Colour suggestions for dark hallway (not grey)

[bluejelly]

Has anyone got any paint colour suggestions for a gloomy hallway? It's currently white and just looks gloomy.
I like heritage/vaguely fashionable colours. Not into grey at all.
Thank you

Just had our very gloomy hall, stairs and landing done. We’ve done a mixture of paper and paint. The paint is Dulux natural calico, I love it!

I agree to embrace the dark and gloominess, with a dark heritage blue or something.

Embrace the dark. Like a PP said you are only passing through and no amount of white or mirrors will make it bright so may as well lean into it. For our ensuite we are going with navy walls and a copper ceiling. My DM thinks it will look like the loos of a nightclub but I cant wait to get started on it.
Think about your door colours as well. Often in hallways the doors take up the most visual space so if they are a lighter colour and the walls are a contrasting dark it gives the impression of more space rather than the other way around.

I would love you to do Bancha! We have shadow white - our hall is high ceilings but a bit gloomy, it keeps it cosy

For our ensuite we are going with navy walls and a copper ceiling. My DM thinks it will look like the loos of a nightclub but I cant wait to get started on it.

One of our bathrooms only has a skylight. The previous owners had painted it magnolia, we've wallpapered it with a wallpaper with a dark blue background (Chestnut Blossom) and got some colourmatched blue paint for the roof. It's dark but very glamorous, I love it so much, and I am very much of the 'paint it white' school of thought. Charles Rennie McIntosh was a great believer in alternating dark and light spaces and having a dark hallway is a great way to achieve that.

@CountFosco that sounds stunning. Dark colours done right can definitely transform a space.

Dark colour on walls and woodwork. Definitely. Gold highlights. Probably deep greenish blue.

Either that or deep gold/mustard walls.

What's on the floor? Plus what colour ceiling? High or low ceiling?

Thanks @tilder. Currently white ceiling and wooden floors. Thinking of keeping them like that...

White ceiling with dark walls looks amazing. The cutting in needs to be good though. Wood goes well too. Maybe bright rug on the floor?

I am a bit into dark paint colours though! Am so done with beige and grey. There are beautiful colours out there.

Go up the stairs and think about the boundaries between the walls and ceiling. Are they all straight? We have some points where the underside of the next flight of stairs is not straight and so we are going to have the walls and ceilings the same colour in our hallway. Maybe the same colour on the ceiling or a lighter version of the walls would be a better option than white if you don't have sharp boundaries. Or a light pink might be good with bancha?

We have Inchyra Blue in a fairly dark north facing bedroom and I love it. With white ceiling and stripped floorboards. I also agree with embracing the dark 😊

Don't do what we did in our last house where we turned a lovely airy hallway and staircase into a surreal space by painting it purple with lime green doors and hand painted silver and pink cherry blossom sprigs. We also painted the bedroom deep red with hand painted golden tree behind the head board. Good grief! We then decided to sell up and move. Luckily we lived in London with a fast moving housing market and the décor didn't prevent a sale.

Where we live now is all pale F&B, what a relief!

@joystir59 I’d love to see pictures

@GiraffeNecked I just looked for the photos I proudly () took at the time but I must have deleted them, sorry!

Our hall is olive green and I love it - looks exactly how I'd pictured it in my head! (We had a misstep with eclectic green, but lets not linger on that!) we've recently done some navy sections and I'm surprised at how much I love it, was worried it would be too dark but it's really nice!

One of my friends is an absolutely genius for things like this, she's so creative! She kept her hall white but painted all the woodwork a dark blue, it looks absolutely stunning!

Bancha is gorgeous. I was vetoed and we ended up with Little Greene Juniper Ash which is lovely but a bit meh compared to Bancha. I'd be inclined to stick with dark also, but if you really wanted to lighten, what about a powdery pink like 'Setting Plaster'?

I love Bancha but I think it might overwhelm the space. I'm veering towards olive green - maybe Overtly Olive by Dulux or Treron by F+B?

Little Greene, 'Sage Green' is also gorgeous. My mum had this in an Edwardian hallway and it was lovely.

In fact I would go so far as to say that I prefere Little Greene, Greens to F& Ball ones (although Treron is gorgeous too). PLease update OP. I love a colour thread and am about to start forty squillion of my own

My dark hallway is painted yellow - it's not too bright but does lighten it up. When it was painted white it looked too cold and I won't have magnolia anywhere in my home!

PS I have dark wood floors and white ceiling. Unless you have high ceilings I'd be careful of going too dark with your colour scheme OP.

Will check our Sage Green - thank you! So many lovely colours it's hard to decide. Will do some testers tomorrow and share

@sunshinesupermum thank you, yes I'm wary of making it too dark and gloomy

I’m going to do this in my hallway but with f&b tallow on the top as a very mild yellow. We had white and it’s too cold the warm yellow really brightens it up

When you are checking Sage Green, be careful not to look at OLIVE GREEN which is a bit like Bancha and utterly lovely but quite dark. DO NOT LOOK.