Thanks again to those who posted after my last one. I really appreciate your comments and observations, particularly from @AlltheFs for sharing your personal experience of one of the shades SRF (Sulking Room Funk!) seems to prefer. It does look cold to me, and the Scree just looks miserable.
A friend of mine told me last night that when she found herelf in a similar situation - i.e. her DH suddenly changed his mind on their previously agreed colour scheme, and she really didn't like the one he was opting for, she just went ahead with the original anyway whilst he was at work and when he came home and saw it he just shrugged and said it looked fine and was probably for the best as he had been wondering if he'd been too heavy handed 'laying down the law' when they had to share the space and had come to their agreement after weeks of discussion, visiting places that sold paint/wallpaper, looking at and buying samples etc. She told him that was exactly her thought which was why she went ahead as she didn't consider it fair that he changed his mind so suddenly and hadn't discussed it with her, just announced that that they were going to have his new preferred scheme. He apologised and hasn't complained since.
Methinks I must take the plunge and get our decorating done whilst 'D'H is at work, using the same reasoning! I really don't like the look of Scree with Slaked Lime. In fact, I don't even like the names of either of those shades, they just sound horrible.
For any interested parties, I have the main (I suppose, feature) wall with alcoves either side. Question is, do I use wallpaper just on the main and short 'return' sides into the alcoves, or wallpaper the whole main wall and alcoves, and use the Dulux Timeless as the complementary shade on the opposite walls which also happen to host our radiators and would enable them to be painted in DT so that they 'disappear'? Our LR is a long open plan space, not that wide, with large windows at each end so we do get a lot of natual light and we use the 'far' end of the room as a dining area as its literally just off the kitchen.
I wish we could afford an interior designer as I'm not naturally gifted with vision related to stuff like this so always feel quite anxious, but it's not an option. I do see designs and schemes I like in magazines or if I do 'net searches sometimes, but then I get the testers and the shades just never look the same in my rooms.
I have a downstairs toilet that also needs doing but currently paralysed over that because I've seen so many articles etc about going bold with wallpapers/paint colours and designs, and then others saying be careful how you decorate as small spaces can easily be overwhelmed by dark colours or opulent designs. Like I said...wish I could afford an ID and could just tell him or her I like this or that, but can't stand this or that, so just make it nice for me please. Anyone else find it all utterly exhausting???
Sorry for the long post :-(