Can you recommend a warm white/off white paint colour please?

[Snakelet]

Before I go mad. Preferably Dulux but if not something durable and with good coverage. It’s for a darkish flat and I want something fresh and clean but not stark, cold and clinical looking.

I’ve tested linen and delicate white by crown. Rotten coverage and too stark.

Dulux pebble shore and something else pebbly - too grey. White cotton - too cold.

Farrow and Ball - old white - looks dirty

I’m going quietly bonkers and decorator starts a week tomorrow. Any recommendations please?

Brilliant thread- just moved and need to repaint several rooms!

Turnstone thanks so much for the picture and recommendation. Am pretty sure after taping a board painted with Fine Cream that this is ‘the one’. I’d not have thought to have tried it as it looks more creamy than white on the chart in the Dulux booklet. On my wall it looks more of a white but a warm one which is what I’ve been aiming for.

HighNetGirth glad this is helping you too . I’m so glad I started the thread because I wouldn’t have tried the one that I’m pretty sure is going to look great.

Roasted almond in dulux is lovely with a touch of a warm glow

Uffff have been here

F&B Wimborne white

But even that for some is too yellow in sunlight. So this house did

Benjamin Moore Simply White

Anything else too dark

Sorry here is toasted almond 1st picture and second is almond white which I've got up in my dark lounge image 2

Benjamin Moore Simply White. Swear by it now

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It really depends how dark you want to go OP. F&B Schoolhouse white too dark for me. Even F&B Wimborne too yellow.

Dulux Hessian in the sitting room. New kitchen cupboards were painted in F&B Dimity. I love it.

We have Farrow and Ball Wevit in our lounge in the satin finish. Lovely soft off white.

F&B ‘Pointing’ is great. I get mine colour matched at Johnstone’s and it’s identical. Love it.

If you have a spare piece of plasterboard still sitting around, a trick I do is to paint a brief mist coat on it, then add a couple of coats of the sample paint. This means you can move the samples around the room and see how the colour works with the different lights in the all bits of the room.

A particular off white favourite of mine is Dulux Natural Taupe 3 (not as dark as it sounds from the name). I've found it gives a really nice shade that works in lots of different lights.

It goes F&B pointing, then F&B Wimborne White then Benjamin Moore Simply White.

That is warm from darkest to palest. You takes your choice

F and B pointing.

Or f and b skimming stone is warmer. We also looked at dulux heritage Romney Wool - that's nice too.

Snakelet happy to help. We have Fine Cream pretty much throughout our house, we think it looks clean without being stark. Good luck with the decorating.

I didn't like Natural Calico in my north-facing room. It looked a dingy non colour. Completely different in a bright room.

Jasmine white is good in the darker room, light and cheering.

Fine Cream sounds lovely. I'm going to get a sample of that.

Thanks Turnstone. It’s a good find and the cream in the description would have meant I wouldn’t have tried it.

Laughterisbest hope it’s a good shade for you too. If it’s a white your after I’d also try the Dulux Timeless as it is also lovely. I think out of the two though in my place th cream looks the warmer.

We bought Timeless for our kitchen a couple of weeks ago and ended up painting over it the next day because it was really cold and almost greyish-looking against our ivory units, which I was surprised by because I'd loved it in all the pictures I obsessed over. We didn't want to waste the pot so we used what was left on the ceiling and it's indistinguishable from the brilliant white coving.

Spiderlight it’s so difficult as a sample on an area is a very different matter than an entire room of it. I can see how the Timeless could look quite stark in certain lights. I’m hoping the Fine Cream will have a bit more warmth. Glad you managed to use yours on the ceiling at least. It’s so expensive.