Please find me two complementary Farrow & Ball colours (mid colours)

[strictlyclassroom]

I am going to redecorate a bedroom and need one colour for the walls and one for the French armoire type furniture.

The carpet is a sort of beige with a pinkish tone (not ideal but I don't want to change it). There's a dado with white paper above that.

I would like a mid-tone on the walls and a toning colour for the furniture, probably two colours from within browns, greys or blues (I like Green Blue, Castle Gray and Parma Gray).

Any advice would be great.

[hester]

The Farrow & Ball website shows complementary colours for each colour. So, for example, your carpet might work with Parma Grey, Slipper Satin and Shaded White...

Go take a look, it's really helpful.

[strictlyclassroom]

Just looking at the site now Hester - thanks.
Parma Gray and Lulworth Blue look like they could go nicely together.

I might go into the nearest showroom tomorrow and ask them. Might be able to find a fragment of carpet.

[hester]

PIck up a pot of Calluna for me while you're there, will you?

[strictlyclassroom]

p.s. and should the cupboards be darker or lighter than the walls?

[strictlyclassroom]

ooh that is nice. That new Charlotte's Locks one looks like vomit though.

[hester]

Either! Personally I'd probably go for lighter.

[hester]

Yes, Charlotte's Locks sits very oddly in Farrow & Ball. Would expect it in Designer's Guild or something.

I'm using Calluna for daughters' bathroom. I'd wanted to go for downpipe grey but they were horrified.

Yes, I think darker walls and lighter cupboards is possibly more fashionable, though I'm sure it doesn't really matter.

[strictlyclassroom]

Yes lighter cupboards versus walls feels right. Ugh how will I ever decide. And by Tuesday morning when the decorator arrives too

[microserf]

try them on the walls, we really find the colours came up very differently once them were on the walls. i painted white cardboard sheets and moved them around and the light off white we wanted for the ceiling looked dark grey.

[strictlyclassroom]

Will do microserf.

Still totally stuck on which to go for.
Are there other companies with a similar finish we should consider? I do like some of the Colourtrend colours.

[WoodRose]

Have you looked at Little Greene? They have the same muted palette as F&B, but fresher. We used F&B throughout our old house, but found that F&B comes up as very, very dingy in our current house - lots of north- west windows.

[hester]

I love the Kevin McCloud colours.

[Azure]

At the Spirit of Summer Fair there was a really interesting talk from a Farrow & Ball designer about their colours. The woman helping her had long, red hair and was called Charlotte - the colour Charlotte's Locks had been named after her!

I'm having the whole house redecorated and am getting a little peeved with paying for so many sample pots (from different companies) that turn out to look completely different on the wall. I wish F&B would do a set of 6 complementary colours with a smaller volume per colour, rather than those very expensive pots.

[hester]

That would be brilliant, Azure. I shudder to think how much I've spent on sample pots over the years.