Mustard Made Colours: All 12 Shades in Real Rooms

There are twelve Mustard Made colours, and every one of them is a genuinely good answer — which is the only thing that makes choosing tricky. Powder-coated steel holds colour with a depth a paint chip can't, and it shifts with the light through the day, so the shade you pick will look like its own thing in your room.

Below is every colour in the range, along with what we've noticed about each one from having them in our Malvern East showroom.

Every Mustard Made colour

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  Butter

  The softest of the warm neutrals. Reads cream indoors, more yellow in strong sun.

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  Chalk

  Off-white. Choose it when you want the shape without the colour.

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  Blush

  Dusty pink, more grey than sweet. Ages better than people expect in a grown-up room.

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  Poppy

  A true warm red, and the boldest in the range.

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  Berry

  Deep raspberry. Almost brown in low light, properly pink in daylight.

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  Mustard

  The original, and still the one the brand is known for.

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  Sage

  Pale grey-green. Shifts between grey, green and almost blue depending on which way the room faces.

  Tricky on screen
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  Olive

  Deeper and browner than photos suggest. Noticeably darker in person.

  Tricky on screen
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  Ocean

  Mid-blue with a green cast.

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  Navy

  Deep and near-neutral. Behaves like a dark timber in a room.

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  Lilac

  Soft purple-grey, and cooler in person than it photographs.

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  Slate

  Grey-blue. Moves between grey and blue with the light.

  Tricky on screen

Which colour for which room?

Which colours do Australians actually buy?

This is the question we get asked most, and most articles guess at it. We don't have to — here is every Mustard Made piece we've sold over the last two years, by colour.

Two things stand out. The top three are all quiet colours — Chalk, Blush and Sage account for 45% of everything we sell, which suggests most people want the shape and the steel more than they want a statement.

And Mustard is ninth. The colour the brand is named after is picked by about one buyer in twenty-five. Make of that what you will, but don't assume the signature colour is the safe choice.

Based on units sold at norsu across the full Mustard Made range, August 2024 – August 2026.

Which colours are hardest to judge on a screen?

Sage and Slate, consistently. Both are low-saturation colours where the surrounding light does most of the work. Sage can read grey, green or almost blue depending on whether the room faces north or south. Slate shifts between grey and blue the same way.

Olive is the third. It photographs as a mid-green and is noticeably darker and browner in person.

If you're deciding between any of those three, this is the moment to come and look.

Can you mix Mustard Made colours?

Yes, and it usually looks better than matching. Two rules from having done it a lot.

Pair a bold with a neutral

Poppy beside Chalk, Mustard beside Butter. Two bolds side by side compete with each other.

Or stay in one temperature

Sage with Olive, Blush with Berry, Ocean with Navy.

Stacking a Shorty next to a Skinny in two shades is one of the most common things people do, and it reads as deliberate rather than mismatched.

Do all the colours come in every size?

Broadly yes. The core range runs across the Shorty, Skinny, Lowdown, Midi, Standard and Twinny, plus the Story Boards, The Ledge shelves and The Baskets. Availability moves around, so the collection page is the live answer.

Seeing them in person

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