Stirabout vs Warm Putty
Stirabout is a Farrow & Ball color while Warm Putty comes from Valspar. Both sit in the beige-greige family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. With LRVs of 63 and 65, they'll behave almost identically in terms of how much light they reflect back into a room. With a ΔE of 1.2, the difference is subtle — you'd need them side by side to reliably tell them apart. Below you'll find 2 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Stirabout vs Warm Putty in Real Spaces
2 real rooms side by side. Stirabout and Warm Putty 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.
Living Room
Living rooms test a color across a full range of conditions — morning sun, afternoon shade, and evening lamp light all shift how both of these read. In photos like these you're seeing the difference at its most direct. In a finished room, the distinction is there but not dramatic.
Kitchen Cabinets
On cabinetry, undertone and temperature become more pronounced against countertops and hardware. The two are close enough that the choice comes down to finer qualities — undertone, texture, what the color sits next to.
Color Details
Stirabout vs Warm Putty Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Stirabout on one side and Warm Putty 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 Stirabout comparisons
See how Stirabout stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 63), opening up a space where Stirabout encloses it.
A 11-point LRV gap (63 vs 52) makes Stirabout the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 63 vs 30, Stirabout is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 63 vs 60), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Stirabout reads slightly lighter (LRV 63 vs 58), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Stirabout reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 63 vs 43, Stirabout is decisively the brighter choice.
Stirabout reads slightly lighter (LRV 63 vs 55), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Stirabout reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 63, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 66 and 63, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Shoji White reads slightly lighter (LRV 74 vs 63), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Stirabout reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Stirabout reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Skimming Stone reads slightly lighter (LRV 68 vs 63), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Stirabout reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Stirabout reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 63 vs 31, Stirabout is decisively the brighter choice.