-grey — two distinct hue families, not close cousins. They have nearly identical light reflectance values (53 vs 52), so they'll read as similarly Medium in most lighting conditions. Both lean warm, so they'll behave similarly in mixed or changing light conditions. With a ΔE of 19.6, 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 2 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Sunbaked Terracotta vs Purbeck Stone in Real Spaces
2 real rooms side by side. Seeing Sunbaked Terracotta and Purbeck Stone 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. Side by side like this, the difference is easy to read — which is exactly why seeing them in a real space is more useful than comparing chips.
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. The distinction reads clearly at room scale, making the choice between them concrete.
Color Details
Sunbaked Terracotta vs Purbeck Stone Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Sunbaked Terracotta on one side and Purbeck Stone 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 Sunbaked Terracotta comparisons
See how Sunbaked Terracotta stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
At LRV 69 vs 53, Ammonite is decisively the brighter choice.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 53), opening up a space where Sunbaked Terracotta encloses it.
Sunbaked Terracotta reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 6), opening up a space where Iron Ore encloses it.
At LRV 53 vs 30, Sunbaked Terracotta is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 53 and 52, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 7-point LRV gap (60 vs 53) makes Agreeable Gray the marginally brighter of the two.
Accessible Beige reads slightly lighter (LRV 58 vs 53), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Sunbaked Terracotta reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
A 10-point LRV gap (53 vs 43) makes Sunbaked Terracotta the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 53 vs 4, Sunbaked Terracotta is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 55 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Sunbaked Terracotta reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 13), opening up a space where Bancha encloses it.
Sunbaked Terracotta reads slightly lighter (LRV 53 vs 44), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 84 vs 53, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 53 vs 21, Sunbaked Terracotta is decisively the brighter choice.
Balboa Mist reflects far more light (LRV 66 vs 53), opening up a space where Sunbaked Terracotta encloses it.
Shoji White reflects far more light (LRV 74 vs 53), opening up a space where Sunbaked Terracotta encloses it.
Snowbound reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 53), opening up a space where Sunbaked Terracotta encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 53 vs 51), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Sunbaked Terracotta reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Sunbaked Terracotta reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Skimming Stone reflects far more light (LRV 68 vs 53), opening up a space where Sunbaked Terracotta encloses it.
At LRV 53 vs 41, Sunbaked Terracotta is decisively the brighter choice.
Sunbaked Terracotta vs Slaked Lime Deep
Sunbaked Terracotta reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Sunbaked Terracotta reads slightly lighter (LRV 53 vs 45), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 53 vs 31, Sunbaked Terracotta is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 53 vs 7, Sunbaked Terracotta is decisively the brighter choice.