Help!! Decorator starting sooner than planned .. which colours?!

[SallyOMalley]

We live in a typical 1930s 3 bed semi and we've just finished some building work: a loft conversion and a kitchen extension. The dining room and kitchen are now knocked into one.

Our chosen decorator can now come sooner than planned ... Next Monday! I need to choose colours quickly. So ....

1. Hall, landing and stairs up to door to loft bedroom. Hall faces north, with easterly light coming in at ground, first and second floor. In general, quite a light space. Original 1930s stained glass and bannisters/woodwork.

I'm thinking Dulux Egyptian cotton or similar on walls, with a softish off-white on all woodwork. Too bland? Too sludgy for a north facing room?

2. south facing kitchen diner, an L shaped space with lots of light through doors and rooflights. Grey/navy kitchen, light grey kitchen tiles and an ash brown (ie fairly cool toned) wood flooring in dining room.

I'm stuck here. I don't really want to go for grey. White, with lots of colourful prints? Help!

Bifold doors lead from this space into front living room which faces north. We have a colour that works in here and we're thinking of just refreshing it - it's a warm sandy colour that works well with darkish woods and blue toned fabrics in the room.

Can I get away with something completely different in the dining room, the other side of the glazed bi-folds??

The same wooden flooring will be laid throughout the ground floor (except kitchen)

3. loft bedroom - faces south with lots of light from large windows. I've seen a gorgeous teal colour that would look great behind the bed with mid toned wooden furniture. Other walls fairly neutral.

But ... Back to kitchen and hall/stairs. If you've read this far, ta! Any thoughts? Have you done something similar? Pinterest is doing my head in and the paint swatches are a blur ...

Ok, I'm narrowing the search down to F&B.

Thinking Dimpse or Skylight in the kitchen. Still stuck on the north-facing hall, landing and stairs (with Easterly light!). Don't particularly want anything obviously yellow-based but not sure if a cool colour (eg grey) would work.

A blatant bump .... 😁🙏

I can't help with specific paint names sorry, but we have a pale taupe in east and west facing rooms and it's great in both. It varies between looking beige and grey depending on the light, but it never looks yellow and is so much warmer than grey.

Have you seen F&B Oval Room Blue for the loft room? We are having very similar works done at the moment and I’ve pretty much convinced myself that’s what I’m having in the loft bedroom (if I am brave enough 😂)

I always get sample pots . Colourcan look so different in different lights.

Well, the decorator started on Monday so we had to make some quick decisions (and spent a fortune on tester pots! 😬

We've gone for f&b colours bit have coloir matched and so far they're pretty good dupes (I know they won't have the same chalky intensity but hey ho).

We've gone for cornforth white in the hall and stairs . The loft will be ammonite with vardo on the wall behind the bed (such a gorgeous teal colour). Id like to find some navy shot (faux) silk curtains for the French doors up there. (I love oval room blue btw!)

The kitchen diner is going to be Skylight - a v pale blue grey. The space is very light and it goes really well with both the dove grey and navy kitchen cabinets.

I'm sticking with the same colour for the north facing living room and that's Matchstick - it looks like an 'old gold' on our walls and looks lovely with the soft furnishings we already have.

So fingers crossed it all hangs together! Can't wait for it all to be done