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  • BOBS
    BOBS Posts: 2,871 Forumite
    Ok back from B&Q - no polished pebble samples which you all speak highly off :(
    ........ but I do have Chic shadow, Goose Down, and pebble shore to make a pretty pattern on my wall with !! - also have Warm Pewter for feature wall.
    Will post when I get them painted on wall in the morning .
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  • pollypenny
    pollypenny Posts: 29,432 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Don't paint the wall - paint on to white paper, then you can move them about and see the effect in different lights.

    We use lining paper.
    Member #14 of SKI-ers club

    Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.

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  • I painted a bedroom in Earthborn's 'Kissing Gate' and I love it. It's totally grey, no hint of anything else. Quite dark, but I have it in a north-facing room and still love it. It looks a bit purple on the website, but isn't in real life.
  • sujac
    sujac Posts: 76 Forumite
    I've just redecorated using Chic shadow on focus wall and Goose down on other three walls. Really like the look of them together.
  • BOBS
    BOBS Posts: 2,871 Forumite
    sujac wrote: »
    I've just redecorated using Chic shadow on focus wall and Goose down on other three walls. Really like the look of them together.

    those two definitely look well together - on my large piece of lining paper - might b 'the' choice.

    Stilll wondering if I should check out the polished pebble though......
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  • I used Homebase silver mist gloss to paint the woodwork in the study last year which gave a nice pale silvery grey colour, it's available in silk emulsion too
  • elle_may
    elle_may Posts: 413 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    I used in large room Crown Cloudburst breath easy a light grey, no tinge.
  • EmmyLou30
    EmmyLou30 Posts: 599 Forumite
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    Another vote for chic shaddow from me, lovely proper grey. Modern colour but not cold or lilac!
  • BOBS
    BOBS Posts: 2,871 Forumite
    Thinking chic shadow on firebreast along with polished pebble on other three walls is looking like winning the vote here ......
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  • BOBS
    BOBS Posts: 2,871 Forumite
    Painting has been duly completed and happy to report that polish pebble and chic shadow both appear truely grey with not a hint of purple in site.

    Love both colours but maybe could have done with fire breast a shade or two darker than chic shadow, but for now more than happy with end results.

    Thank you to everyone who commented above :)
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