transitioning paint colour from hallway to landing

[manateeandcake]

Hallway, stairs and landings in our new house (Victorian terrace) are desperately in need of repainting, and I am thinking about colours. Currently a scuffed and dingy off-white all the way from downstairs hallway to 2nd floor (loft) landing.

I'm tempted by the idea of a dark colour in the hallway eg F&B De Nimes, but don't want to take it all the way up to the top of the house as I feel this would be too much, and I can't quite picture where or how to transition to a more neutral colour. Does anyone have experience of this?

I transitioned the colour in a line at the height of the ground floor ceiling. Unfortunately the paint has a tendency to peel at the edges and it has come away along the line. Not sure if all paints would do that or how to avoid it.

Like this (image from Pinterest)

Thanks @Accesscode - love the colour! What is it?

@manateeandcake no idea, its just a picture to illustrate what I meant, sorry. My hallway is green 😬

I would do this or wallpaper the wall with the stairs all the way with a wallpaper that goes with the two colours

This is what beading is for ( or a paper border, but wood is more robust) . If you put it over the join, it will protect both parts at the most vulnerable place (makes it a lot easier to paint as well, you don’t need to perform an impeccable join) . The moulding can be painted in a contrast colour, stained to match your stairs or banister, whatever you fancy . Put it on with No More Nails and the occasional small head pin ( not a dress making one, obs.)

My stairs go round a corner so I just switched colour at the corner vertical. I haven’t got a dramatic colour change but I think it would still look ok if it was