Looking for inspiration

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IF it comes off......the house we are buying is very brown and cream. It is a 30s house s want something in keeping.

The floors are wood so need something to go with wood. Currently the hall is yellow and the lounge brown and cream. My sofa is brown so will fit in with lounge but what wall colour that isn't magnolia?

What goes nice in a hall with wood......grey? Sage green?

Help. Ay ideas welcome.

Snap! We moved into a 1930s house with wooden floors and skirting and cream walls about a year ago. Have been pondering how to redecorate since.

Join pinterest and look at photos on there. I think grey with darkish floors looks great, but you do have to pick the right grey. White also looks vastly more modern than cream. Light pinkish plaster colour looks amazing.
Good luck!

Thanks for reply. Good idea to look at Pininterest.

Funny how cream now looks so dated. I am stuck with a brown sofa though and unsure of what goes.

Some of the F and B paints are fab so will take them as inspiration too.

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we have a 1930s house. We have cream in the lounge but it is quite a yellowy cream and we have terracotta curtains. We have mellow mocha in a couple of rooms which works nicely with the white high picture rails etc I think and the original fireplaces. not done our hall/stairs/landing yet but we have dark wood bannisters (no wood floor though - plan to get a red carpet to pick up the colours in the original stained glass windows on the stairs which are really big).

We have sage green in our bathroom on the wood panels and I love it. When we did some building work we discovered in the pantry that the walls had been a green at some point, and in a couple of other places green has cropped up behind radiators (along with some fantastic old wallpapers) so I think sages are a very traditional colour, along with greys.

With a brown sofa you can probably get away with more colours than you are imagining. Our kitchen is gentle fawn which I really like.

Sounds lovely Periwinkle. Was in a 30s civic building today which has been restored. It had dark wood floors, sage green floors and pale grey walls. It looked great.

F&b charlestone grey looks fab with brown sofas ! Keep all the trims/ skirting a etc brilliant white for a crisp look !!
Second Houzz suggestion - do a photo search for 'brown sofas' for inspiration !

Thanks for the tip.

what about duck egg, that looks lovely with brown ?

I am looking to decorate my sitting room, similar age house to Op
Brown sofas, dark wood flooring. At the moment it is cream with 2 green walls, green rugs etc.
Been the same for 4 or 5 years & fancy a change. I was thinking grey, but am not convinced, I keep thinking I know it looks smart, but it doesn't lift my spirits.
I might go for duck egg instead. Our kitchen/ dining room is duck egg, if the sitting room is similar then I guess the 2 rooms would 'flow' it is difficult though to make that final decision.

Duck egg is a good idea. Will google F and B paints then try and get a colour match in the cheaper ranges!

I have Dulux Authentic Origins Paint - Bird's Egg in my house 'tis lovely. Try a tester.

Sorry forgot to say you can only get it in Homebase.

Hi, i think duck egg will be a great choice to cool down the warm shades of cream.

i am stuck with a very yellowy cream patterned wallpaper front living room in my 1930s semi and I used a a battleship grey throw over my sofa and some very pale chartreuse (sp?) green bits as cushions.

That said, I do love a very pale ivory/ very pale magnolia and think they can still look great. Its just the very yellow creams that I dont like.