Help, paint ideas wanted

casterweb

Hi All,

Help / Ideas wanted

I want to paint all the walls throughout my house in the same colour (excluding the kitchen and bathrooms which are fully tiled). So downstairs, stars and landing, and all bedrooms the same. The house is 20 years old, so modern style.

The problem is I am hopeless with colour schemes. I have had a cream colour on the walls for a few years but now want something different.

I am trying to find a light neutral colour, maybe an off-white. I've got a bagful of testers but I'm still no nearer picking a colour. I don't like bold, stand out, colours but I don't want something as boring as magnolia/white either.

So people.... if you were in my boots, what colour would you go for or have gone for in the past? .....Suggestions please!! Make and colour needed: eg Dulux / Simply Pearl

Also, if anyone knows a website that shows some good quality photos of interiors WITH the paint colour that would be very helpful.

Doozergirl

I love Slipper Satin by Farrow and Ball. I have it in some form in nearly every room in my house but mix it with other colours. It's a lovely soft off-white colour.

I'd not seen this before but my hall is the same colourway as this pic, with slipper satin and downpipe. Mixed up in different places just like this as well, so sometimes the woodwork is grey, sometimes white; same with the walls. Not suggesting you need to mix it with such a bold grey but I think it's yummy.
http://www.farrow-ball.com/hallways/content/fcp-content
Upstairs, down the long wall of the hall I have this paper.
http://www.oprah.com/home/Winter-White/print/1/?slide=1
If you could eat wallpaper, I would eat mine it's so delicious!

I have slipper satin everywhere in the spare room, walls, ceiling and woodwork and it has such a lovely warm light in there. It's one of my favourite rooms despite not really spending any time in there!

It's very hard to choose one colour to put throughout your house that isn't a light neutral. I'd mix it up with feature wallpapers or other coloured paints for personality, but keeping flow through the house.

Sagz_2

I've just done my halls and bedroom in B&Q's Picket Fence - has really opened up the hall and the bedroom has a light and airy feel.
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=10298598&fh_view_size=10&fh_eds=%3F&fh_location=%2F%2Fcatal!!!1%2Fen_GB%2Fcategories%3C%7B9372013%7D%2Fcategories%3C%7B9372030%7D%2Fcategories%3C%7B9372120%7D%2F_colourShadeMIF%3E%7Bcreamneutral%7D&fh_refview=lister&ts=1280541558795&isSearch=false&fl=1

amcluesent

You could keep the same colour but then vary with sponging, rag rolling, stencils etc.

fybar

Get hold of the Crown or Dulux brochure and copy one of the colour schemes from it. Can't go wrong. (.......he says, sitting in his mustard lime lounge)

Doozergirl

amcluesent wrote: »

You could keep the same colour but then vary with sponging, rag rolling, stencils etc.

We left the 90s and 'changing rooms' behind a while ago

bengalknights

You could have magnolia downstairs with maybe some border paper to liven it up a bit.

SuzieSue

I have Dulux Wild Primrose throughout my house. It is a very soft shade of yellow .

casterweb

Appreciating the replies.

Hopeful_5

Doozergirl, in your pic the Slipper Satin looks almost white but on the Farrow & Ball link it is slightly pinky - and just the colour I want for my bedroom, and which reminds me of sugar almonds. Which shade is right? Thanks.

Casterweb, the Dulux naturals range is good. My daughter has Natural Wicker in her living room and it looks very good. She has Natural Hessian in her kitchen, which has a pinkish, eggshell tinge. Totally Nutmeg is another lovely Dulux colour and their Ivory Lace is good if you want a really pale cream. I have found that their colour brochure is totally wrong though, the colours in it are nothing like those in the match pots. Good luck.

Hope

Hope

Owain_Moneysaver

Doozergirl wrote: »

We left the 90s and 'changing rooms' behind a while ago

But the 70s are coming back into fashion, so if you get scumbleglazing now you'll be 20 years ahead of the trend!!