pale pink paint suggestions...

[Puddlelane123]

Mumsnet wisdom needed please...I am being driven mad by the search for a pale pink paint for a North Facing Room. Everything seems to be coming up too dark and I’m stumped. Have tried what seems like dozens of samples including my usual go-to of F&B Great White which looks a definite dark grey in this particular room. Anything I am missing? I just want a white with a hint of pink but when I tried Dulux Blossom White it was a very in your face pink with the lighting in that room.

All suggestions gratefully received!

Dulux pink skies is a very pale pink. Unless they see it against white, people think it is white.
I used it in a friend's bedroom

A few pics

Oh that looks lovely! Thankyou so much!

@Puddlelane123
Stacey Solomon?..... is that you??? 😂
Saw her trying pink paints on her Insta 😂👋🏼

Middleton pink? We’ve got it in a north facing bedroom and it’s lovely and pretty and fresh.

Elle by Crown do a lovely pink paint - stitch in time. It's very similar to the pics above. I have it in a north facing room which can be really dark and it works brilliantly. It's also got that very Matt, almost chalky texture which is lovely.

I've just used blush pink Dulux
Try a tester as the pic in the tin is far darker than it actually is

Middleton pink is lovely, not sure how it looks in north facing though as we had it in a south facing room.

As long as you are not looking for matching Aga you will be fine...

Quite like the idea of a pale pink aga... Probably not the reality through.

Ha ha yes the aga thread was peak mumsnet!
Alas I’m not Stacey Solomon as I’d love her garden.

Thanks all for the great suggestions - I feel an order for more tester pots coming on...

For a N facing room I would suggest getting a warmer (peachier) pink and with more colour than you might think, as it will be cooler and greyer in the room

Try Little Green and Paint & Paper Library.

They both do graduations of the same colour.
LG - China Clay
P&PL - Marble

Or Mylands (marble emulsion). Lovely depth to their colours.

I do recommend buying thick paper and painting it with the sample (as large as you can) & sticking it up in different areas of the room at different times of the day. It can make a real difference to how you see the colour.

We couldn’t find one that didn’t go either grey-purple or pinky-lilac so we used pink ground instead.

It’s the north light, it just annihilates certain pigments.

We ruled out calamine, great white, cinder Rose & peignoir. They all just looked wrong.

Mylands emulsion is very scrubbable, I want to use it in our kitchen.

Yes Pink Ground is exactly the sort of thing that would work

Dulux satin bow

I’m so grateful for all your advice - lots of great suggestions and new shades I hadn’t considered. Will report back!

F & B Pink Ground? It's a lovely warm blush pink.

Definitely try f&b pink ground. Teen DDs room is painted in that colour and I wish my bedroom was too. It's dreamy - not sweet or sickly at all. Almost vintage and timeless.

Lick pink 02 is a lovely shade and looks peachy in some lights and pinker in others, we d had it all through the hall

Another vote for pink ground, it's beautiful and I think would work really well in that room OP.

If you look up Pink Ground on the e-paint website you can find Dulux colours that are similar

Pink Ground is nice, but OP said she wanted hint of pink - I think PG is pretty strong. I'd second previous suggestion of Little Greene China Clay - 1/Light is very light, Mid slightly deeper, but still in the 'hint of' territory.

I feel you, OP, on the multiple sample pots. I have a shameful number, as I find 'getting to yes' on these decisions very hard work. Lockdown has made the process harder, methinks - the stakes seem higher when you're in the house all day (and spend too much time on decorating threads and blogs...).

Good luck!

Dulux jasmine blush. It is very similar to little greene China clay light.

I actually posted a thread on the same thing a few months ago. The light in the room can really affect how the colour looks so you do need to try some colours out in the room. In a north facing room, colours often look darker and bluer so you don’t want anything too grey or it’ll look purple/bluish and you probably need a lighter shade than you think you want.