Soft pastel blue that comes into its own on coastal cottages between Padstow and St Ives.
Duck egg is a pale blue-green with a grey base — the colour of painted fishermen's doors along the harbours at Mousehole, Polperro and Port Isaac. It is the gentlest coastal finish in the range and reads differently depending on the light, leaning blue under a bright sky and green under cloud.
It is a genuinely local colour rather than a national trend, which is why it looks right on a Cornish cottage and slightly out of place on an inland new-build.
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On a whitewashed or limewashed cottage, duck egg gives colour without weight. It works especially well on stable doors, where the split leaf and a pale blue-green finish is about as Cornish as a front entrance gets. Pair it with pewter or antique black hardware rather than chrome.
Pale blues shift more with light than any other family of colours. A north-facing duck egg door reads cooler and greyer; a south-facing one reads warmer and greener. If you are matching to existing painted joinery, look at a sample on the actual elevation at two different times of day.
Pale finishes hide salt deposits well, which makes duck egg a low-fuss choice for a seafront property. Cornwall's salt-laden air is the single biggest factor in how any door finish ages, so we fit marine-grade stainless hardware as standard within two miles of the coast and recommend a rinse with clean water and a soft cloth every couple of months. No polish, no solvents, no jet wash. Done that way, the colour is covered by a 10-year colour-fastness guarantee and the door itself by a 10-year mechanical guarantee.
Pairs well with: Pewter or antique black hardware; cottage and stable door styles.
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