PAINT! I CAN’T PICK A PAINT

[Sadlysadsad]

So, I have a through lounge to the kitchen. The house is white downstairs (we have moved in) which I find really harsh. I want to paint the same colour in the front room and through to the kitchen, so it’s all the same.

I have a silver grey settee and I’m getting a mid grey carpet. The kitchen is Matt units in grey. So I need a colour that goes with that.

Front room can be very gloomy.

I wanted Elephants Breath, but a sample of it in the room is way too dark, and skimming stone is too grey.

My friend has suggested Timeless or Natural Hessian. I really like Natural Hessian, but will it go with all that grey, especially in the kitchen? All the paintwork is white gloss and ceilings are white, but I’m really struggling.

I don’t want white really, I had hoped for a warmer colour, but they just don’t match with the colours here (I would not have put a grey kitchen in but there you go)

After years of rented I can’t face Magnolia either

Please help me with some ideas!!

Mustard!

*Grey sofa! Omitted the most important word

@RichardsGear I like the look of faded damson!

I have Dulux blush pink in some rooms, I love it. Pink and grey can be a bit naff but with some darker colours, maybe dark green or blue it looks great.

north facing sitting room here with Farrow and Ball Setting Plaster.

Great - made the room very warm and inviting.

We have a rug with a lot of grey and blue. Combines well

We've just used Dulux blush pink in our hall and landing. The tester patches we did almost looked too pink but over a larger area it is quite pale but a lot less harsh than white!

We have Farrow & Ball Blackened through most of our house. Very calming, changes in different lights but always looks lovely.

B&Q - Cancún is gorgeous

I love a neutral! I have this in valspar colour my kitchen..

I thought it would be yellow, left the painters working away and came home to a pinkish kitchen. I was gobsmacked
not what I asked for but ended up liking it.

Its quite a dark kitchen as its half original and half an extension to the original house but with a huge window along one side so the light certainly changes paint colours

@Glorieta wow that’s funny! Great that you like it though. Totally agree that light can change things, and the floor and cupboard colours can make or break the overall effect.

I’ve tried the Jasmine white and it’s massively yellow here! It was a definite no from me!

Im going to get nutmeg white as a tester, timeless and a couple of other pinky ones. I liked the pinks posted up thread but I don’t know I could cope with it all pink, so maybe a hint might be better.

It sounds pathetic but I’m so bad with colours, I don’t have the eye for it and it’s just never quite right. I’ve spent days stressing over this and how to get the colour. I was so sure a beige or greige but they don’t seem to work.

I have a friend who has grey, but white walls, it looks great, but it’s not for me, it’s too stark, but it feels like the easy option right now

In my bedroom

What about this? Farrow + Ball deliciousness? Grey sofa to match!

We’ve used Natural Hessian as our neutral all over our house and it’s gone with everything and has been really easy to live with.

Dulux Rock Salt, White enough not to be grey but grey enough not to be white.

I am really liking the pinks, which is odd because I’m not a pink person.

Would it look a bit shit though, pink and grey? A bit like I’m 5 or 95? I’d like a subtle pink I think, it seems to look really warm and homely, which tbh this place needs downstairs as it’s been decorated very harshly, so I’m keen to unharsh it a bit.

Im also mindful that I’m doing the kitchen diner in the colour too. I was going to leave the kitchen white but because it’s a through one I think it all needs to be the same really

I really like grey and plaster pinks - if the pink isn't too candyish I think it works really well and the pink warms up the grey. Ww have a dark grey kitchen in our office and painted the walls a soft muted pink and it really warms up the space and isn't too dull.

A pale pink or sage green? Little Greene do some amazing pale pinks.

Little Greene Dorchester Pink is the one I had in mind. We’ve used it in our kitchen, the pale iteration, it’s very subtle.

Sage green

If you fancy a shade if pink that would be fine. The thing with grey us it us the new neutral. My daughter gas a matt grey kitchen. She has a very pale lilac in the walls and had checked tartan effect curtains made. Grey/green and the lilac.

@Sadlysadsad inspiration?

www.housebeautiful.com/uk/decorate/looks/tips/g249/grey-colour-schemes-stylist-tips/

Oval room blue. Lovely warm colour, it's a greeny-teal (colour matched, not original f&b). We have some dusky pink soft furnishings, goes with grey carpet and some crisp white woodwork and blinds lift it. It's a very cosy warm relaxing scheme, never looks gloomy.

It's so tricky picking the right colour for each room

What I love in a friends home I know I wouldn't necessarily like in mine or would suit my style or furniture or the room itself

I'm also looking to finally repaint my living room and hall abs keep changing my mind