What colour are you replacing grey with?

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Inspired by another thread where everyone slated anything grey and said how they’re so over it.
If you’ve repainted your grey walls with another colour, what have you chosen?
In the living room and hallway, I’ve gone for a pastel pink which I think works well with some of the grey furniture that I still have but I’m in need of another colour for the kitchen. The cabinets are gloss white and the floor tiles are grey (although we may change the flooring at some point). I was thinking a pastel blue/turquoise but open to other ideas!

I'm desperate for warmer tones. I am quite keen on painting my living room raspberry type colour but am slightly worried it'll look like the reception to a low cost solicitor.

I never liked grey, as I find it cold and never saw the appeal so didn't go down that road, but having recently redecorated in warm tones, I can highly recommend Mushroom by little green which is, well, beige coloured.

I also love Kitchen Green by little greene. That's in my bedroom.

Most of the rest of the house is painted in Loft White by LG

I have a Turquoise colour in my hallway which I absolutely love. It always looke bright, welcoming, cheerful and clean looking. I can't remember the actual colour now, but it came from one of the many Valspar colour cards I looked at.

I've got Covid at the minute, so was watching HUTH today. It's depressing to watch all the folks doing houses up where every single one ends up looking exactly the same with grey carpets.

We're not replacing the grey carpet our predecessors put into a couple of rooms.
One has brilliant white walls.
The other I've just re-done a cool blue-grey with a greige.

I've got dulux cornflower white in the living room, a very pale blue, which works really well with wooden floors and lots of bold, dark artwork on the walls.

Crown White pepper is a gorgeous pinky mushroom that changes colour throughout the day in my west facing office. It's possibly my favourite wall colour, neutral enough to suit anything but changeable enough to be interesting

Dulux Egyptian cotton is a gorgeous cool green-greige in an East facing bedroom, although I've seen it look grey in other lights, it's unmistakeably pale green for us

I like light filled rooms, but not flat colours

I like a light sage green.

Currently doing DS room which is half Craig & Rose Deep Adam Green and half F&B Skimming Stone, divided by dado rail. We were going for an earthy / forest vibe. Carpet is brown

Hallway I’m thinking will be Craig & Rose Dried Plaster, which is exactly the colour it sounds like and very warm. I had it cheap in sale!

I never did the grey thing I hate it, but I’m just as bad in terms of partial to everything beige instead 😂

My livingroom is off white, mushroom colour and olive green. Hallway is a stone colour with sage and gold wallpaper on some walls. Bedroom is off white with a colour of emerald green walls.

I'm boring, I like white with a bold feature wall around our inglenook fireplace. Pale silver in our bedroom with white duvet and with a few pops of fuchsia pink.

What funny title. "Hey, everyone who thought grey was a brilliant idea, what shall we all do next?"

Never did the grey thing although I have got grey carpet in bedroom with Ashes of Roses paint on the anaglypta walls that we had put up in 1985 because the plaster was so rough.The rest of the house is Barley White. It gets a fresh coat every 10 years or so.

I’ve gone rustoleum steamed milk. And then loads of colour accents. So an oval room blue bootroom area, green smoke pantry, terracotta sofa, teal blue sofa.

Grey gets a bad reputation now after the explosion of the grey, white, gloss, mirrored furniture and accessories look.

I actually like grey in a range of shades and undertones. Mole's breath by Farrow and Ball is a nice shade from photos.

Thanks everyone- a wide range of colours to consider.

@makeupme Ha ha, I didn’t quite mean it like that!!! As I pointed out, I’ve gone for pastel pink in some areas but for fear of my house looking like a huge marshmallow, I wanted other ideas for the kitchen and something that would tie in with all the remaining grey stuff that I’ve got around (though we didn’t ever have the mirrored furniture or the diamanté stuff!) I do still like some shades of grey but I’m needing colour in my life now!!

just paint with a colour you like whether its grey or white or whatever, dont just copy everyone else

<whispers> wallpaper

People seem not to understand grey. It's not all cold as people are suggesting. There is warm grey and cool grey. Warm grey is a beautiful colour pallet of lovely natural peaceful tones.

Agree with this- grey is beautiful when it’s used with wood and other natural materials, and classic, elegant looks. I love the combination of grey walls and warm wood floors. It’s the “glam” style where everything is cold, hard, shiny and synthetic that’s been overused and overexposed. Especially when glitter features. It either looks as though someone has just thrown money around in the absence of any taste or personality, or as if they’ve tried to create that impression when they don’t have any money either. But I don’t think rushing out to redecorate your entire house because you’ve heard that grey is now “out” is the way forward.

Yes I like grey too. I've never used it as a wall colour as I only like white for walls, but lots of grey furniture here in various rooms. I think it goes well with light oak and wood floors and green.

I'm seeing olive and sage green walls in lots of houses now, so predict they will be the latest thing.

I agree about people getting grey wrong by choosing cool greys with blue, grey or black furniture, and ‘pops’ of teal. Warm greys with a yellow or red undertone can be lovely.

I never did any kind of grey extravaganza, but my walls now are F and B Inchyra Blue and Dead Salmon (a sort of warm, flat pinkish mushroom), a deep mustard, and olive green.

Cromarty green farrow and ball . It’s not F and B but colour matched. I also like Peignoir.

I think grey works as a neutral in a room, to be the base for all the more interesting stuff. I have grey, white and yellow in my kitchen, which is a very scandi effect. And grey walls in my living room with loads of colours in the curtains and upholstery etc. I think if you asked anyone what the decor was on the way out of my house, they wouldn't even have noticed the grey.

I'd love wallpaper, but we do our own decorating and I just wouldn't have the confidence to hang it correctly, even though my dad showed me how and I used to help him do it in my teens.

Dulux Nutmeg white in hall
Dulux Egyptian cotton in lounge
Pure brilliant white in kitchen and bedrooms

If you get paste the wall paper it's a lot easier than paste the paper.

DS and I have become quite the duo at wallpapering (he is an adult!). I climb the ladder and hold it up to the wall while he matches the edges. It's pretty easy with 2 people. Only thing to remember is that if you paste the paper, paste it then leave it for 5minutes to soak in. Then you don't get any bubbles.

OP, I like your idea of pastel blue or turquoise. The pastel element will tie it in with the other rooms but it won't be the same colour. I love colour so was never into grey. I'm glad to see it's on its way out!