Saybrook Sage

HC-114 · Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore

Saybrook Sage

HC-114

Hex code

#B1B7A2

Light reflectance value (LRV)

45.5Light-medium, light with some depth

0 black100 white

Undertone

Noticeable yellow-leaning green, a green color

Color family: Green
Sold for: Interior and exterior

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Benjamin Moore Saybrook Sage HC-114 is a muted gray-green from the Historical Colors deck, a sage that keeps a good deal of gray in it. Its LRV of 46 puts it in the light-medium band, easy in a room with two windows and noticeably moodier in a small one. Our method reads it as a noticeable yellow-leaning green, enough color to read as green on a wall with the yellow keeping it clear of mint. It is used on bedroom and dining room walls and on kitchen cabinets.

Is Saybrook Sage warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers

leans yellow-green

Undertone

Noticeable yellow-leaning green

graysaturated

A visible lean you see in daylight.

Saybrook Sage holds more green in its lean than most of the sages it gets shopped against, with a smaller amount of yellow riding along behind it. Against clean white trim the green is the part that shows, and the wall reads as a color rather than a warm neutral. Beside honey oak or cream tile the yellow comes up and the wall drifts toward olive; beside gray tile, soapstone or a black window frame the green cools and quiets down. Its nearest neighbor in the Benjamin Moore deck, Croquet AF-455, is the same color with a shade less green in it, and Salisbury Green HC-139 sits at the same depth with slightly more.

Saybrook Sage in north, south, east and west light

North-facing rooms get the coolest, greenest version of Saybrook Sage, and the yellow that warms it in the chip drops back until the wall reads close to a soft gray-green; warm bulbs, an oak floor or a warm white ceiling put the sage back. South light does the opposite and softens it, so watch it against warm-toned floors. East rooms swing widely, warm sage in the morning and grayer green by mid-afternoon, and west rooms run the same swing in reverse. Bulbs at 2700K to 3000K keep it on the sage side; anything cooler pushes it gray-green.

Watch for

Reads close to a gray-brown on the wall farthest from a single window
Picks up olive next to honey oak flooring or a cream backsplash
Cool LED bulbs strip the yellow out and leave it flatter than the chip

Best rooms and surfaces for Saybrook Sage

Bedrooms are the room people search this color for most, and it earns that: four walls of it read quiet without going dark, and it takes warm bedding and wood better than a gray does. Dining rooms and home offices suit it for the same reason. In a living room with two windows it holds its green all day; in one with a single north window it can settle into gray, so sample the far wall first. On kitchen cabinets it is a strong choice, dark enough to give a white kitchen a base and light enough that door panels keep their shadows. A bathroom takes it well if the tile is white or warm rather than cool gray.

Saybrook Sage on an exterior

Benjamin Moore sells Saybrook Sage for exterior use, and it suits shingles, clapboard and cedar shakes on a house meant to sit back into trees rather than stand out from them. Full sun lifts it toward a pale, dusty sage and the shaded elevations keep the deeper gray-green, so judge both sides before you commit. It works as a whole-house siding color with a white trim, and as shutters or a front door against a cream or white house, where the green reads clearly at close range.

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Saybrook Sage vs October Mist, Clary Sage, Evergreen Fog and Soft Fern

Living room walls rendered in Benjamin Moore October Mist 1495, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Saybrook Sage vs October Mist 1495

Saybrook Sage is a touch darker; both have a noticeable yellow-leaning green undertone.

October Mist 1495 is the pairing people search most, and the two sit within a point of each other in lightness, 46 against 47. The difference is in the lean: Saybrook Sage carries more green and a shade more color, October Mist more of the yellow-gray that makes it look softer on a wall. Pick Saybrook Sage when the room should read plainly green, October Mist when you want the green to stay in the background.

Living room walls rendered in Sherwin-Williams Clary Sage SW 6178, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Saybrook Sage vs Clary Sage SW 6178

Saybrook Sage is noticeably lighter; both have a noticeable yellow-leaning green undertone.

