F&b living room

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I am obsessively looking at the farrow&ball charts and keep changing my mind. (I know some don't like this paint but I really love the colours...)
I have looked at so many interior blogs/ Instagram/Pinterest - I would happily go with something adventurous but husband likes neutral colours in living room (he's letting me choose rest of house). We have a west facing garden, the living room has high ceilings and is Edwardian - we are keeping original features but want it to look modern as well. I really liked Cornforth White and Ammonite on blogs but on our walls it just looks grey. Does anyone have any recommendations? Something nice that won't frighten my husband too much?!

Skimming stone is lovely in our lounge/dining room

Clunch . You have to ask for it as it was deleted from the latest colour chart, but it's lovely on walls.

Another vote for skimming stone. Our lounge is done in it. Plus kitchen units. I love it

Elephants Breath. I know, its a bit old school, but its neutral without being bland.

I’ve compared skimming stone and elephants breath and it’s like the scene in American Psycho where they’re showing their business cards

Skimming stone (copy)

We have F and B on all our walls. The thing I learnt is don't waste your time and energy looking charts or on line the reality is the paint will not look the same in your house, buy samples and slap it on the wall you're thinking of putting it on, we've put loads on I have 5 on my bathroom wall now I looks like Elma the elephant in muted shades (I dont like any of them!!) we also wrote what they are on the walls because you forget, look at them in all lights as well The one I've often loved from the colour charts when I put the sample on the wall wasn't what I thought and Ive often ended up with one I hadn't previously thought of.

^totally this. My experience is you need to paint a patch on the wall in the room it is meant to go in. To get a proper impression of how it looks.

I have ammonite on the walls either side of the chimney breast in my back living room, the rest is Stifkey blue, and in the bathroom and it doesn't look grey

I'd agree with painting it on and seeing how it looks. In my old house I'd used Dulux almost oyster and it looked just like an off white, I tried it in the new house and it looked a totally different colour, really dark.

I never put it on the walls to test it. What happens is that you can't help but compare the colours against each other, even subconsciously. And against the background colour. Things tend to look too dark or too light, when they are not. I get A4 pieces of paper from a stationery shop at about 50p each, then paint one colour into those (one shade each side , in fact).
I then put up one at a time, move to different walls and in different lights (morning, afternoon, evening) then decide.

Our living room is painted in White Tie and Theatre Red by Little Greene (similar style paint to F&B).

The White Tie was perhaps a bit more yellowy than I'd hoped, but overall I am pleased with the result.

Another vote for skimming stone - we have it in the baby’s room and it’s lovely. If you like green, Mizzle is lovely too.