Mid Blue-Grey for Narrow Edwardian Hallway. LOSING MY MIND

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I have had several A4 swatches up for a week. Of these my favourite was Little Greene Juniper Ash, which is a deep blue/grey. I bought it even thought it was by far the strongest/darkest, but now I think it's too dark for the hallway which is narrow and has shit light. I have put the paint aside for another room but could still be persuaded to just 'go with the dark'. Maybe...

I have also got swatches up of:

LG: Bone China Blue - maybe - but bit wishy washy
LG: Celestial Blue - quite nice but too close to the F&B Dix blue which it runs into in the bathroom on the first landing.
Farrow and Ball: Parma Grey - too blue/wedgewoody
Farrow and Ball: Oval Room - too green
Craig and Rose : Steel Pole. Too Grey, too dead, sucks the light out.
Dulux: Denim Drift - don't like - again seems to be look a bit dead

I am attaching two images of the kind of colour I'm after (they are allegedly 'down pipe' - which I don't believe for a minute and 'Oval Room' but oval room on my wall is green).

The third picture isn't my hallway, but it might as well be. Very similar in size and with the same moulding on the ceiling.

I am off to buy more tester pots tomorrow and would love some recommendations please!

Country Skies by Dulux heritage?

I'll be no help at all, I have a similar problem with my dark living room, I've got 8 matchpots from Farrow and Ball in various shades of green and blue and don't like any of them. I'm tearing my hair out.

I think I've narrowed it down to:

Little Greene: Bone China Blue (quite grey)
Farrow and Ball Parma Grey (quite blue)
Little Greene: James (quite wedgewood but hall is so dark that it's muted)
Craig and Rose: Swedish Blue (might be too cold)

Most of these are cooler/brighter than I normally go for but everythign in my hall is so muted that I think I need to be brave.

Bit pointless as colours don't reproduce properly, but at least this is them side by side. Grey Stone isn't on the shortlist at the moment, but might be moved onto it....

I love and hate choosing paint colours.

Blueberry white dulux

I have downpipe and that looks right to me! You've a lot of light on it's that's why

I'm biased as we're about to have Parma Gray in our living room, I think it's gorgeous (and hoping I can get the 'matching' Lotus wallpaper on one wall too, but it's looking like it won't quite work in that room).

Some of the colours in the photo look much greyer than in “real life” in my house. We have Parma Grey in our bathroom and it looks very blue, with no hint of grey. Grey stone also looks much more blue in a painted sample in our bedroom, although it does have a grey undertone. Hague Blue just looks green in my house, never like the blue/green colour that I’ve seen in online pictures. Our house is very bright, with big widows and high ceilings, so maybe that makes a difference.

“Oval Room” not Hague Blue.

OP I'm going through exactly the same problem. The colours are either too blue, too grey, too green. I want a sludgy blue. Powder blue with a grey undertone.

I've been looking at Benjamin Moore Water's Edge, Fired Earth Blue Grass, Blue Heather Benjamin Moore...

You don't want a 'bathroom' blue. It's very difficult.

@namechange12a - 'Water's Edge' looks promising.

Back to the shops I go.

At the moment, the best is Bone China Cup (Little Greene) but it does look a bit green in some lights....

I mean 'Bone China Blue'

I love Parma Grey. My front door is Parma Grey. It looks very blue on my door, but in my darker hallway, it is much more subdued. I worry that it will suddenly - in bright sunlight - become 'powder blue'.

What about De nimes? F and B? Also what about a lighter shade above the mid section?

What’s the colour in the middle picture of your OP? I really like that

Is Parma Gray a blue grey in real life?

Those colours do look very grey in the photo.
Did you investigate anything between the lighter blue/greys and juniper ash?
We went for little greene pale lupin in the living room, it's a fantastic colour both warm, soft, subtle.
I painted a dark hallway in a very dark purplish grey tone once and it was not good. However there was zero natural light. In your hall I reckon you could go darker than those pale shades you're leaning towards.
Plus I would go for little greene because they do a great hardwearing emulsion suitable for hallways - intelligent Matt would be great, or even intelligent eggshell (I believe it's scrubbable))

This is pale lupin www.roomswithaview.co.uk/shop/paint/little-greene/grey-stone-276-copy/

I've only used Craig & Rose once, so it could just be that one colour, but it marks SO badly... You only have to look at it the wrong way and there's a scuff. Would not recommend for a hallway (or anywhere else to be honest)

F&B Dimpse is an amazing blue grey green but it marks badly so after 2 years of repainting every few months my hallway is now the Valspar copy. Not as tonal doesn't change as much with the light but still lovely

I think LG bone China blue was the colour that three of us made the same mistake with, it's quite blue, as it's name, though maybe that's just in a light room. I went through this same thing, just couldn't find the right colour, settled on LG BCB and then couldn't live with it and wallpapered!

I don't know why it's so difficult!

Though we may be over-thinking it, I had about eight different blue/greys on the wall and asked DD which she liked best and she said, "They're all the same"!

I used Denim Drift in my bedroom and find it so calming- shame you're not keen.

Do they still do Craig & Rose in Moonstone?

That's a lot of research OP!

I ran into homebase and bought 2.5l of paint the day before lockdown, no sample pots, jump in with both feet and move on. And remarkably loving it - probably a bit dark for you crown period pier view.