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flippityflip · 31/03/2015 10:41

Due to a bit of water damage and not knowing what the current colour of paint is on our walls we need to repaint a large open plan area. The floor in the kitchen/dining section is light grey tiles the units are a cream with a slightly olive tone and there is a grey island unit, the worktops are oak and the other furniture in kitchen dining section is oak. In the living room section the floor is oak the sofas are dark green leather (would love to change but won't until kids are older) furniture is all white apart from one dvd storage thing which is black. There are divider panel curtains between the two sections which are duck egg and the curtains on the windows are all pale grey. The windows are very large so the curtains cover a significant portion of the walls.
I want something light and bright but am not sure what tone. Husband wants to go with light grey but I think that is far too much grey. I am leaning towards a pink toned off white. I think it would set off the colours of pale grey,greens and duck egg that are already there quite nicely as it's quite a nice sort of vintage style palette. I was using the Dulux visualiser app and thought blossom white or jasmine shimmer looked nice but what do you think? Will it look too pink? Or would a pink tone not go?Any other suggestions?

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Devora · 01/04/2015 17:22

Ooh ooh, I'm desperate to suggest a colour I really, really want to use (but haven't found the right place yet). Little Greene Pearl Colour. I've got a tester pot on my wall and it is so gentle and lovely - kind of pale green-grey. There is also a Pearl Colour Dark if you want something with more impact.

Little Greene is £££ but you could get it colour-matched?

Or, how about Farrow & Ball Skylight, Borrowed Light, Light Blue or Blackened?

So I'm instinctively leaning towards a soft green grey, or blue grey, which I think would work with all your other colours. Not feeling the pink but maybe I'd have to see it!

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flippityflip · 02/04/2015 21:10

Reallylike that but it is actually really close to the colour of our cupboards,which I thought were more cream but are actually really like this.I really like hollyhock and julie's dream on that site too though.
The palette I am thinking of is this
onefabday.com/uk/pretty-pastels-wedding-palette/?redirect=1
I wouldn't go for anything near as pink as this but thinking if I go for a pink toned off white it would keep me within this palette,not sure though,need to start painting squares on the wall I think!

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