Western Colors

The colors of the West, and how to bring them home. Saddle leather, desert clay, weathered turquoise and the soft blue of a big sky, translated into paint for the ranch house you love.

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Western paint colors moodboard showing a rustic ranch kitchen, terracotta mudroom, red dining room, green butler's pantry and leather study, with seven paint swatches from warm white to charcoal

7 Western Paint Colors We Love

From a warm white to saddle brown, plus how we test every color on the wall before we paint.

Western Color Palettes: 5 Schemes

Whole-home palettes drawn from saddle leather, desert clay, turquoise, amber light and old red barns.

Samplize peel-and-stick paint sample in Benjamin Moore Aegean Teal 2136-40

Aegean Teal, Reviewed

The most usable turquoise on a paint deck for a western home, and how to live with it.

See the color in a room

A paint chip only tells you so much. Here’s how these colors feel with timber, leather and copper around them.

Great room with stone fireplace and Amber Horizon palette leather seating — Amber Horizon Lodge AI concept home

Amber Horizon Lodge

Honey, amber and warm gold, all day long.

A western bedroom with deep teal walls, a dark four-poster canopy bed hung with teal velvet, copper velvet bedding, a mountain landscape painting and a southwestern rug under a warm wood ceiling

Rainstorm & Copper Bedroom

Deep teal walls, copper velvet and a canopy bed.

A hammered copper slipper tub with a brass telephone-style faucet in a paneled deep teal bathroom, with ribbed-glass sconces, a crystal chandelier and a landscape painting

Rainstorm & Copper Bath

A hammered copper tub in a paneled teal bath.

The Autumn Ranch Table

Reclaimed oak on a turquoise trestle base.

Our palette guides

Complete whole-home palettes with the exact paint matches already chosen, across Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and Farrow & Ball. You’ll find them at our sister brand, Cowgirl Home & Ranch.

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Barndominium Exterior Colors

Siding, trim and roof combinations that look right against the land.

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Cabinet Colors

The paints we’d use on kitchen cabinets, islands and the old hutch.

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More Color Reviews

Honest, one-color deep dives on the shades that work in a ranch house.

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Color Visualizer

Try a palette on a room before you open a can.

New colors, as we find them

We’ll share new paint colors, palettes and the rooms we build around them.