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PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

White doesn't work. The hallway is dark and is going to get darker...pale colours look dingy.

There is stuff called light reflecting paint, which appears to do what it says.... not that I really believe. I guess with listed status there's no chance of banging a light tunnel in through the roof to the ceiling over the stairs is there.

hjd

lostinrates wrote: »

Doozer girl? Anyone else who fancies chipping in.

Pretty sure I'm leaning towards ( at a later date after extension done.....or maybe now and worth redoing...? ) wallpapering with a photo image of bluebell woods on one side of the hallway.

Ceiling are morrocan and jewelled. ATM staircase is in process of being stripped and I think I will leave wood and put runner on ( colour undecided....yellow sounds fun, like a yellow brick road...but will be lead by design of rest of hallway). But I cannot seem to reconcile to rest of paint colour. White doesn't work. The hallway is dark and is going to get darker...pale colours look dingy.

part from 'beige' or 'mushroomy' I feel low on inspiration. Any one want to chip in?

Green.
As in blueberry wood foliage.
I would love that - the green paint and a bluebell wood wall.
You would need to have good lighting (not necessarily extra bright, just good).
DH will only have gloss white woodwork. Nothing else can be contemplated. I have managed to get DD's room with one contrast wall and he does admit it looks good. Will take some time to get something I can live with in living room and our bedroom.
BTW he likes magnolia. I agree it can have its place..
Downstairs loo is painted in jasmine white, which is acceptable - it is one of the "corporate colours" of his school and they had some left over. I wanted one very green wall.
Maybe in another life!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

There is stuff called light reflecting paint, which appears to do what it says.... not that I really believe. I guess with listed status there's no chance of banging a light tunnel in through the roof to the ceiling over the stairs is there.

Doubt it, and tbh, not sure we need to stress too much about it. If we get lighting right, adding wall lights etc, and embrace it as a dark and mysterious space. Its a hallway, not a space where people are going to read, apply make up or remove splinters. I like the idea of indulging in the gloom and going dark. That's part of why the 'woods' idea appeals, woods are dark, but beautiful. But cannot have woods wallpaper all round really. Its been a hard design between that and two other ideas but this one seems to have top billing for now.


I guess I don't know how dark I dare go. I don't want to get the balance right with the woods picture, and not add too much colour. Black would be too dark. Would indigo be too dark? I fear it might be,.......but would it be with touches of gold and a yellow stair runner, bearing in mind the stair case is more than half the hallway, and then exposed wood. And then what colour ceilings and wood work.

Because this is really outside my zone, using a photo idea or a feature wall, I am finding the idea hard to pull together, not least over the idea of going up the stairs and following through, e.gdo you repeats the photo wall paper on subsequent floors? Why would bluebells grow on a first floor? I know my approach to that is very literal, but ......it feels like it should follow through a bit more sensibly than rinse and repeat......

lostinrates

hjd wrote: »

Green.
As in blueberry wood foliage.
I would love that - the green paint and a bluebell wood wall.
You would need to have good lighting (not necessarily extra bright, just good).
DH will only have gloss white woodwork. Nothing else can be contemplated. I have managed to get DD's room with one contrast wall and he does admit it looks good. Will take some time to get something I can live with in living room and our bedroom.
BTW he likes magnolia. I agree it can have its place..
Downstairs loo is painted in jasmine white, which is acceptable - it is one of the "corporate colours" of his school and they had some left over. I wanted one very green wall.
Maybe in another life!

A shade of green is certainly a possibility. Every room in the down stairs we have painted is a shade of green. The others are all planned to be a shade of green! :rotfl:



Edit:


It looks like this would be the most likely choice of wall paper

http://images.photowall.com/products/47678/bluebells.jpg?w=620

hjd

lostinrates wrote: »

A shade of green is certainly a possibility. Every room in the down stairs we have painted is a shade of green. The others are all planned to be a shade of green! :rotfl:

There are so many shades of green, you certainly wouldn't have to repeat your choices in any room!

hjd

lostinrates wrote: »

It looks like this would be the most likely choice of wall paper

http://images.photowall.com/products/47678/bluebells.jpg?w=620

I love that, the light is just right. Still the possibility of something forbidden but you want to take off your shoes and just go!
I think I'm rambling...

lostinrates

hjd wrote: »

There are so many shades of green, you certainly wouldn't have to repeat your choices in any room!

Exactly. The cheese room is a little Green colour called Salix. The loo and back hall way are Mizzle, a sort of green meets grey, the study farrow and ball blue green. And the sitting room Teresa's green ( most people say what a lovely colour blue....but when blue is against it its very clearly green)

The dining garden green is going to be a yellowy green, like olive oil maybe, maybe a bit yellower. And the room we currently use as the dining room but that is going to be a sitting room/music room was going to be a sensible sort of box or earthy green, but I think might be chartreuse now. Much more me, but won't go with the curtains I already own from a previous house, which is a little annoying, .



Green......a colour than never gets old.

lostinrates

hjd wrote: »

I love that, the light is just right. Still the possibility of something forbidden but you want to take off your shoes and just go!
I think I'm rambling...

Thanks! I feel less nuts now putting photo walls in an old house. Because our hall way is seriously pokey I think the illusion of depth will be no bad thing too.

Jazee

lostinrates wrote: »

Thanks! I feel less nuts now putting photo walls in an old house. Because our hall way is seriously pokey I think the illusion of depth will be no bad thing too.

I think bluebells will be amazing, maybe just carry that colour through upstairs. I'm jealous, I live in a magnolia house with DH. It's brought to life with colour in fabrics and furnishings but all the same.....

I agree about blue bells not growing on the first floor, I can't bear hanging baskets, its just not natural for plants to be growing in mid air!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... Mizzle....

Had a google of that. Looks like my front door and hallway woodwork (skirting, door surrounds, bannisters).