To paint my living room… magnolia 🥸

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Painter comes Monday and i need to decide the colour for my largish, long and and fairly dark living room. Keeping it light and currently is antique cream (Crown) which i‘ve quite liked. Have used nutmeg white (Dulux) through a lot of the house and am considering that for the living room. Then magnolia just came to mind - are there any lovers of magnolia?

basically looking for a light colour - suggestions welcome - i do like a touch of stone or very light touch of mink

Haha mine too, it's really made it so much lighter. It's easy to change the colour theme of the room if I want to as well.

Do it. Call it butterscotch.

Embrace colour!

All of our skirting boards, wood panelling and doors are magnolia, I don't like white

Magnolia is different depending on the brand. Dulux trade magnolia is yellowish, but Dulux magnolia was more pinkish in relation to the trade version.

My thoughts too.

magnolia is just one of the myriad of off white/ cream colours that are all very similar.

Magnolia gets a bad press because 30 years ago it was the colour of choice in new builds.

It's a lot nicer than the awful greys that seem to be in fashion.

I doubt calling magnolia something else would change the views, everyone recognises magnolia.

there are so many beautiful colours and shades, magnolia would be the last one I’d go for, it lacks imagination, and isn’t very nice, it’s very dated looking, however, if you personally like it then do it.

I think any kind of neutral tone makes a good base if you are planning to add interest with pictures, cushions, curtains etc. Alternatively, feature walls seem to be making a comeback - how about one wall papered or in a colour picked out from, say, your sofa?

It’s a colour name that exists for people to get snobbish about. As pp have said, there are a myriad of pleasant off-whites to choose from, but if you do choose one called magnolia, just say you can’t remember the name when people say they like the colour (which they will, because it’s perfectly pleasant).

We have Egyptian Cotton throughout with coloured feature walls. It’s warmer than Magnolia

My entire house is magnolia and it's a lovely neutral color that brightens the room but allows other colorful things to shine. Leyland Trade contract matt emulsion is really good, great coverage and priced well

Painted my lounge in crown antique cream literally 2 days ago and I love it. Save yourself the effort OP, leave it as is!

I've always gone for magnolia. I like bright rooms and white is a tad too much so magnolia just tones it down enough. I don't like solid colours in rooms because they make the room feel too closed in and dull.

Apparently more dulux natural calico is bought than magnolia. Its a similar vibe but you dont have to say magnolia.

Our wood in the house has always been magnolia but magnolia comes in many different shades, in our house where different rooms have been painted at different times you can see this

I go into hiding every time we're having a room painted because I HATE choosing colours. Or rather I hate choosing from the endless samples of cream and off white. DP is very attuned to the different shades, but unless a shade is on the 'extreme' end, ie a cream veering towards caramel or a white so bright it would cut the eyes out of you, I simply can't tell the bloody difference. We just painted our hall, stairs and landing and, although I could see the difference between our old cream and our new poncy-named off white when it was getting slapped on the walls, now that it's all done it looks the bloody same🤣 To me magnolia is cream.

Most of our house is painted in dulux natural calico, which I think is magnolia they just don't call it that! I would definitely go for a warmer off-white not a cool one - the latter tends to shade towards pale grey and grey is already looking so dated that I certainly wouldn't be painting new grey now.

I've just dulux natural wicker in my living room, which is about as magnolia as you can get without being magnolia.

Ug. Nothing wrong with light color but magnolia is the pits.

I think nutmeg white is the exact colour I want! Thank you, OP.

I like it. It's light and airy and a bit warm at the same time. Our house is mostly dulux timeless, it's lighter than magnolia but also very easy and goes with everything

Me too! Seriously, don't do it. It makes everything seem dull and dirty.

I detest Magnolia, it’s dingy, sucks light out of the room. Not a shade I would chose given a choice.

Same here.
What I like with JW is it rends to ‘pick up’ other colours in my decor so it looks like I intentionally and skilfully matched it - when it was really just random luck!
Warm looking on dull winter days, bright and fresh on sunny summer days.