Quiet Moments
1563 · Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore
Quiet Moments
1563
Subtle green, a green color
- Color family
- Neutral
- Sold for
- Interior and exterior
Benjamin Moore Quiet Moments 1563 is a pale gray-green with a cool, watery cast, the kind of color that passes for gray until the sun moves. An LRV of 61 keeps it in the light band, so it will carry a whole room and still show up as a color beside white trim. Our method reads it as a subtle green, and bedrooms and bathrooms take most of its use.
Source: Benjamin Moore's color data. Undertone labels describe our calculation, not the paint formula or a test in your room. How we assess colors.
Is Quiet Moments warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers
leans green
Undertone
Subtle green
A gentle lean, quiet on the wall.
In the published swatch, Quiet Moments carries a small amount of green with a little yellow behind it, which is why it lands as sage rather than mint. The green is easy to miss on a chip and obvious on four walls. Beside clean white trim it reads plainly green; beside a warm cream it goes gray and can look dirty. Warm wood and brass bring the sage out, while chrome, marble and blue-gray tile pull it toward blue-green. Its strip mate Healing Aloe 1562 is the paler, gentler version of the same idea, and Palladian Blue HC-144 is where this family tips over into blue.
Quiet Moments in different lighting
North rooms are where Quiet Moments earns its reputation and also where it fools people: cool light pulls the yellow out and leaves a gray-green that can look flat on a big wall, so it wants warm wood or a warm white nearby. South light does the opposite and brings the sage forward, softest in the afternoon. East rooms swing widest, warm sage at breakfast and gray-green by four. West light leaves it gray in the morning and faintly olive at sunset. Bulbs at 2700K to 3000K keep the sage; anything cooler hands the room to the gray.
Watch for
- Loses its green and reads as plain gray under cool white LEDs
- Shows far more green on four walls than it does on a chip
- Goes dull beside cream trim, where a clean white keeps it honest
Best rooms and surfaces for Quiet Moments
Bedrooms take most of the searches for Quiet Moments, and it is a good one: light enough to keep the room open, colored enough that the walls feel calm rather than blank. It carries a living room with decent windows and looks right with linen, rattan and mid-brown wood. On a built-in bookcase or a paneled wall it reads greener than on flat drywall, because the shadows deepen it. What it will not do is act as a neutral: in an open plan beside a beige room, the line where the two meet is obvious, so it works best in a room that closes with a door. On a ceiling it is too much color unless the walls are white.
Quiet Moments on an exterior
Benjamin Moore sells Quiet Moments for exterior use, and it behaves like most light greens outdoors: full sun bleaches the green until the south face reads close to a pale gray, while shaded elevations hold the color and look considerably deeper. On siding it suits a cottage or a small house more than a large formal one. White trim, Cloud Cover OC-25 or White Heron OC-57, keeps it clean, and a charcoal door such as Mysterious AF-565 gives the front the weight the walls do not.
Try Quiet Moments on your own walls
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Quiet Moments vs Sea Salt, Palladian Blue, Beach Glass and Tranquility
Sea SaltQuiet MomentsQuiet Moments vs Sea Salt SW 6204
Quiet Moments is a touch darker; both fall in our subtle green category. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Sea Salt SW 6204 is the pairing searched most often, and the two are near twins: the Sherwin-Williams color measures two points lighter with the same soft green in it. On a wall Sea Salt shows a touch more blue and Quiet Moments a touch more gray, a difference you only catch with both up at once. If you have already sampled one, the other will not change your room, so the brand your painter carries can decide it.
Palladian BlueQuiet MomentsQuiet Moments vs Palladian Blue HC-144
Quiet Moments is a touch lighter; both fall in our subtle green category. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Palladian Blue HC-144 lands at the same lightness and takes the family further: a stronger blue-green swatch, so it reads as a definite color where Quiet Moments still passes for gray. In a north bathroom Palladian Blue can go cold while Quiet Moments holds. Choose Palladian Blue when you want the walls to be blue-green, and Quiet Moments when you want a neutral that happens to be green.
Beach GlassQuiet MomentsQuiet Moments vs Beach Glass 1564
Quiet Moments is much lighter; both fall in our subtle green category. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Beach Glass 1564 is the next step down the same ladder, eleven points darker and a little greener with it. That gap is enough for Beach Glass to read as a color on all four walls while Quiet Moments still reads as a light neutral. A bedroom that felt washed out in Quiet Moments usually wants Beach Glass, and a small bathroom usually wants the lighter one.
Quiet Moments vs Tranquility AF-490
Quiet Moments is noticeably lighter; both fall in our subtle green category. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Tranquility AF-490 measures seven points darker with the same green lean, so this comparison is about depth rather than color. Tranquility gives a bedroom more enclosure and holds its color better under lamps at night. Quiet Moments keeps a small room feeling open. If Quiet Moments looked right on the chip but thin once it was on the wall, Tranquility is the fix.
Questions about Quiet Moments
Does Quiet Moments look blue or green?
Green first, blue second. The swatch calculation puts green ahead with only a little yellow behind it, so in most rooms it reads sage-gray rather than blue. Cool north light and 4000K bulbs are what pull the blue forward, and a white-tiled bathroom does the same. Warm wood, brass and 2700K bulbs bring the green back.
What colors go with Quiet Moments?
Benjamin Moore pairs it with Cloud Cover OC-25 and White Heron OC-57 for the whites, and with two darks, Gray Mountain 1462 and Mysterious AF-565. In practice it takes white oak, rattan, aged brass and unpolished stone. Navy and charcoal are the accents that hold up. Warm yellow-beige beside it is the one to avoid, because it turns the walls dull.
Does Quiet Moments work in a bathroom with no window?
It can, with the right bulbs. At this lightness it keeps a windowless bathroom bright, but cool LEDs strip the green out and leave a flat gray, so fit 2700K to 3000K and look at the color at night before you decide. It is at its best against white tile and chrome; beside a beige stone counter it turns dull.
What is one shade darker than Quiet Moments?
On Benjamin Moore's own ladder the step down is Beach Glass 1564, a bigger move than most people expect at eleven points. For something smaller, Silver Marlin 2139-50 measures about five points darker with the same green lean, and Arctic Gray 1577 is another close digital-swatch option to sample. Going up, Gray Cashmere 2138-60 is a few points lighter.
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Trim, ceiling and coordinating colors for Quiet Moments
Benjamin Moore's own picks are Cloud Cover OC-25 and White Heron OC-57, both soft whites that keep the green quiet. In practice a crisper white makes the better line here: Chantilly Lace OC-65 or Decorator's White OC-149 stay clean against a green wall, where a cream white leaves it looking dull. Whichever you use, the ceiling wants the same white as the trim.
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Closest matches for Quiet Moments in other brands
These are the closest digital colors in our catalog, not equivalent paint formulas or touch-up substitutes. Compare physical samples in the same finish before choosing. See the comparison method.