Clary Sage SW 6178 is the Sherwin-Williams color most often set against Saybrook Sage, and it lands five points darker at an LRV of 41 with a warmer, more yellow version of the same sage. Side by side, Clary Sage looks like sage seen in afternoon sun and Saybrook Sage like sage in shade. Clary Sage suits a room with cream and honey wood; Saybrook Sage suits white trim, gray stone and black metal.

Living room walls rendered in Sherwin-Williams Evergreen Fog SW 9130, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Saybrook Sage vs Evergreen Fog SW 9130

Saybrook Sage is much lighter; undertone noticeable yellow-leaning green vs subtle yellow-leaning green.

Evergreen Fog SW 9130 is a much darker green at an LRV of 30, with a subtle lean where Saybrook Sage's is noticeable. That makes Evergreen Fog the moodier of the pair, a cabinet and small-room color, and Saybrook Sage the one that carries a whole bright room without closing it in. Used together, Evergreen Fog on an island under Saybrook Sage walls keeps one family and two depths.

Living room walls rendered in Benjamin Moore Soft Fern 2144-40, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Saybrook Sage vs Soft Fern 2144-40

Saybrook Sage is much darker; both have a noticeable yellow-leaning green undertone.

Soft Fern 2144-40 is eleven points lighter at an LRV of 57 and clearly more colorful, a yellow-green where Saybrook Sage is a gray-green. In a north room Soft Fern keeps its color and Saybrook Sage goes quiet, which is the whole choice between them. Take Soft Fern for a bright, garden-ish green and Saybrook Sage for something closer to a neutral you can live with everywhere.

Questions about Saybrook Sage

Does Saybrook Sage look gray or green?

Green in good light, gray in weak light. Its measurement carries a clear green lean with some yellow behind it, so a sunny wall reads sage and a north wall in the afternoon can read as a warm gray. If you want the green to hold everywhere, keep the trim white and the bulbs warm rather than cool.

Is Saybrook Sage a good bedroom color?

Yes, and it is the room searched for most with this color. At this depth four walls stay restful rather than dark, and the gray in it stops the green from reading like a nursery. Warm wood, linen and brass suit it. In a bedroom with one small north window, expect a grayer, flatter version than the chip shows.

Does Saybrook Sage work on kitchen cabinets?

It does, and it is a common cabinet choice at this depth. Doors keep their panel shadows instead of flattening out, and the green warms a kitchen of white tile and steel. Pair it with a white or lightly veined counter and keep the wall above the cabinets light, since sage cabinets under sage walls lose the line between them.

Is there a Sherwin-Williams equivalent of Saybrook Sage?

Cascade Green SW 0066 is the closest by measurement, near enough to be hard to separate on a wall. Softened Green SW 6177 is the closest color with its own page here, slightly lighter and a little warmer. Willow Tree SW 7741 is the next one out. Farrow & Ball's Vert de Terre No. 234 is closer still than any of them.

What colors go with Saybrook Sage?

Benjamin Moore's own picks are Tapestry Beige OC-32, Copley Gray HC-104, Paper White OC-55 and Smokestack Gray 2131-40, which give you a warm neutral, a deep taupe and a slate blue-gray to work with. Beyond those, White Dove OC-17 on trim, oak or walnut floors, unlacquered brass and black metal all sit well with it.

What is one shade darker than Saybrook Sage?

Kennebunkport Green HC-123 is the next step down its own group at an LRV of 31, a clearly deeper green that still belongs to the same family. Two steps down, Land of Liberty 440 goes further toward olive. Among its close matches, Sage Wisdom CSP-775 is barely darker and grayer if you want a small move rather than a big one.

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Use the visualizer to narrow your shortlist, then confirm the finalist on your actual wall. A peel-and-stick sample of Saybrook Sage, checked in morning and evening light, is the last step before a gallon.