F & B Pink Ground

[leli]

I am putting a new kitchen into a lower ground floor flat. The kitchen will go along one wall. At one end the wall has some natural light, as the wall goes along it gets darker.

I'd love subtle pink kitchen cabinets but choosing a colour is extremely hard.

So far- I think I like Pink Ground. Looks a nice faded peachy pink in the darker part of the wall and looks just off white in the light bit!

Anyone used Pink Ground and any other suggestions?

The flat is not really dark but it is north light mostly in the kitchen area and the north light seems to leach all colour and life out of all my paint daubs!

My sister has pink ground in her North facing living room. It's beautiful. Warms the room right up without it being the least bit cloying.

I found the tester too brown/ peachy in my north facing living room. I went for Dulux blush pink and it’s stunning.

I have pink ground in my windowless internal stairwell and I love it. Pink but still grown up.

I think setting plaster is much nicer I gave both that and Pink Ground in my house

Gosh thank you for the replies. I will get a tester for Dulux blush pink though glad that Pink Ground works for some.

It's astounding how much colours vary in different situations. Setting plaster looks lovely on the swatch but looks muddy beige on my weak northern lighted wall. And Sulking Room Pink is grey/beige, hideous.

I've just been insta searching and found a lovely Pink House project. From that I found Old Rose from Neptune so I've ordered a tester.

I'm after pink paint too, having bathroom done and don't want white. Finding it tricky, don't want too pink but some of the subtler ones look a bit too cool toned. I like Little Greene Dorchester Pink, Crown Pashmina and F&B pink ground.

I love it in my dd’s room but I bet the other options are just as nice

I ordered Neptune "Old Rose" and Dowsing and Reynolds "Get Plastered" testers.

Luckily DH and I aren't super perfectionist. So I guess I'll live with my choices. Will post how I find the testers.

Hi @leli - just wondering what you went for as I am trying to decide between calamine and pink ground. Thanks.

We chose F & B Pink Ground. We love it. It's a pink with faintly peach tones to keep it warm. It reminds me of slipper satin 1930s undies. Pairs very well with brass fittings and really looks great in the North facing lower ground galley kitchen in all lights, natural day and evening. I have used Calamine too and actually I love that too. In my estimation it has a cooler, faintly creamy grey tinge. Lovely and old school looking in a brighter room so far as I am concerned.

I don't think it'll look off white at all when you've got a row of cabinets going all the way to the darker bit. Colours are so odd, our brains judge them all relative to what is around. When it's connected to a bit that's clearly pink, it'll look pink and you'll wonder how you could ever have seen it as off white.

ah zombie thread, so sorry, thought I'd read to the end 😳