Help with matching paint to wallpaper

Sues48

I am about to have my newly fitted kitchen/diner decorated and am nearly tearing my hair out trying to find a paint colour to match this,http://www.allenbraithwaite.co.uk/Dandelion-Clocks-DOPWDA104.html wallpaper which I have bought to go on one wall of the dining room. I had planned on picking out the blue from the paper to have on the other walls, but this is turning out to be a nightmare as it is a metallic effect, so far I must have spent getting on for £30 in testers alone and haven't got anywhere near the right colur:(

shegirl

Sues48 wrote: »

I am about to have my newly fitted kitchen/diner decorated and am nearly tearing my hair out trying to find a paint colour to match this,http://www.allenbraithwaite.co.uk/Dandelion-Clocks-DOPWDA104.html wallpaper which I have bought to go on one wall of the dining room. I had planned on picking out the blue from the paper to have on the other walls, but this is turning out to be a nightmare as it is a metallic effect, so far I must have spent getting on for £30 in testers alone and haven't got anywhere near the right colur:(

Might be easier to find a grey shade to match the silver tones and bring out the turquoise another way?Didn't realise the turquoise was metallic in that paper!what kind of blues have you tried?

abwsco

Do B & Q do a colour matching service on the paints mixed to order. Sure they used to although how it would work with metallic paint I don't know.

shegirl

abwsco wrote: »

Do B & Q do a colour matching service on the paints mixed to order. Sure they used to although how it would work with metallic paint I don't know.

That's what I was wondering - would it work with metallics? Also,do they need a certain size sample to go from?

Sues48

I've already been down that route, the colour it came up with was a greeny blue, but far too dark:( The trouble is that it looks a different colour depending which angle you are looking at it, sometimes it is almost duck egg and other times much more green.

shegirl

May sound like an odd suggestion but,have you tried a tester of farrow and balls blue-grey? It's a light grey shade but has a blue hint and also a green hint.The hints vary in strength depending on the light so the same paint can look like totally different colours

Sues48

No, have been avoiding F&B as my decorator hates using it, but make have to incur his wrath if it's the right colour! I did try Laura Ashley Eau de Nil which wasn't a bad match but it was so thin and watery I know he would have a fit if I bought that!

JulieM

If you look for the wallpaper on the John Lewis website, you'll see that it lists Sanderson spectrum caribbean blue emulsion paint as a possible match, though it isn't metallic.

Throbbe

JulieM wrote: »

If you look for the wallpaper on the John Lewis website, you'll see that it lists Sanderson spectrum caribbean blue emulsion paint as a possible match, though it isn't metallic.

Just used that paint last weekend (very impressed, I was a bit miffed at Mrs Throbbe for buying 'posh paint' but it's a lovely finish) and will be putting up the OP's wallpaper tomorrow, so I'd second your recommendation!

pinkmami

Love that!

Have you though of Stoneware by Crown? I bought it for my hallway a few weeks ago & thought it would be more of a biscuit colour and it was inface a grey. May well go with it. Buy a tester pot & see!

http://www.crownpaint.co.uk/colour/1177/stoneware.htm?cn=stoneware