Hi. I am having trouble finding the elusive perfect grey paint.
We have a South-East facing living room. We have tried more than 20 testers (seriously!). When painted on plain printer paper or lining paper, and pinned up to the wall, the samples look great. But when actually painted on the wall, they show as either blue, beige, or lilac undertones.
I want a light pure grey, maybe slightly on the warmer side, but not pinky.
I like the colour of Dulux Polished Pebble in the brochure, but not as much on the wall. We have tried first painted the room Dulux Just Walnut. We really liked it, but we didn't like how it turned lilac when the sun came out. So we painted it the next shade up, Dulux Pebble Shore. However, now the room seems very beigey-brown. And we have silvery grey curtains...
Some of those we have tried:
- Dulux Polished Pebble (have this in our hallway and testeed in our living room, pale grey but often shows blue tones)
- Dulux Goose Down (darker than Polished Pebble, too cold and blue)
- Dulux Chic Shadow (nice but but dark so only for a feature, not a whole room)
- Dulux Just Walnut (really nice warm greyish, but often lilac)
- Dulux Pebble Shore (darker shade than just walnut, greige that is more beige than grey)
- Dulux Egyptian Cotton (too brown)
- Dulux Natural Hessian (too orangey)
- Dulux Nutmeg White (light but definite murky pink tones)
- Dulux Almost Oyster (invisible)
- Dulux Dusted Moss 2 (dark, but good colour match for F&B Cornforth White)
- Farrow & Ball - Cornforth White (surprisingly dark)
- Farrow & Ball - Blackened (pale but strong cold blue undertone)
- Farrow & Ball - Ammonite (blue undertone when on the wall)
- Farrow & Ball Skimming Stone (too beige)
- Farrow & Ball Elephants Breath (too beige)
- Homebase (Grey lace , too blue, similar to F&B Blackened)
- Homebase (Morning Haze, blue, slightly lighter than F&B Blackened)
We want the quality and longevity of colour from a Dulux paint so whatever we decide with either be Dulux or colour matched in Dulux paint.
I guess next to try is Dulux Dusted Moss 3 or 4, and Grey Steele 3
Anyone have other ideas of something we have missed?
Thanks!